Yuxuan Wang (She/Her)

Yuxuan Wang is a PhD researcher at the Initiative in the Digital Economy (INDEX) Research Centre, University of Exeter Business School. Her research focuses on ontology-based knowledge representation and AI-supported knowledge management in human-centred product design, with a particular interest in facilitating knowledge communication and collaboration among multiple stakeholders.

Her current research explores how ontologies can provide structured, consistent, and interpretable knowledge representations to support the integration of heterogeneous information from different stakeholders. By combining ontology engineering with large language models (LLMs) and knowledge graphs, she aims to improve knowledge organisation, semantic interoperability, and knowledge retrieval, enabling designers to identify relationships between stakeholder perspectives and generate insights for product development.

With an interdisciplinary background in service design, economics, and management, Yuxuan’s broader research interests include ontology engineering, knowledge representation, knowledge management, human–AI collaboration, collaborative design, and AI-driven innovation. She is particularly interested in exploring how ontology-based approaches can enhance the reliability, interpretability, and practical application of AI-supported knowledge systems across interdisciplinary contexts.

First Supervisor: Dr. Pingfei Jiang
Second Supervisor: Dr. Ji Han