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PhD Consortium<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

KDD 2025 PhD Consortium Program<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Agenda<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Wednesday, August 6th<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Time and Location<\/strong><\/th>Activity<\/strong><\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
1:00 PM \u2013 1:05 PM (Room 605)<\/td>Introduction<\/td><\/tr>
1:05 PM \u2013 2:00 PM (Room 605)<\/td>Oral Presentations<\/strong>
  • \u201cTimeDiT: Diffusion Transformers Foundation Model for Time Series Forecasting<\/em>\u201d, Defu Cao, University of Southern California<\/li>
  • \u201cExtracting and Utilizing Interpretation in Large Language Models<\/em>\u201d, Xuansheng Wu (University of Georgia)<\/li>
  • \u201cFairness and Sparse Link Prediction through Ranking-Aware Metrics and Attribute Enhancement<\/em>\u201d, Jo\u00e3o Mattos, Rice University<\/li>
  • \u201cDeep Interactions for Multimodal Molecular Property Prediction<\/em>\u201d, Patrick Soga, University of Virginia<\/li>
  • \u201cReMol: LLM-guided Molecular Optimization with Reinforcement Learning\u201d, <\/em>Ziqing Wang (Northwestern University)<\/li><\/ul><\/td><\/tr>
2:00 PM \u2013 2:30 PM (Room 605)<\/td>Keynote talk by Prof. Evangelos Papalexakis, University of California, Riverside, \u201cMy Journey Through Data Mining Research and Lessons Learned<\/em>\u201d<\/td><\/tr>
2:30 PM \u2013 3:00 PM (Room 605)<\/td>Keynote talk by Prof. Rex Ying, Yale University, \u201cImportant Aspects for Navigating Your Research Journey<\/em>\u201d<\/td><\/tr>
3:00 PM \u2013 3:30 PM<\/td>Coffee Break<\/td><\/tr>
3:30 PM \u2013 4:00 PM (Room 716 A)<\/td>Keynote talk by Prof. Ebrahim Bagheri, University of Toronto, \u201cWho Counts, Who Decides, Who Matters: Human Values in the Age of Algorithms<\/em>\u201d<\/td><\/tr>
4:00 PM \u2013 5:30 PM (Room 716 A) <\/td>Joint Panel with Undergraduate & Master’s Consortium on the Topic of \u201cAI-Augmented Academia: Research Innovations and Career Planning for Tomorrow\u2019s Workforce<\/em><\/strong>\u201d
Panelists:
Rex Ying, Yale University
Ebrahim Bagheri, University of Toronto
Xuan Luo, York University
Sudeep Das, DoorDash
Neil Shah, Snapchat<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Accepted Papers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n