Philipp Cimiano

Philipp Cimiano is a Professor at the Faculty of Engineering, Bielefeld University, and leads the Semantic Databases Group. He holds additional roles as Coordinator of the Cognitive Interaction Technology Center (CITEC) and Director of the Joint Artificial Intelligence Institute (JAII). His research focuses on the intersection of language, semantics, and knowledge representation, with applications in Explainable AI, Knowledge Graphs, and AI in Medicine.

• Education: University of Stuttgart, University of South Australia, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
• Key Research Areas: Knowledge Representation, Ontologies, Explainable AI, Clinical Decision Support

His recent work emphasizes dialogue-based XAI, federated learning, and semantic data integration. He has secured funding from the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the European Union for projects like TRR 318 "Constructing Explainability" and Pret-a-LLOD.

• Scientific Awards
  • Carl Adam Petrie Prize, KIT Faculty of Business and Economics
• Editorial Roles
  • Co-editor, Journal of Applied Ontology
  • Area Editor, Semantic Web Journal
  • Editorial Board, Journal of Web Semantics
• Notable Projects
  • TRR 318 (Subprojects B01, C05, INF)
  • 3B: Bots Building Bridges for online deliberation
  • LLM4KMU: Open Source LLMs for SMEs