Invited talks
The Invited Talks at IDEAL 2025 bring together experts to share their latest research and practical insights straightforwardly and engagingly. These sessions are an excellent opportunity to explore new ideas, tackle current challenges, and see how cutting-edge techniques are applied in the real world. This year, we are very proud to host the following invited talks:
1. The Next Frontier in Explainable AI: Human-AI Synergy.
As AI systems become more complex, the need for effective explanations grows, especially in contexts where human decision-making is involved. This plenary talk explores the evolving role of explainable AI (XAI) in fostering human-AI collaboration. While traditional approaches to XAI focus on mathematical approaches looking for transparency but dificult for society understanding, the next frontier lies in creating explanations that empower users and end-users better understand AI’s reasoning and AI’s advises and enhance their decision-making capabilities.
We will examine how well-designed explanations can bridge the gap between AI outputs and human comprehension, enabling more informed decisions in critical areas such as healthcare, finance, and autonomous systems. The focus will be on the utility of explanations in making AI more actionable and trustworthy, fostering a symbiotic relationship where humans and AI co-create decisions. By focusing on human-AI synergy, we aim to move beyond simply explaining AI’s behavior to facilitating collaborative decision-making, ensuring that explanations truly serve the needs of users and support effective, ethical decision-making.

Francisco Herrera Triguero
Francisco Herrera received the M.Sc. degree in mathematics in 1988, and the Ph.D. degree in mathematics in 1991, both from the University of Granada, Spain. He is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at the University of Granada and Director of the Andalusian Research Institute in Data Science and Computational Intelligence (DaSCI). He’s an Academician in the Royal Academy of Engineering (Spain). He has been the Supervisor over 60 Ph.D. students. He has published more than 600 journal papers, receiving
more than 144 000 citations (Scholar Google, H-index 179). He has been nominated as a Highly Cited Researcher (in the fields of computer science and engineering, respectively, 2014 to present, Clarivate Analytics). He acts as Editorial Member of a dozen of journals. His current research interests include among others, computational intelligence, information fusion and
decision making, trustworthy artificial intelligence and data science (including data preprocessing, prediction and big data).
He is currently considered one of the most influential Spanish scientists in the world in the field of Computer Science and Engineering.