Human-Centric AI:
From Explainability and Trustworthiness to Actionable Ethics
CIKM 2025 Workshop
November 14, 2025 | COEX, Seoul, Korea
Invitation
We invite researchers and practitioners in human-centric AI—focusing on explainability, trustworthiness, fairness, privacy, and related values — to come together in building a shared understanding of its key principles and challenges.
Developing truly human-centric AI goes beyond technical innovation. It requires interdisciplinary collaboration and diverse perspectives. We welcome both theoretical contributions and practical case studies that demonstrate how human-centered principles are realized in real-world AI systems.
This workshop will be held in conjunction with CIKM 2025 at COEX in Seoul, Korea. Located in the heart of Gangnam, COEX is a landmark venue for global conferences. We warmly invite you to join us in exploring the future of human-centric AI with leading scholars and industry experts from around the world.
Registration: https://bit.ly/hcai2025-reg
Keynote Talks
Keynote Talk I
Irwin King
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong, China
Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence, leveraging Federated Learning and beyond
Keynote Talk III
Maximilian Dreyer
Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute
Germany
Inspecting AI Like Engineers: From Explanation to Validation with SemanticLens
Program
| Time | Session | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 13:00 - 13:30 |
The registration desk opens at 12:40 |
|
| 13:30 - 13:35 |
Welcome Address |
Jaesik Choi, General Chair KAIST |
| 13:35 - 13:40 |
Congratulatory Address |
Myuhng-Joo Kim Korea AISI |
| 13:40 - 14:10 |
Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence, leveraging Federated Learning and beyond |
Irwin King The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| 14:10 - 14:40 |
Fair Alignment in Large Vision Language Models |
Chang D. Yoo KAIST |
| 14:40 - 15:30 |
Session Chair: Simon S. Woo Sungkyunkwan University |
|
| 15:30 - 15:50 |
Coffee Break |
|
| 15:50 - 16:20 |
Session Chair: Myung-Wan Koo Sogang University |
|
| 16:20 - 17:10 |
Session Chair: Anh Tong Korea University |
|
| 17:10 - 17:40 |
Inspecting AI Like Engineers: Explanation to Validation with SemanticLens |
Maximilian Dreyer Fraunhofer HHI |
| 17:40 - 17:50 |
Best Paper Awards |
Program Chairs |
| 17:50 - 18:00 |
Closing Remarks |
Organizing Committee |
Organizing Committee
KAIST, Korea
Seoul National University, Korea
Sogang University, Korea
ETRI, Korea
KAIST, Korea
Sungkyunkwan University, Korea
TU Berlin and Fraunhofer HHI, Germany
Program Chairs
- Bohyung Han, Seoul National University, Korea
- Nari Kim, KAIST, Korea
- Jaesik Choi, KAIST, Korea
Program Committee
- Bohyung Han, Seoul National University, Korea
- Myoung-Wan Koo, Sogang University, Korea
- Kyoungman Bae, ETRI, Korea
- Chang D. Yoo, KAIST, Korea
- Simon S. Woo, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea
- Nari Kim, KAIST, Korea
- Maximilian Dreyer, Fraunhofer HHI, Germany
- Hwaran Lee, Sogang University, Korea
- Sangwoo Heo, NAVER AI Risk Management Center, Korea
- Seung-Hyun Lee, NAVER Cloud AI Lab
- Hwarim Hyun, NAVER AI Risk Management Center, Korea
- Seongwoo Kang, NAVER AI Risk Management Center, Korea
- Joon Ho Kwak, TTA Center for Trustworthy AI and The AI Safety Institute, Korea
- Sangkyun Lee, Korea University, Korea
- Haejin Park, Hanyang University, Korea
- Joseph Seering, KAIST, Korea
- Md. Shajalal, University of Siegen, Germany
- Seyed Mohsen Ghafari, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Australia
- Anh Tong, Korea University, Korea
- Jinseok Seol, Dankook University, Korea
- Kyowoon Lee, KAIST, Korea
- Enver Menadjiev, KAIST, Korea
- Artyom Stitsyuk, KAIST, Korea
- Youngjin Park, KAIST, Korea
Contact
Event Sponsors
The Microsoft CMT service was used for managing the peer-reviewing process for this conference. This service was provided for free by Microsoft and they bore all expenses, including costs for Azure cloud services as well as for software development and support.