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Friday, March 6

Friday, March 6 8:00 - 13:00

V1: Power and Energy Systems (Virtual)

Room: Virtual A
Chairs: Tejas Pravinbhai Patel, Samaresh Kumar Singh, Srinivas Reddy Kosna
Control Strategy for a STATCOM Under Dynamic Load Implemented in MATLAB/Simulink
Sebastián Martínez, Andrés Peña, Luis A Moreno, Guillermo Campos and Pablo Cesar Perez Medina
Portable Electric Vehicle Charger Powered by Solar Panels
Franck Fotso, Colton Sims, Elijah Chance, Shreyasee Mandal, Mark Nelms and Eduard Muljadi
Dual-Charging Portable Power Bank with Solar and Grid Using PSO-Based MPPT
Muntasir Elhaj, Adam Bottenfield, Isaac Warren, Mark Nelms and Eduard Muljadi
Computational Analysis of DNP3 Security Implementations for Smart Grid
Mahesh Narayanan, Hareesh Eemani and Arslan Munir
Sodium-Ion Batteries State of Health Estimation Using Machine-Learning Benchmarks
Anna Cristina Fatemi and Hussein Abdeltawab
Data-Driven Fault Detection and Multi-Label Fault Identification in Transmission Lines Using CNN-LSTM and ML Models
Md Darul Atfal Palash, Minh Thang Le, Jack McCalman and Eduard Muljadi
Comparative Analysis of Centralized Control Strategies for Photovoltaic Battery Energy Storage System Using Deep Reinforcement Learning
Richard J Wiencek and Sagnika Ghosh
A Case Study on Single-Tuned Filter for Combined Harmonic and Resonance Mitigation
Hanif Tahersima, Mohammad Jafar Saleh and Sara Mesgari Sohani
Advances in the Design of an Instrumented Swivel-Based Mooring System to Improve Process Knowledge of Marine Energy Devices
Michael Smith, Caroline Lowcher, Trip Taylor, Brock Hollister, Jacob Hawkins and Jade Bercik
Break
Deep Learning Assisted Battery Management System for Electric Vehicles: SoC and SoH Estimation
Md Darul Atfal Palash, Emmanuel Agbaje, Carter Hudson and Eduard Muljadi
A Resilient Modulatory Advisor Using Soft Actor-Critic for Fault-Tolerant Autonomous Microgrid Management
Cindy Orozco and Sagnika Ghosh
Waste-to-Energy: Sustainable Biogas Production from Urban Organic Waste in Jamaica
Luganus Daniel and Milton Trevor Richardson
Design and Simulation of a Residential Single-Phase Electric Vehicle Fast Charging System
Zackarie O. Campbell, Javier S. Davis and Milton Trevor Richardson
Commissioning-Driven Reactive Power Control of High-Power Synchronous Motors in LNG Facilities
Adrian Jose Guijarro Hernandez
Constructability Aspects of Ground Grids for Typical AC Substation and HVDC Converter Stations
Mandar Kavimandan
A Multi-Physics PINN Framework for Interpretable Wind Power Ramp Forecasting
Vinod Kumar Maddineni, Nihar Panchal, Rahul Reddy Devarapally, Muhammad Moklis Harussani and NagaBabu Koganti
Stochastic Power Forecasting Framework for Hyperscale AI Data Centers
Krishna Chaitanya Sunkara and Krishnaiah Narukulla
Fuel Cell and Intelligent Power Processing Using Nonlinear Control and Quantum Computing with the Hadoop Ecosystem
Wil McClay and Loni Taylor
Comparative Study of Fuel Cell Battery Hybrid Powertrains for Heavy Duty Vehicle Applications
Gui-Jia Su

V6A: AI and Predictive Modeling 1 (Virtual)

