IEEE SaTML Workshop

  • DateMay 3, 2027
  • LocationReykjavík, Iceland

Human-CenteredTrustworthy Machine Learning

AdvML Frontiers aims to form an interdisciplinary community of human-centered researchers within trustworthy AI. Although individual researchers rely on human-centered methods and several published SaTML papers include human-factors components, there is not yet a dedicated community around this work. The workshop welcomes senior researchers and PhD students already working on—or interested in—human factors in trustworthy machine learning, with a low barrier to entry for those who want to learn, participate, and network.

Important dates

Submission deadline
Decision notification
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Workshop

All deadlines are at 11:59 PM AoE (Anywhere on Earth, UTC−12).

Call for Papers

We invite human-centered work on trustworthy machine learning systems, especially interdisciplinary research spanning machine learning, security, safety, HCI, ethics, and the social sciences.

Topics of interest

  1. Impact of Insecurity/Security ML on People: how trustworthy or untrustworthy ML can benefit, harm, or otherwise affect people.
  2. Needs and Acceptability of Trustworthy ML: what forms of trustworthy ML are needed in particular sociotechnical circumstances and how needs vary across people, contexts, and experience levels.
  3. Empirical Methods for Measuring Effectiveness In Practice: human-subjects experiments, internet measurement, surveys, interviews, ethnography, case studies, observational studies, and related social-science methods.
  4. Usable SaTML Systems: studies that evaluate or improve the interfaces and designs of systems relevant to secure and trustworthy machine learning.
  5. Human-Centric SaTML-Relevant Processes: evaluations of human-in-the-loop processes including red teaming, safety practices, and human considerations around ML development and use.
Track 1

Regular papers

Research papers of up to 6 pages, excluding references and supplementary material.

Track 2

Blue Sky, Position, or Demo papers

Up to 4 pages on visionary ideas, long-term challenges, current debates, overlooked questions, or demonstrations.

Non-archival and open to work in progress. Submissions do not need to be anonymized. Concurrent and previously archived work is welcome, and accepted papers will receive either an oral or poster presentation.

The submission site will be announced in the near future.

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Submission requirements and workshop policy

Format

Use the IEEE template specified by SaTML's call for papers. References and supplementary material do not count toward the 6- or 4-page limits. The submission site will be announced in the near future.

Review and publication

Submissions do not need to be anonymized. Accepted papers are non-archival and will not appear in formal conference proceedings. In-progress, concurrent, and archived submissions are allowed; authors are responsible for compliance with other venues' policies.

Presentation

Each accepted paper will receive either an oral or poster presentation. The program deliberately reserves substantial time for an extended poster session and interactive discussion.

SaTML policies

Submissions must follow the applicable LLM usage and Open Science requirements in SaTML's call for papers. Authors should also consider its guidance on ethical considerations.

Keynote Speakers

Katharina Krombholz

Katharina Krombholz

Tenured Faculty Member · CISPA

Dr. Katharina Krombholz is tenured Faculty at CISPA and head of the Usable Security Group, Empirical and Behavioral Security Research Area. Before that, she was senior researcher at SBA Research. She completed her PhD in November 2016 with distinction. She also received a master’s degree in Media Informatics from TU Wien in 2012.

Talk title and abstract to be announced.

Ram Shankar Siva Kumar

Ram Shankar Siva Kumar

Data Cowboy · Microsoft

Ram Shankar Siva Kumar is a Data Cowboy working on the intersection of machine learning and security. At Microsoft, he founded the AI Red Team, bringing together an interdisciplinary group of researchers and engineers to proactively attack AI systems and defend from attacks.

His recent book on attacking AI systems, NOT WITH A BUG has been called “Essential Reading” by Microsoft’s Chief Technology Officer and received wide praise from industry leaders at DeepMind, OpenAI as well as policy makers and academia. He is donating his proceeds of the book royalty to Black In AI.

His work on AI and Security has appeared in industry conferences like RSA, BlackHat, Defcon, BlueHat, DerbyCon, MIRCon, Infiltrate, academic workshops at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, IEEE S&P, ACM - CCS. His work has been covered by Bloomberg, VentureBeat, Wired, and Geekwire. He founded the Adversarial ML Threat Matrix, an ATT&CK style framework enumerating threats to machine learning. His work on adversarial machine learning appeared notably in the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence (NSCAI) Final report presented to the United States Congress and the President.

He is currently Tech Policy Fellow at UC Berkeley and an affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, where he is broadly investigating two questions: How do we assess the safety of ML systems? What are the policy and legal ramifications of AI, in the context of security? He is also Technical Advisory Board Member at the University of Washington.

Talk title and abstract to be announced.

Program

May 3, 2027 · 9 AM–4 PM · Reykjavík, Iceland · Venue forthcoming
All program times are local Reykjavík time (UTC+0).

Welcome and introductions

15 minutes

Keynote 1

45 minutes · Speaker and talk to be announced

Details

Speaker, title, and abstract to be announced.

Paper Talks 1

30 minutes

Details

Paper titles and presentation order will be added after acceptance decisions.

Coffee break and poster set-up

15 minutes

Keynote 2

45 minutes · Speaker and talk to be announced

Details

Speaker, title, and abstract to be announced.

Paper Talks 2

30 minutes

Details

Paper titles and presentation order will be added after acceptance decisions.

Lunch

60 minutes

Poster session

90 minutes

Speed Mentoring

1:00–1:30 PM

Keynote 3

45 minutes · Speaker and talk to be announced

Details

Speaker, title, and abstract to be announced.

Panel discussion

45 minutes

Details

Discussion with the keynote speakers and selected workshop organizers. The final panel lineup and topic will be announced with the program.

Closing remarks

5 minutes

Organizers