[Aug. 2026]

• RespMultimodal 2026: Responsible Multimodal Foundation Models for Knowledge Discovery [Link], co-organized by Prof. Jinyoung Han, was successfully held in conjunction with KDD 2026 at ICC Jeju, bringing together researchers to discuss responsible, reliable, and robust multimodal foundation models. [ENG] & [KOR]

• Our paper, "AIRCL: Adaptive Importance-Weighted Retrieval Contrastive Learning for Hateful Meme Detection" received the Outstanding Paper Award at RespMultimodal 2026! Congrats Jian, Sihyeon and Saejin!

• Our paper, "GRAIN: Detecting AI-Generated News via Article-Level Structure" has been accepted to CIKM (short paper) 2026! Congrats Youjin and Chaewon!

[Jul. 2026]

• Our paper, “Retinal disease classification from spectral domain optical coherence tomography using lesion attentive fusion” has been accepted to Scientific Reports! Congrats Junseo, Jeewoo, Seong, Hyunseon, Migyeong, Jian, and JeeEun!

• Our paper, “A Hybrid CNN-Machine Learning Model for Anxiety Screening with Mandala Coloring Patterns: Feature Extraction and Classification Performance” has been accepted for publication in Acta Psychologica! Congrats JongHan!

• Our paper, “Machine Learning-Based Depression Screening Model from Pre-Drawn Structured Mandala Colorings” has been accepted for publication in Current Psychology! Congrats JongHan and Chaehee!

[Jun. 2026]

• Our team has been awarded 3rd Place in Kakao MCP Player 10, a PlayMCP-based MCP server development competition hosted by Kakao! Congrats Minhan and Soyoung! [Youtube Link] and [Link]

• Our paper, "LLM for MCP Matters: Measuring Inefficient Capability Utilization by LLMs" has been accepted for SIGIR 2026 Workshop on Agentic Search and Retrieval (AgentSearch 2026)! Congrats Minhan and Soyoung!

• Our paper, "ABAI at COLIEE 2026 Task 1: Multi-Stage Retrieval with GraphRAG-Enhanced Meta-Learning for Case Law Retrieval" has been accepted for COLIEE 2026! Congrats Minhan and Soyoung!

• Our paper, "AIRCL: Adaptive Importance-Weighted Retrieval Contrastive Learning for Hateful Meme Detection" has been accepted for KDD Workshop RespMultimodal 2026: Responsible Multimodal Foundation Models for Knowledge Discovery! Congrats Jian, Sihyeon and Saejin!

• Hyunseon Won, Jonghan Kim, Jian Park, Sihyeon Yang, JeeEun Kim, Youjin Lee and Jihyun Kim have been awarded a Graduate Scholarship from AI SeoulTech! Congrats Hyunseon, Jonghan, Jian, Sihyeon, JeeEun, Youjin and Jihyun!

[Apr. 2026]

• Hosted a group of 30 visitors from the Engineering Design and Innovation Centre at the National University of Singapore (NUS) for a research exchange at SKKU. The program, led by DSAIL, included a campus tour and lab visits across DSAILab, DXLab, DLILab, and AIMLab, where research areas and projects were introduced

• Prof. Han Jinyoung has been awarded the Prime Minister’s Commendation at the “2026 Science and ICT Day” ceremony for his outstanding contributions to AI safety and responsibility research! Congrats Prof. Han! [SKKU Media (Korean)]

• Our paper, "Legal Judgment Prediction through Normatively Grounded Sentencing Guidelines and Large Language Models" has been accepted for ICAIL 2026! Congrats Minhan and Soyoung!

• Our paper, "KCC: Korean Civil Case Dataset for Legal Information Retrieval" has been accepted for SIGIR 2026! Congrats Minhan and Soyoung!

• Our paper, "BetaDAPR: An AI-based Expert Support System for Art Therapists with Qualitative and Quantitative Assistance" has been accepted for CSCW 2026! Congrats  Migyeong Yang, Chaehee Park and Hyunseon Won!

[Feb. 2026]

• Our paper, "What I Meant, What You Felt: AI-Mediated Collaborative Drawing for Parent–Child Reflection" has been accepted for CHI 2026 Posters! Congrats Jonghan and Hyunseon and Youjin!

• Our paper, "Relational vs. Procedural Trust: How Conversational Contingency and User Agency Shape Mental Health Self-Assessment Chatbots" has been accepted for CHI 2026 Posters! Congrats Saejin and Migyeong Kang and Minseok!

• Our paper, "Accuracy as Autonomy: How Reliable Information Enables Choice in Wheelchair-Accessible Taxi Services" has been accepted for CHI 2026 Posters! Congrats Hyunseon and Sejung!

• Our paper, "When Behavior Is Not Enough: Identity Biases in Human–AI Creative Collaboration" has been accepted for CHI 2026 Posters! Congrats Hyunseon!

• Our paper, "If I Change Your Eyes, Are You Still You? Identity Thresholds in Deepfake Perception" has been accepted for CHI 2026 Posters! Congrats Chaewon and Youjin!

• Our paper, "RLAIF Framework for Improving the Quality of AI-Generated News via Segment-Level PPO" has been accepted for JKIIS 2026 (Journal of Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems 2026)! Congrats Chaewon!

[Jan. 2026]

• Our paper, "Venus and Mars on Canvas: AI-Mediated Collaborative Drawing for Romantic Relationship Insight" has been accepted for CHI 2026! Congrats Hyunseon, JongHan and Jihyun!

• Our paper, "Autiverse: Eliciting Autistic Adolescents’ Daily Narratives through AI-guided Multimodal Journaling" has been accepted for CHI 2026! Congrats Migyeong Yang!

• Our paper, "HAUTE: Harmonizing Action Units with Temporal-contextual Embeddings for Deepfake Detection" has been accepted for WWW (short paper) 2026! Congrats Chaewon and Youjin!

• Our paper, "Multimodal Spatiotemporal Forecasting of Deepfake Propagation on Social Media" has been accepted for WWW 2026! Congrats Seoyoon Jeong and Jee Eun Kim!

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