Our Research Areas

We build AI systems using structured knowledge, language, and reasoning - with a focus on scientific knowledge, dialogue, structured data, and trustworthy evaluation.

Knowledge Graphs & Scientific Knowledge

We study how to build, align, and reason over knowledge graphs drawn from text, tables, and scientific data. Recent work explores scientific and temporal knowledge graphs, knowledge graph construction, and AI methods for analyzing the scientific record.

Projects
  • SCORE: Evaluating scientific claims and their reproducibility. [link]
  • KGTK: Toolkit for creation, integration, and reasoning over KGs. [link]
  • VENICE: Inferring cultural causal relationships via KG queries. [TKG Tutorial]
Teaching
  • DSCI 558 / CSCI 563: Building Knowledge Graphs
Selected Publications

Dialogue, Commonsense & LLM Reasoning

We investigate how language models reason in conversation, use common ground, compose reasoning steps, and handle long-term interaction. Our work spans commonsense-grounded dialogue, persona generation, theory-of-mind style evaluation, and multi-turn reasoning.

Tables, Structured Data & Data Integration

A major part of our work focuses on extracting meaning from tables and semi-structured data. We build methods for table understanding, semantic modeling, fact verification, and mapping diverse data sources into knowledge graph-friendly representations.

Reliable & Responsible AI

We study how to evaluate and improve AI systems in ways that are robust, interpretable, and socially responsible. This includes benchmarking reasoning, understanding representational harms, analyzing toxicity and safety, and measuring scientific and social impacts at scale.