Awards

Best Paper Award

“Every Hop Etched in Memory: Tokenized Graph Mamba Meets Directed Graph Learning”

Lizhi Liu (China UnionPay)
 

Best Student Paper Awards

“Can LLMs Revolutionize the Design of Explainable and Efficient TinyML Models?”

Christophe El Zeinaty (Univ. Rennes, INSA Rennes, CNRS, IETR - UMR 6164, Rennes)

Wassim Hamidouche (KU 6G Research Center, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi)

Glenn Herrou (Univ. Rennes, INSA Rennes, CNRS, IETR - UMR 6164, Rennes)

Daniel Menard (Univ. Rennes, INSA Rennes, CNRS, IETR - UMR 6164, Rennes)

Merouane Debbah (KU 6G Research Center, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi)

“Decoupling Local and Cross-Regional Transmission Dynamics for Enhanced COVID-19 Forecasting”

Jiaqiang Fei (Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

Zhidong Cao (Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

Tianyi Luo (Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

Jiaojiao Wang (Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
 

Best Industry Paper Award

“Improving Vector-Quantized Image Modeling with Latent Consistency-Matching Diffusion”             

Bac Nguyen (Sony AI)

Chieh-Hsin Lai (Sony AI)

Yuta Takida (Sony AI)

Naoki Murata (Sony AI)

Toshimitsu Uesaka (Sony AI)

Stefano Ermon (Stanford University)

Yuki Mitsufuji (Sony AI, Sony Group Corporation)
 

Honorable mentions

“Exploiting Double Representation and Gated Multi-Head Cross-Attention for Polymers Properties Prediction”

Paolo Sortino (University of Palermo)

Salvatore Contino (University of Palermo)

Fabio Villa (University of Palermo)

Luca Cruciata (University of Palermo)

Roberto Pirrone (University of Palermo)

“A Neural Network Approach to Image-Based Navigation and Localization”

Daniel Short (Mississippi State University)

Tingjun Lei (University of North Dakota)

Lantao Liu (Indiana University Bloomington)

Chaomin Luo (Mississippi State University)

Erfu Yang (University of Strathclyde)

"MILES: Modality-Informed Learning Rate Scheduler for Balancing Multimodal Learning”

Alejandro Guerra Manzanares

Farah E. Shamout
 

Outstanding Area Chair

Loukas Ilias (National Technical University of Athens)
 

Outstanding Reviewers

- Ricardo Ñanculef (Federico Santa Maria Technical University)

- Wenjing Chang (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences)

- Hoyin Yue (The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong)

- Markus Eisenbach (Ilmenau University of Technology)

- Michel Salomon (University Bourgogne Franche-Comté)