Biography

Dongseok Kim is a Computer Scientist working on Trustworthy AI. His main research areas are Explainable AI (XAI), Uncertainty Quantification, ML Fairness, AI Governance and AI Ethics. He is interested in methods for analyzing and evaluating the rationale behind a model's decisions, the uncertainty of its predictions, and the fairness of its outcomes, alongside predictive performance. Giving equal weight to statistical and mathematical rigor and to practical applicability, he aims to develop methods that can be applied across diverse datasets and models.

He has published 2 first-author papers in Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR) and 1 in Applied Soft Computing. His recent work extends to AI for Advanced Manufacturing, including Anomaly Detection and Process Optimization. He is also a co-inventor on 7 registered and 3 published Korean patents in the areas of AI and Metaverse.

Alongside his research, he regularly takes part in the peer review process of the academic community. He has reviewed submissions for journals in IEEE Transactions and ACM Transactions series, and serves as a reviewer for ICML, NeurIPS, AISTATS, and FAccT leading international conferences in ML. Through reviewing across theory and applications, and across journals and conferences, he contributes to the scholarly process of verifying the validity and reproducibility of research.

Published Papers

Published Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR), 2026

CLAPS: Aleatoric-Epistemic Scaling via Last-Layer Laplace for Conformal Regression

Dongseok Kim, Hyoungsun Choi, Mohamed Jismy Aashik Rasool, Gisung Oh.

Published Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR), 2026

Gaming and Cooperation in Federated Learning: What Can Happen and How to Monitor It

Dongseok Kim, Hyoungsun Choi, Mohamed Jismy Aashik Rasool, Gisung Oh.

Published Applied Soft Computing, 2024

Federated Regressive Learning: Adaptive Weight Updates through Statistical Information of Clients

Dong Seok Kim, Shabir Ahmad, Taeg Keun Whangbo.

Under Review

Under Review Anonymous Conference, 2027

The Debt of Missed Opportunities

Under Review Anonymous Conference, 2027

Microclaims and Macrofairness: Kaldor--Hicks Justification and Scitovsky Paradox in Contestability

Under Review Anonymous Journal, 2026

CUBE: Contrastive Understanding by Balanced Experiments

Under Review Anonymous Journal, 2026

φ-Table: A Statistical Explanation for Global SHAP

Under Review Anonymous Journal, 2026

The Price of Justice in Machine Learning: Fair Division with Subjective Value under Bounded Rationality

Preprints

Preprint arXiv Preprint, 2025

How Prompts Move Language Model Behavior: Frames, Salience, and Construal as Semantic Control

Dongseok Kim, Hyoungsun Choi, Mohamed Jismy Aashik Rasool, Gisung Oh.

Preprint arXiv Preprint, 2025

A Ridge Too Far: Correcting Over-Shrinkage via Negative Regularization

Dongseok Kim, Gisung Oh.

Registered Patent

Registered Registration No. 1029528850000 Registration Date: 2026.04.10

Healing Content Background Sound Implementation System, Method and Computer-Recordable Medium on Multimodal Based Metaverse

  • Applicant: Gachon University Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation
  • Inventors: Taegkeun Whangbo, Gisung Oh, Jehyun Kim, Wonjun Jeong, Hyoungsun Choi, Yiqian Han, Dongseok Kim
Registered Registration No. 1028921560000 Registration Date: 2025.11.24

The Method That Augment Medical Data Required for Federated Learning, and the System and Computer-Readable Medium for Performing the Same

  • Applicant: Gachon University Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation
  • Inventors: Taegkeun Whangbo, Gisung Oh, Jehyun Kim, Wonjun Jeong, Hyoungsun Choi, Yiqian Han, Dongseok Kim
Registered Registration No. 1026123200000 Registration Date: 2023.12.06

Multimodal-Based Metaverse Environment Implementation System, Method and Computer-Recordable Medium

  • Applicant: Gachon University Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation
  • Inventors: Taegkeun Whangbo, Gisung Oh, Jehyun Kim, Wonjun Jeong, Hyoungsun Choi, Yiqian Han, Dongseok Kim
  • Citations: 1
Registered Registration No. 1026998860000 Registration Date: 2024.08.23

Medical Twin Sound Realization System, Method, and Computer-Recordable Medium on Multimodal-Based Metaverse

  • Applicant: Gachon University Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation
  • Inventors: Taegkeun Whangbo, Gisung Oh, Jehyun Kim, Wonjun Jeong, Hyoungsun Choi, Yiqian Han, Dongseok Kim
Registered Registration No. 1026123210000 Registration Date: 2023.12.06

System, Method and Computer-Recordable Medium for Implementing NPC Actions on a Multimodal-Based Metaverse

  • Applicant: Gachon University Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation
  • Inventors: Taegkeun Whangbo, Gisung Oh, Jehyun Kim, Wonjun Jeong, Hyoungsun Choi, Yiqian Han, Dongseok Kim
Registered Registration No. 1028921540000 Registration Date: 2025.11.24

The Method That Infer Medical Prediction Information, and the System and Computer-Readable Medium for Performing the Same

  • Applicant: Gachon University Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation
  • Inventors: Taegkeun Whangbo, Gisung Oh, Jehyun Kim, Wonjun Jeong, Hyoungsun Choi, Yiqian Han, Dongseok Kim
Registered Registration No. 1028921520000 Registration Date: 2025.11.24

The Method That Train a Model That Derive Medical Predictive Information by Federated Learning, and the System and Computer-Readable Medium for Performing the Same

  • Applicant: Gachon University Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation
  • Inventors: Taegkeun Whangbo, Gisung Oh, Jehyun Kim, Wonjun Jeong, Hyoungsun Choi, Yiqian Han, Dongseok Kim
  • Citations: 2

Published Patent

Published Publication No. 1020250172993 Publication Date: 2025.12.10

The Method of Providing Care Information for Elderly Guardians through a Server System and Care Robot, and a Computer-Readable Storage Medium for Implementing That

  • Applicant: Gachon University Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation
  • Inventors: Taegkeun Whangbo, Gisung Oh, Wonjun Jeong, Hyoungsun Choi, Dongseok Kim
Published Publication No. 1020260004804 Publication Date: 2026.01.09

The Method, System, and Computer-Readable Medium for Internal Organ 3D Modeling Based Video

  • Applicant: Gachon University Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation
  • Inventors: Taegkeun Whangbo, Gisung Oh, Wonjun Jeong, Hyoungsun Choi, Dongseok Kim
Published Publication No. 1020250172991 Publication Date: 2025.12.10

The Method of Providing User-Variable Cognitive Rehabilitation Conversation through a Server System and Care Robot, and a Computer-Readable Storage Medium for Implementing That

  • Applicant: Gachon University Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation
  • Inventors: Taegkeun Whangbo, Gisung Oh, Wonjun Jeong, Hyoungsun Choi, Dongseok Kim

Academic Service

Reviewer Conference Review

Society for Artificial Intelligence and Statistics

Reviewer for AISTATS.

Reviewer Journal & Conference Review

Association for Computing Machinery

Reviewer for ACM Transactions journals and ACM FAccT.

Reviewer Conference Review

Neural Information Processing Systems Foundation

Reviewer for NeurIPS.

Reviewer Conference Review

International Machine Learning Society

Reviewer for ICML.

Reviewer Journal Review

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Reviewer for IEEE Transactions Journals.