Doctoral Consortium

DC Schedule June 30th, 2025

9:00 Welcome

David Leake and Mirjam Minor

9:10 Invited talk

Career Reflections
Kerstin Bach, NTNU

9:40: Presentation/Discussion Session I

Application of Process-Oriented Case-Based Reasoning to the Delimitation of Mobile Genetic Elements in Bacterial Chromosomes
Toufik Hamadouche, mentored by Ralph Bergmann

Auditing of AI Systems through Explainability
Jorge Vindel-Alfageme, mentored by Kyle Martin

Similarity Measure Learning for Analogical Transfer
Chunyang Fan, mentored by Kerstin Bach

Natural XAI: Generating Feasible, Actionable, and Causally-Aware Counterfactual Explanations in Natural Language
Pedram Salimi, mentored by Barry Smyth

11:00 Coffee Break

11:15 Presentation/Discussion Session II

Leveraging Ensemble LLMs and Contextual Embeddings for Case-Based Reasoning in the Legal Domain
Ramitha Abeyratne, mentored by David Ménager

Towards the Application of Case-Based Reasoning to a System for Exploring Cultural Heritage Corpus
Prunelle Daudré-Treuil, mentored by Belén Díaz-Agudo

RAG with Knowledge Structures
Tolga Tel, mentored by Jean Lieber

Enhancing Decision-Making through Similarity-Driven Knowledge Integration in Resource Allocation and Content Matching
Lasal Jayawardena, mentored by Brian Schack

Reducing Gender Cues in Biographies through Text Rewriting using GenWriter
Shweta Soundararajan, mentored by Nirmalie Wiratunga

12:55 DC Closing

13:00 Lunch