Yihang Zhao

PhD Researcher

HCI | GenAI | KG | OE

Hi, I'm a second-year PhD student in the Distributed Artificial Intelligence Group, Department of Informatics, King's College London, supervised by Prof. Elena Simperl and Dr Albert Meroño Peñuela. My PhD research investigates the potential of human–LLM collaboration for ontology requirements engineering, with a focus on developing an LLM-based assistant, OntoChat, for the MuseIT project to support stakeholders in generating satisfactory user requirements for ontology development. An ontology is a formal, explicit specification of a shared conceptualization, which can be combined with problem-solving methods and reasoning functionality to develop high-quality technology and application systems.

Previously, I worked as a research assistant on ProVe, an LLM-based assistant within the Wikidata Quality Toolkit, designed to help editors improve the references of Wikidata items. Prior to that, I earned an MSc in Data Science from King’s College London with an overall grade of 80% (GPA 4.0/4.0), and a BSc in Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science from the University of Sheffield, where I received an international undergraduate scholarship.

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