Room: Virtual B
Chairs: Jagadish Krishna Pilla, Cagri Temel
Over-Smoothing Effect of Graph Convolutional Networks: Spectral and Topological Analysis with Practical Remedies
Fang Sun
Responsible AI in Cloud Security: A Human-Centric Framework for Transparent Threat Detection and Identity Governance
Meletius Mgbeodichimma Igbokwe, Divine Uzodinma, Ugochukwu Ibeawuchi and Victor Uchenna Moses
X-AD: Explainable Anomaly Detection in Serverless Systems
Brij Mohan, Uday Kiran Chilakalapalli and Rananjay Kumar
Design and Validation of a Machine Identity Governance Framework for AI Agents in Multi-Cloud Environments
Kaushik
Explainable AI for Predicting SME Loan Defaults Using XGBoost and SHAP
Karunakar Grandhe
Data-Driven Insights & Predictive Modeling in Fitness Tracking
Nabeel M Sheikh, Amit Kumar and Vansh Agarwal
MESDASD: A Medical Expert System for Diagnosing Autoimmune System Diseases
Mohammadreza Hajiarbabi
AIDR-Cloud: An Agentic AI-Driven Incident Response Framework for Cloud Failures
Akshay Pratinav and Archana Kataria
Secure Federated Learning Under Non-IID and Multimodal Breast Imaging
Ashika Sameem Abdul Rasheed, Mamoun Awad and Mohammad Mehedy Masud
Break
Prediction of Freezing of Gait for Parkinson's Disease Using Hybrid LSTM Attention Framework
Mohamed Abouhashem Salama, Kyle Moore, Sean Digman, Md. Bipul Hossain and Mohamed Shaban
YOLOv8-Based Malaria Parasite Detection in Microscopic Blood-Smear Images
Mary Dufie Afrane, Lord Coffie, Solomon Owusu Kobiri and Jongyeop Kim
The Risks of Autonomy: Dynamic Auditing of Self-Editing Language Models in Critical Infrastructure
Praveen Kumar Myakala, Prudhvi Naayini, Srikanth Kamatala and Venkata Sivasantosh Kadiyala
Deep Learning-Based Stacked Ensemble Approach for Deepfake Audio Detection
Shipra Shetty and Badri Prasad
SML-Net: A Novel Deep Learning Network for the Prediction of the SML Index
Mohamed Abouhashem Salama, Purbi Adhya, Edmund Spencer and Mohamed Shaban
An Improved Attention Gate for U-Net Based Semantic Segmentation of Breast Cancer
Md. Bipul Hossain, Mohamed Abouhashem Salama, Madeline Potter and Mohamed Shaban
SIGMA: Smart Infrastructure Grid Monitoring AI
Sean Monemi and Ryan J Monemi
VectorSight: A Domain-Adaptive Framework for Multi-Modal Observability Signal Classification
Ramprasad Goturkarnam, Santosh Kumar and Hatim Palitanawala
Agentic Orchestration of Small Language Models Match Large Language Models on Boolean Question Answering
Aditya Narvekar and Akul Ameya
Score-Guided Synthetic Experience Replay for Stable off-Policy Reinforcement Learning
Precious Nwaorgu, Olamide Osigbemeh and Chinwendu Enyioha

Friday, March 6 14:00 - 16:45

V2: Communications and Electromagnetics (Virtual)

Room: Virtual A
Chairs: Karunakar Grandhe, Praveen Kumar Myakala, Saurabh Hitendra Patel
Robust and Explainable RIC-Based AI Controllers for 6G RAN Automation
Saurabh Hitendra Patel
Q-SHaDe: Softwarized Hybrid and Decentralized Clustering for Controller Placement Using Q-Means Algorithm
Soumyapriya Goswami, Deborsi Basu, Bhumika Adhya, Samriddha Sanyal and Uttam Ghosh
Soft-Q: Softwarized Quantum Network for ERNET Topology Using a Multi-Layer Graph Decomposition
Bhumika Adhya, Soumyapriya Goswami, Deborsi Basu, Samriddha Sanyal and Uttam Ghosh
Comparative Analysis of Improved BiLSTM and BiGRU Architectures for Scalable Mobile Traffic Forecasting in Wireless Networks
Ahmed F. Ashour, Mohamed I. Ismail, Zubair Md Fadlullah, Muhammad Ismail and Mostafa Fouda
Comparative Risk Assessment of VRUs and AVs Across Urban Intersections
Greeshma Kotaru, Aaditi Menon, Latika Pinjarkar, Sumit Chakravarty and Madhushri Banerjee
A System-Oriented Framework for Coexistence Testing of Multi-Radio Platforms in the 2.4 GHz Band
Kiran Kumar Dhani Reddy
Reliable mmWave LoS/NLoS Classification via Large Wireless Model Embeddings
Quazi Rian Hasnaine, Eslam Hasan, Mohamed I. Ismail, Rhana Elsayed, Zubair Md Fadlullah, Muhammad Ismail and Mostafa Fouda
ML-Based Parameter Adaptation for OFDM-ISAC: A USRP Experimental Study
Rishikesh Bajgai, Mohamed I. Ismail, Zubair Md Fadlullah and Mostafa Fouda
Low-Latency and Secure Port Selection for Fluid Antenna Systems: A Hardware-AI Co-Design
Mohamed I. Ismail, Rhana Elsayed, Quazi Rian Hasnaine, Steve Chiu, Mostafa Fouda and Ahmed Elsayed Al Wakeel
Break
Reliable mmWave Blockage Detection Under Severe Imbalance: RUS/SMOTE with Ensemble Models
Mohamed I. Ismail, Eslam Hasan, Rhana Elsayed, Quazi Rian Hasnaine, Zubair Md Fadlullah and Mostafa Fouda

