Portrait of Russa Biswas

Knowledge representation · Graph-grounded AI · Cultural heritage

Russa Biswas

Tenure-Track Assistant Professor · Co-director, AI:PAGE-Lab

I study how explicit knowledge structures and learned language representations can strengthen one another—from knowledge-graph completion and entity typing to multilingual factuality, hallucination evaluation, and graph-grounded reasoning.

Russa’s research connects text and structured knowledge across knowledge representation, completion, and use. Building on work in graph embeddings, entity typing, and knowledge-graph completion, she develops methods and evaluations for factual and informative language models, multilingual hallucination analysis, and graph-grounded reasoning. This is a continuous programme: textual representations strengthen knowledge graphs, while explicit graph structure can make language-model outputs better supported and easier to inspect.

As co-director of AI:PAGE-Lab with historian Johan Heinsen, she brings this programme to cultural heritage by turning historical texts into searchable, connected knowledge. She also helps shape the wider research community as a co-editor of the inaugural ACL Workshop on Knowledge Graphs and Large Language Models (KaLLM 2024).

Knowledge representation

Graph embeddings, entity typing, link prediction, and completion methods that combine graph structure with textual descriptions.

Factual and informative language models

Multilingual hallucination evaluation, factual completeness, and reasoning grounded in explicit knowledge-graph paths.

Knowledge across languages and domains

Multilingual and lower-resourced knowledge graphs, and connected historical knowledge through AI:PAGE-Lab.

Selected programmes

Projects and labs

AI:PAGE-LabLM²-SEC

Selected work

5 representative papers

Transactions on Graph Data and KnowledgeJournal article2023

Knowledge Graph Embeddings: Open Challenges and Opportunities

Russa Biswas, Lucie-Aimée Kaffee, Michael Cochez, Stefania Dumbrava, Theis E. Jendal, Matteo Lissandrini, Vanessa Lopez, Eneldo Loza Mencía, Heiko Paulheim, Harald Sack, Edlira Kalemi Vakaj, and Gerard de Melo

  • Knowledge, Evidence & Reasoning
  • Factuality, Reliability & Evaluation

Supervision and collaboration

Questions worth working on

I am interested in knowledge representation, knowledge-graph completion and reasoning, information extraction, multilingual factuality, and interdisciplinary applications of structured knowledge.