Knowledge Representation and Data Management Research Group

The group is focusing on the following research areas:

• data integration
• data management
• knowledge representation and reasoning
• logic
• ontology-based data access
• query languages and query optimisation
• semantic web technologies

The group collaborates with many other research groups in the U.K. and abroad and with industry, undertaking projects of fundamental and applied nature. In particular, we are involved in joint projects with

Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
University of Montpellier, France
University of Bremen, Germany
Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands
University of Oslo, Norway
Steklov Institute of Mathematics, Moscow, Russia
Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
Imperial College London, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Oxford, University College London, UK

Group Members

Andrea Calì

• Senior Lecturer, Disability Officer, Research Admissions Tutor (MRes, MPhil, PhD)
Research areas: Knowledge representation and management, semantic information integration, deep web querying

Hubie Chen

• Lecturer, Admissions Tutor (MSc ACT)
Research areas: Theoretical computer science, computational complexity, theoretical aspects of artificial intelligence, database theory, logic, constraint satisfaction

Jan Hidders

• Lecturer, Seminar Coordinator, Admissions Tutor (MSc CS, MSc DS, MSc IT)
Research areas: Graph databases, graph indexing, graph query languages, graph schema languages, graph analytics, JSON query languages, JSON schema languages, conceptual data modelling, data integration, fact-based modelling

Roman Kontchakov

• Reader in Computer Science, Director of Undergraduate Studies
Research areas: Knowledge representation and reasoning, description logic, spatial logic, semantic web

Szabolcs Mikulas

• Senior Lecturer
Research areas: Algebraic, modal and temporal logic

Alexandra Poulovassilis

• Professor of Computer Science, Director - Birkbeck Knowledge Lab, Deputy Dean (Research Enhancement)
Research areas: Data management, querying, analysis, integration and visualisation; learning environments; learning analytics; adaptation and personalisation

Vladislav Ryzhikov

• Lecturer in Computer Science, Programme Director (MSc CS)
Research areas: Knowledge representation and reasoning, temporal and spatial data, temporal logics, semantic web, description logics, conceptual modelling

Peter Wood

• Professor of Computer Science, Director of Postgraduate Studies
Research areas: Data management, data querying, query optimisation, active and deductive rule languages, social network analysis

Michael Zakharyaschev

• Professor of Computer Science, Director of Research
Research areas: Knowledge representation and reasoning, logic, ontology-based data access, semantic web