Friday, March 6 14:00 - 20:30

V6B: AI and Predictive Modeling 2 (Virtual)

Room: Virtual B
Chairs: Ravi P Gollapalli, Vineet KR Mishra, Akshay Pratinav
Evaluating LLMs Accuracy in Solving Coding Problems of Different Complexity Levels: An Empirical Analysis
Minda Li and Bhaskar Krishnamachari
Enhancing Autonomous Vehicle Testing in CARLA Under Dynamic Weather Conditions
Nelson Kipkemboi and Balaji Iyangar
Data-Driven Predictive Modeling of Stress and Sleep Issues in Young Adults from Device Usage
Nabeel M Sheikh, Amit Kumar and Vansh Agarwal
DroneSense: An Acoustic Deep Learning System for UAV Detection Using Spectrogram Analysis
Sherif Abdelhamid, Shahryar Shah and Mohamed Gebril
AI Augmented Big Data Framework for Edge Driven Threat Intelligence in Software Defined Networks
Het Mehta
Improving Gemini's Ability to Generate Syntactically Correct Mermaid Code
Pawan Sarma, David S Taylor, Melody Moh and Teng-Sheng Moh
Graph Spectra of Technical Documentation
Rocker D'Antonio
A Forward Chaining Expert System for Multi-Dataset Mental Health Assessment and Personalised Behaviour and Recommendations
Khushi Patel, Debasmita Biswas and Mohammadreza Hajiarbabi
IRSim: AI Generation of Infrared Images
Michael W. Barnett, Daniel C. Kolenich, Greg Bacon, Lysle E. Shields, Stacy Lukins and Eric Tsibertzopoulos
Break
Customer Financial Fraud Detection and Risk Profiling Using a Cloud-Native Swarm of AI Agents on AWS
Vimal Pradeep Venugopal
Synergetic Adaptive Orchestration and Governance: A Unified Framework for Production-Grade Multi-Agent Systems
Khushboo Bhatia
Scaling YOLOv8n for Road Object Detection Under Limited Data: A Comparative Study Using BDD100K Subsets
Sahar Hooshmand, Jateen Joharapurkar, Ali Jalooli, Benyamin Ahmadnia and Reza Roofegari nejad
Characterizing and Predicting Wildfire Evacuation Behavior: A Dual-Stage ML Approach
Sazzad Bin Bashar Polock, Anandi Dutta and Subasish Das
Dynamic Anchors for High Precision and Coverage Explanations - Preliminary Results
Supreeth Madapur Suresh and Suresh Muknahallipatna
Scribia: A Multimodal Context-Aware Voice-to-Text Composition System with Real-Time Visual Understanding
Krishna kishore Pilla, Vijay Tupakula and Sai Anusha Yerukonda
GPT for Botnet Detection
Yi Heng Chai, Wei Xiang Eddie Tan, Ray Shiang Nicholas Sng, Syafeen Khan Bin Irzan Khan, Zheng Hao Jonathan Chiu, Khairul Nizam Bin Abdul Rashid and Huaqun Guo
GPT Model for Incident Response
Thiam Aik Goh, Joo Ting Chiam, Zoie Chew, Claudia Xin Lin Chee, Peishan Li and Huaqun Guo
LLM-Based Framework for Improving Code Quality in Oilfield Data Acquisition Systems
Weijia Yang, Jiaju Chen and Carlos Estevez
Hybrid Rule-Based and Deep Learning System Using GNNs to Detect Credit Card Fraud
SriHarsha Anand Pushkala
Framework for the Design and Evaluation of Patient-Friendly AI-Generated Medical Reports
Shivani Mruthyunjaya and Anandi Dutta

