Jieying Chen

Roles and Affiliations: Jieying Chen is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Science, Department of Artificial Intelligence at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Netherlands). She is also affiliated with the Network Institute. Previously, she held roles as Senior Research Associate at the University of Oxford, Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Oslo, and Research Associate at the University of Manchester. She has industrial experience as an IT consultant at Boston Consulting Group (Nordics).

Education: PhD from Université Paris-Saclay (France), Master's in Computational Logic (TU Dresden, Germany via Erasmus Mundus scholarship).

Research Interests: Focus on Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (Description Logics, Ontology Modularity), Semantic Web (Ontology Modeling), AI for Social Goods (Bias Detection with LLMs), and applications in Cyber Physical Systems. Combines KR with NLP/ML techniques for ontology alignment and knowledge extraction.

Recent Trends in Work: Recent publications emphasize ontology text alignment, bias detection in governmental documents using LLMs, and knowledge-based fault diagnosis in industrial systems. Her work bridges symbolic AI with machine learning, particularly in sustainability and industrial applications.

Grants and Projects: Lead WP2 in the Zorro project (NWO-funded), Co-PI on VU-UT Alliance grant for fairness in HRM via LLM bias mitigation. Collaborates on ConCur (EPSRC-funded) and SIRIUS (Norwegian R&D center).

Labs/Teams: Active in the Zorro project consortium involving ASML, Philips, and TNO-ESI. Leads ontology engineering initiatives in collaboration with industry partners like Bosch and Aibel AS.