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A full news listing of KASTLE events.
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News from 2025
- Sep 2025 – Antrea Christou presents their short research paper, “Extending the Interactive Knowledge Browser to Support Educational Multimedia” at SEMANTiCS 2025!
- Sep 2025 – Cogan Shimizu gives two keynotes at workshops co-located with SEMANTiCS 2025!
- “Accelerating Knowledge Engineering with Modularity” at the 2nd Workshop on Knowledge Graphs and Neurosymbolic AI.
- “Towards Understanding Structures in KG Embedding Spaces for Experimental Design” at the 1st International Workshop on Symbolic and Generative AI for Science (SymGenAI4Sci).
- Sep 2025 – Cogan Shimizu gives talk, “Domain Adaptive Neurosymbolic Agents,” at Vienna University of Business and Economics and has a highly successful research visit with Fajar Ekaputra, Marta Sabou, Sabrina Kirrane, Axel Polleres, Dagmar Gromann, Katja Hose, and many students!
- Aug 2025 – Cogan Shimizu has a paper, “OntoInsight – A Metric-Guided Tool for Ontology Quality Evaluation with LLM-Powered Recommendations,” accepted to ER 2025.
- Aug 2025 – Krischal Dhungel, Susan Shrestha, and Sumit Sunar join KASTLE Lab to complete their MS thesis! Welcome!
- Aug 2025 – Emily Miller joins KASTLE Lab to complete their Departmental Honors Thesis! Welcome!
- Aug 2025 – KASTLE Lab wins $500,000 award from the National Science Foundation for “Prototyping a new Knowledge Resource for modern AI (Proto-KAI),” in partnership with Vinay Chaudhri (Knowledge Systems Research, LLC) and Alessandro Oltramari (Carnegie Bosch Insitute).
- Aug 2025 – Cogan Shimizu runs a highly attended workshop “Knowledge graphs for materials and autonomous experimentation/research” at Accelerate 2025!
- Jul 2025 – Cogan Shimizu runs “(Actual) Neurosymbolic AI: Combining Deep Learning and Knowledge Graphs”, a Dagstuhl Seminar!
- June 2025 – Cogan Shimizu gives talk, “Modular Ontology Modeling,” at Örebro Univeristy and has a highly successful research visit with Hadi Banae, Stephanie Lowry, and Fjollë Novakazi!
- June 2025 – Cogan Shimizu gives keynote, “Accelerating Knowledge Graph and Ontology Engineering with Large Language Models,” at ELMKE: Evaluation of Language Models in Knowledge Engineering, co-located with ESWC 2025.
- May 2025 – Ashish Pokhrel and Jon Wasky join KASTLE Lab as Scientific Programmers! Welcome!
- Feb 2025 – KASTLE Lab wins $300,000 award from the National Science Foundation for “EAGER: A Translational Institute for Knowledge Axiomatization – A Feasibility Study,” in partnership with Vinay Chaudhri (Knowledge Systems Research, LLC).
- Feb 2025 – Anmol Saini has their paper, “Polymer Data Extraction and KG Population Using LLMs,” accepted to First AAAI Bridge on Artificial Intelligence for Scholarly Communication 2025.
- Jan 2025 – “Accelerating Knowledge Graph and Ontology Engineering with Large Language Models“ is published in the Journal of Web Semantics.
- Jan 2025 – Cogan Shimizu gives keynote, “Modular Ontology Modeling” at SemTech 2025.
News from 2024
- Dec 2024 – “Education in the era of neurosymbolic AI“ is published in the Journal of Web Semantics.
- 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! Welcome!
- 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! Welcome!
- 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! Welcome!
- 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! Welcome!
- Jan 2024 – Stacie Severyn joins KASTLE Lab! Welcome!
News from 2023
- Dec 2023 – Anmol Saini successfully defends their Departmental Honors Thesis! Congratulations!
- Nov 2023 – Cogan Shimizu gives key note talk at the 14th Workshop on Ontology Design and Patterns, co-located with ISWC 2023.
- Oct 2023 – Divine Eziolise joins KASTLE Lab! Welcome!
- 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.
- Jun 2023 – Rakesh Kandula joins KASTLE Lab! Welcome!
- Aug 2023 – Alexis Ellis, as a part of the KASTLE Lab, is awarded $24.5K from AFRL/SOCHE and $15K from Wright State University to research how symbols can be used to semantically represent complex AI systems for the greater good.
- Aug 2023 – Alexis Ellis joins KASTLE Lab! Welcome!
- Jan 2023 – Anmol Saini joins KASTLE Lab! Welcome!
- Jan 2023 – Brandon Dave joins KASTLE Lab! Welcome!
News from 2022
- KASTLE Lab receives $85,578 subaward from UCSB under the KnowWhereGraph project.
- Antrea Christou joins the lab! Welcome!
- KASTLE Lab Founded!