FST Graduate Research Topic

Research Topic: Knowledge Graphs for Constructing Intelligent Educational Systems
Suggested By: Oscar Lin
Last Update: May 14th, 2025

In the rapidly evolving landscape of modern education, there is a continual drive to enhance teaching methods, personalize learning experiences, and empower both educators and students. Recent advances in artificial intelligence and data science have introduced powerful tools for achieving these goals, among which knowledge graphs have emerged as a particularly promising technology. Knowledge graphs are structured representations of information that capture entities, concepts, and the relationships between them, enabling machines to understand, organize, and reason about complex domains in a manner that closely mirrors human cognition. Originally popularized in domains such as web search, healthcare, and business, knowledge graphs are increasingly being recognized for their transformative potential in education. By interlinking concepts, topics, and skills, knowledge graphs provide a dynamic framework for organizing educational content, supporting adaptive and personalized learning, and facilitating intelligent curriculum design. For example, they can help map out prerequisite relationships between topics, recommend tailored learning resources, and visualize a learner’s progress through interconnected subject matter. Despite their proven utility in other fields, the integration of knowledge graphs into educational systems remains an underexplored area, with significant opportunities for innovation. This project aims to investigate and develop approaches for constructing and leveraging knowledge graphs to create intelligent educational systems. The focus will be on how knowledge graphs can enhance curriculum design, support adaptive learning pathways, and enable more effective knowledge discovery for both students and educators. By addressing current challenges and exploring state-of-the-art methodologies, this work seeks to contribute to the ongoing transformation of education through intelligent, data-driven technologies.