Welcome to the KASTLE Lab

The Knowledge and Semantic Technologies (KASTLE) Laboratory was founded in 2022 at Wright State University by Dr. Cogan Shimizu.

KASTLE Lab’s mission is to

• develop fundamental advances in knowledge engineering, especially as they pertain to knowledge graphs and including the development of relevant cyberinfrastructure;
• explore the intersection between knowledge engineering, domain science, and machine/deep learning for the purpose of accelerating science and promoting data discovery and transdisciplinary research;
• understand the bridge between human-conceptualization and machine-encoding to better align and design AI systems; and
• advance the state of open curriculum in knowledge engineering and semantic technologies.

Notices

• E-mails to the lab which request a position, but have not read the Recruiting page, will not receive a response. This pertains to the request of funded positions or topics that are out-of-scope for the lab’s expertise.
• Accepting Independent Study requests, Master’s Thesis Proposals, Research Projects, LSAMP scholars, and more. Please see the recruiting page for more details.

Recent News

• Dec 2024 – “The KnowWhereGraph Ontology” is published in the Journal of Web Semantics.
• Dec 2024 – Alexis Ellis is awarded a scholarship through the “Alice Swinger First International Travel Grant at Wright State University!” Congratulations!
• Dec 2024 – Michael McCain successfully defends their Departmental Honors Thesis! Congratulations!
• Sep 2024 – Shreyas Casturi joins KASTLE Lab!
• Sep 2024 – Anmol Saini has their paper, “An Ontology for Conversations with Virtual Research Assistants,” accepted to ICTAI 2024.
• Aug 2024 – Chris Davis Jaldi joins KASTLE Lab!
• Aug 2024 – Michael McCain has their paper, “KnowWhereGraph for Land Use Optimization: Achieving Sustainability and Efficiency,” accepted to AI4S.
• Jul 2024 – Rakesh Kandula successfully defends their Master’s Thesis! Congratulations!
• May 2024 – Brandon Dave, as a part of the KASTLE Lab, is awarded $52,260 from AFRL/SOCHE for their project “TASK-MATS,” which focuses on how knowledge graphs can be used to aid in error control for autonomous manufacturing systems.
• May 2024 – Anmol Saini, as a part of the KASTLE Lab, is awarded $52,260 from AFRL/SOCHE for their project “KGRWAPS,” which focuses on how knowledge graphs can be used to power virtual research assistants in polymer science.
• May 2024 – Jon Cole joins KASTLE Lab!
• Apr 2024 – Antrea Christou successfully defends their Master’s Thesis! Congratulations!
• Apr 2024 – Brandon Dave successfully defends their Master’s Thesis! Congratulations!
• Apr 2024 – Alexis Ellis successfully passes their Candidacy Exam! Congratulations!
• Mar 2024 – Alexis Ellis & Brandon dave have their paper, “EASY-AI: sEmantic And compoSable glYphs for representing AI systems,” accepted to HHAI 2024.
• Jan 2024 – Dennis Young joins KASTLE Lab!
• Jan 2024 – Stacie Severyn joins KASTLE Lab!
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More Useful Links

In addition to the links in the sidebar, see the following links for interesting, useful, or related resources for

• Cogan’s Personal Webpage
• The PRAXIS Initiative – a nexus for educational materials and activities, pertaining to knowledge engineering
• The Open Knowledge Graph Curriculum – a curated set of modules for learning about knowledge graphs
• The Association for Ontology Design and Patterns – the community surrounding ontology design patterns development, usage, and other aspects of ontology design