Umutcan Serles

My General Interests

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Dialog Systems
  • Knowledge Graphs
  • Lightweight Semantic Web Services
  • schema.org
  • Semantic Web
  • SHACL
  • Large Language Models
    • Autonomous Multi-Agent Systems
    • Grounding LLM Reasoning with Knowledge Graphs

What am I doing currently?

I am currently working on enabling seamless consumption of different data sources via LLM-based conversational agents. For instance benefiting from vector stores and knowledge graphs for question answering at the same time without losing their strong points in terms of data representation. I am also involved in research and development activities regarding self-improving conversational agents and agentic customer process management. Some of the work I have been doing is part of publicly funded projects like PERKS.

I am also involved in Knowledge Graph Lifecycle Management for German Tourism Knowledge Graph and ISO standardization activities for a semantic data model for tourism.

Additionally, I am doing some external teaching about knowledge graphs at IMC Krems.

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