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Jieying Chen

Assistant Professor
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
NU building, De Boelelaan 1111, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
j.y.chen (at) vu.nl


Short Bio

Currently, I am an assistant professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (the Netherlands). Prior to this, I was engaged as a senior research associate at the University of Oxford (UK). My professional journey also includes industrial experience as a full-time IT (management) consultant at Boston Consulting Group Nordics, from September 2022 to June 2023. From September 2019 to August 2022, I held the position of senior lecturer/Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oslo (Norway). From March 2019 to August 2019, I was a research associate at the University of Manchester (UK), working on the EPSRC IAA Project “Comparison and Abstraction of SNOMED CT Ontologies” together in collaboration with Snomed International.

I earned my PhD degree from Université Paris-Saclay (France). In June 2018, I was selected as one of the ten representative PhD students in Artificial Intelligence to attend French American Doctoral Exchange Seminar (FADEx) 2018 organised by Mission pour la Science et la Technologie aux États-Unis (Office for Science and Technology at the Embassy of France in the United States). From October 2013 to March 2014, I was an exchange student in the master’s program of computational logic at TU Dresden (Germany) funded by the EU programme Erasmus Mundus scholarship.

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Projects

  1. Zorro
    Role: WP2 leader.
    ZORRO is a research project funded by NWO and carried out by a multidisciplinary consortium consisting of University of Twente, Vrije Universiteit, Saxion, TNO-ESI and industrial partners ASML, Canon Production Printers, ITEC, Philips, and ThermoFisher Scientific.

  2. ConCur
    Partners: University of Oxford, Samsung.
    Concur is mainly funded by UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). We study a range of semantic and machine learning techniques, and how to combine them to support knowledge graph construction and curation. As well as its application to knowledge graph construction and curation, the research will also contribute to the development of new neural-symbolic theories, paradigms and methods, such as deep semantic embedding for learning representations for expressive knowledge, and knowledge-guided learning for addressing sample shortage problems.

  3. SIRIUS
    Partners: University of Oxford, SINTEF, Aibel, Bosch, Equinor, etc.
    SIRIUS is a Norwegian Centre for Research-driven Innovation that addresses the problems of scalable data access in and beyond the oil & gas industry. The centre combines public funding for basic research with funding from its industry partners into an 8 year programme for industrial innovation.

  4. SNOMED
    Partners: University of Manchester, Snomed International.
    The project aims to apply knowledge and tools developed from previous research for tracking the changes between different versions of an ontology and forgetting some terms from an ontology thereby computing an abstraction of it. The focus of the project was a trial on a core subset of the SNOMED CT medical ontology in order to address content-related quality issues. The key deliverables are insight and automated support for tracking the different country versions of the sub-ontologies and bespoke abstractions of SNOMED CT (sub-)ontologies.

Publications

  1. ECAI 2024
    Jieying Chen, Hang Dong, Jiaoyan Chen, and Ian Horrocks
    27th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence

  2. KG4S 2024
    Giacomo Zamprogno, Patrick Koopmann, Mark Adamik, Lise Stork, Ritten Roothaert, Romana Pernisch, Ameneh Naghdipour, Benno Kruit, Jieying Chen, Stefan Schlobach, and Ilaria Tiddi.
    second international Workshop on Knowledge Graphs for Sustainability at 21st Extended Semantic Web Conference

  3. ISWC 2023
    Jieying Chen, Johanna P. Haarseth, Christian M. Hansen, Martin G. Skjæveland, Arild Waaler
    22nd International Semantic Web Conference, Industry track

  4. ESWC 2022
    Jieying Chen, Yue Ma, Rafael Peñaloza, Hui Yang
    19th European Semantic Web Conference

  5. IJCKG 2021
    Baifan Zhou, Dongzhuoran Zhou, Jieying Chen, Yulia Svetashova, Gong Cheng, Evgeny Kharlamov
    10th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Graphs

  6. IJCKG 2021
    Dongzhuoran Zhou, Baifan Zhou, Jieying Chen, Gong Cheng, Evgeny Kharlamov
    10th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Graphs

  7. IJCAI 2020
    Patrick Koopmann, Jieying Chen
    29th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence

  8. K-Cap 2019
    Jieying Chen, Ghadah Alghamdi, Renate A. Schmidt, Dirk Walther, Yongsheng Gao
    10th International Conference on Knowledge Capture

  9. JELIA 2019
    Jieying Chen, Michel Ludwig, Yue Ma, Dirk Walther
    16th edition of the European Conference on Logics in Artificial Intelligence

  10. GCAI 2018
    Jieying Chen, Michel Ludwig, Dirk Walther
    4th Global Conference on Artificial Intelligence

  11. ISWC 2017
    Jieying Chen, Michel Ludwig, Yue Ma, Dirk Walther
    16th International Semantic Web Conference

  12. KSEM 2015
    Jieying Chen, Michel Ludwig, Yue Ma, Dirk Walther
    8th International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management

  13. DL 2021
    Jieying Chen, Yue Ma, Rafael Peñaloza, Hui Yang
    34th International Workshop on Description Logics

  14. DL 2020
    Patrick Koopmann, Jieying Chen
    33rd International Workshop on Description Logics

  15. DL 2019
    Jieying Chen, Ghadah Alghamdi, Renate A. Schmidt, Dirk Walther, Yongsheng Gao
    32nd International Workshop on Description Logics

  16. DL 2018
    Jieying Chen, Yue Ma, Dirk Walther
    31st International Workshop on Description Logics

  17. DL 2018
    Jieying Chen, Michel Ludwig, Yue Ma, Dirk Walther
    31st International Workshop on Description Logics

  18. SOQE 2017
    Patrick Koopmann, Jieying Chen
    Workshop on Second-Order Quantifier Elimination and Related Topics

  19. DL 2017
    Jieying Chen, Michel Ludwig, Yue Ma, Dirk Walther
    30th International Workshop on Description Logics

  20. JOMO 2016
    Jieying Chen, Michel Ludwig, Dirk Walther
    Joint Ontology Workshops 2016

  21. DL 2014
    Jieying Chen, Michel Ludwig, Yue Ma, Dirk Walther
    27th International Workshop on Description Logics

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