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

• Accepting Independent Study requests, Master’s Thesis Proposals, Research Projects, LSAMP scholars, and more. Please see the recruiting page for more details.

Recent News

• Apr 2023 – Antrea Christou successfully defends her Master’s Thesis! Congratulations!
• Apr 2023 – Brandon Dave successfully defends her Master’s Thesis! Congratulations!
• Apr 2023 – Alexis Ellis successfully passes her Candidacy Exam! Congratulations!
• Mar 2023 – Paper accepted to HHAI 2024.
• Nov 2023 – Cogan Shimizu gives key note talk at the 14th Workshop on Ontology Design and Patterns, co-located with ISWC 2023.
• Oct 2023 – KASTLE Lab makes excellent showing at Wright State University’s Celebration of Undergraduate and Graduate Research. All KASTLE Lab students who submitted an abstract were invited to submit posters. Antrea was nominated to give a Data Blitz! Take a look here for some pictures of the event!
• Oct 2023 – Brandon Dave gives an invited talk to the International Semantic Intelligence Conference 2023 titled “Towards Understanding the Impact of Schema on Knowledge Graph Embeddings”.
• Sep 2023 – KASTLE Lab wins 1.5MM award from the National Science Foundation, as the Education Gateway to the Proto-OKN. For more information, visit the project website
• Aug 2023 – Alexis Ellis, as a part of the KASTLE lab, is awarded $24.5K from AFRL/SOCHE and $15K to research how symbols can be used to semantically represent complex AI systems for the greater good.

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