Room A

Session Program Room A

11 December, 2025
09:00-10:45 Session Oral 7A: Biological Networks
Chair: MULDOON Sarah
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
Revealing the Local Design Principles of Physical Networks through Surface Optimization
Presenter: Xiangyi Meng
10:15
Habitat fragmentation promotes spatial scale separation under resource competition
Presenter: Malbor Asllani
10:30
Autoencoder Denoising for Network-Based Spatial Transcriptomics Data with Applications for Cell Signaling Estimation
Presenter: Azka Javaid
11:10-11:45 Session Lightning 3: Machine Learning & Networks
Chair: COSTA Felipe Xavier
11:10
Reconstructing COVID-19 infection networks: A link prediction approach to connecting orphan cases
Presenter: Pavlos Alexandros Dimitriou
11:15
Fragmentation-Based Hypergraph Attention Network for Molecular Classification Tasks
Presenter: Jenifer Nguyen
11:20
Uncovering Channel-Level Behaviors via Multimodal Characterization in YouTube Content
Presenter: Shadi Shajari and Nitin Agarwal
11:25
Implicit degree bias in the link prediction task
Presenter: Sadamori Kojaku
11:30
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: ROCHA Luis
11 December, 2025
14:00-16:00 Session Oral 8A: Higher-Order Interactions & Multilayer/Multiplex
Chair: KOVACS Istvan
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
A Multiplex Network Model for Resilient Semiconductor Distribution: Integrating Multi-Tier Channels, Geopolitical Risks, and Predictive Analytics
Presenter: Moon-Kuen Mak
15:45
Measuring contagion in multilayer networks: Novel metrics for distance and centrality
Presenter: Malvina Bozhidarova