People & Contributors
The people who have shaped SARVAH
SARVAH has grown through the work of people in research, cultural heritage, knowledge engineering, software and project coordination. This page recognises those advancing it today and those whose earlier work forms part of its foundations.
Coordination
Thierry Bernier de Frémery
Founder and project lead
Conceived SARVAH and Qest; leads research direction, partnerships and product.
Current team
Baptiste Henrat
Cultural heritage research
Designs the research method and pilot cases, and assesses their scientific soundness.
Nina Ella Gjessing
Operations and coordination
Coordinates documentation, research input and output frameworks, access and the website.
Thanuj R.
Development and implementation
Interface, mock-ups, implementation and preparation of technical deployment, since 2022.
Thomas v. E.
Data architecture and engineering
Source analysis, technical design and preparation of tests for data collection and storage.
Verónica Burger
Economic and financial structure
Advises on the economic model and the financial organisation of the project.
Kovida Yalamanchi
Knowledge liaison analyst, since 2025
Structures research findings into shared vocabularies and documents the reasoning steps of investigations.
Earlier contributors
Louie Franco III
Ontology and semantic architecture
Designed the ontology and semantic architecture on which SARVAH’s technical foundations rest.
Ray Tan
Platform architecture and product
Contributed to the platform architecture, the integration of AI and product direction.
Harriet Walker
Ontology and knowledge engineering
Worked over an extended period on SARVAH’s ontology and knowledge engineering, bringing a digital-humanities perspective.
Stratos Kontopoulos
Knowledge-graph engineering, 2025
A short but decisive contribution to SARVAH’s knowledge-graph and ontology work.
Sary Jouhara
Knowledge engineer and ontologist, 2025
Contributed to ontology design and knowledge-graph modelling for SARVAH’s early semantic layer.
Parham Ramezani
Knowledge engineering, 2026
Contributed to semantic modelling and wrote a practitioner’s review of SARVAH’s knowledge-graph architecture.
Bahareh Kheyrkhah
Historic preservation specialist, 2025–2026
Contributed over several months to heritage research and workshops, helping develop the ontology and link domain expertise to the emerging Qest method.
Olesia Gretskaia
Art history, workshops and market research
Brought art-historical and market research to the workshops and to the Caravaggio Ecce Homo case study.
Kristina Petkovic
Art history and workshops
Contributed art-historical research and took part in SARVAH’s collaborative workshops.
Joaquin Melara
Product and semantic strategy, 2026
Advised on semantic positioning, user journeys and the definition of problems before solutions.
Dérik Thirion
Project structuring, from 2021
Structured the idea as a programme and assessed the early feasibility study.
Dmitry Kryzhanovskiy
Prototype development, from 2022
Developed the first prototype, in collaboration with the founder and Thanuj R.
Roles describe contributions at particular stages of the project. Earlier contributors are not presented as current members, and inclusion does not imply endorsement of later decisions. To correct or remove an entry: contact@sarvah.ai.