Dr. Julian Mendez

Assistant Professor

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Biography

Julian Alfredo Mendez is a PhD candidate in the Responsible Artificial Intelligence group at Umeå University. His research focuses on Knowledge Representation and Description Logics, with a keen interest in logic formalisms applied to Ethics in Artificial Intelligence. He is an active member and leader of the Explainable AI cluster, contributing significantly to open source projects, including the jcel reasoner and the Wikidata Toolkit. Julian frequently updates his list of publications and collaborates with various research groups, such as the Agents Reasoning Group and Interactive Intelligent Systems. He teaches a course on the Foundations of Logic and Model Theory.

Research Interests

Experience

Research Engineer

2020-03-01 — Present

Umeå University • Umeå

Contributing to the Responsible Artificial Intelligence group's projects and research.

Requirements for Umeå University

Master Program
Requirements
GPA Requirement
Required:2.5
IELTS
Listening
Required:5.5
Reading
Required:5.5
Writing
Required:5.5
Speaking
Required:5.5
Overall
Required:6.5
TOEFL
Writing
Required:20
Total
Required:90
PTE
Overall
Required:62
Prerequisites
Bachelor's degree (180 ECTS) in relevant field At least 90 ECTS in the main subject area
Application Checklist
  • Bachelor's degree certificate
  • Transcripts of records
  • Proof of English proficiency
  • Copy of passport
  • Letter of Motivation (certain programs)
  • CV (certain programs)
Specialization Notes

Requirements are standard for Master's programs across Social Sciences and Humanities at Umeå. English 6 proficiency is the general rule.