Hanna Abi Akl

Current position

I serve as the Chief Academic Officer at Data ScienceTech Institute and member of the Wimmics research team at INRIA.

My research lies at the intersection of logic, language and computation and the application of these areas to knowledge engineering. I am particularly interested in neuro-symbolic AI systems that combine classical symbolic frameworks, neural networks, knowledge graphs and semantic web technology to better understand the mapping of language to symbolic systems and produce better knowledge representation and reasoning methods. My work leverages both theoretical and applied perspectives in interdisciplinary domains (e.g., finance, pharmaceutical, education).

Previous positions

I was a data scientist and machine learning engineer at Yseop in Paris (France) from 2019 to 2023.

I worked as a data integration engineer at Data Consult in Beirut (Lebanon) from 2015 to 2018.

Interests

Neuro-symbolic AI - Natural Language Processing - Knowledge graphs - Semantic Web