The GENIUS (Generative Enhanced Next-Generation Intelligent Understanding Systems) Lab is a research lab that seeks to extend and enhance state-of-the-art Artificial Intelligence (AI) methods for semantic knowledge engineering, human-centered AI, and crowd computing. GENIUS Lab is a collaboration between Delft University of Technology, Maastricht University, dsm–firmenich, and Kickstart AI.
The GENIUS lab focuses on how humans and AI can collaborate in knowledge management and knowledge discovery within large organisations. The lab will develop human-centred approaches that involve humans in extracting, organising and accessing stored knowledge.
This research aims to accelerate how AI is used in science, research, innovation and operations, where knowledge management and decision making through AI-based systems might have far-reaching implications for many industries. These implications will be showcased in real-world use cases.
The lab will co-develop generative, human-AI collaborative knowledge engineering methods and techniques for distinct yet highly interweaved knowledge engineering steps: collaborative knowledge synthesis; integration and linking of distributed knowledge fragments; integration of structured knowledge in generative AI models; trustworthy conversational AI using FAIR data and services; and hybrid human-AI ethics. These methods and techniques are designed, developed, experimented with, evaluated and validated in a variety of contexts.
The lab and its partners have a shared long-term vision to improve human-AI collaboration to increase the scalability, trustworthiness and efficiency of AI- supported content-creation and decision–making systems.
