Waqas Nawaz Khokhar presented research on optimizing shortest path traversal and analysis for large graph clustering. The presentation outlined challenges with traditional graph clustering approaches for big real-world graphs. It proposed four optimizations: 1) a collaborative similarity measure to reduce complexity from O(n3) to O(n2logn); 2) identifying overlapping shortest path regions to avoid redundant traversals; 3) confining traversals within clusters to limit unnecessary graph regions; and 4) allowing parallel shortest path queries to reduce latency. Experimental results on real and synthetic graphs showed the approaches improved efficiency by 40% in time and an order of magnitude in space while maintaining clustering quality. Future work aims to address intermediate data explosion