Doctoral Consortium Program – ACII 2025

9 October 2025 (Day 2)

18:00 – 19:00: DC Poster Session (6 presenters)

1. Multimodal AI in the Assessment and Communication of Health Risks in a Changing Environment (Raquel Yupanqui)
2. Enhancing Machine Sign Language Understanding by the Use of Auxiliary Data (Lennart Eing)
3. The Heart Wants What it Wants: How Can ECG Foundation Models Help Us Understand Emotions? (Łukasz Culer)
4. Fair, Explainable, and Personalized Treatment Outcome Modelling in Mental Healthcare (Stan Meyberg)
5. Affective Multimodal Modeling and Chatbot Design for Responsible Retail and Clothing Try-on (Jiawei Wang)
6. Decoding Social Interaction to Understand Traumatic Behaviors in Social Dynamics (Pritesh Contractor)

Instructions for preparing posters have been emailed to the participants.

10 October 2025 (Day 3)

14:00 – 14:30: DC Lightning Talks (6 presenters; 3 minutes each; in the following order)

1. Multimodal AI in the Assessment and Communication of Health Risks in a Changing Environment (Raquel Yupanqui)
2. Enhancing Machine Sign Language Understanding by the Use of Auxiliary Data (Lennart Eing)
3. The Heart Wants What it Wants: How Can ECG Foundation Models Help Us Understand Emotions? (Łukasz Culer)
4. Fair, Explainable, and Personalized Treatment Outcome Modelling in Mental Healthcare (Stan Meyberg)
5. Affective Multimodal Modeling and Chatbot Design for Responsible Retail and Clothing Try-on (Jiawei Wang)
6. Decoding Social Interaction to Understand Traumatic Behaviors in Social Dynamics (Pritesh Contractor)

Instructions for preparing lightning talk materials have been emailed to the participants.

11 October 2025 (Day 4)

This is the main DC event and the only required component.

9:00 – 14:00: Doctoral Consortium 

9:00 – 9:10	Opening
9:10 – 9:25	Multimodal AI in the Assessment and Communication of Health Risks in a Changing Environment (Raquel Yupanqui)
9:25 – 9:40	Enhancing Machine Sign Language Understanding by the Use of Auxiliary Data (Lennart Eing)
9:40 – 9:55	The Heart Wants What it Wants: How Can ECG Foundation Models Help Us Understand Emotions? (Łukasz Culer)
10:00 – 10:30	Coffee Break 1
10:30 – 10:45	Fair, Explainable, and Personalized Treatment Outcome Modelling in Mental Healthcare (Stan Meyberg)
10:45 – 11:00	Affective Multimodal Modeling and Chatbot Design for Responsible Retail and Clothing Try-on (Jiawei Wang)
11:00 – 11:15	Decoding Social Interaction to Understand Traumatic Behaviors in Social Dynamics (Pritesh Contractor)
11:15 – 12:00	Discussion with Mentors
12:30 – 14:00	Lunch