8:00 - 12:00 PM, Conference Room: 603 (https://kdd2025.kdd.org/schedule-at-a-glance/)
8 am - 8:00 am: Opening Remarks
8:10 am - 8:35 am: Invited Talk 1 Diana Mingels, Head of Machine Learning, Kensho Technologies (AI Innovation Hub for S&P Global). Title: Grounding Financial AI: Ensuring Trust, Accuracy, and Traceability in Data Retrieval for Agentic Applications
8:35 am - 9:00 am: Invited Talk 2 Vijay Eranti, Area Tech Lead, AI Safety and Fraud, Google, Professor, SJSU. Title: AI Safety in Finance: Navigating Opportunities and Challenges with Advanced Generative AI
9:00 am - 9:25 am: Invited Talk 3 Nurtekin Savas, Head of Global Credit Infrastructure & Data - VP, PayPal. Title: AI in Credit: challenges, state of credit today, and opportunities for AI in the future
9:25 am - 9:50 am: Invited Talk 4 Fouzi Husaini, Chief Technology & AI Officer, Marqeta. Title: From Pilot to Production: Scaling AI Productivity Tools in Fintech
9:50 am - 10:00 am: BREAK
10:00 am - 10:14 am: Paper 1 "Ensembling VAEs, Foundation Models, and LLMs for Financial Anomaly Detection". Joao Sousa (Amazon), Margherita Rosnati (Amazon)
10:14 am - 10:28 am: Paper 2 "A Hybrid Framework for Financial Regulatory Compliance: Integrating LLMs and SMT Solvers for Automated Legal Analysis". Yung-Shen Hsia (National Chengchi University), Fang Yu (National Chengchi University)
10:28 am - 10:42 am: Paper 3 "Building Analyst-Like Agents: A Self-Improving Multi-Agent Framework for Financial Reasoning in the Enterprise". Xiaoli Zhang (Amazon), Daksha Yadav (Amazon), Boyang Tom Jin (Amazon), Miriam Teng (Amazon)
10:42 am - 10:56 am: Paper 4 "Beyond MC Dropout: Efficient Exploration for Large-Scale Content Personalization". Arundeep Chinta (JPMorgan Chase & Co.), Ayush Karnawat (JPMorgan Chase & Co.), Smruthi Mukund (JPMorgan Chase & Co.), Jay Katukuri (JPMorgan Chase & Co. )
10:56 am - 11:10 am: Paper 5 "LLM-STARS: LLM-Enhanced Standardization of Time-series Analysis and Relationships in Subledgers". Wei Tang (Amazon), Daksha Yadav (Amazon), Xiaoli Zhang (Amazon), Boyang Tom Jin (Amazon)
11:10 am - 11:24 am: Paper 6 "Exposing Smurfing with GARG-AML: A Graph-Based Framework for Scalable AML Detection" Bruno Deprez (KU Leuven), Bart Baesens (KU Leuven), Tim Verdonck (UAntwerpen), Wouter Verbeke (KU Leuven)
11:24 am - 11:38 am: Paper 7 "Adversarial Machine Learning Attacks on Financial Reporting via Maximum Violated Multi-Objective Attack". Edward Raff (Booz Allen Hamilton), Karen Kukla (Syracuse University), Michel Benaroch (Syracuse University), Joseph Comprix (Syracuse University)
11:38 am - 11:45 am: Closing Remarks