Programme
Venue
The congress will take place at Villa Universitaria (https://maps.app.goo.gl/GLaZDyrR3q6bPMqdA) , the room for the conference is called:
Room San Vicente – Raspeig.
Lunch is not included. We recommend to get lunch at Villa Universitaria Restaurant (https://maps.app.goo.gl/XFQGYQy6RmhZvfX77).
Day 1 · Thursday 11 June 2026 |
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08:30 |
Registration & Arrival |
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09:00 |
Conference Opening & Welcome Prof. Ruslan Mitkov · Prof. Rafael Muñoz |
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09:15 |
KEYNOTE – Session chair: Ruslan Mitkov Preslav Nakov |
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10:15 |
SESSION 1 – Session chair: Ernesto Estevanell Multilingual & Cross-Lingual NLP in Security Applications
#8 Exploring Cross-Lingual Transfer in Transformer-Based Fraud Detection Models (L) Iván Martínez-Murillo, Robiert Sepúlveda-Torres and Juan Pablo Consuegra-Ayala #1 Grieve-JA: A Psycholinguistic Dictionary for Grievance-Fuelled Language in Japanese (L) Emilie Francis #11 Pragmatic Profiling for Disinformation Detection: An Exploratory Analysis of Stylistic Features in Spanish News (L) Alba Pérez-Montero, María Miró Maestre, Elena Lloret and Paloma Moreda |
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11:15 |
KEYNOTE – Session chair: Elena Lloret Tharindu Ranasinghe |
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12:15 |
Coffee Break |
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12:45 |
SESSION 2 – Session chair: Hansi Hettiarachchi Securing the Software Development Lifecycle
#25 Transformer-Assisted LLM-Based Source Code Summarisation: to Enable More Secure Software Development (L) Jesse Phillips, Tracy Hall, Paul Rayson and Mo El-Haj #33 Code Without Context: Can We Trust LLMs to Test Software from Informal Descriptions? (L) Amneh Al Abdi and Saad Ezzini #21 Fine-Tuning Small Language Models for Cybersecurity: Data Ordering, Knowledge Distillation, and the Educator Effect (L) Ozkan Kilic, Raja Soundaramourty and Ramu Chenchaiah |
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13:45 |
Lunch |
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14:45 |
SESSION 3 – Session chair: Saad Ezzini Threat Detection in the Wild: Messages, Telemetry & Social Media
#4 Large-Scale Multilingual SMS Fraud Detection For Telecom Networks (L) Orlando Amaral Cejas, Yuejun Guo and Qiang Tang #24 Command-Line Obfuscation Detection in Real-World Telemetry under Extreme Class Imbalance (L) Vojtěch Outrata, Barbora Štěpánková, Michael Adam Polák and Martin Kopp #35 OBSIDIAN: An OSINT-Driven NLP Framework for Detecting Cyber-Physical Threats in Arabic Social Media (L) Abdullah Saeed Almalki, Salmane Chafik and Saad Ezzini #30 Bloc-Conditional Event States: Measuring Cross-Coverage Divergence for Threat-Intelligence Analysis (S) Maryam Fooladi and Federico Bottino |
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16:00 |
Coffee Break |
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16:30 |
SESSION 4 – Session chair: Houdaifa Atou LLM Safety & Adversarial Robustness
#37 CSULoRA: Closest Safe Update Low-Rank Adaptation (L) Oleksandr Marchenko, Adelaide Danilov, Aria Nourbakhsh and Salima Lamsiyah #23 LLM-based Defense Against Adversarial Abstracts in ML/AI Conference Reviewer Assignments (L) Mohamed Omar Cherif, Christophe Cerisara and Julien Falgas #31 From Detection to Attribution: Forensic Linguistics and Adversarial Red Teaming as Complementary Responses to LLM Misuse (L) Rui Sousa-Silva |
Day 2 · Friday 12 June 2026 |
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08:30 |
Registration & Arrival |
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09:00 |
KEYNOTE – Session chair: Cengiz Acarturk Saad Ezzini |
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10:00 |
SESSION 5 – Session chair: Iván Martínez Human-Centric Cybersecurity & Wellbeing
#34 The Human Attack Surface: Detecting Psychological Vulnerabilities to Cyber Threats using AI and Social Media (L) Aadil Gani Ganie and Saad Ezzini #29 A Neuro-Cyber Exploitation and Reconnaissance Taxonomy (NeuroCERT) for Human-Centric Cybersecurity (L) Cengiz Acarturk, Melike Çağlayan, Ece Caglayan and Anna Wilkosz #19 Analysing Self-Harm Representations in Language Models: a Cross-Architecture Study (S) Luis Espinosa Anke and Carla Perez Almendros |
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11:00 |
Coffee Break |
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11:30 12:30 |
SESSION 6 – Session chair: Alicia Picazo Detecting Attacks & Manipulation
#3 A Linguistic Analysis of Prompt Injection in Large Language Models (S) Priscilla Adenuga Anatoly Marchenko #26 Semantic Clustering of Obfuscated Command-Line Detections for Alert Reduction (S) Barbora Štěpánková, Vojtěch Outrata and Martin Kopp Ogtay Hasanov and Saad Ezzini |
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12:30 |
STUDENT SESSION – Session chair: Salima Lamsiyah Student Research Session
#17 Exploring the Manifestation of Schwartz’s Basic Human Values in Large Language Models (L) Ryan Hyland, Lewis Newsham and Daniel Prince #18 From Decision Tree to Detection Pipeline: Formalizing van Dijk’s Socio-Cognitive Framework for Automated Anti-Language Identification in RICO Transcripts (L) Elena Morandini #20 When Privacy Helps: Pseudonymisation as a Strategy for Improved Cyber Incident Classification (L) Loya C. Haughton, Eduardo Fidalgo, Rocío Alaiz-Rodríguez, Manuel Castejón-Limas and Laura Fernández-Robles Purandhar M. Reddy and Sara Renjit |
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14:00 |
Lunch |
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15:00 |
KEYNOTE – Session chair: Ruslan Mitkov Salima Lamsiyah |
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16:00 |
Coffee Break |
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16:30 |
SESSION 7 – Session chair: Rui Sousa Enterprise & Regulated AI: Security, Compliance & Privacy
#32 LLMs in the Enterprise: A Systematic Review of Security Architectures for RAG-Augmented Chatbots (L) Fatimah A. Alali, Haya Aldawsari, Saad Ezzini and Sajjad Mahmood #5 Partner Attribution Bias in LLM-Assisted Export Control Screening (L) Salem Alotaibi, Alexei Lisitsa and Antony McCabe #12 Privacy VITA: a new multilingual and multimodal annotated video corpus to evaluate anonymization systems (S) Jorge Rico, Sofia Contreras, Enrique Manjavacas Arévalo, María Viana, Ruben Pérez-Ramón, María Luisa Izquierdo, María José Vilella, Jaime Corton, Silvia Rodríguez, Fernando Espinza, Rafael Ginard, César Pérez, Jesús Arias, Richard Cook, Pablo Regodón, Manuel Moyano, Ricardo Heredia, Lara De Santos, Pierre Plaza and Jacqueline González |
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17:30 |
Conference Closing & Prize Awards – Session chair: Ruslan Mitkov Best paper & best student paper announcements |
Key (L) Long paper — 20 min (S) Short paper — 15 min