Publications

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

2026

MicroVerse: An Instrument for Measuring Self-Authored Identity Drift in Long-Horizon Multi-Agent Language-Model Simulations

Sky Ng, Brihi Joshi, Ishan Gupta, Shirley Huang, Zonglin Di, Yun Shen, Qianfeng Wen, Yifan Simon Liu, Ruoqi Gao, Zhiwei Zhang, Muhammad Ahmed Mohsin, Yucheng Lu, Xiaoyi Liu, Heming Liu, Qianyu Zhu, Hanwen Xing, Zhengyang Shan, My Chiffon Nguyen, Guanghui Min, Keyang Xuan, Hannah Collison, Jintao Huang, Jiatong Li, Sankalp Jajee, Yunhan Zhao, Bing Hu, Xupeng Chen, Binghang Lu, Weihang Xiao, Aravind Mohan, Bolun Sun, Yunshu Wu, Yuanda Xu, Runyu Zhang, Zheyuan Deng, Dianzhuo Wang, Yijun Wang, Yixuan He, Koutian Wu, Cheng Cheng, Xiaomin Li, Yuexing Hao
arXiv preprint arXiv:2608.15844,  2026

PersonaEval: Persona-Based User Simulation for Evaluating Interactive Applications

Yifan Simon Liu, Qianfeng Wen, Yilan Fan, Shirley Huang, Ruoqi Gao, Jianheng Hou, Muhammad Ahmed Mohsin, Zonglin Di, Brihi Joshi, Xincheng Tan, Yucheng Lu, Xiaoyi Liu, Heming Liu, Hanwen Xing, Guanghui Min, Zhengyang Shan, My Chiffon Nguyen, Ishan Gupta, Yunze Xiao, Hannah Collison, Jintao Huang, Jiatong Li, Sankalp Jajee, Yunhan Zhao, Bing Hu, Sky Ng, Xupeng Chen, Binghang Lu, Weihang Xiao, Aravind Mohan, Bolun Sun, Yunshu Wu, Yuanda Xu, Yun Shen, Runyu Zhang, Zheyuan Deng, Zhiwei Zhang, Qianyu Zhu, Dianzhuo Wang, Yijun Wang, Yixuan He, Yuexing Hao, Xiaomin Li
arXiv preprint arXiv:2608.15838,  2026

Position: Synthetic Persona Needs Explicit Grounding and Standardized Reporting

Yucheng Lu, Xiaoyi Liu, Heming Liu, Hanwen Xing, Shirley Huang, Guanghui Min, Zhengyang Shan, My Chiffon Nguyen, Ishan Gupta, Zonglin Di, Qianfeng Wen, Yifan Simon Liu, Ruoqi Gao, Yilan Fan, Jianheng Hou, Brihi Joshi, Muhammad Ahmed Mohsin, Yunze Xiao, Keyang Xuan, Hannah Collison, Jintao Huang, Jiatong Li, Sankalp Jajee, Yunhan Zhao, Bing Hu, Zhiwei Zhang, Sky Ng, Xupeng Chen, Weihang Xiao, Aravind Mohan, Bolun Sun, Yunshu Wu, Yuanda Xu, Yun Shen, Zheyuan Deng, Xincheng Tan, Qianyu Julie Zhu, Dianzhuo Wang, Yijun Wang, Runyu Zhang, Yixuan He, Xiaomin Li, Yuexing Hao
Second Workshop on Social Simulation with LLMS: Fidelity in Applications,  2026

Quantum algorithm for differential equations via permutation matrix representation with application to the Burgers equation

Hriday Sabharwal, Amir Kalev, Itay Hen
arXiv preprint arXiv:2608.19508,  2026

Don't Drop the BATON: Long-Horizon Robot Manipulation via Agentic Subtask Exploration and Transition-aware Memory

Bingxin Xu, Yuzhang Shang, Emilio Ferrara
arXiv preprint arXiv:2608.16889,  2026

RIVERPlace: Repairing Interconnect Violations with Efficient Retiming and Incremental Placement for AQFP Circuits

Robert S Aviles, Ziyu Liu, Sasan Razmkhah, Massoud Pedram, Peter A Beerel
arXiv preprint arXiv:2608.13780,  2026

Navigating Speech Enhancement for Real-Time MRI: A Systematic Assessment of Signal Quality, Source Preservation, and Downstream Tasks

Huang-Cheng Chou, Sean Foley, Haley Hsu, Kevin Huang, Szu-Jui Chen, Rong Chao, Louis Goldstein, Khalil Iskarous, Dani Byrd, Yu Tsao, Sudarsana Reddy Kadiri, John HL Hansen, Shrikanth Narayanan
arXiv preprint arXiv:2608.16125,  2026

Environmental Comfort in Hybrid Work: A Longitudinal Preliminary Field Study of Home and Office Workspaces

Mirmahdi Seyedrezaei, Burçin Becerik-Gerber, Gale Lucas, Shawn C Roll, Shrikanth Narayanan
International Society of Indoor Air Quality and Climate,  2026

Framing Writing as Code Generation: An Agentic LaTeX IDE for Scientific Manuscript Composition

Zhisheng Tang, Mayank Kejriwal

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

Can AI Evaluate AI Scientists? A Benchmarking Study of Autonomous Research Generation Systems Using Automated Multi-Model Review

Vaibhava Lakshmi Ravideshik, Mayank Kejriwal
arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.28631,  2026