09 December, 2025
14:00-15:45 Session Oral 2A: Machine Learning & Networks
Chair: - -
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Bridging Semantics & Structure for Software Vulnerability Detection using Hybrid Network Models
Presenter: Jugal Gajjar
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| 14:15 |
Concept Combinations with Generator and Validator Agents Prompted Using Insights from Concept Networks
Presenter: Alex Doboli
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| 14:30 |
The Federated Agent Secure Transport (FAST): A Secure Fabric for the Orchestration of Multi-Agent Collaboration
Presenter: Dheepak Gobinath
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| 14:45 |
ViMET-R: Auditing Activity-Level Bias in YouTube Shorts Recommendations
Presenter: Diwash Poudel and Nitin Agarwal
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| 15:00 |
A Graph-Enhanced Framework for Predictive Modeling on Bibliographic Data
Presenter: Shaaf Farooque
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| 15:15 |
Partner Firm Selection via Patent Embedding–Derived Technology Graphs and Synergy
Presenter: Harunobu Kubo
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| 15:30 |
Textual understanding boost in the WikiRace
Presenter: Raman Ebrahimi
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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
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| 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
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| 14:30 |
Ricci Matrix Comparison: A Curvature-based Graph Alignment Method
Presenter: Ashley Wang
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| 14:45 |
CI-FSA: Toward Scalable Discovery of Influential Groups in Social Networks
Presenter: Ridwan Amure and Nitin Agarwal
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| 15:00 |
Spectrum-based statistical methods for directed graphs
Presenter: Victor Chavauty
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| 15:15 |
Effects of Vertex Merging & Splitting on Large Coauthorship Networks: A Counterfactual Analysis
Presenter: Jinseok Kim
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| 15:30 |
The t-Value Mirage: Why Parametric Tests on Bootstrap Resamples Mislead in Network Science
Presenter: Chun-Ying Tu
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14:00-15:45 Session Oral 2C: Political Networks
Chair: - -
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Layer interdependence in the multiplex international system
Presenter: Michael McCall
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| 14:15 |
Who Coordinates U.S. Cyber Defense? A Co-Authorship Network Analysis of Joint Cybersecurity Advisories (2024--2025)
Presenter: Tugce Unlu
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| 14:30 |
Bridging Policy Change: Social Network Analysis of UNICEF’s Positioning in Child Rights Networks
Presenter: Jose Sierra
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| 14:45 |
Echoes of Automation: How Bots Shaped Political Discourse in Brazil
Presenter: Ipek Bal
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| 15:00 |
Kicking Politics: How Football Fan Communities Became Arenas for Political Influence
Presenter: Helen Paffard
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| 15:15 |
Mapping Mobility Networks between Government Roles in Portugal
Presenter: Carolina Shaul
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| 15:30 |
Nationalization of Partisan Interactions and Mass Polarization
Presenter: Jing Li
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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
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| 17:15 |
Topology-Driven Mental Health Resilience: A Network Science Simulation Study
Presenter: Rawan AlMakinah
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| 17:30 |
AURA-T: A Standards-First, Privacy-Preserving Pipeline for Neurodevelopmental Care — from External Intake to De-Identified Analytics and Secure Delivery
Gabriel Cirino, Beatriz Prado, Bruna Scheffelmeier, Vinícius Hayashi, João Pedro De Souza, José Maria Monteiro Júnior, Bianca De Santana, Gabriel De Souza, Lucas Jandrey, Arthur Silva, Jéssica Da Silva, Gregory De Lima, Francisco Paletta
Presenter: Gabriel Cirino
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| 17:45 |
Dynamic Network Collapse in Decompensated Hepatic Cirrhosis
Presenter: Yanpei Mai
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| 18:00 |
Cognitive MRI of AI Conversations: Analyzing AI Interactions through Semantic Embedding Networks
Presenter: Alexander Towell
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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
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| 17:15 |
Quantifying Ageing Effect in Scientific and Innovative Careers
Presenter: Yangfanyu Yang
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| 17:30 |
Classroom social network structure enhances prediction of educational outcomes: A large-scale study
Presenter: Naoki Masuda
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| 17:45 |
