Pascal Hitzler is a German American computer scientist specializing in Semantic Web and Artificial Intelligence.

[1][3] He is endowed Lloyd T. Smith Creativity in Engineering Chair,[4] one of the Directors of the Institute for Digital Agriculture and Advanced Analytics (ID3A)[5] and Director of the Center for Artificial Intelligence and Data Science (CAIDS)[6] at Kansas State University, and the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Semantic Web journal[7] and the IOS Press book series Studies on the Semantic Web.

[10][4] From 2004 to 2009 he was first Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (as postdoc) and then Akademischer Rat at the Institute for Applied Informatics and Formal Description Methods at the University of Karlsruhe in Germany.

"[9][2] From 1992 to 1998 he studied Mathematics and Computer Science at the Eberhard-Karl University of Tübingen in Germany and graduated with a Diplom thesis on "Topology and Logic Programming Semantics".

[12] Hitzler co-founded several series of academic meetings, including the Workshop on Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning (NeSy, since 2005),[13] the Web Reasoning and Rule Systems Conference (RR, since 2006),[14] the Workshop on Applications of Semantic Technologies (AST, 2007-2011),[15] and the U.S. Semantic Technologies Symposium (us2ts, since 2018).

[20] A scientometric publication in PLOS Biology, in October 2020, listed him among the top 1% of scientists world-wide in Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing.

[21] At the 2020 International Semantic Web Conference, he and his co-authors received the SWSA Ten-Year Award by the Semantic Web Science Association, for the publication Prateek Jain, Pascal Hitzler, Amit P. Sheth, Kunal Verma, Peter Z. Yeh, Ontology Alignment for Linked Open Data.

Pascal Hitzler, Aldo Gangemi, Krzysztof Janowicz, Adila Krisnadhi, Valentina Presutti (eds.

Karl Hammar, Pascal Hitzler, Adila Krisnadhi, Agnieszka Lawrynowicz, Andrea Nuzzolese, Monika Solanki (eds.

), Knowledge Graphs for eXplainable Artificial Intelligence: Foundations, Applications and Challenges Studies on the Semantic Web Vol.

Eva Blomqvist, Torsten Hahmann, Karl Hammar, Pascal Hitzler, Rinke Hoekstra, Raghava Mutharaju, Maria Poveda, Cogan Shimizu, Martin Skjaeveland, Monika Solanki, Vojtech Svatek, Lu Zhou (eds.