About
Baifan Zhous research interests focus on Neuro-Symbolic AI that combines machine learning and knowledge representation and reasoning, including,
- application of Generative AI (such as large language models) for cross-disciplinary research
- information modelling with semantics for industrial assets,
- semantics-enhanced machine learning for better usability, transparency, and automation,
- knowledge graph embedding.
Baifan has close collaboration with academic as well as industrial partners for both foundational research in neural knowledge representation and applied research in process and manufacturing industries.
Field of study
Research groups
Publications and research
Scientific publications
Lyu, Qianhang; Li, Siqi; Skjæveland, Martin G; Rao, Yunqing; Waaler, Arild Torolv Søetorp;
Zhou, Baifan
(2025).
An LLM-Aided System Information Modelling Methodology Applied in Tennessee Eastman Case.
IEEE Conference on Industrial Informatics.
https://doi.org/10.1109/INDIN64977.2025.11279579
Antonis, Klironomos,;
Zhou, Baifan
; Zhipeng, Tan,; Zheng, Zhuoxun; H., Gad-Elrab, Mohamed; Heiko, Paulheim,; Kharlamov, Evgeny
(2025).
ExeKGLib: A Platform for Machine Learning Analytics Based on Knowledge Graphs.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS).
Vol. 16141.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-09530-5_4
Zhou, Baifan
;
Chen, Weiqin
(2025).
Integrating Digital Accessibility Into Software Engineering Education: A Case Study of Learning Outcomes.
Mavrou, Katerina; Encarnação, Pedro (Ed.).
Technology for Inclusion and Participation for All: Recent Achievements and Future Directions: 18th International Conference, AAATE 2025, Nicosia, Cyprus, September 10-12, 2025, Proceedings, Part I.
Springer Nature.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-01628-7_46
Lyu, Qianhang; Skjæveland, Martin G; Zhou, Yan; Rao, Yunqing; Waaler, Arild Torolv Søetorp;
Zhou, Baifan
(2025).
IMF-PM: Integrating System Information Modelling and Project Management for Industrial Digitalisation.
Pang, Zhibo; Vyarkin, Valeriy (Ed.).
2025 IEEE 23rd International Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN).
IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers).
https://doi.org/10.1109/INDIN64977.2025.11279421
Qu, Yuanwei; Waaler, Arild Torolv Søetorp; Torabi, Anita;
Zhou, Baifan
(2025).
Challenges and Approach: AI for Digitalised Carbon Storage Analysis.
CEUR Workshop Proceedings.
Vol. 3975.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/5358884
Antonis, Klironomos,;
Zhou, Baifan
; Zheng, Zhuoxun; Gad-Elrab, Mohamed,; Heiko, Paulheim,; Kharlamov, Evgeny
(2025).
ReaLitE: Enrichment of Relation Embeddings in Knowledge Graphs Using Numeric Literals.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS).
Vol. 15718.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-94575-5_3
Zhou, Yan;
Zhou, Baifan
; Yu, Ingrid Chieh
(2025).
Towards Change-Instructed Action and Explanation Generation for Visual Language Action in Autonomous Driving.
Pang, Zhibo; Vyarkin, Valeriy (Ed.).
2025 IEEE 23rd International Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN).
IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers).
https://doi.org/10.1109/indin64977.2025.11279112
Zhou, Yan;
Zhou, Baifan
; Lyu, Qianhang; Waaler, Arild Torolv Søetorp; Yu, Ingrid Chieh
(2025).
User-Centric Question Answering with Explanation for Industrial System Information Modelling.
Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications.
Vol. 413.
https://doi.org/10.3233/faia251478
Zhou, Yan;
Zhou, Baifan
; Yu, Ingrid Chieh
(2025).
NMN-BART:Generating Natural Language Explanations for Visual Question Answering.
CEUR Workshop Proceedings.
Vol. 3975.
https://doi.org/https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3975/paper
Zhou, Yan;
Zhou, Baifan
; Li, Huajian; Lyu, Qianhang; Qu, Yuanwei; Waaler, Arild Torolv Søetorp; Yu, Ingrid Chieh
(2025).
Dataset for Industrial Question Answering with Explanation and Scalable Ensemble Generation.
Long, Guodong; Blumestein, Michale; Chang, Yi (Ed.).
WWW '25: Companion Proceedings of the ACM on Web Conference 2025. p. 825-828.
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
https://doi.org/10.1145/3701716.3715310