Michel Biezunski is the founder of Infoloom, a company based in New York City. He is an innovator who pioneered knowledge graph applications and was the co-creator of the Topic Maps standard. Michel holds a Ph.D. in physics education. He started his career in scientific publishing, then became a Professor at an engineering school, and a consultant in information management before becoming an entrepreneur and moving to the US in 2001. He was responsible for deploying topic map applications, most notably Tax Map for the Internal Revenue Service as well as for the New York University Library Digital Services.