Professor and researcher

Carlos Badenes-Olmedo

Permanent faculty memberDepartamento de Sistemas Informáticos
ETS de Ingeniería de Sistemas Informáticos · Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

I study the processes through which AI systems turn knowledge sources into answers for people. My work focuses on their capabilities, limitations, and safety and reliability guarantees, combining language models, knowledge graphs and experimental evaluation.

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Building bridges between knowledge, language and artificial intelligence to create real-world impact.

Research

From language to knowledge for reliable AI

I develop methods, resources and applications at the intersection of knowledge representation, natural language processing and artificial intelligence, with a particular interest in transparency, explainability and social impact.

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Knowledge representation and ontologies

Reasoning, verbalisation and explanations

Natural language processing

Generative AI, information retrieval and RAG

AI evaluation, safety and risk

Applications in social, legal and educational domains

Selected publications

Publications

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ESQAD: A Curriculum-Aligned Dataset for Question Answer Generation in SpanishCarlos Badenes Olmedo; Paul Andree Eyzaguirre Barreda; Noa Chu Artzt; Joaquin Gayoso CabadaKnowledge-Based Systems. Elsevier, 2026. · 2026 QuerIA: Adaptive Question Generation and Evaluation in Higher Education Using Large Language Models and Contextual LearningCarlos Badenes Olmedo; Paul Andree Eyzaguirre BarredaExpert Systems with Applications. 301 - 130140, PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, 2026. · 2026 Spanish Triple-to-Text Benchmark on Low-Resource Large Language ModelsVirginia Ramon Ferrer; Carlos Badenes Olmedo; Oscar CorchoSemantic Web. 17 - 3, Thousand Oaks(Estados Unidos de América): SAGE Publications, 2026. · 2026

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IARAG: Inteligencia Artificial y Generación Aumentada por RecuperaciónAI and retrieval-augmented generation for analysing long documents through semantic segmentation, knowled…CPP2023-010895 · 2024-10-01 — 2027-09-30 ProCure: Public Procurement Assessment in the Healthcare SectorAnalysis of European healthcare procurement using natural language processing, knowledge graphs and AI, i…101128437 · 2023-12-01 — 2025-07-31

Collaboration

Interested in collaborating?

I am open to new academic and industry collaborations, project proposals, and supervision of bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral research.

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