Network Science Informs AI (NSIA)

NetSci 2026 Satellite

Event Schedule

Date: Monday 1 June, 14:00-18:30

Satellite Location: Porter Square B, Hyatt Regence Boston/Cambridge

Poster Session: Amesbury Ballroom, Hyatt Regency Boston/Cambridge

Session I (14:00 - 16:15)

Time Title Speaker Type
14:00 - 14:15 Opening Remarks
Carlo V. Cannistraci
Tsinghua University
Opening
14:15 - 14:45 Simplicity Within Biological Complexity
Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI)
Invited Talk
14:45 - 15:00 From Graphons to Graphlets: A Graph-Limit Lens on Sparse Neural Connectivity and Training
Siddhi Kanta Mishra
University of Central Florida
Contributed Talk
15:00 - 15:30 Smarter and Sparser AI with Complex Network Science
Helmholtz Center CISPA
Invited Talk
15:30 - 15:45 Emergence of giant component in percolated artificial neural networks
Adrien Pontlevy
Paris Brain Institute
Contributed Talk
15:45 - 16:15 The Cost of Sharing: From Topological Multitasking Limits to Semantic Horizons
Northeastern University London
Invited Talk

Coffee Break (16:15 - 16:45)

Poster Session: Amesbury Ballroom | Hyatt Regency Boston/Cambridge

Session II (16:45 - 18:30)

Time Title Speaker Type
16:45 - 17:00 Robustness in sparse artificial neural networks trained with adaptive topology
Bendeguz Sulyok
Semmelweis University
Contributed Talk
17:00 - 17:30 Representation Learning and Physics
MIT
Invited Talk
17:30 - 17:45 Task complexity shapes internal representations and robustness in neural networks
Robert Jankowski
Delft University of Technology
Contributed Talk
17:45 - 18:15 Compositional Sparsity
MIT
Invited Talk
18:15 - 18:30 Closing Remarks, Voting, and Prizes
Carlo V. Cannistraci
Tsinghua University
Closing