WITS 2025 Awards

Congratulations to the WITS 2025 Best Paper, Best Student Paper, Best Dissertation Proposal, and Best Reviewer winners!

WITS 2025 Prabuddha De Best Paper Award

Trustworthy Federated Learning with Local Differential Privacy
Rouzbeh Behnia, Jeremiah Birrell, Arman Riasi, Reza Ebrahimi, Kaushik Dutta, Thang Hoang

WITS 2025 Prabuddha De Best Student Paper Award

Sell Data to AI Algorithms Without Revealing It: Secure Data Valuation and Sharing via Homomorphic Encryption
Michael Yang, Ruijiang Gao, Eric Zheng

WITS 2025 Best Dissertation Award

AI-Driven Trust and Credentialing across Digital Social Domains
Yi-Yun Chu

WITS 2025 Best Reviewer Award

Gerdus Benade

Best Paper Award Runner-Up

Orchestrating Multimodal AI Models to Analyze Supportive Health Communication in Short Videos
Xiangyu Wang, Feng Mai, Kang Zhao, Bingbing Zhang

Best Student Paper Award Runner-Up

Uncovering the Internal Mechanisms of Large Language Models in Decision-Making under Risk
Yu Qin, Olivia Sheng

Best Dissertation Runner-Up

AI-Human Hybrid Weak Signal Detection for Strategic Intelligence: A Design Science Research Approach
Shakeel Sheikh

Three Essays on Prosocial Behavior and the AI Agent Disclosure Dilemma in the Digital Economy
Meixian Wang

Best Paper Award Nomination

Generative Diffusion Framework for Robust Causal Inference
Chen Chen, Xuanye Jiang, Shuaiyu Jiang

Does Generative AI Exhibit Human-Like Cognitive Biases? A Systematic Evaluation
Tomer Geva, Ariel Goldstein, Eran Lary, Coral Levy

Value-Based Skill Recommendation: A Reinforcement Learning Approach
Yuanyang Liu, Chuanren Liu, Pedro Masi, Rupam Dey