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Oral Presentations
Oral Presentations
Vidur Mushran, Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, University of Southern California
Sonya L Negriff, Kaiser Permanente
Claudia Nau, Kaiser Permanente
Bistra Dilkina, Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California
Capturing Behavioral Shifts in Cannabis Dependence Risk Using Transfer Learning across Policy Contexts
Capturing Behavioral Shifts in Cannabis Dependence Risk Using Transfer Learning across Policy Contexts
Jiyang He, Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California
Shinyi Wu, Viterbi School of Engineering & Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work, University of Southern California
Bridgid M. Conn, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
Janna Ataiants, Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University
Ekaterina V. Fedorova, Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University
Stephen E. Lankenau, Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University
Carolyn F. Wong, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
Jay Campanell, Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, University of Southern California
Laura Ferguson, University of Southern California, Institute on Inequalities in Global Health, Amref International University
Girmaw Abebe Tadesse, Microsoft AI for Good Research Lab
Caleb Robinson, Microsoft AI for Good Research Lab
Shiphrah Kuria, Amref Health Africa
Herbert Wanyonyi, Amref Health Africa
Samuel Murage, Division of Nutrition and Dietetics, Ministry of Health
Samuel Mburu, Amref Health Africa
Rahul Dodhia, Microsoft AI for Good Research Lab
Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Microsoft AI for Good Research Lab
Bistra Dilkina, Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California
Yahan Li, Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California
Jifan Yao, Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California
John Bosco S. Bunyi, Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work, University of Southern California
Adam C. Frank, Department of Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences, University of Southern California
Angel Hwang, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California,
Ruishan Liu, Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California
Sadra Sabouri, Viterbi College of Engineering, University of Southern California
Yalda Daryani, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences, University of Southern California
Jonathan May, Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California
Morteza Dehghani, Viterbi School of Engineering & Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, University of Southern California
Souti Chattopadhyay, Viterbi College of Engineering, University of Southern California
Karmel S. Shehadeh, Viterbi College of Engineering, University of Southern California
Shutian Li, Amazon
Frank E. Curtis, Lehigh University
Beth R. Hochman, NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Pratyush Jaishanker, Viterbi College of Engineering, University of Southern California
Paul Arnsworth, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Narayani Barve, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Bistra Dilkina, Viterbi College of Engineering, University of Southern California
Jeena Mahajan, Viterbi College of Engineering, University of Southern California
Trent Kobielusz, Viterbi College of Engineering, University of Southern California
Hannah Murray, Viterbi College of Engineering, University of Southern California
Jaspreet Ranjit, Viterbi College of Engineering, University of Southern California
Bistra Dilkina, Viterbi College of Engineering, University of Southern California
Hannah Murray, Viterbi College of Engineering, University of Southern California
Amrita Gupta, Microsoft
Arielle Parsons, Conservation Science Partners
Justin Suraci, Conservation Science Partners
Bistra Dilkina, Viterbi College of Engineering, University of Southern California
Faith Baca, Viterbi College of Engineering, University of Southern California
Shireen Chand, Viterbi College of Engineering, University of Southern California
Emilio Ferrara, Viterbi College of Engineering, University of Southern California
Jackson Trager, Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, University of Southern California
Zhivar Sourati, University of Southern California
Nona Ghazizadeh, University of Southern California
Yiorgos Chochlakis, University of Southern California
Jose Alcocer, University of Southern California
