Publications

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

2026

Time-resolved EEG decoding reveals altered neural dynamics of affective semantic evaluation in depression and suicidality

Woojae Jeong, Aditya Kommineni, Kleanthis Avramidis, Colin McDaniel, Donald Berry, Myzelle Hughes, Thomas McGee, Elsi Kaiser, Dani Byrd, Assal Habibi, B Rael Cahn, Idan A Blank, Kristina Lerman, Dimitrios Pantazis, Sudarsana R Kadiri, Takfarinas Medani, Shrikanth Narayanan, Richard M Leahy
Communications Biology,  2026

Exploring contrastive alignment across conversational turns for modeling vocal entrainment in interactions involving children with autism

Rimita Lahiri, So Hyun Kim, Somer Bishop, Catherine Lord, Helen Tager-Flusberg, Shrikanth Narayanan
Computer Speech & Language, 101993,  2026

Dominance and Complementarity in Cross-Modal Representation Learning for Wearable Time Series

Dominika Kunc, Joanna Komoszyńska, Kleanthis Avramidis, Tiantian Feng, Shrikanth Narayanan, Przemysław Kazienko, Stanisław Saganowski
Information Fusion, 104439,  2026

The False Resonance: A Critical Examination of Emotion Embedding Similarity for Speech Generation Evaluation

Yun-Shao Tsai, Yi-Cheng Lin, Huang-Cheng Chou, Tzu-Wen Hsu, Yun-Man Hsu, Chun Wei Chen, Shrikanth Narayanan, Hung-yi Lee
arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.26347,  2026

Looking Into the Past: Eye Movements Characterize Elements of Autobiographical Recall in Interviews with Holocaust Survivors

Emily Zhou, Marcus Ma, Kleanthis Avramidis, Gabor Mihaly Toth, Shrikanth Narayanan
arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.22016,  2026

Smiling Regulates Emotion During Traumatic Recollection

Marcus Ma, Emily Zhou, Leonard Ludwig, Julia Hörath, Christina Winkler, Kleanthis Avramidis, Tiantian Feng, Gabor Toth, Alina Bothe, Shrikanth Narayanan
arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.19019,  2026

Neural evidence of disrupted self-referential processing in suicidal depression

Colin McDaniel, Myzelle L Hughes, Takfarinas Medani, Woojae Jeong, Thomas A McGee, Aditya Kommineni, Kleanthis Avramidis, Hamzeh Alturk, Dani Byrd, Kristina Lerman, Sudarsana R Kadiri, Idan A Blank, Richard M Leahy, Shrikanth Narayanan, B Rael Cahn, Assal Habibi
Journal of Affective Disorders, 121817,  2026

Autoencoder Based Optimized SSL Representations: Complexity Minimization and Improved Dysarthric ASR

Paban Sapkota, Hemant Kumar Kathania, Mikko Kurimo, Shrikanth Narayanan, Sudarsana Reddy Kadiri
2026 National Conference on Communications (NCC), 590-595,  2026

Articulatory kinematics of penultimate and final lengthening in Setswana: Evidence from real-time MRI

Yubin Zhang, Xuan Shi, Kevin Huang, Prakash Kumar, Kevin Lee, Boitumelo Moshoete, Keneilwe Matlhaku, Dani Byrd, Louis Goldstein, Krishna Nayak, Shrikanth Narayanan
Proc. SpeechProsody 2026, 53-57,  2026

Rescind: Countering Image Misconduct in Biomedical Publications with Vision-Language and State-Space Modeling

S. Nandi, P. Natarajan
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 40 (46), 39061 …,  2026

Sparse Layers are Critical to Scaling Looped Language Models

Ryan Lee, Jacob Biloki, Edward J Hu, Jonathan May
arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.09165,  2026

How Language Models Process Negation

Zhejian Zhou, Tianyi Zhou, Robin Jia, Jonathan May
arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.03052,  2026

EMO: Frustratingly Easy Progressive Training of Extendable MoE

Linghao Jin, Chufan Shi, Huijuan Wang, Nuan Wen, Zhengzhong Liu, Eric Xing, Xuezhe Ma
arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.13247,  2026

Emergent Strategic Reasoning Risks in AI: A Taxonomy-Driven Evaluation Framework

Tharindu Kumarage, Lisa Bauer, Yao Ma, Dan Rosen, Yashasvi Raghavendra Guduri, Anna Rumshisky, Kai-Wei Chang, Aram Galstyan, Rahul Gupta, Charith Peris
arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.22119,  2026

ARES: Adaptive Red-Teaming and End-to-End Repair of Policy-Reward System

Jiacheng Liang, Yao Ma, Tharindu Kumarage, Satyapriya Krishna, Rahul Gupta, Kai-Wei Chang, Aram Galstyan, Charith Peris
arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.18789,  2026

Psychological Steering of Large Language Models

Leonardo Blas, Robin Jia, Emilio Ferrara
arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.14463,  2026

A Sociotechnical, Practitioner-Centered Approach to Technology Adoption in Cybersecurity Operations: An LLM Case

Francis Hahn, Mohd Mamoon, Alexandru G Bardas, Michael Collins, Daniel Lende, Xinming Ou, S Raj Rajagopalan
arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.21679,  2026

Applying knowledge graphs: Migrant decedent case trajectories in South Texas

Molly Miranker, Min‐Hsueh Chiu, Mayank Kejriwal, Alberto Giordano
Journal of Forensic Sciences,  2026

Knowledge graphing in forensics: Modeling forensic case trajectories using news media

Molly Miranker, Min‐Hsueh Chiu, Mayank Kejriwal, Alberto Giordano
Journal of Forensic Sciences,  2026

An Analysis of Artificial Intelligence Adoption in NIH-Funded Research

Navapat Nananukul, Mayank Kejriwal
arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.07424,  2026