Alex attends BilAI Summer School and AIRoV 2025
From the 7th-11th of July, Alexander Prock attended the first summer school of the Bilateral AI Cluster of Excellence (BilAI) and the co-located Austrian Symposium on AI and Vision (AIRoV) 2025 in Klagenfurt.
The week started off with lectures that introduced topics from both symbolic and sub-symbolic AI to all participants and a boat trip on the Wörthersee. It progressed with the keynotes from the AIRoV symposium, lectures on specific branches of symbolic and sub-symbolic AI research, and group work, the results of which were presented at the final day of the summer school. During the whole week, over lunch and in coffee breaks, Alex networked with researchers in the BilAI cluster, especially the numerous PhD students that gathered for the first time.
In their respective keynotes, Nikolaus Forgó took a critical look at AI regulation by the EU, Martina Seidl reviewed the state of the art on reasoning with Quantified Boolean Formulas, and Yufang Hou presented several topics from Natural Language Processing applied to scientific documents.
For the group work, Alex participated in a research project concerned with learning Knowledge Graph repairs using Graph Neural Networks, led by Axel Polleres and Johannes Schimunek, who respectively represented the symbolic and sub-symbolic perspectives on the problem. The group work at the summer school kicked-off an ongoing collaboration among several group members.
During the joint poster session of the BilAI summer school and the AIRoV symposium, Alex presented his research topic “Quality Assessment of Deep Representations in Neural Networks” to both experienced researchers and his peers, leading to an exchange of ideas, as well as valuable inputs for future research.
