PhD Consortium
Agenda
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| 10:00 AM – 10:10 AM | Welcome by PhD Forum Co-Chairs |
| 10:10 AM – 10:25 AM | [P3] Nilanjana Saha, TRACER: Trapping-based Rewiring for Anomalous Communication and Entity Recognition in Social Networks |
| 10:25 AM – 10:40 AM | [P12] Anlan Yu, Towards a Data Flywheel for Embodied Intelligence in Logistics |
| 10:40 AM – 10:55 AM | [P10] Amangel Bhullar, Structural Selectivity in Knowledge Graph Reasoning: From Sparse Dynamic Encoders to Temporal Hyperbolic Extrapolation |
| 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM | Panel with Xiaowei Jia (U.Pittsburgh), Edoardo D’Amico (Spotify), Mengling Yang (HKUSTGZ) |
| 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM | Lunch in Exhibit Hall |
| 1:30 PM – 1:45 PM | [P16] Jiahong Liu, Geometry-Aware Representation Learning: Methods and Applications |
| 1:45 PM – 2:00 PM | [P11] Yongchan Hong, Reliable Multi-Engine Ensembles for Protein-Ligand Pose Selection and Binding-Affinity Prediction |
| 2:00 PM – 2:15 PM | [P13] Akash Choudhuri, Gradient Aware Conformal Prediction on Electronic Health Records |
| 2:15 PM – 2:30 PM | [P8] Yi Cao, Toward Trustworthy AI for Materials Discovery: From Causal Knowledge Extraction to Simulation-Guided Experimentation |
| 2:30 PM – 2:45 PM | [P18] Debolena Basak, Understanding, Interpreting and Improving Grounded Multimodal Reasoning |
| 2:45 PM – 3:30 PM | PhD Forum Poster Session |
| 3:30 PM – 4:00 PM | Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall |
| 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM | KDD Panel Beyond Scaling: What Will Define the Next Decade of AI |
| 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM | KDD 2026 Banquet (Location: ICC2) |
Accepted Papers
- PathLens and Beyond: Unifying the Three Pillars of Graph Data and Scalable Metrics under Heterophily, Karan Goyal (IIIT Delhi)
- Correcting Wrong-Direction Updates in PPO for Stable Policy Learning, Kemal Kirtac (University College London)
- TRACER: Trapping-based Rewiring for Anomalous Communication and Entity Recognition in Social Networks, Nilanjana Saha (National Institute of Technology)*
- Adaptive Prototypical Parts in Tabular Data, Jacek Karolczak (Poznan University of Technology)
- Unsupervised Anomaly Detection in Multivariate Streaming Time Series, Magali Parrino (EDF)
- Beyond Accuracy: Balanced Cross Hospital White Blood Cell Classification via Adversarial Domain Adaptation And Test-Time Entropy Minimization, Servas Tarimo (Soonchunhyang University)
- Generalizable and Adaptive Medical Image Analysis Under Domain Shift: A Three-Pillar Research Vision for Robust Clinical AI, Emmanuel Ngasa (Soonchunhyang University)
- Toward Trustworthy AI for Materials Discovery: From Causal Knowledge Extraction to Simulation-Guided Experimentation, Yi Cao (Johns Hopkins University)*
- SensorVLM: Generalizable Sensor-based Human Activity Recognition via Vision-Language Models, Yize Cai (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology – Guangzhou)
- Structural Selectivity in Knowledge Graph Reasoning: From Sparse Dynamic Encoders to Temporal Hyperbolic Extrapolation, Amangel Bhullar (University of Windsor)*
- Reliable Multi-Engine Ensembles for Protein-Ligand Pose Selection and Binding-Affinity Prediction, Yongchan Hong (University of Southern California)*
- Towards a Data Flywheel for Embodied Intelligence in Logistics, Anlan Yu (Peking University)*
- Gradient Aware Conformal Prediction on Electronic Health Records, Akash Choudhuri (University of Iowa)*
- Symbolic and Shape Based Time Series Mining for Deep Pattern Discovery, Synthesis and Forecasting, Patrik Šebeš (Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava)
- Understanding Physical Locations via LLMs and WiFi Signals for Last-mile Delivery, Lidan Cao (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology – Guangzhou)
- Geometry-Aware Representation Learning: Methods and Applications, Jiahong Liu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)*
- Tensor Streams Modeling via Blocked Interaction Models, Taiga Kakoki (SANKEN)
- Understanding, Interpreting and Improving Grounded Multimodal Reasoning, Debolena Basak (Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad)*
- Towards Probabilistic Georeferencing of Geological Maps from PDF Reports, Marijan Soric (Inria)
* accepted for oral presentation during the PhD Consortium
** all papers will be displayed in a dedicated poster reception at the end of the PhD Consortium