Prof. Dr. Frank van Harmelen

Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) and EurAI Fellow. Co-developer of the W3C OWL Web Ontology Language and pioneer in combining symbolic and neural AI.

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Documented research interests and leadership

Research areas: Knowledge Representation, Semantic Web, Symbolic AI, Knowledge Graphs
Academic position: Professor of Knowledge Representation & Reasoning, Member of KNAW
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Recruitment status: Not verified. Leadership profile does not imply active vacancies or assistantship availability.

Supervision and contact

Students interested in graduate or doctoral research supervision in Knowledge Representation, Semantic Web, Symbolic AI are advised to consult formal department application channels.

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