Program of the Conference

The program is in Binghamton time zone (Eastern Time Zone)

Conference Schedule

Day 1 - Morning (8:15 - 13:15) - Tue, 09 Dec


09 December, 2025

8:00-9:00 Registration

9:00-9:15 Opening

9:15-10:00 Keynote Speaker 1: Kimberly Glass - Network Modeling for Precision Medicine

Chair: - -

10:00-10:40 Session Lightning L1 - Community Structure

Chair: - -

10:00

Hierarchical Single-Linkage Clustering for Community Detection with Overlaps and Outliers
Presenter: Ryan DeWolfe
10:05

No Community Detection Method to Rule Them All!
Presenter: Shrabani Ghosh
10:10

Method detecting Overlapping Structures in Bipartite Graphs via SBM
Presenter: Tomáš Zikmund
10:15

Graph Minds: Exploring Social Structures Through LLM-Based Community Detection
Presenter: Ekta Gujral
10:20

On the Optimization of Methods for Establishing Well-Connected Communities
Presenter: Mohammad Dindoost
10:25

Discovery of Locally Closed Communities in Directed Signed Graphs
Presenter: Shivanjali Vijaykumar Ranashing

10:40-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-12:30 Session Oral 1A: Dynamics on/of Networks

Chair: - -

11:00

Enhancing Spatial Early Warning Signals: Optimized Node Selection for Tipping Point Detection
Presenter: Chirantha Piyamal Bandara
11:15

When Complexity Simplifies: The Paradox of More Random, More Tractable
Presenter: Haoyang Qian, Beata Casiday, Malbor Asllani
11:30

Dynamics of Triadic Closure in Complex Networks
Presenter: Aashish Pandey
11:45

Market Dynamics on Complex Networks
Presenter: Ruslan Bogatyrev
12:00

A Nested Dual Representation Reveals Near-Universality in Physical Tree Networks
Presenter: Benjamin Black
12:15

Complex Systems Approach to Judicial Decision-Making Through a Complex Network in Civil Law
Presenter: STEFAN, F. M.

11:00-12:30 Session Oral 1B: Urban Systems

Chair: - -

11:00

Impact of One-Way Constraints on Random Walk Dynamics: A Case Study on Urban Street Networks
Presenter: David Bowater
11:15

Revisiting Key Station Identification, Efficiency, and Robustness in High-speed Rail Networks
Presenter: Yucong Li
11:30

Physarum-Centrality-Based Rewiring for Improved Fault-Tolerance of Transport Networks
Presenter: Itsuki Ohtake
11:45

A Graph-Theoretic Approach for Characterizing Determinants of Physical Activity Variability for Aging Research
Presenter: Hesham Ali
12:00

Interval Separators in Temporal Graphs
Presenter: Mohammad Mehdi Hosseinzadeh
12:15

Modular Flows and Pavement Politics: Complex Network Dynamics of Street Vending in Thika, Kenya
Presenter: NATHAN KARIUKI

11:00-12:30 Session Oral 1C: Network in Finance & Economics

Chair: - -

11:00

Graph-Theoretical Approaches for Analyzing Financial Markets
Presenter: Nathan Ghanavati
11:15

Energy Trade and Security: Network Structure and Scenario Simulation of LNG Trade
Presenter: John Schoeneman
11:30

Agrifood Supply Chain Networks under Water and Energy Stress: A Study on Resilience and Sustainability in Morocco
Presenter: Asma Boujrouf
11:45

Stability of interbank market with heterogeneity of a core/periphery structure
Presenter: Yafei wang
12:00

Resilience of Labor Markets Under the COVID-19 Shock: The Role of Structural Job Connectivity
Presenter: Wendi Li
12:15

Regional Fitness and Economic Growth from Japanese Patent Data
Presenter: Rintaro Karashima

12:30-14:00 Lunch

Day 1 - Afternoon (14:30 - 19:20) - Tue, 09 Dec


09 December, 2025

14:00-15:45 Session Oral 2A: Machine Learning & Networks

Chair: - -

14:00

Bridging Semantics & Structure for Software Vulnerability Detection using Hybrid Network Models
Presenter: Jugal Gajjar
14:15

Concept Combinations with Generator and Validator Agents Prompted Using Insights from Concept Networks
Presenter: Alex Doboli
14:30

The Federated Agent Secure Transport (FAST): A Secure Fabric for the Orchestration of Multi-Agent Collaboration
Presenter: Dheepak Gobinath
14:45

