Program

Tentative schedule subject to change

08:30 AM — 09:00 AM
Opening Opening
Speaker: Virginia Morini
09:00 AM — 10:00 AM
Keynote
Kristina Lerman
Social Media and Mental Health: An Evolutionary Mismatch

Session 1 — Mental Health Signals Detection & Representation

Chair: Virginia Morini
10:05 AM — 10:25 AM
Talk
Mental Health Discourse on TikTok: Interpreting Multimodal Short-Form Videos at Scale
Mingyue Zha and Ho-Chun Herbert Chang
10:25 AM — 10:45 AM
Talk
Exploring Mental Health Discourse on Nordic and Baltic Reddit: A Multilingual Computational Study
Aparup Khatua
10:45 AM — 11:05 AM
Talk
Beyond Positive or Negative: How Mixed Emotions on Reddit Are Linked to Depressive Symptoms in Asian American Families
Sangpil Youm, Nari Yoo, Sou Hyun Jang and Bonnie Dorr
11:05 AM — 11:20 AM
Break Coffee Break

Session 2 — Contextual & Societal Drivers of Mental Health

Chair: Pooriya Jamie
11:25 AM — 11:45 AM
Talk
Multilingual Safety Is Model-Dependent: An Audit of Digital Mediation of Harm-Related AI Queries
Vivek Vaidya, Saubhagya Joshi and Vivek Singh
11:45 AM — 12:05 PM
Talk
Are Gains Quiet and Losses Loud? Emotional Responses to Financial Booms and Crashes Online
Aryan Ramchandra Kapadia, Niharika Bhattacharjee, Mung Yao Jia, Ishq Gupta, Dong Wang and Koustuv Saha
12:05 PM — 12:25 PM
Talk
Analyzing Violations from Sexual Assault Stories on Reddit
Vaibhav Garg
12:30 PM — 01:30 PM
Break Lunch Break
01:45 PM — 02:45 PM
Keynote
Koustuv Saha
AI, Social Media, and the Future of Wellbeing: Promises and Perils

Session 3 — Artificial Intelligence & Mental Health

Chair: Valentina Pansanella
02:50 PM — 03:10 PM
Talk
Paired-Agent Auditing and Refinement of AI Mental Health Support
Jiwon Kim, Violeta Rodriguez, Dong Whi Yoo, Eshwar Chandrasekharan and Koustuv Saha
03:10 PM — 03:30 PM
Talk
The Gravity Well: Return-Cost Asymmetry and Hubness in Mental Health Recommender Systems
Om Kotadia
03:30 PM — 03:50 PM
Talk
AI Content Moderation in Therapy Conversations
Jiwon Kim, Claire Wang, Taeung Yoon, Sabelle Huang and Koustuv Saha
03:50 PM — 04:10 PM
Talk
A Responsible LLM-RAG Social-Semantic Knowledge Graph Framework for Monitoring Youth Wellness and Vulnerabilities Across Multimodal Social Platforms
Cameron Hajaliloo, Antonio Coelho, Lanyu Shang and Junyuan Lin
04:20 PM — 04:50 PM
Discussion Discussion
04:50 PM — 05:00 PM
Closing Closing Remarks