CSH Seminar with Ian Horrocks, Oxford University, on Monday, July 6, 2026 at 16:00

We are pleased to announce the upcoming talk by Ian Horrocks, full professor in the Oxford University Department of Computer Science and a co-founder of Oxford Semantic Technologies, who will take a closer look at "Knowledge Graphs: Theory, Applications and Challenges".

Ian Horrocks is a full professor in the Oxford University Department of Computer Science and a co-founder of Oxford Semantic Technologies. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society, a member of Academia Europaea, a fellow of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence (EurAI) and a British Computer Society Lovelace Medalist. His research concerns the representation of knowledge, and the efficient manipulation of such knowledge by computers. He played a leading role in establishing the Semantic Web as a significant research field, pioneering many of the underlying logics, algorithms, optimisation techniques, and reasoning systems. He has contributed to the development of several widely used reasoning systems including FaCT++, HermiT, Elk and RDFox. He has published more than 300 papers in major international conferences and journals, winning best paper prizes at KR-98, AAAI-2010, and IJCAI-2017, and test of time awards at ISWC-2013, KR-2020 and CADE-2021. He is one of the UK’s most highly cited computer scientists, with more than 67,000 citations, and an h-index of 107.

Knowledge Graphs have rapidly become a mainstream technology that combines features of databases and AI. In this talk, Ian Horrocks will introduce Knowledge Graphs, explaining their features and the theory behind them. He will then consider some of the challenges inherent in both the theory and implementation of Knowledge Graphs and present some solutions that have made possible the development of popular language standards and robust and high-performance Knowledge Graph systems. Finally, he will illustrate the wide applicability of knowledge graph technology with some example use cases.

Date: Monday, July 6, 2026, starting at 16:00
Speaker: Ian Horrocks, Oxford University
Title: "Knowledge Graphs: Theory, Applications and Challenges"

Venue: Zoom https://uni-hohenheim.zoom-x.de/j/3095895257?pwd=WFBzVUQ4QTVaRVU5UU9ZaUVJcUY4UT09

06.07.2026, 16:00 - 17:00 Uhr