Ruben Taelman

Dr. Ruben Taelman is a Senior Postdoctoral Fellow at Ghent University's Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Department of Electronics and Information Systems. His research focuses on decentralized web technologies, knowledge graphs, and query optimization in distributed environments.

• FWO Senior Postdoctoral Fellow (2023–2026)
• Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO) funding recipient
• Co-promotor for multiple PhD projects

Key research areas include decentralized knowledge graph querying, adaptive query planning, and semantic web technologies. His work has produced groundbreaking publications on traversal-based query execution, link prioritization metrics, and personalized data vaults.

Recent publications highlight:

• 2025: Incremental view maintenance in decentralized environments
• 2025: Restart-based query planning for link traversal
• 2024: Shape-driven optimization and Bloom filter applications
• 2023–2024: Reinforcement learning for SPARQL optimization and decentralized healthcare applications