The specialization of interdisciplinary innovators in science and technology
Presenter: Keigo Kusumegi
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| 18:00 |
The network structure of scientific criticism in the American Physical Society
Presenter: Yixuan Liu
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17:00-18:15 Session Oral 3C: Generative Models
Chair: - -
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Scalable Benchmark Graph Generation for the Maximum Cardinality Matching and Distance-1 Minimum Coloring Problems
Presenter: Anthony Fabius
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| 17:15 |
A Bayesian approach to mesoscale patterns: disentangling nestedness, modularity and in-block nestedness
Presenter: Harry R. de los Ríos
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| 17:30 |
Gradient-based design of emergent properties in complex networks
Presenter: Thomas Varley
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| 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
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| 18:00 |
Fast unbiased sampling of networks with given expected degrees and strengths
Presenter: Xuanchi Li
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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
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Effects of seed node selection for network robustness against localized attacks
Presenter: Chujyo Masaki
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| 2 |
Beyond Pairwise: Modeling Higher-Order Interactions in Psychological Networks for Learning Analytics
Presenter: Koichi Yasutake
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| 3 |
Robustness of Network Structural Metrics under Incomplete Data
Presenter: Sanaz Hasanzadeh Fard
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| 4 |
TrapIntensity: Quantifying Structural Entrapment via Hop-Aware Attraction and Retention
Presenter: Md. Monoarul Islam Bhuiyan and Nitin Agarwal
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| 5 |
Estimating Uncertainty in Network Measures and Structures Arising from Noisy Data
Presenter: James Hartz
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| 6 |
A Simulated Annealing Approach to Social Network Anonymization
Presenter: Elena-Denisa Arsene
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| 7 |
Characterizing A Stock Portfolio Using Graph Permanent: A Network-Theoretic Approach to Portfolio Risk
Presenter: Sujoy Das
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| 8 |
Examining I2P Resilience: Effect of Centrality-based Attack
Presenter: Kemi Akanbi
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| 9 |
Co-Occurrence Network Analysis of Clinical Features in Meningitis: Insights into Symptom Clustering and Etiological Patterns
Presenter: Aya Messai
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| 10 |
Topologically-Stabilized Graph Neural Networks: Empirical Robustness Across Domains
Presenter: Jelena Losic
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| 11 |
Deep Reinforcement Learning for Short-Duration FlipIt Security Game
Presenter: Sie Hendrata Dharmawan
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| 12 |
Hubs, Authorities and Moral Framing in Media
Presenter: Egemen Sert
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| 13 |
Exploratory Network Analysis, Identifying factors, and a Transfer Destinations Predictor for College Football Transfer Portal
Presenter: Jie He
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| 14 |
Clustering-Based Analysis of International Scientific Co-authorship Networks
Presenter: Hyewon Kim
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| 15 |
Synchronization in networks of networks with applications to epilepsy
Presenter: Rani Patel
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| 16 |
The software space of science: revealing the disciplinary uses of software tools in scientific literature
Presenter: Zhouming Wu
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| 17 |
Early Detection of Anomalous Online User Dynamics via Low-Frequency Component Emergence
Presenter: Naoto Teramura
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| 18 |
Early-Warning Signs in Online User Dynamics: Applicability to FinTech Stock Trading
Presenter: Haruka Hatanaka
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| 19 |
Temporal Network Analysis of Cognitive-Metacognitive Dynamics in Human-AI Conversations
Presenter: Jabbar Samir
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| 20 |
Competing Narratives on TikTok: Modeling Taiwan’s 2024 Election Dynamics
Presenter: Mayor Inna Gurung and Nitin Agarwal
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| 21 |
Modeling the Propagation Dynamics of Visual Elements with Epidemiological Frameworks
Presenter: Sayantan Bhattacharya and Nitin Agarwal
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| 22 |
Modeling Cross-Platform Narrative Contagion Using a Multiplex SEIRZ Framework
Presenter: Ridwan Amure and Nitin Agarwal
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