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PhD Student Researcher

Laura Balbi

Hello! 👋 I'm a PhD Student Researcher at the Lisbon Semantic Data Lab (LiSeDa), part of LASIGE at the Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon. I work on knowledge-rich, graph-based AI methods with an interest in explainability and plural perspectives in data.

Polyvocal knowledge Knowledge graphs Neuro-symbolic AI Graph neural methods

Research Interests

Current themes that shape my work.

Polyvocal Knowledge

Modeling multiple perspectives, contexts, and voices in structured knowledge.

KG Representation Learning

Learning structure-aware representations that support reasoning over graphs.

Neuro-Symbolic AI

Bringing together symbolic knowledge and neural models for robust AI systems.

Graph-based Neural Methods

Exploring neural methods for structured, relational, and biomedical data.

Research Lines within LASIGE

Health & Biomedical Informatics

Data, ontologies, and computational methods for biomedicine.

Data & Systems Intelligence

From knowledge modeling to intelligent systems over structured data.

LiSeDa Lab Team

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Funding & Affiliation