Reading List
Papers and Materials
Working reading list for the congress tracks: verified publications across AI, biotech, health, cities, and future economies, plus a host-city briefing note.
Authors: Qizheng Zhang, Changran Hu, Shubhangi Upasani, Boyuan Ma, Fenglu Hong, Vamsidhar Kamanuru, Jay Rainton, Chen Wu, Mengmeng Ji, Hanchen Li, Urmish Thakker, James Zou, Kunle Olukotun
arXiv:2510.04618v2. Core reference for the AI track on adaptive prompts, memory evolution, and robust context curation.
Authors: Anna Dawid, Yann LeCun
arXiv:2306.02572. Used in the AI track to discuss world models, autonomous machine intelligence, and the longer-range design logic of advanced systems.
Authors: Pranav Rajpurkar, Jeremy Irvin, Kaylie Zhu, Brandon Yang, Hershel Mehta, Tony Duan, Daisy Ding, Aarti Bagul, Curtis Langlotz, Katie Shpanskaya, Matthew P. Lungren, Andrew Y. Ng
arXiv:1711.05225. Health AI reference for diagnostic imaging, evaluation design, and clinical deployment constraints.
Authors: Matthieu Komorowski, Leo A. Celi, Omar Badawi, Anthony C. Gordon, A. Aldo Faisal
arXiv:1903.02345. Used in the health systems strand on ICU decision support, interpretability, and safe rollout.
Authors: Dexiong Chen, Philip Hartout, Paolo Pellizzoni, Carlos Oliver, Karsten Borgwardt
arXiv:2401.14819. Biotech track reference for protein representation learning, molecular structure priors, and translational research pipelines.
Authors: Zuobai Zhang, Jiarui Lu, Vijil Chenthamarakshan, Aurlie Lozano, Payel Das, Jian Tang
arXiv:2402.05856. Companion biotech paper for sessions on drug discovery workflows, multimodal biology, and model-guided experimentation.
Cities and Infrastructure
Authors: Paolo Santi, Giovanni Resta, Michael Szell, Stanislav Sobolevsky, Steven Strogatz, Carlo Ratti
arXiv:1310.2963. Cities and infrastructure reference for shared mobility, congestion reduction, and demand-aware transport planning.
Authors: Yanyan Xu, Serdar Colak, Emre C. Kara, Scott J. Moura, Marta C. Gonzalez
arXiv:2303.15578. Cities track paper on electrification strategy, charging demand, and metropolitan mobility coordination.
Authors: Daron Acemoglu, Pascual Restrepo
NBER Working Paper 25684. Future economies reference for labor-market adjustment, task redesign, and institutional response to automation.
Authors: Carl Benedikt Frey, Michael A. Osborne
DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2016.08.019. Used in the economics track to frame occupational exposure, transition risk, and long-range workforce planning.
Yerevan Urban Resilience Brief 2026 (Background Note)
Authors: Prof. Maria Martirosyan, PhD; Arman Sargsyan
Regional context paper for the host-city dialogue on water stress, energy reliability, and district-level adaptation. Related research links.