Ahmet Soylu is a computer scientist, professor and academic leader specialising in data management, knowledge representation, Semantic Web technologies, artificial intelligence and digital transformation. He is Professor of Computer Science and Head of Doctoral Studies and Research Centres at Kristiania University of Applied Sciences in Oslo, as well as Visiting Professor at Seoul National University (SNU).

He earned his PhD in Computer Science from KU Leuven in 2012. He previously served as Dean of the School of Doctoral Studies at Kristiania and held full professorships at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University, where he also led the Innovation, Digital Transformation and Sustainability research group. He held an adjunct associate professorship at the University of Oslo (UiO), was a visiting researcher at the University of Oxford, and served as an expert in data visualisation, open data and Semantic Web technologies at the Publications Office of the European Union in Luxembourg. His professional background also includes positions as Senior Research Scientist at SINTEF Digital and Senior Engineer at DNV, combining academic leadership with applied research and innovation in industry and research institutes.

Ahmet has led and contributed to major European, national and industrial research projects, including TheyBuyForYou, which focused on open linked data for public procurement, and Optique, which developed scalable approaches to accessing complex industrial data. His research has appeared in leading conferences and journals, including ISWC, SIGIR, CIKM, Applied Soft Computing, Expert Systems with Applications, IEEE Computer and the Semantic Web Journal.

He chairs the steering committee of the Declarative AI conference series, encompassing RuleML+RR, the Reasoning Web Summer School and DecisionCAMP, and has contributed to numerous other international conferences. He has also served several times as General Chair of RuleML+RR. He is a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Web Semantics, Transactions on Graph Data and Knowledge, and Data Technologies and Applications.

With more than 200 scholarly publications and over 230 international co-authors. He also contributes actively to public debate on higher education, technology and culture through essays, commentary and invited talks.