Nitisha Jain

Nitisha Jain

Nitisha Jain

About Me

I am a Postdoctoral candidate at King’s College London working with Dr Albert Meroño Peñuela and Professor Elena Simperl at the Department of Informatics. My research is focussed on Responsible AI and Explainable AI with neuro-symbolic methods. I also work on multimodal representations with knowledge graphs and large language models.

Recent News

  • (26/05) The first edition of our workshop GeNeSy(Generative Neuro-Symbolic AI) was a great success at the ESWC 2024 conference. Many thanks to my co-organizers Jacopo, Jongmo and Filip for the fantastic collaboration as well as to all the authors, speakers, and attendees in Greece for making it unforgettable.
  • (18/06) Attending the Knowledge Graphs and Ontologies for Intelligence, Defence and Security Symposium at at Cheltenham Racecourse, UK and presenting poster titled Towards a Standardised Data Documentation Format for Cultural Heritage Collections.
  • (15/06) Our short paper Bringing Back Semantics to Knowledge Graph Embeddings : An Interpretability Approach has been accepted for the Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning (NeSy) conference! The work was led by our intern Antoine Dominques.
  • (14/06) Blog post summarizing our work on the Measurement of Semantic Drift in Discourse on Disabilities in the context of the MuseIT project available now.
  • (10/06) Presenting a poster titled Croissant: Fostering Responsible AI with a Standardized Data Documentation Format at the 2024 Informatics Research showcase at the Great Hall in King’s College London.
  • (21/04) Our paper on the Croissant metadata standard has been accepted for presentation at the DEEM workshop co-located with SIGMOD 2024, preprint available here.
  • (27/04) Attended the 4th MuseIT Consortium Meeting from 24 to 26 April being held at the St Cecilia’s Hall in Edinburgh and Traquair House near Innerleithen, one of the oldest Scottish castles!
  • (06/03) Happy to announce the official launch of Croissant, a new metadata format for ML-ready datasets alongwith the first version of the Responsible AI (RAI) vocabulary.

2023

  • (01/12) I will be in New Orleans attending the premier AI conference NeurIPS 2023 from 10-16 December, looking forward to an enriching and exciting week of state-of-the-art research showcases, meetings and presenting our ongoing work on Croissant metadata standard at the Google booth!

  • Attending the First Multimodal AI Research Sprint at the Alan Turing Institute in London on 22 November and presenting our pitch on Semantic Interpretations of Multimodal Embeddings towards Explainable AI.

  • (04/11) I am excited to join the OC of the Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) 2024 as the Sponsorship Co-Chair, alongside Jan-Christoph Kalo! Many thanks to the General Chair Albert for the wonderful opportunity and looking forward to the experience.

  • (4/11) Attending the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) 2023 being held from November 6-10 in Athens, Greece. Excited to be finally attending ISWC in person, and to present our resource paper on Polifonia Ontology Network in the main conference as well as the winning entry for the LM-KBC Challenge this year!
  • (22/10) The MuseIT Consortium Meeting was organized by Catalink from 18 to 20 October in Nicosia, Cyprus. It was wonderful meeting the project colleagues in person and sharing our ongoing research tasks.
  • (13/10) Today I have successfully defended my PhD Thesis titled “Representation and Curation of Knowledge Graphs with Embeddings” at the Hasso Plattner Institute! After months of delay, happy to be finally finishing this chapter of my life :-)

  • (01/08) Participating in the Knowledge Prompting Hackathon(https://king-s-knowledge-graph-lab.github.io/knowledge-prompting-hackathon/), a 5-day sprint style research activity being organized by our group from August 07 - 10 at King’s College London. Looking forward to mentoring students on the topic of LLMs for multi-modal knowledge acquisition and inferencing.

  • (25/06) I will be participating in the First Workshop on Multimodal AI in Sheffield on 27th June and presenting a pitch and poster on Semantic Interpretations of Multimodal Embeddings towards Explainable AI.

  • Attending the 2nd Annual Symposium of The Turing Interest Group on Knowledge Graphs at City, University of London on June 16th.

  • (01/02/2023) I have joined as a Postdoc candidate at the Informatics Department of King’s College London!

Recent Publications and Talks

  • Mubashara Akhtar, Omar Benjelloun, Costanza Conforti, Pieter Gijsbers, Joan Giner-Miguelez, Nitisha Jain, Michael Kuchnik, Quentin Lhoest, Pierre Marcenac, Manil Maskey, Peter Mattson, Luis Oala, Pierre Ruyssen, Rajat Shinde, Elena Simperl, Goeffry Thomas, Slava Tykhonov, Joaquin Vanschoren, Jos van der Velde, Steffen Vogler, Carole-Jean Wu: Croissant: A Metadata Format for ML-Ready Datasets. Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on Data Management for End-to-End Machine Learning (DEEM), 2024. [Paper]
  • Antoine Domingues, Nitisha Jain, Albert Meroño Peñuela, Elena Simperl: Bringing Back Semantics to Knowledge Graph Embeddings : An Interpretability Approach. Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning (NeSy), 2024. [Paper]
  • Jacopo de Berardinis, Valentina Anita Carriero, Nitisha Jain, Nicolas Lazzari, Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Andrea Poltronieri, Valentina Presutti: The Polifonia Ontology Network: Building a Semantic Backbone for Musical Heritage. Proceedings of the 22nd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), 2023. [Paper]
  • Bohui Zhang, Ioannis Reklos, Nitisha Jain, Albert Meroño Peñuela, Elena Simperl: Using Large Language Models for Knowledge Engineering (LLMKE): A Case Study on Wikidata. Joint proceedings of the KBC-LM workshop and the LM-KBC challenge @ ISWC 2023. [Paper]

Miscellaneous

Service

  • Organization of the Workshop on Generative Neuro-Symbolic AI (GeNeSy), co-located with ESWC 2024.

  • Sponsorship Chair of the ESWC 2024 conference along with Jan-Christoph Kalo.

  • Paper reviewing

    • 2024 : Semantics
    • 2023 : TKDD, Semantic Web Journal
    • 2022 : Semantic Web Journal, WebConference, ESWC, CIKM, LWDA,
    • Previously : EMNLP(2021) LWDA(2020), AAAI(2019).
  • PC member for AI4DH 2021 (held in conjunction with ICIAP 2021), SUKI 2022 (in conjunction with NAACL 2022).
  • Reviewed papers for Semantic Web Journal(2022), WebConference(2022), ESWC(2022), CIKM(2022), LWDA(2022), EMNLP(2021), LWDA(2020), AAAI(2019).
  • PC member for AI4DH 2021 (held in conjunction with ICIAP 2021), SUKI 2022 (in conjunction with NAACL 2022).

Teaching and Supervision

  • January 2024 - Teaching Assistant for Network Data Analysis (Masters lecture)
  • Summer 2024 - Bringing Back Semantics to Knowledge Graph Embeddings : An Interpretability Approach (internship), Student : Antoine Domingues, MSc, ENSTA Paris
  • Summer 2023 - Evaluation of the understanding and knowledge of Large Language Models compared to Knowledge Graphs (internship), Albin Joyeux, MSc, ENSTA PAris
  • Summer 2023 - Collaborative Use Of Generative AI (internship), Student : Shantanu Suwarnkar