Friday, March 6 16:45 - 18:15

V3A: Computing Systems 1 (Virtual)

Room: Virtual A
Chairs: Saurabh Hitendra Patel, Tamseel Syed, Ebonee A. Walker

Friday, March 6 18:15 - 18:45

V9A: General 1 (Virtual)

Room: Virtual A
Chair: Abla Hariri

Friday, March 6 18:45 - 19:15

V10B: Makeup Session 2

MAX TWO PAPERS
Room: Virtual A
Chair: Saurabh Hitendra Patel

Saturday, March 7

Saturday, March 7 8:00 - 13:00

V3B: Computing Systems 2 (Virtual)

Room: Virtual A
Chairs: Karthik Pappu, Tejas Pravinbhai Patel
Living-off-the-Land Attacks: Exploiting Windows Defensive Blind Spots in Memory-Based Threats
Ajay Kumara Makanahalli Annaiah
Designing Event Driven Data Synchronization for Regulatory Grade Financial Platforms
Krishna Kandi, Rafiuddin Syed and Sagar Mahajan
Quantum-Inspired Constrained Matching for Large-Scale Banking Reconciliation Under Tolerance and Many-to-Many Breaks
Phaneendra Vayu Kumar Yerra
AI-Driven IoT Architecture Using Electric Vehicles for Emergency Healthcare Monitoring and Response
Prakhar Srivastava, Mohit Bajaj and Aykut Fatih Güven
Data Allocation for Performance Improvement in Edge Computing
Minh Tran and Xiang Cao
Blockchain Transaction Anomaly Detection
Xing Ying Chia, Ming Quan Goh, ZhengXu Lin, Shawn Kuik, Kek Peng Tan, Kai Wei Jake Wong and Huaqun Guo
Assessing Planning Algorithms for Structuring LLM-Derived Workflows in Agentic AI Systems
Ganapathi Yeleswarapu, Chakra Pavan Kumar Kota, Ankur Vora and Sridhar K Irujolla
Population-Based Meta-Heuristic Hyperparameter Optimization for Intrusion Detection on the NSL-KDD Dataset
Arun Ambika Sasikumar, Chandu Gutti, Karthik Thumula and Hariprasad Holla
Accelerating Next-Gen Network Security: High-Throughput AES-GCM on Modern Data Center GPUs
Madhusudhan Swargam, Prathiksha Chikkamadal Manjunatha and Shadi Alawneh
Break
Multi-Layered Security Architecture for Cloud-Native Databases- Design Patterns and Implementation
Chaitanya Kulkarni, Chandrashekhar Medicherla, Bharadwaj Vulugundam, Tejas Pravinbhai Patel, Milan Parikh and Siva Rama Krishna Varma Bayyavarapu
MRI Reconstruction with Parallel Computing
George Abraham and Shadi Alawneh
Distributed Convoy Navigation System with Latency Compensation, Sensor Fusion, and Vision-Language Route Interpretation
Jagadish Krishna Pilla
A Policy-Driven Method for Preventing Cloud Storage Misconfiguration Breaches
Abhilash Guntupalli and Tirumala Bala Koteswara Rao Kamisetty
Cell-Based Architecture for Solving Data Integrity in Microservices
Supriya Lal
Adaptive Access Control for Preventing Credential-Based Data Exfiltration in Cloud Analytics Platforms
Tirumala Bala Koteswara Rao Kamisetty and Abhilash Guntupalli
Building Secure and Trustworthy AI for Healthcare Critical Infrastructure
Pooja Walia, Rajat Rawal and Jay Goradia
Accelerating the Cloud: A Taxonomy of SmartNIC and DPU Architectures for High-Performance Generative AI Workloads
Sujithra Periasamy
Engineering Reliable Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Regulatory and Compliance Systems
Thiyagarajan Kalyanasundaram, Shravya Bussari, Dinalan Sundaram and Kapil Kumar Sharma
Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of a Cloud Native Real-Time Distributed System Using Kubernetes and AWS
Nitish Mane and Kapil Jadhav

