Workshop will be held on August 10th, 2026, 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM KST.
Location: International Convention Center Jeju (ICC Jeju).
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 8:05am-8:15am | epiDAMIK Opening Remarks |
| 8:15am-8:45am |
Spotlight Talk 1 Paper: Predicting Food Insecurity at Scale: A Case Study of Time Series Forecasts [PDF] Authors: John Wamburu, William Ogallo, Duccio Piovani, Perry Nelson, Alice Giorgio, Marie Enlund, Kyriacos Koupparis, Avo Ratovo, Cedric Mataguim, Idrissa Dabo, Rouslan Solomakhin, Hector Amoah, Anthony Gyan, Jules Kuperminc, Henok Kebede, Amanie Brik, Sandra Rodriguez, Adam Boulanger, Mercy Nyamewaa Asiedu, Milind Tambe, Aisha Walcott-Bryant Spotlight Talk 2 Paper: From Viewership to Vaccinations: A Network-based Analysis Linking Latent Media Preferences to Vaccine Attitudes [PDF] Authors: Naomi Rankin, Samee Saiyed, Amelia M Jamison, Lauren M Gardner |
| 8:45am-9:30am | Invited Keynote 1: See-Kiong Ng National University of Singapore |
| 9:30am-10:10am | Coffee Break / Poster Session Part 1 |
| 10:10am-10:40am |
Spotlight Talk 3 Paper: Beyond Time Series: Spatial Reasoning for Epidemic Forecasting via Multimodal Learning [PDF] Authors: Diana Guadalupe Gomez, Chenwei Wu, Zhiyi Wang, Liyue Shen, Alexander Rodríguez Spotlight Talk 4 Paper: Literature-based extraction of compartmental epidemiology models with MIRA [PDF] Authors: Rushali Mohbe, Tenzin Nanglo, Klas Karis, Benjamin M. Gyori |
| 10:40am-11:15am |
Lightning Talk 1 Paper: Integrating LLM-Extracted Behavioral Signals into Mechanistic Epidemic Forecasting [PDF] Authors: Dasom Lee, Yang Xu, Zahra Movahedi Nia, Jude D. Kong, Boseung Choi Lightning Talk 2 Paper: Spatiotemporal Modeling of the Substance Overdose Epidemic in the United States Using Time-Series Clustering [PDF] Authors: Sukanya Krishna, Andrew Perrault, Marie-Laure Charpignon, Maimuna S. Majumder Lightning Talk 3 Paper: Mining Spatiotemporal Diffusion Patterns of Multi-Pathogens from Wastewater: A Multi-Scalar Spatial Autocorrelation Study [PDF] Authors: Seongchan Kim, Hyojin Kim, Haeng-gon Lee, Insung Ahn Lightning Talk 4 Paper: Interpretable Expert-Informed Epidemic Forecasting via Hybrid Mechanistic and LLM-Based Modeling [PDF] Authors: Dinara Gindullina, Vasiliy Leonenko Lightning Talk 5 Paper: Verifiable Knowledge Expansion through Retrieval-Grounded Formal Concept Analysis [PDF] Authors: Yujin Yang, Heejung Lee Lightning Talk 6 Paper: Integration of Time Series Reconstruction, Epidemic Forecasting, and Explainability Analysis to Study COVID-19 [PDF] Authors: Celia Lopez de Maria Mozo, Diego Javier Benito Gutiérrez, Jose Aguilar Lightning Talk 7 Paper: Environmental Multipliers of ALS Onset: Heterogeneous Graph Networks for Gene-Environment Interaction Modeling over National Exposure Registries [PDF] Authors: Brownstafford Abraham, Fabio Alberto Suarez Hernandez |
| 11:15am-12:00pm | Invited Keynote 2: Nan Liu Duke-National University of Singapore Medical School |
| 12:00pm-1:30pm | Lunch |
| 1:30pm-2:00pm |
Spotlight Talk 5 Paper: Thinking Without Tokens at the Bedside: Continuous-Latent Reasoning over Clinical Graphs for Sepsis Forecasting [PDF] Authors: Brownstafford Abraham, Fabio Alberto Suarez Hernandez Spotlight Talk 6 Paper: What Causes COVID-19 Fear? General Drivers of Fear During a Health Crisis [PDF] Authors: Daniele Baccega, Paolo Castagno, Antonio Fernández Anta, Juan Marcos Ramirez, Matteo Sereno |
| 2:00pm-2:15pm |
Lightning Talk 8 Paper: Large Language Models for Automated Medical Coding: A Systematic Evaluation of Prompting Strategies [PDF] Authors: Rozita Haghighi, Mohsen Farhadloo Lightning Talk 9 Paper: Generative Frontier Planning for Adaptive Peer-Referral Recruitment under Covariate-Dependent Arrivals [PDF] Authors: Lingkai Kong, Hezi Jiang, Andrew Ma, Keyu Wang, Akseli Kangaslahti, Milind Tambe Lightning Talk 10 Paper: Agent-Based Epidemiological Inference with Compact Language Models for Decision-Support Surveillance Reporting [PDF] Authors: Mark Lazutov, Vasiliy Leonenko |
| 2:15pm-3:00pm | Invited Keynote 3 TBD |
| 3:00pm-3:40pm | Coffee Break / Poster Session Part 2 |
| 3:40pm-4:10pm |
Spotlight Talk 7 Paper: GeoID-PINN: Identifiability-Aware Regional Epidemic Inference with Geographic Coupling [PDF] Authors: Weixiong Hua, Fan Bu Spotlight Talk 8 Paper: Pretrained Medical Representations for the Practical Screening of Drug Repositioning Candidates [PDF] Authors: Yuhei Fujioka, Daitaro Misawa, Shingo Fukuma |
| 4:10pm-4:50pm |
Lightning Talk 11 Paper: Context-Aware Hospitalization Forecasting Evaluations for Decision Support using LLMs [PDF] Authors: Rhea Makkuni, Ananya Joshi Lightning Talk 12 Paper: Intervention Impact Score: Causal Efficacy Monitoring Framework for Personalized Health Interventions at Population Scale [PDF] Authors: Teo Hui Fang, Jodi Chiam, Aloysius Lim, Ankur Teredesai Lightning Talk 13 Paper: Automating Psychological Monitoring and Diagnostic Reporting from Longitudinal Conversations with Language Models [PDF] Authors: Shanghong Xie, Xinche Zhang, Jinhao Li, Zhiyuan Ma, Yongjian Li, Runmin Gan, Sen Song Lightning Talk 14 Paper: Modeling the Impact of Exposed Cases in a Hantavirus Outbreak on a Cruise Ship [PDF] Authors: Amal Alamri, Jiaming Cui Lightning Talk 15 Paper: Can LLM Agents Do Research on Complex Systems? An Extended Summary of EpidemIQs [PDF] Authors: Mohammad Hossein Samaei, Caterina Scoglio Lightning Talk 16 Paper: Spatiotemporal Modeling of Extreme Bear Encounter Surges for Evidence-Based Risk Mitigation: A Case Study in Akita, Japan [PDF] Authors: Momoka Hommi, Yusuke Fukazawa Lightning Talk 17 Paper: A Bayesian network approach to building population digital twins under fragmented and privacy-restricted data [PDF] Authors: Florian van Daalen, Philippe Giabbanelli |
| 4:50pm | Closing Remarks and Best Paper Awards |