ViMET-R: Auditing Activity-Level Bias in YouTube Shorts Recommendations
Presenter: Diwash Poudel and Nitin Agarwal
15:00

A Graph-Enhanced Framework for Predictive Modeling on Bibliographic Data
Presenter: Shaaf Farooque
15:15

Partner Firm Selection via Patent Embedding–Derived Technology Graphs and Synergy
Presenter: Harunobu Kubo
15:30

Textual understanding boost in the WikiRace
Presenter: Raman Ebrahimi

14:00-15:45 Session Oral 2B: Network Analysis

Chair: - -

14:00

An Inverse Problem of Social Influence for Spatial Reference Positions in Soccer
Presenter: Gordana Marmulla
14:15

Measuring the Global Industrial Chain Advantage un-der the Belt and Road Initiative: A Bipartite-Graph and Resource Allocation Approach
Presenter: Kaiyu JIN
14:30

Ricci Matrix Comparison: A Curvature-based Graph Alignment Method
Presenter: Ashley Wang
14:45

CI-FSA: Toward Scalable Discovery of Influential Groups in Social Networks
Presenter: Ridwan Amure and Nitin Agarwal
15:00

Spectrum-based statistical methods for directed graphs
Presenter: Victor Chavauty
15:15

Effects of Vertex Merging & Splitting on Large Coauthorship Networks: A Counterfactual Analysis
Presenter: Jinseok Kim
15:30

The t-Value Mirage: Why Parametric Tests on Bootstrap Resamples Mislead in Network Science
Presenter: Chun-Ying Tu

14:00-15:45 Session Oral 2C: Political Networks

Chair: - -

14:00

Layer interdependence in the multiplex international system
Presenter: Michael McCall
14:15

Who Coordinates U.S. Cyber Defense? A Co-Authorship Network Analysis of Joint Cybersecurity Advisories (2024--2025)
Presenter: Tugce Unlu
14:30

Bridging Policy Change: Social Network Analysis of UNICEF’s Positioning in Child Rights Networks
Presenter: Jose Sierra
14:45

Echoes of Automation: How Bots Shaped Political Discourse in Brazil
Presenter: Ipek Bal
15:00

Kicking Politics: How Football Fan Communities Became Arenas for Political Influence
Presenter: Helen Paffard
15:15

Mapping Mobility Networks between Government Roles in Portugal
Presenter: Carolina Shaul
15:30

Nationalization of Partisan Interactions and Mass Polarization
Presenter: Jing Li

15:45-16:15 Coffee Break

16:15-17:00 Keynote Speaker 2: Mark Newman - Networks and Ranking in Sports, Markets, and Society

Chair: - -

17:00-18:15 Session Oral 3A: Network Medicine

Chair: - -

17:00

Comparative Anatomy of Human and Avian Musculoskeletal Systems: Quantifying Bone Fusion Effects in a Network Framework
Presenter: hiroko yamano
17:15

Topology-Driven Mental Health Resilience: A Network Science Simulation Study
Presenter: Rawan AlMakinah
17:30

AURA-T: A Standards-First, Privacy-Preserving Pipeline for Neurodevelopmental Care — from External Intake to De-Identified Analytics and Secure Delivery
Presenter: Gabriel Cirino
17:45

Dynamic Network Collapse in Decompensated Hepatic Cirrhosis
Presenter: Yanpei Mai
18:00

Cognitive MRI of AI Conversations: Analyzing AI Interactions through Semantic Embedding Networks
Presenter: Alexander Towell

17:00-18:15 Session Oral 3B: Quantifying Success

Chair: - -

17:00

Modeling Path Dynamics of Student Progression Through Course Prerequisite Network
Presenter: Bonan Yang, Mahdi Gharebhaygloo
17:15

Quantifying Ageing Effect in Scientific and Innovative Careers
Presenter: Yangfanyu Yang
17:30

Classroom social network structure enhances prediction of educational outcomes: A large-scale study
Presenter: Naoki Masuda
17:45

The specialization of interdisciplinary innovators in science and technology
Presenter: Keigo Kusumegi
18:00

The network structure of scientific criticism in the American Physical Society
Presenter: Yixuan Liu

17:00-18:15 Session Oral 3C: Generative Models

Chair: - -

17:00

Scalable Benchmark Graph Generation for the Maximum Cardinality Matching and Distance-1 Minimum Coloring Problems
Presenter: Anthony Fabius
17:15

