We thank the generous support of IJCAI, ECAI, ACM SIGAI, NSF as well as our terrific mentors and PC!
Date: August 17, 2026
Location: Room Cartesium – Rotunde
| Time | Session | Title, Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 09:00 AM | Welcome! | IJCAI-ECAI 2026 DC Co-chairs: Maria Chang, Leilani Gilpin, Vlad Ryzhikov |
| 09:15 AM | TRAI 1 Trustworthy + Robust AI 1:health, clinical data, social choice | KG-MultiMS: a Knowledge Graph-Enhanced Multimodal Framework for Multiple Sclerosis Riccardo Francia (Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale) Towards Reliable Multimodal Clinical Decision Support: From Quality-Aware Fusion to Patient Digital Twins Linpeng Sun (Texas Tech University) Towards Comprehensive Benchmarking of Domain Generalization and Adaptation for Time-Series Forecasting in Clinical Multivariate Time-Series Forecasting Mayra Roxana Elwes (University of Cologne) Trustworthy AI for Post-Stroke Care Victor F. Lopes de Souza (Université de Montpellier) Novel Applications of Large Language Models in Computational Social Choice Nguyen Thach (University of Nebraska–Lincoln) |
| 10:30 AM | Break | |
| 11:00 AM | KRNS Knowledge Representation + Neuro-Symbolic AI | Ontology-Aware LLMs for Human-Usable Knowledge Graph Systems Luiz Miranda (Jagiellonian University) Configuring Neuro-Symbolic Systems with Guaranteed Properties with Application in Hybrid Intelligence Johannes Eduard Bendler (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) Neuro-Symbolic AI for Evidence-Based Renewable Energy Planning in Sub-Saharan Africa Janice Anta Zebaze (Université de Yaoundé I) Towards cognitively-aligned AI with analogical reasoning abilities Mohammadhossein Khojasteh (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) |
| 12:00 PM | Lunch | |
| 01:30 PM | Career Panel | Panelists: Anthony Cohn (University of Leeds) Toby Walsh (UNSW Sydney) Michael Theilscher (UNSW Sydney) |
| 02:30 PM | TRAI 2 Trustworthy + Robust AI 2 | Equivariant Graph Neural Networks for Protein Interaction Modeling and Structure-Aware Molecular Design Animesh (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur) Cybersecurity in AI-Enabled Digital Ecosystems: Evolutionary Game-Theoretic Modelling and Multi-Agent Defence Adeela Bashir (Teesside University) Recovering Formal Guarantees for Neural Network-Controlled Systems under Changing Dynamics Sterre Lutz (Delft University of Technology) IKnowFlow: Trustworthy RAG for Sensitive Domains Yash Saxena (University of Maryland, Baltimore County) |
| 03:30 PM | Break | |
| 04:00 PM | TRAI 3 Trustworthy + Robust AI 3: Personalization, Interpretability, Generalization | Context-Adaptive World Models for Visual Out-of-Distribution Generalization Shubham Subhnil (Trinity College Dublin) Personalizing Long-Term Interactions with LLM-based Agents Rebecca Westhäußer (Mercedes-Benz Germany; Ulm University) Interpreting Neural Receivers: Mechanistic and Data Attribution Approaches Marko Tuononen (University of Eastern Finland) Toward Trustworthy Foundation Models: Mitigating OOD Failure in Adaptation and Deployment Ping Song (Ollscoil na Gaillimhe – University of Galway) |
| 05:00 PM | Closing Remarks, Adjourn |
Mentors
- Bo An, Nanyang Technological University
- Mehul Bhatt, Örebro University
- Maria Chang, IBM Research
- Chuchu Fan, MIT
- Leilani Gilpin, University of California Santa Cruz
- Jihie Kim, Dongguk University
- Yun Sing Koh, University of Auckland
- Jérôme Lang, Université Paris-Dauphine
- Kate Larson, University of Waterloo & Google Deepmind
- Yaohang Li, Old Dominion University
- Till Mossakowski, University of Osnabrück
- Linglong Qian, King’s College London
- Fernando Santos, University of Amsterdam
- Xintao Wu, University of Arkansas
Sponsors
https://2026.ijcai.org/sponsors, with special thanks to ACM SIGAI and NSF for travel support for students.
Program Committee
- Haris Aziz, UNSW Sydney
- Hau Chan, University of Nebraska–Lincoln
- Maria Chang, IBM Research
- Hyung Jin Chang, University of Birmingham
- Kezhen Cheng, Analogy AI, Inc.
- Arthur Choi, Kennesaw State University
- Edith Elkind, Northwestern University
- Leilani Gilpin, University of California, Santa Cruz
- Maria Gini, University of Minnesota
- Senka Krivic, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Sarajevo
- Kate Larson, University of Waterloo & Google Deepmind
- Tengfei Ma, Stony Brook University
- Tim Miller, Australia
- Prajakta Nimbhorkar, Chennai Mathematical Institute
- Anita Raja, City University of New York, Hunter College
- Jianfeng Ren, University of Nottingham Ningbo China
- Vladislav Ryzhikov, Birkbeck, University of London
- Silvia Schiaffino, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; ISISTAN
- Mohamed SIALA, Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Toulouse; Laboratoire d’Analyse et d’Architecture des Systèmes
- Samarth Swarup, University of Virginia
- Nannan Wu, Tianjin University
- Lirong Xia, Rutgers
- Neil Yorke-Smith, Delft University of Technology