Faculty in this area advance the development of semantic web technologies and knowledge graphs to enable intelligent information integration, reasoning, and explainability across diverse domains. Research includes ontologies, hybrid symbolic-neural reasoning, decentralized intelligent systems, and applications to web science, health informatics, and financial technology. Representative topics include:

• Knowledge graphs and ontologies
• Semantic web and web science
• Hybrid AI reasoning
• Explanation systems
• Decentralized intelligent systems
• Fintech and health informatics applications