Alumni Member
Chukwudi Uwasomba (Alumni) 
Research Associate
Chukwudi is a research associate at the Knowledge Media Institute of The Open University. He holds a BSc in Information Technology and Business Information Systems with First Class Honours, an MSc in Business Information Systems Management with a Distinction, and a Doctor of Philosophy in Computing. During his PhD, Chukwudi specialised in knowledge extraction and ontologies for Artificial Intelligence. In addition to his academic credentials, Chukwudi boasts significant professional experience, particularly in software quality and release management.
Chukwudi currently leads the Polifonia Child pilot project, where he is at the forefront of exploring innovative methods for knowledge graph completion. He also plays an instrumental role in the SPICE project, where he is leading the development of an intelligent agent for privacy preservation. His dedication to advancing the field of Artificial Intelligence is evident in his ongoing research efforts.
Keys: Information Extraction, Ontologies, Knowledge Graphs
Team: Jason Carvalho, Enrico Daga,
News
Publications
Fernandez, M., Tirado, A., Pavon-Perez, A., Duddin, K., Zhang, M., Bakina, K., Bandara, A., Capdevila, R., Lazard, L. and Jurasz, O. (2025) Co-creating an Ontology of Online Gender-Based Harms: An Interdisciplinary Perspective, ISWC 2025 - The 24th International Semantic Web Conference, Nara, Japan
Ghafourian, Y., Hanbury, A. and Knoth, P. (2025) Ranking To Learn: Human Experts, Search Engines, or LLMs for Learning Guidance, TPDL 2025: The 29th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, Tampere, Finland
Cancellieri, M., El-Ebshihy, A., Fink, T., Fröbe, M., GaluÅ¡Äáková, P., Goeuriot, L., Iommi, D., Keller, J., Knoth, P., Mulhem, P., Piroi, F., Pride, D. and Schaer, P. (2025) Extended Abstract of LongEval at CLEF 2025: Longitudinal Evaluation of IR Systems on Web and Scientific Data, 16th International Conference of the CLEF Association (CLEF 2025), Madrid, Spain
Tsaneva, S., Dessì, D., Osborne, F. and Sabou, M. (2025) Knowledge graph validation by integrating LLMs and human-in-the-loop, Information Processing & Management, 62, Elsevier
Cancellieri, M., Docekal, M., Pride, D., Gruenpeter, M., Douard, D. and Knoth, P. (2025) Interoperable verification and dissemination of software assets in repositories using COAR Notify, The 20th International Conference on Open Repositories, Chicago, Illinois, USA