A Bayesian approach to mesoscale patterns: disentangling nestedness, modularity and in-block nestedness
Presenter: Harry R. de los Ríos
17:30

Gradient-based design of emergent properties in complex networks
Presenter: Thomas Varley
17:45

Scaling Multilayer Network Medicine with LLMs: A Structured Prompt-Engineering and RAG-Driven Case Study in ER+ and HER2+ Breast Cancer
Presenter: Ahmed Abdeen Hamed
18:00

Fast unbiased sampling of networks with given expected degrees and strengths
Presenter: Xuanchi Li

18:15-19:30 Poster Session and Welcome Reception - P1 [1 - 9] Structural Network Measures – P2 [10 - 14] Machine learning & Networks P3 [15 - 19] Network Analysis – P4 [20 - 22] Diffusion & Epidemics
1

Effects of seed node selection for network robustness against localized attacks
Presenter: Chujyo Masaki
2

Beyond Pairwise: Modeling Higher-Order Interactions in Psychological Networks for Learning Analytics
Presenter: Koichi Yasutake
3

Robustness of Network Structural Metrics under Incomplete Data
Presenter: Sanaz Hasanzadeh Fard
4

TrapIntensity: Quantifying Structural Entrapment via Hop-Aware Attraction and Retention
Presenter: Md. Monoarul Islam Bhuiyan and Nitin Agarwal
5

Estimating Uncertainty in Network Measures and Structures Arising from Noisy Data
Presenter: James Hartz
6

A Simulated Annealing Approach to Social Network Anonymization
Presenter: Elena-Denisa Arsene
7

Characterizing A Stock Portfolio Using Graph Permanent: A Network-Theoretic Approach to Portfolio Risk
Presenter: Sujoy Das
8

Examining I2P Resilience: Effect of Centrality-based Attack
Presenter: Kemi Akanbi
9

Co-Occurrence Network Analysis of Clinical Features in Meningitis: Insights into Symptom Clustering and Etiological Patterns
Presenter: Aya Messai
10

Topologically-Stabilized Graph Neural Networks: Empirical Robustness Across Domains
Presenter: Jelena Losic
11

Deep Reinforcement Learning for Short-Duration FlipIt Security Game
Presenter: Sie Hendrata Dharmawan
12

Hubs, Authorities and Moral Framing in Media
Presenter: Egemen Sert
13

Exploratory Network Analysis, Identifying factors, and a Transfer Destinations Predictor for College Football Transfer Portal
Presenter: Jie He
14

Clustering-Based Analysis of International Scientific Co-authorship Networks
Presenter: Hyewon Kim
15

Synchronization in networks of networks with applications to epilepsy
Presenter: Rani Patel
16

The software space of science: revealing the disciplinary uses of software tools in scientific literature
Presenter: Zhouming Wu
17

Early Detection of Anomalous Online User Dynamics via Low-Frequency Component Emergence
Presenter: Naoto Teramura
18

Early-Warning Signs in Online User Dynamics: Applicability to FinTech Stock Trading
Presenter: Haruka Hatanaka
19

Temporal Network Analysis of Cognitive-Metacognitive Dynamics in Human-AI Conversations
Presenter: Jabbar Samir
20

Competing Narratives on TikTok: Modeling Taiwan’s 2024 Election Dynamics
Presenter: Mayor Inna Gurung and Nitin Agarwal
21

Modeling the Propagation Dynamics of Visual Elements with Epidemiological Frameworks
Presenter: Sayantan Bhattacharya and Nitin Agarwal
22

Modeling Cross-Platform Narrative Contagion Using a Multiplex SEIRZ Framework
Presenter: Ridwan Amure and Nitin Agarwal

Day 2 - Morning (9:30 - 13:15) - Wed, 10 Dec


10 December, 2025

8:00-9:00 Registration

9:00-09:45 Keynote Speaker 3: Michelle Girvan - Meta-Learning with reservoir Networks: Forecasting Complex Systems from Limited Data

Chair: - -

09:45-10:23 Session Lightning 2: Information Spreading in Social Media

Chair: - -

10:15

Narrative Diffusion in Social Topologies: A Comparative Study of LLM-Driven Dynamics
Presenter: Mayor Inna Gurung and Nitin Agarwal
10:20

Effects of Mention Targeting Bias on Information Cascades in Signed Networks
Presenter: Naoki Hirakura
10:25

