Patrick Lambrix

Professor, Head of Division

Director of Studies

Patrick Lambrix is a professor at the Department of Computer and Information Science at Linköping University, Sweden.

He received MSc degrees in Mathematics (1988) and in Computer Science (1990) from the KU Leuven, Belgium, and a PhD degree (1996) from Linköping University, Sweden. In 2007 he was appointed full professor at Linköping University.

He is head of the Division for Database and Information Techniques where he leads the Database and Web Information Systems group. He is also member of the Semantic Web research group and founded the Sports Analytics research group at IDA.

His main expertise is in knowledge engineering and his research interests relate to the areas of semantic web (ontologies), databases, knowledge engineering for materials science, knowledge engineering for the life sciences, and sports analytics. In the fields of knowledge representation and ontology engineering he has pioneered work on part-whole reasoning in description logics, ontology alignment, and ontology debugging and completion, where his group developed award-winning systems.

For more detailed information on research, teaching and services, please see Patrick Lambrix

Research groups

Database and Web Information Systems Group at ADIT, IDA

Semantic Web Research Group at IDA

Sports Analytics Research Group at IDA

More information is also available under the heading "Research" below.

Teaching

Examiner for courses in databases, data mining, sports analytics.

Leadership commissions

Head of Division ADIT at IDA.

Director of Studies at ADIT, IDA.

Program coordinator for the Master in Computer Science program.

Research

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WASP at Department of Computer and Information Science (IDA)

WASP, Wallenberg AI autonomous systems and software program, is the largest individual research investment in Sweden in modern times. One of the WASP research environments at LiU is located at the Department of Computer and Information Science.

Database and Web Information Systems

The Database and Web Information Systems Group conduct research on storage, management, search and integration of data. Important application areas are materials science and the life sciences.

Semantic Web

The Semantic Web is an extension of the traditional Web in which interlinked data with well-described semantics has been added in a machine-processable form.

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Sports Analytics

Sports analytics deals with using data related to sports events to obtain insights about the sport and its surroundings. The insights can relate to player and team performance, strategies, training, injuries, and rules of the game.

Publications

2025

Huanyu Li, Jana Vataščinová, Ondřej Zamazal, Ying Li, Patrick Lambrix, Eva Blomqvist (2025) Development and Outlook of the Circular Economy Track at the Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative

Huanyu Li, Jana Vataščinová, Ondřej Zamazal, Ying Li, Patrick Lambrix, Eva Blomqvist (2025) Results and Discussions from Aligning Ontologies in the Circular Economy Domain Proceedings of The 3rd International Workshop on Knowledge Graphs for Sustainability (KG4S 2025) co-located with the 22nd Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2025), p. 13-24 (Conference paper)

Tim Brecht, Niklas Carlsson, Mikael Vernblom, Patrick Lambrix (Editorship) (2025) Proceedings of the Linköping Hockey Analytics Conference LINHAC 2025 Research Track and Community Notes

Priyansh Gupta, Mikael Vernblom, Niklas Carlsson, Patrick Lambrix (2025) A Gaussian Mixture Model Approach for Characterizing Playing Styles of Ice Hockey Players Proceedings of the Linköping Hockey Analytics Conference LINHAC 2025 Research Track and Community Notes, p. 15-27 (Conference paper)

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Patrick Lambrix, Niklas Carlsson, Rasmus Säfvenberg (2025) Goal-based performance metrics for ice hockey accounting for goal importance Journal of Sports Analytics, Vol. 11, Article 22150218241290987 (Article in journal)

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News

The world's largest conference on ice hockey analytics at LiU

The first edition of LINHAC was completely digital. When LiU organizes the world's largest conference in hockey analytics for the second time it will be a hybrid event with a busy schedule on campus and with participants from all over the world.

LiU: helping LHC keep a clean sheet

A collaboration between two LiU researchers and the Linköping ice hockey club LHC will make it possible to discover the strategy of the opposing team quickly. The system is almost ready to be brought into use.

About the division

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Database and Information Techniques (ADIT)

The division Database and Information Techniques is part of the Department of Computer and Information Science. The division consists of several research groups, each of which has its own research profile.