Bo Xiong

Short Bio

I am an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Iowa State University, where I lead the Knowledge and Reasoning for Discovery (KARD) Lab. Previously, I was a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University, working with Prof. Mark Musen. I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science with summa cum laude from the University of Stuttgart and the International Max Planck Research School for Intelligent Systems (IMPRS-IS), supervised by Prof. Steffen Staab.

My research centers on neuro-symbolic AI, with a focus on integrating large language models (LLMs) and agentic AI with symbolic knowledge representation and reasoning (KRR). I aim to build AI systems that use explainable knowledge and principled reasoning, and act reliably in complex, uncertain, and evolving environments. My research has been published at leading conferences (e.g., ICLR, ICML, NeurIPS, KDD, WWW, ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, AAAI, SIGIR) and journals (e.g., TPAMI). My research has been selected for the AAAI’27 New Faculty Highlights Program, and awarded the 2025 SWSA Distinguished Dissertation Award, the 2024 GI Dissertation Award (jointly awarded by the German, Austrian, and Swiss computer science societies), and the ISWC 2022 Best Student Paper Award.

Recruiting: I am looking for Ph.D., master’s, and bachelor’s students to join our lab. Please contact me if your interests align with our research.