Bio

Burak Yigit Uslu is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Associate Professorship of Embedded Systems and Internet of Things in the School of Computation, Information and Technology of Technische Universität München (TUM). He divides his time between TUM and Siemens Foundational Technology in Garching, where he works as a Doctoral Researcher. He received his Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering from Bilkent University and his Master’s degree in Informatics from TUM.

Research Interests

• Neuro-Symbolic AI
• Knowledge Graphs and Semantic Web
• Intelligent Industrial Automation

Publications

2026	Nilay Tufek, Burak Yigit Uslu, Valentin Philipp Just, Tathagata Bandyopadhyay, Aparna Saisree Thuluva, Marta Sabou, Allan Hanbury, “A New Graph-Based RAG Approach for Querying and Instantiating Large-Scale Industrial Semantic Artifacts”, Semantic Web Journal 2026

Request for Work

If you are interested in a bachelor’s or master’s thesis, a research internship, Guided Research, or an IDP with me, please send me an email with your subject line written as an RDF triple.
In your email, please make sure that you follow the guidelines specified in our Wiki: https://collab.dvb.bayern/spaces/TUMTUEIESI/pages/67397111/Research+Project+Supervision
I am currently offering topics in the following areas, many of them in collaboration with Siemens, giving you the opportunity to work on real industrial use cases:

• Knowledge Graphs and Semantic Technologies
• Neuro-Symbolic Reasoning
• LLM-Based Agents for Industrial Automation
• Graph and Time-Series Data Integration for Industrial Systems