Dr. Markus Lanthaler is a software engineer and tech lead at Google where he currently works on YouTube. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Graz University of Technology in 2014 for his research on Web APIs and Linked Data. Dr. Lanthaler is one of the core designers of JSON-LD and the inventor of Hydra. He has published several scientific articles, is a frequent speaker at conferences, and chairs the Hydra W3C Community Group.