Sotirios Batsakis

Dr. Sotirios Batsakis is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Huddersfield, School of Computing and Engineering. He holds a diploma in Computer Engineering and Informatics from the University of Patras (Greece) with highest distinction, and a Master’s/Ph.D. in Electronic & Computer Engineering from the Technical University of Crete. His work contributes to UN Sustainable Development Goals through research in knowledge representation, semantic web, and spatio-temporal reasoning.

• Centre for Planning, Autonomy and Representation of Knowledge
• Centre of Artificial Intelligence for Mental Health
• Centre for Autonomous and Intelligent Systems

His research spans knowledge representation, semantic technologies, spatio-temporal reasoning, and AI applications in mental health. Recent work focuses on large language models for formal verification, defeasible reasoning, and compliance checking in legal contexts. He has contributed to qualitative spatial reasoning frameworks, temporal representation in OWL, and semantic IoT systems.

Active in academic service as a programme committee member for IEEE conferences, he has published extensively on semantic web technologies, ontologies, and AI applications. His research fingerprint includes ontology engineering (100%), semantic web (66%), and temporal reasoning (15%) across 63 publications since 2009.