Fabian Suchanek was a visiting researcher at Microsoft Research Silicon Valley and is now a Postdoc at INRIA Saclay in Paris. Fabian obtained his doctoral degree from Saarland University in 2008. In his dissertation, Fabian developed methods for the automatic construction and maintenance of a large knowledge base, YAGO. For his thesis, he received the ACM SIGMOD Dissertation Award Honorable Mention. The original YAGO paper at the WWW Conference in 2007 has received more than 250 citations, and YAGO is used in many major knowledge-base projects around the world (including DBpedia).