Knowledge lives in connections, not data.
40+ publications • 10+ EU-funded projects • Applied in rail infrastructure, manufacturing, and smart buildings
What I Do
I’m a senior research scientist at Siemens AG Österreich and lecturer at IMC Krems. For over a decade, I’ve worked on a deceptively simple problem: how do we make fragmented, incompatible systems speak to each other?
Not by forcing everything into a single representation. Instead, by building semantic frameworks that preserve each system’s strengths while enabling intelligent coordination.
My Approach
My work sits at the intersection of three worlds: symbolic reasoning with ontologies and knowledge graphs, practical constraints of industrial systems, and data-driven approaches to knowledge engineering—from statistical ML to emerging neuro-symbolic methods. Most of my time goes to concrete problems in rail infrastructure, manufacturing, and smart buildings.
I’ve learned that lasting knowledge systems aren’t imposed from above. You work with the standards organizations maintain, respect the tacit expertise in their tools, and create abstraction layers that let diverse representations coexist and coordinate.
Current Focus
I’m fascinated by the moment when tacit knowledge becomes explicit—when something an experienced engineer “just knows” gets articulated so machines can reason about it and humans across teams can share it.
Currently I’m exploring how symbolic knowledge graphs and generative models can work together. How AI accelerates the capture and validation of expert knowledge while symbolic frameworks keep that knowledge auditable, transparent, and under human control. This is the direction industrial AI should go: not replacing expertise, but making it explicit and shareable.
Work With Me
If your challenge involves system interoperability, capturing expert knowledge, or transparent AI grounded in structured reasoning, let’s talk. I work with organizations on consulting and research projects at the frontier of semantic technologies and industrial practice.
Publications
View my complete publication list (40+ papers with full abstracts), or find my work on Google Scholar, DBLP, ORCID, and Semantic Scholar.
Contact
Email: stefan@stefanbischof.at
Current Projects
- FLEXI: Human-centered AI and digital twin powered energy system integration for flexibility markets (CETP)
- INBLANC: Building lifecycle data integration (Horizon Europe)
- DG Assist: AI-assisted die-casting production (Austria FFG)
Past Projects
- DataBri-X: European data spaces infrastructure (Horizon Europe)
- PHOENIX: Smart building upgrades (Horizon 2020)
- IoTCrawler: IoT search engine (Horizon 2020)
- RESIN: Climate-resilient cities (Horizon 2020)
- CityPulse: Real-time IoT analytics (FP7)