June 8 to June 19, 2026 | Habib University, Karachi, Pakistan
09:00 am - 10:00 am Registrations and Refreshments
10:00 am - 11:00 am Welcome Note, Networking (Slides)
11:00 am - 01:00 pm Introduction and Keynote by Dr. Umberto Mignozzetti - Why Computational Social Science (Slides)
01:00 pm - 02:00 pm Lunch
02:00 pm - 04:30 pm Seminar on Ethics: Principles-based Approach and Group Exercise (Slides) (Video)
04:30 pm - 05:00 pm Refreshments
09:30 am - 10:00 am Refreshments
10.00 am - 11.30 am Workshop by Dr. Muhammad Yaseen Khan - Quantitative Text Analysis (Slides) (Notebook)
11:30 am - 01:00 pm Guest Talk by Dr. Muhammad Bilal - Role of Social Media Data and Computational Social Science for Society 5.0 (Slides)
01:00 pm - 02:00 pm Lunch
02:00 pm - 04:30 pm Group Exercise
04:30 pm - 05:00 pm Refreshments
09:30 am - 10:00 am Refreshments
10:00 am - 11:30 am Workshop by Zain Ahmed Usmani - An Introduction to Agent-Based Modeling (Slides)
11:30 am - 01:00 pm Guest Talk by Dr. Shah Jamal Alam - Simulating the Social: Agent-Based Modeling and Network Analysis for Complex Systems (Slides)
01:00 pm - 02:00 pm Lunch
02:00 pm - 04:30 pm Group Exercise (Notebook - 1) (Notebook - 2) (Bird Flocking - NetLogo) (The El-Farol Bar Problem - NetLogo)
04:30 pm - 05:00 pm Refreshments
09:30 am - 10:00 am Refreshments
10:00 am - 11:30 am Workshop by Dr. Qasim Pasta - Network Analysis (Slides)
11:30 am - 01:00 pm Guest Talk by Dr. Ihsan Ayyub Qazi - Bridging the Care Gap: Doctor-AI Collaboration in Diagnostic Reasoning (Slides)
01:00 pm - 02:00 pm Lunch
02:00 pm - 04:30 pm Group Exercise (Slides) (R Tutorial) (Karate.txt - File for Tutorial) (Karachi Bus Network)
04:30 pm - 05:00 pm Refreshments
09:30 am - 10:00 am Refreshments
10:00 am - 11:30 am Workshop by Dr. Tafseer Ahmed Khan - Using LLMs for Social Science Research (Slides) (Exercises) (Notebook)
11:30 am - 01:00 pm Guest Talk by Dr. Abdul Samad - AI and LLMs for Social Science (Explainging Transformers - Notebook) (Transformers Practice - Notebook)
01:00 pm - 03:00 pm Lunch Break
03:00 pm - 04:30 pm Bouncing Ideas
04:30 pm - 05:00 pm Refreshments
09:30 am - 10:00 am Refreshments
10:00 am - 11:00 am Guest Talk by Dr. Rabeea Jaffari - To Be Or Not To Be Human (Slides)
11:00 am - 01:00 pm Speed-dating and Group Formation
01:00 pm - 02:00 pm Lunch
02:00 pm - 04:30 pm Project Work
04:30 pm - 05:00 pm Refreshments
09:30 am - 10:00 am Refreshments
10:00 am - 01:00 pm Project Work
01:00 pm - 02:00 pm Lunch
02:00 pm - 04:30 pm Project Work
04:30 pm - 05:00 pm Refreshments
09:30 am - 10:00 am Refreshments
10:00 am - 01:00 pm Project Work
01:00 pm - 02:00 pm Lunch
02:00 pm - 04:30 pm Project Work
04:30 pm - 05:00 pm Refreshments
09:30 am - 10:00 am Refreshments
10:00 am - 01:00 pm Project Work
01:00 pm - 02:00 pm Lunch
02:00 pm - 04:30 pm Project Work
04:30 pm - 05:00 pm Refreshments
09:30 am - 10:00 am Refreshments
10:00 am - 01:00 pm Team Presentations
01:00 pm - 03:00 pm Lunch Break
03:00 pm - 04:00 pm Feedback
04:00 pm - 05:00 pm Closing Remarks
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