Explainable AI, scalable probabilistic inference and learning, probabilistic programming, statistical relational learning, commonsence reasoning, automated planning, and unifying logic and probability more generally.

Vaishak Belle is a Chancellor's Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. He is affiliated with the School of Informatics and CISA. He was previously at KU Leuven (Belgium), University of Toronto (Canada), Aachen University of Technology (Germany) and University of Trento (Italy).