V6C: AI and Predictive Modeling 3 (Virtual)

Room: Virtual B
Chairs: Shiva Kumara, Fang Sun
Explainable AI for Marketing Intelligence: Interpretable Multi-Agent Systems for Data-Driven Decision Support
Angshuman Rudra, Mohana Karumuri and Manan Agrawal
Evaluating the Impact of Data Anonymization on AI Model Performance Across Sensitive Domains
Mahesh Shivnatri, Kuber Jain Rajendra Jain, Raghavender Reddy Puchhakayala and Willison Joseph Lopes
Scalable AIOps: A Framework for Lightweight Observability and Anomaly Detection in Large-Scale Cloud Clusters
Bhaskar Bharat Sawant, Preetam Dedu, Akshay Aggarwal and Nishanth Sirikonda
IntelliTradeAI: A Tri-Signal Fusion Framework for Explainable AI-Powered Financial Market Prediction
Danario Edgar, Noushin Ghaffari, Justin Foreman and Md Hossain Shuvo
An Evidence Bundle Framework for Operationalizing Trustworthy AI in Engineering Workflows
Jofia Jose Prakash
ScalePulse: Combinatorial LLM Framework for Scalability Constraint
Karthik Ramamurthy, Nagamalleswararao Bellamkonda and Nurmyrat Amanmadov
Towards Trustworthy Autonomous Robots: An Explainable AI-Based Decision Framework
Cagri Temel
Beyond the Black Box: Applying XAI to Supervised Multiclass Intrusion Detection
Jiaming Ding, Peng Shan, Rui Ding, Elly Yijun Zhu, Heng Li, Yue Wu, Tianze Kang, Yuxin Qiao and Chufeng Jiang
Compiler-Guided Inference-Time Adaptation: Improving GPT-5 Programming Performance in Idris
Minda Li and Bhaskar Krishnamachari
Break
Privacy Without Compromise: Benchmarking Local Open-Weight LLMs for Financial Data Extraction
Yash Sharma
Robust Socioeconomic Community Discovery from Census-Derived Indicators via KNN Graphs and Louvain Stability-Conductance Analysis
Farahnaz Hosseini and Ting Xiao
When Do Tools and Planning Help LLMs Think? A Cost- and Latency-Aware Benchmark
Subha Ghoshal and Ali Al-Bustami
Seconds from Impact: Anticipatory Vehicular Crash Prediction Using Video Vision Transformers
Ryan Geisen and Jane Zhang
A Cloud-Native Generative AI Agent Architecture for Predictive Cardiovascular Health Analytics
Krishnam Raju Narsepalle, Sreepal Reddy Bolla and Revanth Reddy Bandaru
Data-Driven Decision-Making for Secure Financial Credit and Cyber-Risk Systems
Krishnam Raju Narsepalle, Sreepal Reddy Bolla and Revanth Reddy Bandaru
Machine Learning-Based Demand Forecasting Models for Large-Scale Retail Analytics
Sreepal Reddy Bolla, Revanth Reddy Bandaru and Krishnam Raju Narsepalle
Use of Machine Learning in IaC State and Concurrency Management
Vaibhav Pandey
Attack Detection in Internet of Medical Things Using Machine Learning
Anand Choubey

Saturday, March 7 14:00 - 17:45

V3C: Computing Systems 3 (Virtual)