Network-Driven Cohort Selection and Adverse Drug Reaction Detection in Epilepsy Social Media
Presenter: Ziqi Guo
10:30

Characterizing YouTube Channels Through Semantic Consistency Across Content Features
Presenter: Shadi Shajari and Nitin Agarwal
10:35

No One-Size-Fits-All: Modeling Influencer Effectiveness on Social Networks via Sheaf Diffusion
Presenter: Mehmet Aktas
10:40

How AI Labeling Affects Policy Support in Social Networks: LLM-powered Simulation and Survey Experiment
Presenter: Yuan Bian

10:25-10:45 Coffee Break

10:45-12:30 Session Oral 4A: Network Analysis

Chair: - -

10:45

Very Large Scale Simulations of Network Growth with the Scalable Agent-based Simulator for Citation Analysis with sampling (SASCA-s)
Presenter: George Chacko
11:00

Weighted Focal Structure Analysis for Coordinated Toxicity Propagation in Social Networks
Presenter: Tope Falade and Nitin Agarwal
11:15

Sparsification through triangular topology optimizes preservation of network structure and dynamics
Presenter: Felipe Xavier Costa
11:30

A stochastic influence game model with coupled spreading in complex networks
Presenter: Sylvie Chaddad
11:45

Quantum preferential attachment
Presenter: Istvan Kovacs
12:00

The Network Effect of Shared Grievances: Measuring Collective Concern of Tariff Policy
Presenter: Sayantan Bhattacharya and Nitin Agarwal
12:15

Persuasive Pathways into Content Traps: The Role of Persuasive Features in Structuring Algorithmic Content Cycles
Presenter: Md. Monoarul Islam Bhuiyan and Nitin Agarwal

10:45-12:30 Session Oral 4B: Machine Learning & Networks

Chair: - -

10:45

Tracking Interdisciplinary Patterns in Italian Computer Science Networks
Presenter: Annalisa Barla
11:00

Hybrid RL--GA--GNN Framework for Parallel Machine Scheduling under Machine Failures
Presenter: Fabricio Niebles Atencio
11:15

Tracking Uncertainty in Knowledge Graphs: A Kalman Filtering Approach
Presenter: Alina Tkachenko
11:30

Stratified Disk Views of Graph Edge Core Decompositions via Barycentric Coordinates
Presenter: James Abello
11:45

A Topic Modeling Graph Approach for Prediction of Social Media Users' Emotional Response to Mass Shootings
Presenter: Zoran Obradovic
12:00

Generalization Ability of Link Prediction
Presenter: Xinshan Jiao
12:15

Network Ensemble Kalman Filter: Inferring Latent States in Interacting Agent Systems
Presenter: Blas Kolic

10:45-12:30 Session Oral 4C: Dynamics on/of Networks

Chair: - -

10:45

Replicator Dynamics for Games on Networks
Presenter: John McAlister
11:00

Percolation and matrix spectrum through NIB message passing
Presenter: Pedro Hack
11:15

Stable Boundaries of Opinion Dynamics in Heterogeneous Spatial Complex Networks
Presenter: Mats Bierwirth
11:30

When Your AI Agent Succumbs to Peer-Pressure: Studying Opinion- and Cognitive-Change Dynamics of LLMs
Presenter: Aliakbar Mehdizadeh
11:45

Brokers in Polarizing Opinion Divides
Presenter: Jiayue (Gaveal) Fan
12:00

Suppression of Online Firestorms in Online Social Networks based on Oscillation Model
Presenter: Harumasa Tada
12:15

Network Structure and the Evolution of Language: From Coordination Games to Cumulative Culture
Presenter: Amirhossein Sarkaboudi

12:30-14:00 Lunch

Day 2 - Afternoon (14:30 - 19:20) -Wed, 10 Dec


10 December, 2025

14:00-15:30 Session Oral 5A: Urban Systems

Chair: - -

14:00

Modelling effects of urban form on social connections and social capital
Presenter: Alex Petric
14:15

Revealing Process Structure in Urban Mobility Networks
Presenter: Khristina Filonchik
14:30

Exploring Pedestrian Permeability in Urban Sidewalk Networks
Presenter: Mr. Robert Benassai-Dalmau
14:45

Adaptive capacity for multimodal transport network resilience to extreme floods
Presenter: Javier Borge Holthoefer
15:00

