Summary
Jens Lehmann is a Principal Scientist in Artificial General Intelligence at Amazon with 18 years of experience applying machine learning, knowledge graphs, and semantic technologies to advance natural language understanding and dialogue systems. He leads research efforts to integrate structured knowledge into large language models and designs representation-learning approaches that improve reasoning capabilities. As honorary professor at TU Dresden and leader of the Smart Data Analytics Research Group, he bridges academic rigor and industrial impact, mentoring scientists and shaping roadmaps. His background includes professorship and leadership roles in knowledge-graph research at Fraunhofer, Bonn and Leipzig, reflecting a sustained focus on semantic AI. Jens is an active proponent of open source in semantic technologies, combining deep theoretical insight with practical implementations that target real-world conversational AI. Based in Dresden, he aims to steer AI research toward societally positive outcomes while continually exploring novel ways to fuse symbolic and statistical methods.
19 years of coding experience