Kerby Bennett, UCLA
Aarya Vijay Devnani, Apple
Parsa Hejabi, University of Southern California
Harry Muttram, UC Riverside
Akshay Kiran Padte, Google
Mehrshad Saadatinia, University of Southern California
Chenhao Wu, University of Southern California
Alireza S. Zaibari, University of Southern California
Michael Sierra-Arévalo, University of Texas at Austin)
Nick Weller, University of Southern California
Shrikanth Narayanan, University of Southern California
Benjamin A. T. Graham, University of Southern California
Morteza Dehghani, University of Southern California
Poster Presentations
Poster Presentations
Health
Health
Behavioral Synchrony And Parasympathetic Response In Mother-Infant Play - A'di Dust, Viterbi College of Engineering, University of Southern California
Does Shared Social Identity Promote Social Coordination - Ashwin Rao, Viterbi College of Engineering, University of Southern California
Can All Social Support Be Beneficial? Moderating Effects of Online Social Network Use on the Relationship between Employment Status and Mental Health in Young Adulthood - Chaejeong Lee, Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work, University of Southern California
Multi-Turn Interactions Reveal Hidden Safety Failures in Mental Health Language Model Use - Jaspreet Ranjit, Viterbi College of Engineering, University of Southern California
Evaluating Data Modalities, Model Scale, and Safety in On-Device Stress Prediction - Ibukunoluwa Soyebo, Viterbi College of Engineering, University of Southern California
Navigating Digital Mental Health: Predictors and Barriers to DMHI Adoption Among AAPI Emerging Adults - John Bunyi, Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work, University of Southern California
Local-to-Global (L2G) Intervention Design via Counterfactual Explanations on Graphs - A Case Study in Suicide Risk Prevention - Mulin Tian, Viterbi College of Engineering, University of Southern California
Spatiotemporal Social Media Sentiment as a Predictor of Real-Time Mood - Sean Minns, Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, University of Southern California
Evaluating and Mitigating Socioeconomic Inequities in Patient-Facing Health Information from Large Language Models: The Role of Social Determinants of Health - Shwetha Sadanand, Viterbi College of Engineering, University of Southern California
Social Outcome Prediction and Human Intervention Engine (SOPHIE): A Human-Centric AI Partner for Navigating Complexity in Social Welfare Policy - Stephen Lieberman, Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work, University of Southern California
Conversational AI for HPV Vaccination: Mitigating Provider Burnout and Improving Patient Counseling - Sadra Sabouri, Viterbi College of Engineering, University of Southern California
Opportunities and Risks of Artificial Intelligence in Mobile Health: A Patient-Centered Perspective - Alyssa Donawa, Viterbi College of Engineering, University of Southern California
Tied In on TikTok: Tie Strength and Emotional Dynamics in Algorithmic Communities - Charles Bickham, Viterbi College of Engineering, University of Southern California
Contextualizing Harm: Modeling Subjectivity in Automated Toxicity Detection - Naysa Bhargava, Viterbi College of Engineering, University of Southern California
CliniSyc: Evaluating LLM Sycophancy in Real-World Multimodal Clinical Diagnostic Queries - Thor Christoffersen Hochman & Brihi Joshi, Viterbi College of Engineering, University of Southern California
Privacy-Preserving and Sustainable Biomechanical Modeling from Wearable Sensors for Health, Wellbeing, and Assistive Systems - Bowen Song, Viterbi College of Engineering, University of Southern California
DermEquity: Auditing and Mitigating Skin Tone Bias in Dermatological AI Systems - Parth Gosar, Viterbi College of Engineering, University of Southern California
Brain Tumor Detection in MRI Images - Khushi Kumari, Viterbi College of Engineering, University of Southern California
The Voices in the Loop (VITL) Study: Participatory Systems Modeling for Suicide Prevention with LGBTQ+ Young Adults Experiencing Homelessness - Maiya Hotchkiss, Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work, University of Southern California
Overstating Attitudes, Ignoring Networks: Large Language Model Biases in Simulating Misinformation Susceptibility - Eun Cheol Choi, Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, University of Southern California
Skilled Resilience: Revitalizing Asian American and Pacific Islander Entrepreneurship Through AI-Driven Social Media Marketing Techniques - Vanya Shrivastava, Viterbi College of Engineering, University of Southern California
