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Shenghui Wang is an assistant professor at the Human Media Interaction (HMI) group of the University of Twente. Her research interests include cognitive modeling, knowledge representation and reasoning, natural language semantics, text mining and interactive technologies. Her current research focuses on language technologies that can facilitate interactive communication between human and knowledge, with a special interest in making Cultural Heritage more inclusive and interactive. She serves on the Executive Board of the Hybrid Intelligence Centre and conducts research on the design of Hybrid Intelligence systems.

Before joining University of Twente, Shenghui was a Research Scientist at OCLC where she explored the potentials of NLP, Data Science and visualisation technologies to address problems in the library and other Cultural Heritage domains. She also worked at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Wageningen University, exploring Semantic Web and NLP technologies to improve the semantic interoperability in the domains of Cultural Heritage and Agrifood research.

Shenghui earned a Ph.D in Computer Science from the University of Manchester (Manchester, UK), a Master in Computer Application Technology at the University of Science and Technology of China (Hefei, China), and a Bachelor in Computer Science in Anhui University (Hefei, China).

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Expertise

Computer Science
- Ontology
- Virtual Reality
- Cultural Heritage
- Interactivity
- Knowledge Graph
- ontology alignment
- ontology matching
- Information Retrieval

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2026

Making Memories Together: Toward Transparent and Co-constructed Robot Memory in Child-Robot Interaction (2026)In HRI Companion '26: Companion Proceedings of the 21st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, HRI Companion 2026 (pp. 1125-1129). Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. Malnatsky, E., Wang, S., Hindriks, K. & Ligthart, M. E. U.https://doi.org/10.1145/3776734.3794570The Robot Bookworm: Fostering Children's Reading Motivation through Personalized Book Discussions (2026)In HRI 2026: Proceedings of the 21st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 1010-1019). Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. Malnatsky, E., Ul Husan, S., Sinha, K., Veld, S., Van Nee, R., Wijnhorst, D., Wang, S., Hindriks, K. & Ligthart, M. E. U.https://doi.org/10.1145/3757279.3785618

2025

An Interactive NLP Approach for Improving Completeness and Annotation Efficiency in Prostate Screening Reports (2025)[Contribution to conference › Abstract] 6th International Conference on Medical Imaging and Computer-Aided Diagnosis, MICAD 2025. Suresh, H. N., Wang, S. & Geerdink, J.An Ontological Conceptual Model for Structuring Multimodal User Behavior in Virtual Reality (2025)In ER-Companion 2025 Industrial Track, ER Forum, 8th SCME, Doctoral Consortium, Tutorials, Project Exhibitions, Posters and Demos 2025: Companion Proceedings of the 44th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (pp. 191-203) (CEUR Workshop Proceedings; Vol. 4099). CEUR. Oliveira, Í., Javdani Rikhtehgar, D. & Wang, S.https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-4099/forum_paper8.pdfLearning to Refine: An Agentic RL Approach for Iterative SPARQL Query Construction (2025)[Working paper › Preprint]. ArXiv.org. Vossebeld, F. & Wang, S.https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2511.11770Learning to Refine: An Agentic RL Approach for Iterative SPARQL Query Construction (2025)In Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Retrieval-Augmented Generation Enabled by Knowledge Graphs (RAGE-KG 2025) co-located with the 24th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2025) (pp. 19-32) (CEUR workshop proceedings; Vol. 4079). CEUR. Vossebeld, F. & Wang, S.Seeing and Speaking with Culture: How Visitor Profiles Shape Multimodal Interaction in a VR Art Exhibition (2025)In IVA '25: Proceedings of the 25th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents. Article 26. Association for Computing Machinery. Javdani Rikhtehgar, D., Wang, S., Schlobach, S. & Heylen, D.https://doi.org/10.1145/3717511.3747084A review for comparative text mining: From data acquisition to practical application (2025)Journal of information science, 51(5), 1191-1203. Wei, N., Zhao, S., Liu, J. & Wang, S.https://doi.org/10.1177/01655515231165228Preface (2025)Frontiers in artificial intelligence and applications, 408, v-vi. Pedreschi, D., Milano, M., Tiddi, I., Russell, S., Boldrini, C., Pappalardo, L., Passerini, A. & Wang, S.https://ebooks.iospress.nl/volumearticle/74960Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence (HHAI 2025) (2025)[Book/Report › Book] 4th International Conference on Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence, HHAI 2025. IOS. Pedreschi, D., Milano, M., Tiddi, I., Russell, S., Boldrini, C., Pappalardo, L., Passerini, A. & Wang, S.https://doi.org/10.3233/FAIA408

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Citadel (building no. 09), room H237
Hallenweg 15
7522 NH Enschede
Netherlands

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