Jiaoyan Chen is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in the Department of Computer Science at The University of Manchester, set to become a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) from July 2025. Previously, she served as a Senior Researcher at the University of Oxford and held postdoctoral roles at Heidelberg University. Her research focuses on neural-symbolic knowledge representation, ontology engineering, and integrating large language models with knowledge graphs. Education: PhD in Knowledge Reasoning and Predictive Analytics (Zhejiang University, 2011-2016) and BEng in Computer Science (Zhejiang University, 2007-2011). She also spent time as a visiting scholar at Zurich University (2014-2015). Research Interests include: Knowledge Graphs, Ontologies, Large Language Models, Retrieval Augmented Generation, and Machine Learning applications in knowledge-aware systems. She leads major grants such as the EPSRC New Investigator Award (EP/Y017706/1) and collaborates internationally through initiatives like the Manchester-Melbourne-Toronto Fund. Teaching: Leads units like 'Data Engineering Technologies' and 'Advanced Topics in Knowledge Representation'. She actively advises PhD students and co-develops tools like OWL2Vec* and DeepOnto. Service roles include Associate Editor of Transactions on Graph Data and Knowledge (TGDK), membership in the EPSRC Peer Review College, and leadership in ontology alignment initiatives like OAEI Bio-ML Track.