Modeling Community Attitude through Reaction Tone: A Human-AI Collaborative Framework for Evaluating LLM Alignment with Community-Situated Linguistic Behaviors - Nuan Wen, Viterbi College of Engineering, University of Southern California
Environment
Environment
Uncovering the Environmental Blind Spot: A Systematic Review of Artificial Intelligence Ethics, Social Work, and Environmental Sustainability - Nick Walker-Craig, Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work, University of Southern California
Towards Trustworthy Vision-Language Systems for Air Pollution Monitoring: A Knowledge Graph Driven Architecture - Kaushal Patil, Viterbi College of Engineering, University of Southern California
Machine Learning Guided Optimal Transmission Switching to Mitigate Wildfire Ignition Risk - Weimin Huang, Viterbi College of Engineering, University of Southern California
An Equivariant MARL Algorithm for Sensor Placement on Dynamic Networks - Thomas Reeves, Viterbi College of Engineering, University of Southern California
FireLoc: Real-Time Wildfire Detection and Localization System - Yash Gupta, Viterbi College of Engineering, University of Southern California
Reducing the Carbon Footprint of AI Reasoning: A Meta-Cognitive Approach to Computational Efficiency - Yashaswi Sharma, Viterbi College of Engineering, University of Southern California
Teaching AI-Enabled Social Media for Social Impact: An Experiential, Project-Based Model for Sustainability and Behavior Change - Misha Kouzeh, Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, University of Southern California
Homelessness
Homelessness
Learning Robust Risk Scores Under Unobserved Confounders - Ryan Edmonds, Viterbi College of Engineering, University of Southern California
Framing deservingness: An analysis of public communication of homelessness services in Los Angeles County - Vivian Zhai, Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, University of Southern California
Toward Privacy-Preserving Simulation of PEH Survey Populations Using Large Language Models - Brihi Joshi, Viterbi College of Engineering, University of Southern California
Empty Stomachs, Restless Nights: Linking Housing Instability, Breakfast Skips, and Sleep Deficits to Academic Outcomes Using 2023 Youth Risk Behavior Survey Data - Geoffrey Cui, Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work, University of Southern California
Listening to the City: Using AI to Detect Early Warning Signals of Homelessness from Urban Stress Data - Ishita Gopalakrishnan, Viterbi College of Engineering, University of Southern California
AI Methods for Good
AI Methods for Good
The Trafficker’s Pitch: Detecting Deceptive Recruitment in Online Job Boards - Siyi Zhou, Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, University of Southern California
Cross-Platform Discourse Networks - Patrick Gerard, Viterbi College of Engineering, University of Southern California
Hostility, Solidarity, and Constructive Dialogue in Online Discussion on Abortion Rights - Lei Cao, Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, University of Southern California
Information suppression in large language models: Auditing, quantifying, and characterizing censorship in DeepSeek - Peiran Qiu, Viterbi College of Engineering, University of Southern California
From Image Bias to Temporal Power: Auditing Social Inequality in AI-Generated Videos - Zituo Wang, Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, University of Southern California
Education
Education
Integrating AI to Support Project-Based Learning in K-12 Classrooms - Ahmya Rivera, Iovine and Young Academy, University of Southern California
Modeling Fine-Grained Multi-Modal User Disengagement in Screen-Based Educational Activities for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder - Aakanksha Peeru, Viterbi College of Engineering, University of Southern California
Social Media
Social Media
How Far Will They Go? Red Teaming Political Expressions of Large-Language Models - Daniel Ruiz, Viterbi College of Engineering, University of Southern California
Public Policy
Public Policy
A Deterministic, MCP-Mediated Evidence Engine for Auditable Municipal Finance Analytics via Local LLM Orchestration - Chirag Shivakumar, Viterbi College of Engineering, University of Southern California
Work & Labor
Work & Labor
Designers as Co-Creators: Reconfiguring Workflows and Creative Agency in AI-Augmented Design - Runsheng Zhang, Iovine and Young Academy, University of Southern California
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