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.

You’re welcome to visit my LinkedIn, Medium, Google Scholar, ORCiD. My office hours: Monday, 15pm-16pm (Email appointment)

Events
21-22 November, 2024 - Attended the 8th International Conference on Computer-Human Interaction Research and Applications and presented "User Experience in Dataset Search," Porto, Portugal.
11-15 November, 2024 - Attended the 23rd International Semantic Web Conference and participated in the Collective Intelligence Workflows for LLM-based Knowledge Engineering symposium, Baltimore, USA.
07-09 November, 2024 - Attended the AAAI Fall Symposia on Large Language Models for Knowledge Graph and Ontology Engineering and presented "Improving Ontology Requirements Engineering with OntoChat and Participatory Prompting," Arlington, VA, USA.
2024-2025 - Served as a Research Associate working on the Wikidata Quality Toolkit, focusing on developing the AI tool ProVe to enhance reference quality assessment, King's College London, London, UK.
Semester 2, 2024-2025 - Served as a Teaching Assistant, creating course materials including lecture slides, lab sheets, quizzes, and coursework for 5CCSAKNE Knowledge Engineering, and contributing to 7CUSMNDA Network Data Analysis, King's College London, London, UK.
24-27 June, 2024 - Attended ACM Europe Summer School on Accessible and Inclusive Technologies and presented "An AI Assistant Leveraging Large Language Models to Enhance Ontology User Story Creation," Birmingham, UK.
03-07 June, 2024 - Attended the 8th Summer School on Computational Interaction and presented "An AI Assistant Leveraging Large Language Models to Enhance Ontology Requirements Engineering," Belval, Luxembourg.
24-26 April, 2024 - Attended MuseIT Participatory Workshop & Consortium Meeting and presented "AI Co-pilot to Improve Ontology Requirement Elicitation," Edinburgh, UK.
24-25 March, 2024 - Attended the 3rd Annual Symposium of The Turing Interest Group on Knowledge Graphs and presented "Mapping Between Ontology Requirements Engineering and Software Requirements Engineering," Liverpool, UK.
2023-2024 - Conducted a research visit and worked on "User-Centric Design for AI-Copilot for Ontology Requirements Engineering," Imperial College London, London, UK.
Semester 2, 2023-2024 - Served as a Teaching Assistant, overseeing lab and coursework tutorials for 7CUSMNDA Network Data Analysis, King's College London, London, UK.
07-10 August, 2023 - Attended the Knowledge Prompting Hackathon and researched "Using Large Language Models for OntoClean-Based Ontology Refinement," London, UK.
August, 2023 - Began my PhD journey :)

Page updated

Google Sites

Report abuse