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Adriano Vlad-Starrabba

Adriano Vlad-Starrabba

Pioneering Neurosymbolic AI and Knowledge Graphs at Prometheux and Oxford

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London, England
Joined July 2025
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Adriano is a leading expert and entrepreneur in the field of Neurosymbolic AI and Knowledge Graphs. As Co-Founder & CEO of Prometheux, an NVIDIA Inception company, he develops advanced systems like Vadalog Parallel to provide scalable, explainable, and transparent reasoning over large knowledge graphs for diverse applications in life sciences and finance. linkedin+2
His academic background is deeply rooted in cutting-edge research at the University of Oxford and TU Wien, where he serves as a Senior Research Collaborator, Guest Lecturer, and Teaching Assistant focusing on Knowledge Graphs. He is actively involved in the Joint Knowledge Graph Labs and has co-authored academic papers on topics like Datalog rewriting algorithms for warded ontologies. nvidia+1
Adriano possesses a strong technical and innovative profile, evident from his previous roles as a Senior Software Engineer and Project Manager at Vodafone, where he contributed to patents for network-connected drones and APIs. His expertise spans both academic research and practical industry applications, leveraging distributed computation methods and GPU acceleration for complex data problems. nvidia

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A datalog rewriting algorithm for warded ontologies

January 1, 2025

A research paper focusing on a novel Datalog rewriting algorithm for Ontology-Mediated Queries (OMQs) over warded ontologies, aiming to bridge theoretical foundations with practical implementations for efficient query answering.

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Accelerating Neurosymbolic AI with RAPIDS and Prometheux Vadalog Parallel

November 1, 2023

An NVIDIA blog post detailing how Prometheux's Vadalog Parallel, a knowledge graph management system, leverages NVIDIA GPUs and RAPIDS for Apache Spark to achieve significant speedups and cost savings in neurosymbolic AI applications for large knowledge graphs, with applications in life sciences and finance.

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