Room: Virtual A
Chairs: Kaushik, Ravi P Gollapalli
Towards Trustworthy Online Sealed-Bid Auctions: Challenges and Future Directions
Hassan Mahmoud and Ahmad Alsharif
Real-Time Multimodal Sensing and Spatiotemporal Event Logging on Mobile Devices
Sharad Sharma, Johannas Meela Meela Katikala and Pretom Roy Ovi
An Enhanced Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL)-Guided Hybrid Planner for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Path Planning in Complex Environments
Muhammad Zain Chaudhary, Ammar Ahmed, Abdullah Ahmed, Muhammad Abdullah Shaikh, Ahmed Sherif and Rabab Abdelfattah
KubeNetLLM: An Architectural Framework and Experimental Validation for Context-Aware Kubernetes Network Configuration Using LLMs and MCP
Sonika Arora, Prashanth Josyula and Ankit Rajput
Sweat2Scroll: An Energy-Efficient Policy Enforcement Architecture for Mobile Edge Environments Using WebAssembly
Jagadish Krishna Pilla
Maximizing ROI Through AI Adoption in Software Performance Engineering and Testing
Bharat Kumar Maganti and Sowmya Chintakindi
A Comparative Study of API Deployment on on-Prem, EC2, and AWS Lambda
Sowmya Chintakindi
Understanding Stability of Choices: Toward Robust Choice-Based Authentication in Cybersecurity
Sayanton Dibbo, Sudip Vhaduri, Samuel Andres Gomez and Andrea Gajic
Performance Enhancement of Cloud-Native Data Integration Pipelines Using AWS Glue
Vinoth Punniyamoorthy, Balakrishna Pothineni, Prema K Veerapaneni, Ravi Kiran Kodali, Srivenkateswara Reddy Sankiti, Ram Sekhar Bodala, Siva Kumar Chintham and Seema Gangaiah Aarella
When "No Shared Libraries" Stops Working in Distributed Systems
Bhaskar Manchuri
Break
AI-Driven Cybersecurity Monitoring for Cloud Infrastructure and Identity Systems
Manikarthik Konakalla, Udai Vurum and Ravi Teja Reddy Mandala
Red-Team Prompt Injection Defense Using Multi-Context Protocol (MCP)
Vasanth rao Jadav, Shravya Bussari, Mukesh Aurangabadkar and Anshul Garg
Human-Centered Explainable AI for Security Enhancement: A Deep Intrusion Detection Framework
Md Muntasir Jahid Ayan, Md. Shahriar Rashid, Tazzina Afroze Hassan, Hossain Md. Mubashshir Jamil, Mahbubul Islam, Lisan Al Amin, Rupak Kumar Das, Farzana Akter and Faisal Quader
Detecting Injection Attacks in REST APIs Using DNIARS
Ian McGowan, Khavar Facey, Tian Mcfarlane, Shaquille Ford and Katoni Shields

Saturday, March 7 14:00 - 19:15

V6D: AI and Predictive Modeling 4 (Virtual)

Room: Virtual B
Chairs: Greg Bacon, Het Mehta, Raziq Yaqub
Automated Population-Level Audit Assurance via AI-Based Document Intelligence
Santosh Vasudevan and Velu Natarajan
Bias-Forecasting: Predicting Ethical Failures in AI Models Before Deployment
Sowjanya Pandruju
Autonomous ASN Label Compliance Using a Hybrid YOLOv8-Vision-Language Framework & Florence 2
Nishant Tare, Sai Dinesh Vallamsetti and Kamal Pandey
Self-Supervised Pretraining and Calibrated Fine-Tuning for Common and Rare Thoracic Findings on Chest Radiographs
Debasmita Biswas and Mohammadreza Hajiarbabi
Always-on Vs Gated External Signals for Demand Forecasting on the M4 Dataset V1.1
Krishna Kumar Neelakanta Pillai Santha Kumari Amma
TrustBench: Benchmarking Trustworthy Large Language Models with Cost and Stability Metrics
Ritesh H Ruparel, Srinivasa Chary Maringanti, Aravinda Jatavallabha, Jen Agarwal, Praveen Kumar Reddy Vavilla and Suraj Vangala
A Tiered Multimodal Memory and Event-Graph Architecture for Real-Time Agentic Reasoning Systems
John Benito Jesudasan Peter
Explainability First: Designing Trustworthy Machine Learning Models for Real-World Deployment
Mounica Achanta and Dharanidhar Vuppu
Agentic Data Pipeline Orchestration with Multi-Agent AI
Dharanidhar Vuppu and Mounica Achanta
Accelerating Enterprise Application Development Through AI-Enhanced Low-Code Platforms: An Empirical Analysis of Oracle APEX with Generative AI Integration
Mohankrishna Kothapalli and Dharanidhar Vuppu
Break
From Bits to Trust: AI-Driven Reconfigurable Security
Rye Stahle-Smith and Rasha Karakchi
Governed Agentic AI for Software Platforms: A Reference Architecture for Safe Autonomy at Scale
Sureshkumar Karuppuchamy
LeafCam: Universal AI Camera System for Real-Time Plant Health Detection
Oscar Burton Ortiz Tharp, Gaven Brewster, Chandler Mayfield, Connor Middleton, Daniel Byers, Matthew Marshall, Muhammad Hassan Tanveer and Yusun Chang
A Probabilistic Multi-Signal Framework for Directional Movement Forecasting in Financial Time Series: A Statistical Learning Perspective
Manan Agrawal and Arindam Mukherjee
P2Maze: A Protocol-Paired Sim-to-Real Robot Maze Navigation Dataset for Zero-Shot Transfer and Few-Shot Adaptation
Yiran Pang, Wen-Chung Cheng, Zhen Ni and Xiangnan Zhong
Prediction and Optimization of S11 (Reflection Coefficient) in Log-Periodic Toothed Antennas on Flexible Kapton Substrate Using Machine Learning
Md Abdur Rashid, Anandi Dutta and Yihong Chen
Privacy-Preserving on-Device AI for Personalized Mobile Video Advertising
Packiaraj Kasi Rajan
Small Language Model Jailbreak Defender Framework
Eduardo Alberto Castro Puello, Wei Li, Ling Wang, Ajoy Kumar and Yonas G Mulissa
Post-Earthquake Structural Damage Classification from Ground-Level Imagery Using Transfer-Learning Convolutional Neural Networks
Aditi Roy and Anandi Dutta

