Professor Steven Schockaert
Professor
- schockaerts1@cardiff.ac.uk
- +44 (0)29 2087 9109
- Abacws, Senghennydd Road, Cathays, Cardiff, CF24 4AG
- Media commentator
- Available for postgraduate supervision
Overview
I joined the School of Computer Science and Informatics in 2011 as a lecturer, where I am currently a professor. Previously I was a PhD student at Ghent university from 2004 to 2008 and a postdoctoral fellow of the Research Foundation Flanders from 2008 to 2011. My research, in the area of Artificial Intelligence, focuses on reasoning with imperfect information, including various forms of commonsense reasoning. This involves the combination of techniques and ideas from the field of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning with methods from Machine Learning, with applications in Natural Languague Processing and Information Retrieval.
Biography
Honours and awards
- Best long paper award at RepL4NLP 2021
- Best paper award runner-up at ISWC 2019
- Outstanding SPC Award at AAAI 2019
- Best paper award runner-up at KR 2018
- Best paper award at ILP 2017
- Best paper award at GEOCROWD 2012
- Best paper award runner-up at ECAI 2012
- ECCAI Artificial Intelligence Dissertation Award 2008
- IBM Belgium Prize for Computer Science 2008
- Quantum Leap Award at MediaEval 2010
Speaking engagements
- Invited lecture at the Reasoning Web summer school 2021
- Invited keynote speaker at ECSQARU 2021
- Invited keynote speaker at PFIA 2021
- Invited keynote speaker at EUSFLAT 2019
- Invited keynote speaker at SemDeep 2018
- Invited keynote speaker at MANYVAL 2017
- Invited keynote speaker at LFA 2016
- Invited "early career spotlight" talk at IJCAI 2016
- Invited keynote speaker at ONTOLP 2015
- Invited keynote speaker at SteDy 2015
- Invited keynote speaker at the Workshop on Uncertainty Handling for AGI 2013
- Award talk at ACAI 2009
Committees and reviewing
- Editor-in-chief of AI Communications - The European Journal of Artificial Intelligence
- Treasurer of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence
- Area editor for Fuzzy Sets and Systems
- Associate editor of Artificial Intelligence (AIJ)
- Editorial board of Machine Learning
- Co-chair of the special track on Knowledge Representation and Machine Learning at KR 2022
- Area chair at AAAI 2022, NAACL-HLT 2021
- Program Co-Chair of SUM 2016
- General Chair of UKCI 2017
- Member of the IJCAI Program Committee Board and the ACL Rolling Review panel
- I have been a Program Committee member of over 100 international conferences and workshops
Publications
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I am the module leader of "Artificial Intelligence", which is taught in the 3rd year of the BSc Computer Science programme.
I am the module leader of "Principled of Machine Learning", which is taught in the MSc Artificial Intelligence programme.
Current research projects:
- Encyclopedic lexical representations for natural language processing (with Luis Espinosa Anke), EPSRC, 2021-2024
- Plausible reasoning with ontologies using graph neural networks (with Yazmin Ibanez-Garcia and Victor Gutierrez Basulto), Leverhulme Trust, 2022-2025
- Reasoning about structured story representations, EPSRC Open Fellowship, 2022-2027
Previous research projects:
- Fuzzy answer set programming 2.0 (with Dirk Vermeir and Martine De Cock), Research Foundation - Flanders, 2010-2014.
- A synergistic approach to extraction, learning and reasoning for machine reading (with Jesse Davis, Marie-Francine Moens and Martine De Cock), Research Foundation - Flanders, 2011-2016.
- Enriching, repairing and merging taxonomies by inducing qualitative spatial representations from the web, EPSRC First Grant, 2013-2014.
- Approximating Markov logic theories in possibilistic logic (with Jesse Davis), Leverhulme Trust, 2014-2016.
- Formal lexically informed logics for searching the web, ERC Starting Grant, 2015-2020.