Semantic Intelligence: Select Proceedings of ISIC 2023

Dr. Sarika Jain has served in education for over 19 years and is currently serving at the National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra (Institute of National Importance), India. She has authored or co-authored over 150 publications including both authored and edited books. Her research interests include knowledge management and analytics, ontological engineering, knowledge graphs, and intelligent systems. She has been the principal investigator of sponsored research projects and works in collaboration with various researchers across the globe, including in Germany, Austria, Australia, Malaysia, Spain, the USA, and Romania. She serves as a reviewer for journals published by IEEE, Elsevier, and Springer. She has been involved as a program and steering committee member at many prestigious conferences in India and abroad. She is a senior member of the IEEE, a member of ACM, and a Life Member of the CSI.

Dr. Nandana Mihindukulasooriya is a Senior Research Scientist at IBM Research in New York, USA. Dr. Mihindukulasooriya holds a PhD in Artificial Intelligence (AI) from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain. His research interests include Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KRR), Semantic Web, Linked Data, and Natural Language Processing (NLP). Dr. Mihidukulasooriya has participated in several European research projects including SEALS (FP7–238975), LIDER (FP7-610782), and 4V (TIN2013-46238). Before IBM, he was a member of the Ontology Engineering Group, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Spain), renowned for breakthrough innovations in Ontology Engineering, Linked Data, Data Integration, and semantic Infrastructure. Dr. Mihindukulasooriya currently serves as a Project Management Committee (PMC) member at Apache Axis & Apache Web Services projects of Apache Software Foundation.

Dr. Valentina Janev is a Senior Researcher at the Mihajlo Pupin Institute, University of Belgrade, Serbia. She has extensive experience in research, software systems development, and maintenance in different industrial domains for clients from Europe. She has published several conference and journal papers, books, and book chapters on responsible knowledge management, semantic intelligence in Big Data applications, knowledge graphs, and Big Data processing. Dr. Valentina Janev has served as an external Expert engaged by the European Commission, Research Executive Agency for the evaluation of EU research proposals and projects. She is a senior member of the IEEE. Dr. Janev has acted as a reviewer of respectable international journals including Artificial Intelligence Review (Springer), International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems (IGI Global), International Journal of Digital Earth (Taylor & Francis), Information Systems Management (Taylor & Francis), International Journal of Intelligent Information Systems (Science Publishing Group) and American Journal of Software Engineering and Applications (Science Publishing Group).

Dr. Cogan Shimizu is an Assistant Professor at Wright State University, where he leads the Knowledge and Semantic Technologies (KASTLE) Lab. His research focuses on pattern-based methods for knowledge engineering and their application in neurosymbolic AI. He has authored over 75 publications, including at premier venues including the Semantic Web journal and ISWC. He is now a Managing Editor at the Semantic Web journal and on the steering committee for the K-CAP conference series.