Saturday, March 7 17:45 - 19:15

V9B: General 2 (Virtual)

Room: Virtual A
Chairs: Khloud Assran, Shruti Hardia

Sunday, March 8

Sunday, March 8 8:00 - 10:15

V3D: Computing Systems 4 (Virtual)

Room: Virtual A
Chairs: Ashwin Ashok, Krishnam Raju Narsepalle, Nabeel M Sheikh

Sunday, March 8 8:00 - 13:00

V6E: AI and Predictive Modeling 5 (Virtual)

Room: Virtual B
Chairs: Micaela Siraj, Sunil Kumar Vadlamani
Safeguarding Federated Learning Model in Internet of Vehicles (IoV) Through Utilization of Fake Neurons
Tim Leonhardt, Jayden Pruitt, Gabriel Law, Ahmed Sherif, Mohamed Elsersy, Sarah Lee, Magdy Bayoumi and Kasem Khalil
From Pixels to Probabilities: A Streamlined Interpretable Model for Digit Classification Using PCA Denoising and KDE
Yue Wu, Elly Yijun Zhu, Rui Ding, Heng Li, Peng Shan, Jiaming Ding, Tianze Kang, Yuxin Qiao and Chufeng Jiang
EDE-SLM: Execution-Driven Ensembles for Sub-1B Code Generation Models
Ravitez Dondeti
Adaptive Token Routing for Heterogeneous LLM Inference in Edge-Cloud Continuum
Tejas Pravinbhai Patel
A Decision-Analytic Methodology for Capacity-Constrained User Re-Engagement Using Behavioral Signals
Snigdha Alathur
Adaptive Load Balancing for Multi-Tier LLM Inference with Dynamic Model Routing
Tejas Pravinbhai Patel, Chaitanya Kulkarni, Sandeep Shivam, Amit Kumar Padhy, Viswanathan Ranganathan and Siva Rama Krishna Varma Bayyavarapu
DeepServe: Hierarchical Model Placement and Dynamic Batching for Cost-Efficient Multi-Tenant LLM Inference at Scale
Tejas Pravinbhai Patel and Pragya Agarwal
Trust-Aware Professional Identity Representation in AI-Mediated Systems
Shubham Anandani
Sparse Selective Hyper-Connections: A Unified Framework for Stable and Efficient Deep Residual Learning
Shrey Modi, Rahul Vishwakarma, Renju Rajeev, Tanay Parikh, Krishna Patel and Holly Diamond
Break
Hybrid LLM Architectures for on-Device and Cloud-Based Intelligence in Regulated Industries
Sivarama Krishna Akhil Koduri
Detecting Malicious and Phishing URLs Using NLP-Based Preprocessing and Machine Learning Approaches for Classification
Hari Prasad Badiginchala
Machine Learning-Driven Resource Utilization Prediction for Scalable Cloud Infrastructure Management
Hari Prasad Badiginchala
Metaheuristic-Based Frameworks for Energy-Efficient Load Balancing and Task Scheduling in Cloud Computing Systems
Hari Prasad Badiginchala
VoiceBook: Self-Improving Voice Agents for Appointment Booking Through Adversarial Dialogue Self-Play
Srikalyan Swayampakula and Sriram Panyam
FinRAI-Bench: A Minimal Benchmark Contract and Evidence Bundle for Responsible Evaluation of Financial Decision Models
Ashok Prakash, Aashi Sharma, Isan Sahoo and Manikarthik Konakalla
AI-Driven Real-Time Data Synchronization in Distributed Financial Systems
Sairamakrishna BuchiReddy Karri, Sandeep Kumar Srivastava, Phaneendra Siddana and Ramireddy Chilakala
Predictive Modeling of Packet Behavior in Network Flows Using Initial Packet Sampling
Syamprasad Guda
AI-Driven Brainwave Analysis for Anomalous Neurological Event Detection
Shruti Hardia
Instant Segmentation for IoT-Enabled Smart-Grid Networks with a Hybrid Small Language Model Policy Selection
Deyshonique N Stevenson and Dale Callahan

