Petr Knoth

Petr Knoth (born 6 November 1983) is Professor of Data Science at the Knowledge Media institute, The Open University. He leads the Big Scientific Data and Text Analytics Group (BSDTAG) which conducts research and develops new technologies powered by AI in the area of the machine processing of scientific information. He is the Founder and Head of CORE (COnnecting REpositories), a large not-for-profit full text indexing system for open access papers with millions of monthly active users. CORE makes research papers available for people to freely discover and access, and for machines to text-mine.

In this capacity, he has been involved in numerous knowledge exchange cooperations with enterprises, funders and not-for-profit organisations, supporting a wide variety of use cases requiring scalable access to research content.

Petr has a deep interest in the use of AI to improve research workflows. He has been involved as a researcher and as a principle investigator in over 25 European Commission, national and international funded research projects in the areas of NLP, AI, Open Science and Technology Enhanced Learning and has over 100 peer-reviewed publications based on this work.

Until 2005, he was also a Czech ice dancer. With Petra Pachlová, he competed in the final segment at five ISU Championships – the 2004 European Championships and four World Junior Championships.

Former Ice Dancing Career Knoth began learning to skate in 1996.