Public–Private Flood Protection Complementarity in the Urban Infrastructure Network: Insights from an Agent-Based Model
Presenter: Mohsen Shahbaznezhadfard
15:15

Estimating Transport Flows through Betweenness Centrality
Presenter: Albert Solé-Ribalta

14:00-15:30 Session Oral 5B: Structural Network Measures

Chair: - -

14:00

Is star complexity a proxy for information based complexity of graphs?
Presenter: Russell Standish
14:15

Unifying Network Connectivity: From Geodesics to Random Walks via the Random Cluster Model
Presenter: Chenxuguang Zhu
14:30

Recognizing Distance-Count Matrices is Difficult
Presenter: Chiara Prezioso
14:45

Graph-Based Structural and Weighted Metrics for Tax Fraud Detection
Presenter: Daniel Saboia
15:00

Improving synchronization in weighted dynamical networks utilizing only node betweenness centrality
Presenter: Eric Butcher
15:15

Synchronization of Duffing oscillators with fractional-order PD$^\alpha$ and PI$^\beta$D$^\alpha$ coupling on undirected and directed networks
Presenter: Eric Butcher

14:00-15:30 Session Oral 5C: Biological Networks

Chair: - -

14:00

Automated Monitoring of Plant–Pollinator Interactions in Real-World Ecosystems
Presenter: Albert Solé-Ribalta
14:15

Who Eats Whom: Modeling trophic interaction networks with large-scale, crowdsourced ecological data
Presenter: Aditi Mallavarapu
14:30

Network Science Analysis of the Default Mode Network in Parkinson’s Disease
Presenter: Luke Welsh
14:45

Graph-Based Analysis of dPET Time-Activity Curves with Multimodal Data
Presenter: Simone Cammarasana
15:00

A Network Perspective on Protein Complex Predictions
Presenter: Lukas Papik
15:15

Expression assortativity in cancer gene co-expression networks
Presenter: Diana Garcia-Cortes

15:30-16:00 Coffee Break

16:00-16:45 Keynote Speaker 4: Luis Bettencourt - The Network of Cities: From Complex Infrastructure to human development

Chair: - -

16:45-18:15 Session Oral 6A: Networks In Finance & Economics

Chair: - -

16:45

Signed network models for portfolio optimization
Presenter: Bibhas Adhikari
17:00

The role of creative industries in the material resources network as drivers of innovation
Presenter: Deimantė Krisiukėnienė
17:15

Static and Dynamic Risk Exposure Analysis of China Production Network under US Friend Shoring and Near Shoring Strategies
Presenter: Zhifei Li
17:30

Risk Measurement and Analysis of China's Factor-Intensive Industries under the U.S. "De-Risking" Strategy
Presenter: Lizhuo Cui
17:45

Measuring the Impact of U.S. Friend-Shoring and Near-Shoring Strategies on Global Production Networks
Presenter: Jiarui Feng
18:00

Pseudo-node Resonance Networks for Financial Early Warning
Presenter: Ruiyun Liu

16:45-18:15 Session Oral 6B: Diffusion & Epidemics

Chair: - -

16:45

Evolution of mutated pathogens in networked population
Presenter: Amikam Patron
17:00

Phase transition in the SI model on hypernetworks
Presenter: Guy Rothmann
17:15

Understanding the spread of vaccine hesitancy using a coupled differential equation and network-based approach
Presenter: Shan Leng
17:30

How Tariff War Discourse Spreads on Social Media? A Study of Narrative Outbreak
Presenter: Sayantan Bhattacharya and Nitin Agarwal
17:45

Diffusion of Overfishing Behaviors in a Fishery Resource Depletion Context: A Complex Networks Approach
Presenter: Velluet Jean
18:00

How communities shape epidemic spreading: A hierarchically structured metapopulation perspective
Presenter: Haoyang Qian, Malbor Asllani

16:45-18:15 Session Oral 6C: Social Networks

Chair: - -

16:45

Homophily-induced Emergence of Biased Structure in LLM-based Multi-Agent AI Systems
Presenter: Aliakbar Mehdizadeh
17:00

Decentralized and Segregated or Decentralized and Open? Echo-Chambers through a Lens on Dedicated Instances in Mastodon
Presenter: Imme Huitema
17:15

Bonded and dissipative connections in the context of communities and cohesion
Presenter: Kenneth S. Berenhaut
17:30

