Invited & Contributed Talks

Current schedule. The program may be updated before the workshop.

09:00 am - 09:05 am
Opening & Introduction
09:05 am - 09:45 am
Keynote Talk 1
Nitesh Chawla, "Graph Machine Learning for Scientific Discovery"
09:45 am - 10:25 am
Keynote Talk 2
Jingrui He, "Graph Modeling through the Lens of Multimodal Learning"
10:25 am - 10:40 am
Coffee Break
10:40 am - 11:20 am
Keynote Talk 3
Yizhou Sun, "Graph in the Era of LLMs: Modality Fusion, Knowledge Grounding, and Agentic Systems"
11:20 am - 11:50 am
Award & Oral Presentation
- GraphMind: Empowering LLMs for Interactive Graph Structure Reasoning with Semi-Formal Language
- SAGE: A Self-Evolving Agentic Graph-Memory Engine for Structure-Aware Associative Memory
- GraphScout: Empowering Large Language Models with Intrinsic Exploration Ability for Agentic Graph Reasoning
- Learning Faithful Mechanism Subgraphs from Partially Trusted Biological Priors for Genetic Perturbation Prediction
11:50 am - 12:00 pm
Closing & Acknowledgment

Speakers

Professor at University of Notre Dame. He is a Fellow of AAAI, AAAS, ACM, and IEEE.

Professor at UIUC. Amazon Research Award, 2025; ACM Distinguished Member, 2023; IBM Faculty Award, 2018.

Professor at UCLA. Her Google citation count is over 30k. KDD PC Co-Chair, 2025; ICLR PC Co-Chair, 2024; KDD General Co-Chair, 2023.

AdaTKG: Adaptive Memory for Temporal Knowledge Graph Reasoning
GraphMind: Empowering LLMs for Interactive Graph Structure Reasoning with Semi-Formal Language
SAGE: A Self-Evolving Agentic Graph-Memory Engine for Structure-Aware Associative Memory
GraphScout: Empowering Large Language Models with Intrinsic Exploration Ability for Agentic Graph Reasoning
Learning Faithful Mechanism Subgraphs from Partially Trusted Biological Priors for Genetic Perturbation Prediction

Adaptive Self-Interference Control for Large Heterophilic Graphs
CMERGE: Clinical Multimodal Evidence Reasoning Graph Engine
CondPSE: A Polynomial-Filtered Structural Encoder with Conditional Modulation for Graphs
WarehouseAI: Knowledge Graph-Grounded Multi-Agent Reasoning Framework for Simulation-Driven Warehouse Planning
When Drug Names Mislead: Auditing Name-Prior Reliance in LLM-Augmented Biomedical Graph Completion
Bridging Circuit Graphs and Language: A Cross-Modal Transformer for Netlist-to-Text Alignment and Generation
Measuring Graph-to-Graph Semantic Similarity in Knowledge Graphs: An Empirical Evaluation of Knowledge Graph Embeddings