Introduction

On 2 and 3 June 2025, the School for Information and Knowledge Systems (SIKS) is organising the course on Explainable AI in cooperation with the Hybrid Intelligence Centre. This two-day course will be given in English and is part of the educational programme for SIKS PhD students. It is a course with a broad focus, aimed at all SIKS PhD students regardless the research area they are actually working on. Although this course is primarily intended for SIKS PhD students, other participants are not excluded. However, availability will depend on the number of SIKS PhD students wishing to enroll.

The ethical and social aspects of AI are a burning issue in politics, science, and society at large: the risks of big data and the increasing power of incomprehensible and opaque algorithms. Seemingly objective, neutral, and unbiased, these can make radical decisions without human intervention; decisions which may deeply influence people and their futures. The call for Explainable AI therefore is increasingly heard. Many researchers who participate in SIKS are directly or indirectly involved in this issue, often in various ways and from different perspectives. All this means Explainable AI is a valuable topic in the SIKS activity programme.

Dates:

2 & 3 June, 2025

Location:

The course will take place at hotel Landgoed Huize Bergen in Vught, near Den Bosch.

Scientific directors:

Rineke Verbrugge (RUG)
Antske Fokkens (VU)

Programme:

Monday 2 June

10:00 – 10:30    Coffee/enrollment

10:30 – 10:45    Welcome & Short Introduction

10:45 – 12:15    Jaap Jumulet An Introduction to XAI

12:15 – 13:30    lunch

13:30 – 15:00    Jelle Zuidema Interpretability and bias detection in Neural Networks

15:00 – 15:30    Tea break

15:30 – 17:00    Jakob Schoeffer The role of explanations in AI-assisted decision making

Tuesday 3 June

9:00 – 10:30       Lise Stork Explanation Generation for Intelligent Systems

10:30 – 11:00    Coffee break

11:00 – 12:00    Pia Sommerauer Explanatory Testing using Challenge Sets

12:00 – 13:00    Lunch

13:00 – 14:30    Pia Sommerauer Hands-on explanatory testing + presentations

14:30 – 15:00    Tea Break

15:00 – 16:30    Ashley Burgoyne XAI for Computational Musicology

16:30 – 17:00    Poster session for PhD students

Registration

Registration is now closed.