Publications

This section contains publications published by ISI over the past several decades.

2026

From Interpretability to Control: Insights from Six Years of the TrustNLP Workshop

Rahul Gupta, Abhinav Mohanty, Anaelia Ovalle, Anil Ramakrishna, Anubrata Das, Apurv Verma, Jwala Dhamala, Ninareh Mehrabi, Tharindu Kumarage, Yada Pruksachatkun, Yang Trista Cao, Kai-Wei Chang, Aram Galstyan
arXiv preprint arXiv:2608.11171,  2026

Community Detection as Adaptive Diffusion

Emilio Ferrara
ACM AI Letters,  2026

Speaker Role and Language Diarization for Analyzing Multilingual Interviews for Language Proficiency of Older Adults

Anfeng Xu, Tiantian Feng, Kevin Huang, Pranali Khobragade, Sudarsana Kadiri, Anushikha Dhankhar, Madeleine Snider, Sarah Gao, Miguel Arce Rentería, Jinkook Lee, Shrikanth Narayanan
arXiv preprint arXiv:2608.09032,  2026

TRIBE: Predicting Team Performance via Communication Behavior Ensembles

Ali Jalal-Kamali, Nikolos Gurney, David V Pynadath, Fred Morstatter
arXiv preprint arXiv:2608.06926,  2026

Extending STRIVE to World of Tanks: A Cross-Game Validation of a Socio-behavioral Player Taxonomy

Alexander J Bisberg, Emily Chen, Dmitri Williams, Emilio Ferrara
Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on the Foundations of …,  2026

Change is Hard: Consistent Player Behavior Across Games with Conflicting Incentives

Emily Chen, Alexander J Bisberg, Dmitri Williams, Magy Seif El-Nasr, Emilio Ferrara
Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems …,  2026

Relationship-Centered Care: Relatedness and Responsible Design for Human Connections in Mental-Health Care

Shivam Shukla, Emily Chen, Mahnaz Roshanaei, Magy Seif El-Nasr
arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.18375,  2026

MatrAIx: Simulating the World with 8.3 Billion Persona Agents

Xiaomin Li, Yuexing Hao, Jianheng Hou, Jintao Huang, Qianfeng Wen, Shirley Huang, Yifan Liu, Xiaoyi Liu, Yilan Fan, Yijun Wang, Koutian Wu, Ruoqi Gao, Muhammad Ahmed Mohsin, Jing Tang, Brihi Joshi, Heming Liu, Zheyuan Deng, Zonglin Di, Sankalp Jajee, Jiuyao Lu, Zhiwei Zhang, Saksham Kapoor, Ishan Gupta, Yunhan Zhao, Chanwoo Park, Yucheng Lu, Bing Hu, Weihang Xiao, Aravind Mohan, Hanwen Xing, Runyu Zhang, Mihir Kulshreshtha, Yuanda Xu, Qianyu Zhu, Dianzhuo Wang, Yuxin Xiao, Bowen Jiang, Yongye Su, Wenhao Chai, Zuxin Liu, Lawrence Yunliang Chen, Xuandong Zhao, Ethan Ye, Shivam Patel, Jason Xie, Alex Martin Richmond, Weixiang Ding, Emre Okcular, Diya Mathew, Ziheng Wang, Rana M Shahroz Khan, Zhejian Peng, Fang Wu, Fan Nie, Xinyang Han, Yubin Kim, Jiawei Zhang, Zhenting Qi, Huangyuan Su, Xu Pan, Abinitha Gourabathina, Hyewon Jeong, Hemanth Neelgund Ramesh, Kumail Alhamoud, Kimia Hamidieh, Zidi Xiong, Samuel Schmidgall, Pengrui Han, Yepeng Huang, Yongheng Wang, Bowen Yang, Alex Gu, Yuchu Wang, Akshay Paruchuri, Brenna Li, Hejie Cui, Jiayuan Ding, Chaosheng Dong, Jiahao Wang, Yixuan He, Chi Wang, Pamela Bhattacharya, Tianyi Peng, Paul Pu Liang, Mitchell Gordon, Yilun Du, Marinka Zitnik, James Zou, Prasanna Tambe, Philip Torr, Emily Fox, Asu Ozdaglar, Dawn Song
arXiv preprint arXiv:2608.04205,  2026

PALMs: Using Multi Construct-Grounded Rationales for Modeling Population Preferences in LLMs

Priyanka Dey, Brihi Joshi, Preyashi Poddar, Jieyu Zhao, Emilio Ferrara
arXiv preprint arXiv:2608.01458,  2026

The Hard Decision Layer: Evidence for Committed Inference in Transformers

Ashwath Vaithinathan Aravindan, Mayank Kejriwal
arXiv e-prints, arXiv: 2607.21613,  2026

Demonstration of an optical full adder and subtractor for phase-encoded data using nonlinear wave mixing

Abdulrahman Alhaddad, Wing Ko, Muralekrishnan Ramakrishnan, Amir Minoofar, Huibin Zhou, Zile Jiang, Hongkun Lian, Narek Karapetyan, Yingning Wang, Yue Zuo, Ruoyu Zeng, Ahmed Almaiman, Moshe Tur, Jonathan L Habif, Alan E Willner
Optics Letters 51 (16), 4553-4556,  2026

A Weisfeiler-Leman Characterization of Global-Attention Graph Transformers for Mixed-Integer Linear Programs

Md Abrar Jahin, Craig A Knoblock, Jay Pujara
arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.17570,  2026

The Tilted Playing Field for Women in Science

Casandra Rusti, Hussain Hussain, Kian Ahrabian, Jay Pujara, Allon G Percus, Buddhika Nettasinghe, Kristina Lerman
arXiv preprint arXiv:2606.26469,  2026

AFFORDANCE20Q: Evaluating Affordance Reasoning from Physical Properties

Yifan Jiang, Meige Yang, Zitong Li, Jay Pujara
arXiv preprint arXiv:2606.14240,  2026

Using Representation Learning and Website Text to Identify Competitor Networks

Louiqa Raschid, Jay Pujara, Gerard Hoberg, Craig Knobkock, Gordon Phillips, Zhiqiang Qiu

Longitudinal Exploration of Productivity and Well-being in Hybrid Work Through Ecological Momentary Assessment and Environmental Sensing

Mirmahdi Seyedrezaei, Burcin Becerik-Gerber, Shawn C Roll, Gale Lucas, Shrikanth Narayanan
Journal of Occupational & Environmental Medicine,  2026

On the Role of Anticausal Direction in LLM-based Data Synthesis

Bohan Jiang, Pingchuan Ma, Zhen Tan, Zhuoyu Shi, Fred Morstatter, Adrienne Raglin, Huan Liu
Proceedings of the 32nd ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and …,  2026