Scholar
Mantas Šimkus
Google Scholar ID: iWJoqO8AAAAJ
Institute of Logic and Computation, TU Wien, Austria
Citations & Impact
Citations
1,125
H-index
17
i10-index
32
Publications
20
Co-authors
72
list available
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Member of the Editorial Board of Artificial Intelligence Journal; Co-Chair of RuleML+RR 2024 and the Recently Published Research Track of KR 2024; Editor of the Special Issue on Ontologies and Data Management at Künstliche Intelligenz in 2020; Co-Chair of DL 2019.
Research Experience
- Currently an Assistant Professor in the Database and Artificial Intelligence Group at TU Wien. Previously, an Associate Professor in the Department of Computing at Umeå University (Sweden) and a Faculty Member in WASP Program (Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program). Currently, a Principal Investigator in the FWF stand-alone project 'KtoAPP: Compiling Knowledge into Applications' and a Key Researcher in the Cluster of Excellence 'Bilateral Artificial Intelligence' funded by FWF.
Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Vilnius University.
Background
- Research interests include Artificial Intelligence (AI), Description Logics, Rule Languages, Explainability in AI, Decidable Fragments of First-order Logic, Machine Learning for Explainable AI, Transparency in Reinforcement Learning, Semantic Web Languages (OWL, SHACL), Database Theory, Combining Rules and Ontologies, Knowledge Graphs, Property Graphs, Semantic Web, Graph-structured Data.
Miscellany
- Originally from Vilnius; Teaches Semi-structured Data and Deductive Databases at TU Wien; Organizing The EurAI Summer School on Artificial Intelligence (ESSAI 2026) in Vienna (6 - 10 July 2026, Vienna).