A Comparative Analysis of Bayesian Network Autocorrelation Models for Estimating Peer Effects involving Count and Rate Outcomes
Presenter: James O'Malley
17:45

Who Gets the Blame? A Structural Theory of Scapegoating in Social Networks
Presenter: Qinyang Yu
18:00

The network structure of engaged citations in science
Presenter: Dakota Murray

18:30-20:00 Dinner Banquet

Day 3 - Morning (9:30 - 13:15) - Thurs, 11 Dec


11 December, 2025

8:00-9:00 Registration

09:00-10:45 Session Oral 4A: Biological Networks

Chair: - -

09:00

Network Community Detection and Novelty Scoring Reveal Underexplored Hub Genes in Rheumatoid Arthritis
Presenter: Neda Amirirad
09:15

Network Science Reveals Link Between Conservation Status and Phenotypic Traits in Seabirds
Presenter: Lacey Boltz
09:30

Effects of Spike Timing Dependent Plasticity on Structure and Behavior of Simulated Neural Networks
Presenter: Vanessa Arndorfer
09:45

A Knowledge Graph Model for Analyzing microRNAs in Extracellular Vesicles Data
Presenter: Hesham Ali
10:00

Autoencoder Denoising for Network-Based Spatial Transcriptomics Data with Applications for Cell Signaling Estimation
Presenter: Azka Javaid
10:15

Revealing the Local Design Principles of Physical Networks through Surface Optimization
Presenter: Xiangyi Meng
10:30

Habitat fragmentation promotes spatial scale separation under resource competition
Presenter: Malbor Asllani

09:00-10:45 Session Oral 4B: Networks in Finance & Economics

Chair: - -

09:00

Profiling Consumption Using Attributed Network Clustering
Presenter: Soroosh Shalileh; Daria Tsyplakova
09:15

The Structure of Firm Networks in Public Procurement Markets
Presenter: Flávio Pinheiro
09:30

Network Embedding Analysis for Anti-Money Laundering Detection
Presenter: Adam Svaza
09:45

Inference of Firm-Firm Competing Networks in the Portuguese Public Procurement Market
Presenter: Luís Semedo
10:00

Systemic Risk in the Interbank Market: A Network Science Approach
Presenter: Louis Tietz
10:15

Augmenting Firm Diversification Behavior Prediction with Graph Embeddings
Presenter: Niclas Sturm
10:30

Network Contagion in Financial Labor Markets: Predicting Turnover in Hong Kong
Presenter: Abdulla AlKetbi

09:00-10:45 Session Oral 4C: Community Structure

Chair: - -

09:00

Dense Subgraph Clustering and a new Cluster Ensemble Method
Presenter: The-Anh Vu-Le
09:15

Data-Driven Aviation Network Framework for Resilience and Strategic Recommendations via Stochastic Discovery
Presenter: Behnaz Moradi-Jamei
09:30

Strong communities weaken the better connectivity based on large holes
Presenter: Kiri Kawato
09:45

Fast Label Propagation Algorithms for Community Detection in Large Networks
Presenter: Boddu
10:00

Spatiotemporal dynamics of node associations in a stochastic generalization of Markov chains
Presenter: Hiroshi Okamoto
10:15

Complementary Strengths: Combining Geometric and Topological Approaches for Community Detection
Presenter: Jelena Losic
10:30

Local dominance unveils clusters in networks
Presenter: Ruiqi Li

10:45-11:05 Coffee Break

11:05-11:45 Session Lightning 3: Machine Learning & Networks

Chair: - -

12:05

Reconstructing COVID-19 infection networks: A link prediction approach to connecting orphan cases
Presenter: Pavlos Alexandros Dimitriou
12:10

Fragmentation-Based Hypergraph Attention Network for Molecular Classification Tasks
Presenter: Jenifer Nguyen
12:15

Uncovering Channel-Level Behaviors via Multimodal Characterization in YouTube Content
Presenter: Shadi Shajari and Nitin Agarwal
12:20

Quantifying Semantic Neighborhood Size: A Case Study on Science & Technology Embeddings
Presenter: Heyoung Yang
12:25

Implicit degree bias in the link prediction task
Presenter: Sadamori Kojaku
12:30

LAI-Pool: Persistent Homology-Informed Graph Neural Networks for Predicting Mortality in ICU Patients
Presenter: Charles Fanning

11:45-12:30 Keynote Speaker 5: David Stark - ‘This is not a Test!’: Testing after Preparedness

