Prof. Dr. Ricardo Usbeck

21335 Lüneburg, Universitätsallee 1, C 4.314
Fon +49.4131.677-2627, ricardo.usbeck@leuphana.de
Professor*in, Professorship of Information Systems, in particular Artificial Intelligence and Explainability

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Vita

Ricardo Usbeck studied computer science (B.Sc., M.Sc.) at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. He then moved to Leipzig, where he received his doctorate in 2017 in the field of data extraction and search engines. Until 2019, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Paderborn in the Data Science Group. He later became team leader at the Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems. In 2021, he took over the Junior Professorship for Semantic Systems at the University of Hamburg. In 2023, he was appointed Professor of Information Systems, in particular Artificial Intelligence and Explainability, at Leuphana University Lüneburg. He works in and leads several national and international research projects on knowledge graphs, large language models, chatbots and AI for social good. He is interested in transformation-related domains such as sustainability and creative spaces for technology. Ricardo Usbeck tries to build a bridge between research and application.

Projects

  1. Proaktive Versorgungssicherheit durch dynamische Simulation mit selbstlernenden LLM-Agenten (PROVIDER) - Teilvorhaben: Neuro-Symbolische KI für Erklärbare Informationsextraktion und Event-Analyse"
    Ricardo Usbeck (Project manager, academic)
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    Project: Research

  2. Studienqualitätsmittel: Mobile KI-Workstations für den gleichberechtigten Zugang zur KI Entwicklung
    Martin Kohler (Project manager, academic) , Ricardo Usbeck (Project manager, academic)
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    Project: Teaching

  3. Creative Space for Human and Artificial Intelligence
    Ricardo Usbeck (Project manager, academic) , Martin Kohler (Project manager, academic)
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    Project: Teaching

  4. Studienqualitätsmittel: Student AI server
    Debayan Banerjee (Project manager, academic) , Kai Moltzen (Project manager, academic) , Ricardo Usbeck (Project manager, academic)
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    Project: Teaching

  5. Leuphana Startup Lab für Innovation, Transformation & Gründung
    Burkhardt Funk (Project manager, academic) , Ricardo Usbeck (Co-Projectmanager, academic) , Arthur Seibel (Co-Projectmanager, academic) , Dana-Kristin Mah (Co-Projectmanager, academic) , Carsten Wille (Coordination) , Andrea Japsen (Coordination)
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    Project: Research

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Publications

Books and anthologies

  1. Proceedings of TextGraphs-17: Graph-based Methods for Natural Language Processing: The 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics; August 15, 2024; TextGraphs @ ACL 2024
    Ricardo Usbeck (Editor) , Dmitry Ustalov (Editor) , Yanjun Gao (Editor) , Alexander Pachenko (Editor) , Elena Tutubalina (Editor) , Irina Nikishina (Editor) , Arti Ramesh (Editor) , Andrey Sakhovskiy (Editor) , Gerald Penn (Editor) , Marco Valentino (Editor) , 2024 Kerrville , 162 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologies › Conference proceedings › Research

  2. D2R2 2024: Linked Data-driven Resilience Research 2024: Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Linked Data-driven Resilience Research (D2R2'24) co-located with European Semantic Web Conference 2024 (ESWC 2024), May 27, 2024
    Ricardo Usbeck (Editor) , Julia Holze (Editor) , Sebastian Tramp (Editor) , Michael Martin (Editor) , Sören Auer (Editor) , Nenad Krdzavac (Editor) , 2024 Aachen

    Research output: Books and anthologies › Conference proceedings › Research

  3. Second International Workshop on Linked Data-driven Resilience Research 2023
    Ricardo Usbeck (Editor) , Sebastian Tramp (Editor) , Natanael Arndt (Editor) , Julia Holze (Editor) , Sören Auer (Editor) , 2023

    Research output: Books and anthologies › Conference proceedings › Research

  4. Linked Data-driven Resilience Research 2023: Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Linked Data-driven Resilience Research 2023 co-located with Extended Semantic Web Conference 2023 (ESWC 2023), Hersonissos, Greece, May 28, 2023
    Ricardo Usbeck (Editor) , Sebastian Tramp (Editor) , Natanael Arndt (Editor) , Julia Holze (Editor) , Sören Auer (Editor) , 2023 Aachen

    Research output: Books and anthologies › Conference proceedings › Research

  5. SemREC-SMART 2022: Joint Proceedings of SemREC 2022 and SMART 2022
    Ricardo Usbeck (Editor) , Debayan Banerjee (Editor) , Gunjan Singh (Editor) , Raghava Mutharaju (Editor) , Pavan Kapanipathi (Editor) , Nandana Mihindukulasooriya (Editor) , Mohnish Dubey (Editor) , 2023 Aachen , 77 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologies › Conference proceedings › Research

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Journal contributions

  1. Junior fellows and distinguished dissertation of the GI and AI for crisis
    Ricardo Usbeck (Author) , Angelie Kraft (Author) , Patrick Westphal (Author) , 01.02.2025 , in: IT - Information Technology, 67, 1 , p. 1-2 , 2 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Other (editorial matter etc.) › Research

  2. Creative spaces in computer science
    Ricardo Usbeck (Author) , Martin Kohler (Author) , Janick Edinger (Author) , 01.12.2024 , in: IT - Information Technology, 66, 2-3 , p. 39-41 , 3 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Other (editorial matter etc.) › Research

