AI3 Seminar
Monday, November 2, 2026
12:30 PM
New Computer Science Bldg 120
Registration is required
Some Advances in Neurosymbolic Artificial Intelligence
Pascal Hitzler
University Distinguished Professor and Director of the Center for Artificial Intelligence and Data Science (CAIDS), Kansas State University
Abstract: Neurosymbolic AI, as the combination of deep learning and knowledge representation/reasoning methods, is currently receiving significant attention due to its promise to both overcome apparent limitations of pure deep learning systems, and to address the knowledge acquisition bottleneck. This presentation will focus on some recent reseach advances made at Kansas State University related to Semantic Web / knowledge graphs and neurosymbolic AI, with particular emphasis on the use of symbolic AI methods for understanding hidden neuron activations, and on using large language models for knowledge graph and ontology engineering.
Short bio: Pascal Hitzler is University Distinguished Professor and endowed Lloyd T. Smith Creativity in Engineering Chair at the Department of Computer Science at Kansas State University, one of the Directors of the Institute for Digital Agriculture and Advanced Analytics (ID3A), and Director of the Center for Artificial Intelligence and Data Science (CAIDS). His research record lists over 400 publications in such diverse areas as neurosymbolic artificial intelligence, semantic web, knowledge graphs, knowledge representation and reasoning, denotational semantics, and set-theoretic topology. He was founding Editor-in-chief of the Semantic Web journal, the leading journal in the field, and is founding Editor-in-chief of the new Neurosymbolic Artificial Intelligence journal. He is co-author of the W3C Recommendation OWL 2 Primer, and of the book Foundations of Semantic Web Technologies by CRC Press, 2010, which was named as one out of seven Outstanding Academic Titles 2010 in Information and Computer Science by the American Library Association's Choice Magazine, and has translations into German and Chinese. He is a founding steering committee member of the Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning Association that runs the annual International Conference on Neurosymbolic Learning and Reasoning (NeSy). For more information about him, see http://www.pascal-hitzler.de.