Chair: - -

12:30-14:00 Lunch

Day 3 - Afternoon (14:30 - 18:15) -Thurs, 11 Dec


11 December, 2025

14:00-16:15 Session Oral 8A: Higher-Order Interactions & Multilayer/Multiplex

Chair: - -

14:00

A Document Co-Citation Study of Higher-Order Network Science
Presenter: Kazuki Nakajima
14:15

A Fast Algorithm for Hypergraph Immersion: Efficient Entanglement Distribution on Quantum Networks
Presenter: Ezekiel Gentchos
14:30

Analyzing Higher-Order Homophily of Category Pairs in Temporal Hypergraphs
Presenter: Koki Nishimura
14:45

Developing Ollivier-Ricci Curvature for Geometric Homophily Analysis in Hypergraphs
Presenter: Kota Hori
15:00

Networked quantum–classical Interdependency
Presenter: Yongtao Zhang
15:15

Toxicity-Driven Behavioral Homogenization in Multilayer Political Networks: Cross-Dimensional Coupling During Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Presenter: Top Falade and Nitin Agarwal
15:30

Measuring contagion in multilayer networks: Novel metrics for distance and centrality
Presenter: Malvina Bozhidarova
15:45

A Multiplex Network Model for Resilient Semiconductor Distribution: Integrating Multi-Tier Channels, Geopolitical Risks, and Predictive Analytics
Presenter: Moon-Kuen Mak
16:00

Latent space approaches to capture coupled community structure and hierarchy in networks
Presenter: Chethan Kavaraganahalli Prasanna
16:15

Hypergraph Topic Modeling of Images and Texts in News Framing
Presenter: Sunny Yang

14:00-16:15 Session Oral 8B: Social Networks & Human behavior

Chair: - -

14:00

Emotion contagion amongst a team through emotion management: An agent-based approach
Presenter: Sarah Escotto Rodriguez
14:15

Analysis of the Temporal Evolution of Literary Networks based on data-mining Wikipedia
Presenter: Gabriel Cwilich
14:30

Latent Space Modeling of Lexical Networks
Presenter: Donnan Gravelle
14:45

How Far is Too Far? Modeling User Attraction Pathways in Recommendation Networks via Random Walk Variants
Presenter: Md. Monoarul Islam Bhuiyan and Nitin Agarwal
15:00

Optimizing Focal Toxic Structure Selection for Social Network Disruption: A WFSA-Integer Programming Approach
Presenter: Tope Falade and Nitin Agarwal
15:15

Backfire of Influence Manipulation: How Manipulating Moderate Influencers Affects Online Discourse
Presenter: Tomoya Takeda
15:30

Sandpile Cellular Automata with Manna Rule on the Chung-Lu Graph: Application to X Social Network
Presenter: Andrey Dmitriev
15:45

Text-Based Social Bot Detection Leveraging Linguistic Structures and Sentiment Features
Presenter: Muhammad Owais
16:00

Detecting Core–Periphery Structures in Networks via Swarm Optimization
Presenter: Imran Ansari

14:00-16:15 Session Oral 8C: Network Analysis

Chair: - -

14:00

Embeddings of Nation-Level Social Networks
Presenter: Tanzir Pial
14:15

Modeling a building as a network: a case study in a multipurpose residential hall
Presenter: Ethan Dolin
14:30

Updating the Complex Systems Keyword Diagram Using Collective Feedback and Latest Literature Data
Presenter: Hiroki Sayama
14:45

From Point Processes to Sequential Complex Networks: An Application to Wildfire Propagation in Chile
Presenter: Iván Gallo-Méndez
15:00

The Friendship Paradox Index: A Measure of Biased Relations To a Group
Presenter: Scott Feld
15:15

A Multilayered Blockchain Security Framework for Copyright Protection of NFT-Based Digital Content
Presenter: Hye-Young Kim
15:30

On the Correlation and Performance of Node Centrality Measures in Complex Networks
Presenter: Yilin Bi
15:45

Democratizing Algorithm Development: Rethinking the Design of Complex Hybrid Decision-Making Systems
Presenter: Philip Waggoner
16:00

Dimension reduction for graphon dynamical systems
Presenter: Bisna Mary Eldo
16:15

Looking for a 'Trump Effect': Guidelines for Analysing the Internatonal Trade Networks with Blockmodeling
Presenter: Fabio Ashtar Telarico

16:15-16:30 Closing