News

September 23, 2024

BBC published an article based on an interview with Filip: When robots can't riddle: What puzzles reveal about the depths of our own minds. The article is part of the series "AI v. the Mind," which explores "the limits of cutting-edge AI and learns a little about how our own brains work along the way."

September 06, 2024

Mayank Kharbanda joins us as a visitor from Sep 2024 until March 2025

September 01, 2024

Hossein Khojasteh joins us as a PhD student, working with Filip.

July 17, 2024

Frank gave a keynote "Ontologies for Machine Learning" at the FOIS conference

May 27, 2024

Zhan Qu will join us as a visitor from KIT in Karlsruhe for 2 weeks at the end of May.

May 26, 2024

Filip is co-chairing the First International Workshop on Generative Neuro-Symbolic AI (GeNeSy), co-located with ESWC 2024. The workshop features three keynotes, one of which will be given by Frank.

May 14, 2024

Filip and his co-authors won the best paper and presentation awards at the Web Conference workshop "Workshop on Multimodal Content Analysis for Social Good". Their paper studies the grounding of internet memes "in the wild" (Reddit and Discord) to an Internet meme KG using visual transformers.

May 6, 2024

Ting Liu successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled A gut feeling: Biomedical knowledge graphs for interrelating the gut microbiome and mental health.

May 2, 2024

prof. Wael Abd Almageed from the USC Viterbi School of Engineering visited our group for a seminar and discussions.

April 24, 2024

Frank gave an invited talk on Hybrid Intelligence at the UK summit on AI & Healthcare.

April 22, 2024

Tamar Cucumides from the University of Antwerp visited us and presented her framework for approximate answers to conjunctive queries over knowledge graphs.

April 8, 2024

Klim Zaporojets from Aarhus University visited us and gave a seminar on aligning unstructured text with knowledge graphs for problems like provenance detection and fact checking.

April 5, 2024

Frank gave the first talk in the new series of online talks for the new Neuro-symbolic AI journal: NAI Webinar Series #1: Frank van Harmelen - YouTube with the title: neuro-symbol ≠ neuro-semantic

March 29, 2024

Congratulations to Floris and co-authors, for their NAACL Findings accepted paper "Conformal Intent Classification and Clarification for Fast and Accurate Intent Recognition".

March 13, 2024

Many congratulations to Filip for being awarded a €900k AINed Fellowship Grant to work on Synergistic AI Agents with Common Sense.

March 11-15, 2024

Annette and Floris contributed a talk on neuro-symbolic medical AI to the AI & Health Winter School.

November 29-30, 2023

Dimitrios Alivanistos, Daniel Daza, Xander Wilcke, Ruud van Bakel, Taewoon Kim, Yannick Brunink, and Michael Cochez of the L&R group, together with Shujian Yu from the QDA group, and Thom Pijnenburg from Elsevier hosted the Learning on Graphs Amsterdam meet-up. The event took place in the Elsevier office in Amsterdam with help of the Discovery Lab. It included talks and posters by Taraneh Younesian, Selene Baez Santamaria, and Daniel Daza.

November 24, 2023

Andreas gave an invited talk for the Intelligent and Interactive Systems group at the University of Innsbruck.

October 23, 2023

Daniel Daza and Michael Cochez gave a tutorial at the CIKM 2023 conference on Reasoning beyond Triples: Recent Advances in Knowledge Graph Embeddings https://kg-beyond-triple.github.io/

September 13, 2023

Michael Cochez gave a keynote talk at the 3rd Workshop DL4LD: Addressing Deep Learning, Relation Extraction, and Linguistic Data

September 1, 2023

We are pleased to have Floris in our team. Floris will be working on an RL-based assistant for patient-centric decision making within the Hybrid Intelligence centre.

September 1, 2023

We are pleased to have Fabian in our team.

June 15, 2023

We are happy to welcome Francesco Manigrasso to the group for a 3 month visit. We will use his time with us to work on using Real Logic and Logic Tensor Networks to probe large language models for logical knowledge and inference.

June 15, 2023

Michael was teaching and acted as a tutor at the 5th Summer Datathon on Linguistic Linked Open Data.

May 4, 2023

Thiviyan and Emile are hosting a NeSy-GeMs (Neurosymbolic Generative Models) workshop at ICLR 2023. Take a look at the website.

May 2

Frank is quoted on the NOS website, following Geoffrey Hinton's departure from Google, and his comments about the future of AI.

May 1, 2023

Frank is invited as a keynote speaker at the ISWS 2023 summer school, held from the 11th to 17th of June.

Apr 27, 2023

Peter's work on Transformers, e.g., ChatGPT, has been featured in a NYT article.

Apr 5, 2023

We are pleased to announce that Xu has successfully defended his PhD.

Mar 28, 2023

Congratulations to Lise and Annette, for their ESWC accepted paper "Explainable Drug Repurposing in Context via Deep Reinforcement Learning".

Mar 24, 2023

Congratulations to Shuai, Peter, and Frank, for their ESWC accepted paper "Refining Large Integrated Identity Graphs using the Unique Name Assumption".

Mar 13, 2023

Congratulations to Annette and Frank, for their ACM Computing Surveys accepted paper "Combining Machine Learning and Semantic Web: A Systematic Mapping Study".

Feb 13, 2023

Frank gave a keynote on "Combining knowledge graphs with machine learning, with examples from healthcare and life sciences", at SWAT4HCLS in Basel

Jan 18, 2023

Congratulations to Andreas, for their CLEAR accepted paper "A Meta-Reinforcement Learning Algorithm for Causal Discovery".

Jan 15, 2023

We are pleased to welcome Ruud van Bakel to the team. He will join us as a PhD student on the GraphMassivizer project, studying how to scale up knowledge graph learning methods.

Jan 4, 2023

Congratulations to Nikos and Annette, for their AAMAS accepted paper "Establishing Shared Query Understanding in an Open Multi-Agent System".

Jan 1, 2023

We joined the LEMUR project.

Jan 1, 2023

We joined the GraphMassivizer project.