  3. NFDI4DS Gateway and Portal
    Ricardo Usbeck (Author) , Tilahun Abedissa Taffa (Author) , Rana Muhammad Abdullah (Author) , Rudy Alexandro Garrido Veliz (Author) , Najeebullah Shams (Author) , Bianca Wentzel (Author) , Zongxiong Chen (Author) , Sonja Schimmler (Author) , 07.09.2023 , in: Proceedings of the Conference on Research Data Infrastructure, 1 , 4 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Conference abstract in journal › Research › peer-review

  4. Machine Learning Applications
    Ricardo Usbeck (Author) , Natanael Arndt (Author) , Paul Molitor (Author) , 27.08.2023 , in: IT - Information Technology, 65, 4-5 , p. 139-141 , 3 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Other (editorial matter etc.) › Research

  5. QALD-10 — The 10th Challenge on Question Answering over Linked Data: Shifting from DBpedia to Wikidata as a KG for KGQA
    Ricardo Usbeck (Author) , Angelie Kraft (Author) , Xi Yan (Author) , Aleksandr Perevalov (Author) , Longquan Jiang (Author) , Julius Schulz (Author) , Cedric Möller (Author) , Junbo Huang (Author) , Jan Reineke (Author) , Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo (Author) , Muhammad Saleem (Author) , Andreas Both (Author) , 01.01.2023 , in: Semantic Web, 15, 6 , p. 2193-2207 , 14 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review

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Contributions to collected editions/anthologies

  1. ShortPathQA: A Dataset for Controllable Fusion of Large Language Models with Knowledge Graphs
    Aida Usmanova (Author) , Angelie Kraft (Author) , Debayan Banerjee (Author) , Rana Muhammad Abdullah (Author) , Ricardo Usbeck (Author) , Mikhail Salnikov (Author) , Andrey Sakhovskiy (Author) , Irina Nikishina (Author) , Cedric Möller (Author) , Junbo Huang (Author) , Longquan Jiang (Author) , Xi Yan (Author) , Elena Tutubalina (Author) , Alexander Panchenko (Author) , 01.01.2026 , p. 95-110 , 16 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Article in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review

  2. GANDR - Georelating Dataset, Metrics, and Evaluation
    Kai Moltzen (Author) , Ricardo Usbeck (Author) , 19.12.2025 New York, NY, USA , p. 61-71 , 11 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Article in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review

  3. LLM Agents for Georelating - A New Task for Locating Events
    Kai Moltzen (Author) , Junbo Huang (Author) , Ricardo Usbeck (Author) , 12.12.2025 New York, NY, USA , p. 277–280 , 4 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Article in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review

  4. DBLP QuAD 2.0: Scholarly Natural Questions from SPARQL
    Tilahun Abedissa Taffa (Author) , Patrick Neises (Author) , Stefan Ollinger (Author) , Patrick Westphal (Author) , Marcel R. Ackermann (Author) , Debayan Banerjee (Author) , Ricardo Usbeck (Author) , 09.12.2025 , p. 236-240 , 5 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Article in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review

  5. ReportGRI: Automating GRI Alignment and Report Assessment
    Aida Usmanova (Author) , Rana Muhammad Abdullah (Author) , Debayan Banerjee (Author) , Markus Leippold (Author) , Ricardo Usbeck (Author) , 10.11.2025 New York , p. 6723-6727 , 5 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Article in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review

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Activities

  1. Vortrag bei der Landesdatenschutzkonferenz
    Ricardo Usbeck (Speaker)

    Activity: Conference Presentations › Research

  2. Keynote bei der Vollversammlung der IHK LW
    Ricardo Usbeck (Speaker)

    Activity: Guest lectures › Transfer

  3. Tag der Informatik 2025
    Ricardo Usbeck (Speaker)

    Activity: talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer

  4. Erster Infotag für das Bachelorstudium an unserer Fakultät
    Ricardo Usbeck (Speaker)

    Activity: talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer

  5. Creative Space for Transformative Technologies
    Ricardo Usbeck (Speaker) , Dana-Kristin Mah (Speaker) , Arthur Seibel (Speaker) , Martin Kohler (Speaker)

    Activity: Presentations (poster etc.) › Research

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Press / Media

  1. Was KI im Studium wirklich bringt. Und wo die Gefahren lauern
    1 Media contribution

    Press/Media: Press/Media

  2. Rote Rosen: Wird Brigitte Antonius künftig durch eine KI ersetzt?
    1 time cited

    Press/Media: Press/Media

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Prizes

  1. 2025 Research Award of the School of Management & Technology
    Kai Moltzen (Recipient) Ricardo Usbeck (Recipient) ,

    Prize: Leuphana internal Prize, Scholaships, distinctions, appointments › Research

  2. Best Student Paper Award @ ICSC
    Ricardo Usbeck (Recipient) ,

    Prize: external Prizes, scholarships, distinctions, appointments › Research

  3. Best Paper Nominee by SEMANTiCS
    Ricardo Usbeck (Recipient) ,

    Prize: external Prizes, scholarships, distinctions, appointments › Research

  4. Honorable Mention by AI 2000 Most Influential Scholars
    Ricardo Usbeck (Recipient) ,

    Prize: external Prizes, scholarships, distinctions, appointments › Research

  5. Runner-up at BMW Technologietag Project Pitch Slam
    Ricardo Usbeck (Recipient) ,

    Prize: external Prizes, scholarships, distinctions, appointments › Research

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Courses