Yihang Zhao is a PhD researcher in the Department of Informatics at King's College London, supervised by Professor Elena Simperl and Dr Albert Meroño-Peñuela. His research focuses on how interactive AI systems can be designed, developed, and evaluated to reactively and/or proactively help people think creatively and critically, forage and make sense of knowledge, and collaborate effectively in knowledge work.

He holds an MSc in Data Science from King's College London (2022-2023) and a BSc in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Sheffield (2019-2022). His research experience includes Visiting Researcher positions at the Dyson School of Design Engineering, Imperial College London (2023-2024), and the Glasgow Interactive Systems Section, University of Glasgow (2026-2027); and Research Assistant roles with the Knowledge Graphs Group at King's College London (2024), the MuseIT Project (Horizon Europe, 2024-2025), King's School of Education, Communication & Society, King's College London (2025-2026), and PHAWM (2025-2026).

Research Interests

• Interactive AI
• Collective Intelligence
• Knowledge Graphs
• Visualization
• Responsible AI

Research Centres or Groups

• King's Knowledge Graph Lab 
• Knowledge Graphs Interest Group at the Alan Turing Institute
• Glasgow Interactive Systems Section
• Semantic Web Science Association

PhD Supervision

• Primary Supervisor: Professor Elena Simperl
• Secondary Supervisor: Dr Abert Meroño Peñuela

More Information

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• PURE Profile
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• ORCID