History

List of Awards

We are proud to announce the recipients of the ICSC 2025 awards. Congratulations to all the winners for their outstanding contributions to the field of Social Computing.

Best Paper Award

Preserving Topological Information for Social Network Condensation via Knowledge Distillation Zhiyuan Yu, Shijian Xiao, Yujiang Li, Mingkai Lin, and Wenzhong Li (Nanjing University)

ValueLex: Revealing the Value Structures of Large Language Models Pablo Biedma (Tsinghua University); Xiaoyuan Yi (Microsoft Research Asia); Linus Huang (Chinese University of Hong Kong); Maosong Sun (Tsinghua University); Xing Xie (Microsoft Research Asia)

Best Paper Runner-Up Award

BT-CNN: A Binary Tree-Convolutional Neural Network for Influential Node Identification in Complex Networks Xiaonan Ni, Guangyuan Mei, Xuying Li, Chuang Liu, Xiu-Xiu Zhan (Hangzhou Normal University)

Architectural Color as Social Calculus: A Digital Humanities Inquiry into Shanghai Concessions Haocheng Sheng, Shuang Li (Fudan University)

Geographic Patterns in Public Response to China’s National Childcare Subsidy: A Large-Scale Social Media Analysis Pu Zhang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)); Zheng Wei (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology / University of Chicago); Muzhi Zhou (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)); James Evans (University of Chicago); Pan Hui (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou))

Best Student Paper Award

Discovering Prevalent Chronic Disease Profiles with Advanced Clustering Methods Jiani Yan (University of Oxford / Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research)

Best Student Paper Runner-Up Award

What Makes Writing Work? Linguistic Features of Accepted vs. Rejected ICLR Submissions Zhenghao Vermous Kang, Huilian Sophie Qiu, Wenjing Huang, Brian Uzzi (Northwestern University)

Best TPC Member Award

Jiani Yan University of Oxford

Best Poster Award

Who Could Become (senior) Officers in Ancient Empires? A Big Data-Driven Comparative Study of the Tang Dynasty, the Arab Empire, and Byzantium (618-907 CE) Zhe Zhan, Peng Ye, Yifan Liu, Junhao Mao, Henan Lei, Jiayi Liang, Shaoqing Wen, HeTong Wen (Fudan University); Zhongliang Qin, Xingyang Zhang, Runqiu Zhang (Shanghai Normal University); Hui Chen (Beijing Foreign Studies University); Zhengze Li, Xiaoming Fu (University of Göttingen)

Debate-driven Claim Verification with Multiple LLM Agents Haorui He (Hong Kong Baptist University / University of Hong Kong); Yupeng Li* (Hong Kong Baptist University); Dacheng Wen (Hong Kong Baptist University / University of Hong Kong); Yang Chen (Fudan University); Reynold Cheng (University of Hong Kong); Donglong Chen (Beijing Normal-Hong Kong Baptist University); Francis CM Lau (University of Hong Kong)