Knowledge Graphs and Large Language Models

Dr. Sanju Tiwari is a Professor at Sharda University, Greater Noida, India; as well as CEO and Founder of ShodhGuru Research Labs, India. She is DAAD Post-Doc-Net AI Fellow for 2021 and visited different German Universities (Leibniz University Hannover, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Lubeck University and Luephana University Luneburg) in June 2022 under this DAAD fellowship. She is a Mentor of Google Summer of Code (GSoC 2022-23) at DBpedia and a member of InfAI, Leipzig University, Germany. She is also working as a curator of ORKG Grant Program, at TIB Hannover, Germany. She also appointed as Ph.D. Co-Supervisor at Rai University, Gujarat, India. She has worked as a Post-Doctoral Researcher in Ontology Engineering Group, Universidad Politecnica De Madrid, Spain. Prior to this, she worked as a Research Associate for a sponsored research project "Intelligent Real-time Situation Awareness and Decision Support System for Indian Defence? funded by DRDO, New Delhi, India. Her current research interests include, Ontology Engineering, Knowledge Graphs, Linked Data, Artificial Intelligence. She has to-date published >100 research papers and 6 Scopus indexed Books. She has edited books based on Semantic Web in IoT, Personal Knowledge Graphs and Semantic AI in Knowledge Graphs. Sven Groppe is a Professor at the University of Luebeck, Germany. He was the project leader of the DFG project LUPOSDATE with a focus on Semantic Web Database techniques and was the project leader of two research projects on FPGA acceleration of relational and Semantic Web databases. He is the project coordinator of the BMBF-funded QC4DB project about database optimizations accelerated by quantum computing. Furthermore, he is the principal investigator of three DFG projects, one dealing with GPU acceleration of database indices, one in the area of Semantic Internet of Things and one about high-quality COVID-19 knowledge graphs. Over 100 program committee memberships in international conferences and workshops, reviewer activities in over 40 internationally recognized journals, editorship in 4 journals and chairing of Semantic Big Data, Big Data in Emergent Distributed Environments, Very Large Internet of Things and Quantum Data Science and Management workshops at the world-class ACM SIGMOD and VLDB conferences, and General Chair of the International Semantic Intelligence Conference, International Conference on Applied Machine Learning and Data Analytics and International Healthcare Informatics Conference as well as co-authorship with 191 scientists from 28 countries on 6 continents demonstrate a strong integration into the scientific community of Sven Groppe. Jinghua Groppe is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Luebeck, Germany. She has been involved in a large number of research projects in Artificial Intelligence, Quantum Computing, Semantic Web, Information Technology and other areas of Computer Science. She has extensive research experience and has published over sixty papers in peer-reviewed journals, conferences and workshops. She serves as a reviewer for the German Research Foundation (DFG) and for a large number of journals and conferences, and also co-organizes conferences, workshops and special issues for journals Her current research areas include generative AI, LLMs, graph neural networks, knowledge graphs, quantum computing, and the application of artificial intelligence in cybersecurity and in the automation of business processes. In addition to her research projects, she also works with industry on technology transfer projects and applies AI to automated business processes.

Nandana Mihindukulasooriya is a Senior Research Scientist at IBM Research, New York, USA. He holds a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain. His research interests include knowledge graphs, knowledge representation and reasoning, Semantic Web, Linked Data, and generative AI. Nandana has published more than 85 peer-reviewed papers in prestigious journals and conferences on Semantic Web and Knowledge Graph related topics with an h-index of 21. He has contributed as a PC member to several conferences, including WWW, AAAI, ACL, EMNLP, IJCAI, ISWC, ESWC, SAC, and K-CAP, among others. Nandana has previously co-organized several workshops, including NLP4KGC 2023-2024 @ WWW/ TheWebConf and SEMANTiCS, Text2KG 2022-2024 at Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC), SMART 2020-2022, ScholarlyQALD 2023, KGSum 2022 at International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), ToursimKG 2018 @ ICWE. In addition, Nandana has been the general chair, publicity chair, and sponsorship chair of IHIC 2022, ISIC 2023, and ISWC 2024.