Pascal Hitzler at the Ontology Summit 2026
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Ken Baclawski
Mar 17, 2026, 10:36:33 PMMar 17
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We had a very well attended session on 11 March. If you were unable to attend be sure to check out the videos on the session page at https://ontologforum.com/index.php/ConferenceCall_2026_03_11 or on the Ontology Summit YouTube channel.
We are pleased to announce that the next session of the Ontology Summit 2026 will feature
Pascal Hitzler
who will be presenting
Some Advances in Neurosymbolic AI Related to Ontologies and Knowledge Graphs
As usual, all summit sessions are zoom sessions on Wednesdays at Noon US/Canada Eastern Time and each session lasts one hour. The summit is open to the public and no registration is necessary. All summit sessions are recorded and are available on the summit web pages and on the Ontology Summit YouTube channel.
The session page is: https://ontologforum.com/index.php/ConferenceCall_2026_03_18
Zoom information:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86994661673?pwd=mMUeaWyWhBMSzTw3SgH5GjMv2Qx4rH.1
Meeting ID: 869 9466 1673
Passcode: 803090
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 research advances made at Kansas State University related to Ontologies, Knowledge Graphs and neurosymbolic AI, with particular emphasis on the use of large language models for knowledge graph and ontology engineering, and the use of symbolic AI methods for AI explainability.
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, Director (Research) of the Institute for Digital Agriculture and Advanced Analytics (ID3A), and Director of the Center for Artificial Intelligence and Data Science (CAIDS). He serves on the Kansas Legislature AI Taskforce and on the Samsung AI Advisory Board. His research record lists over 400 publications in such diverse areas as neuro-symbolic artificial intelligence, semantic web, knowledge graphs, knowledge representation and reasoning, denotational semantics, and set-theoretic topology, with over 19,000 citations. 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 founding steering committee member of the Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning Association and the Association for Ontology Design and Patterns. For more information about him, see http://www.pascal-hitzler.de.
Ken Baclawski
Chair, Ontology Summit 2026
We are pleased to announce that the next session of the Ontology Summit 2026 will feature
Pascal Hitzler
who will be presenting
Some Advances in Neurosymbolic AI Related to Ontologies and Knowledge Graphs
As usual, all summit sessions are zoom sessions on Wednesdays at Noon US/Canada Eastern Time and each session lasts one hour. The summit is open to the public and no registration is necessary. All summit sessions are recorded and are available on the summit web pages and on the Ontology Summit YouTube channel.
The session page is: https://ontologforum.com/index.php/ConferenceCall_2026_03_18
Zoom information:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86994661673?pwd=mMUeaWyWhBMSzTw3SgH5GjMv2Qx4rH.1
Meeting ID: 869 9466 1673
Passcode: 803090
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 research advances made at Kansas State University related to Ontologies, Knowledge Graphs and neurosymbolic AI, with particular emphasis on the use of large language models for knowledge graph and ontology engineering, and the use of symbolic AI methods for AI explainability.
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, Director (Research) of the Institute for Digital Agriculture and Advanced Analytics (ID3A), and Director of the Center for Artificial Intelligence and Data Science (CAIDS). He serves on the Kansas Legislature AI Taskforce and on the Samsung AI Advisory Board. His research record lists over 400 publications in such diverse areas as neuro-symbolic artificial intelligence, semantic web, knowledge graphs, knowledge representation and reasoning, denotational semantics, and set-theoretic topology, with over 19,000 citations. 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 founding steering committee member of the Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning Association and the Association for Ontology Design and Patterns. For more information about him, see http://www.pascal-hitzler.de.
Ken Baclawski
Chair, Ontology Summit 2026
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