Sunday, March 8 10:30 - 12:00

V4: Signal and Image Processing (Virtual)

Room: Virtual A
Chairs: Tejas Pravinbhai Patel, Vasanth Rajendran

Sunday, March 8 12:00 - 13:00

V5A: Microelectronics, Devices and Sensors 1 (Virtual)

Room: Virtual A
Chair: Ravi P Gollapalli
SoilBus: An Ad Hoc Soil Sensor Network for Precision Agriculture
Saam Haghighat-Grami, Carter Corbin, Aaditya M More, Lakshay Battu, Emmanuel Lloyd Allen, Muhammad Hassan Tanveer and Daniel Byers
Investigation and Construction of a Piezoelectric Traveling Wave Rotary Ultrasonic Motor with Two Sensors
Valentin Bolborici
LSTM-Based Anomaly Detection in Industrial Control Systems Through Entropy-Based Feature Transformation
Zachary Neal, Cordell Clay Davidson, Jesse Ables and Jordan Shropshire

Sunday, March 8 14:00 - 14:30

V5B: Microelectronics, Devices and Sensors 2 (Virtual)

Room: Virtual A
Chair: Tamseel Syed

Sunday, March 8 14:00 - 19:15

V6F: AI and Predictive Modeling 6

Room: Virtual B
Chairs: Syed Danish Ali, Abdul Salam Abdul Karim, Gokul Pandy
AI-Driven User-Centric Design: Adaptive Interfaces as Runtime Systems
Oleg Safranov and Kateryna Babii
Vision Transformers for Thermal Weapon Segmentation
Akhila Kambhatla and Khaled R. Ahmed
A Self-Aware Data Platform with Predictive Elasticity: Closed-Loop Autonomy for Elastic, Reliable, and Governed Analytics at Scale
John Benito Jesudasan Peter
Balancing Privacy and Model Performance: An Experimental Analysis of Data Anonymization Techniques
Nachiappan Chockalingam, Aswathnarayan Muthukrishnan Kirubakaran, Adithya Parthasarathy, Sumit Saha, Abhirup Mazumder, Mayilsamy Palanigounder, Nitin Saksena and Bikesh Kumar
Deductive Modeling of User Satisfaction: A Synthetic-User Digital Twin Framework for Early Software Adoption Analysis
Abhinay Kumar Reddy Seella
Operationalizing Multi-Agent Interoperability via Contract-Driven Model Context Protocols
Aswathnarayan Muthukrishnan Kirubakaran, Vinoth Punniyamoorthy, Nachiappan Chockalingam, Adithya Parthasarathy, Akash K Agarwal, Shiva Kumar Reddy Carimireddy and Akshay Deshpande
Autonomous Reliability Engineering: A Scalable Agentic AI Framework for Enterprise Infrastructure Support
Franklin Jebadoss
Risk-Adaptive Authorization for Agentic AI Systems
Badal Bhushan, Karthik Pappu, Vasanth rao Jadav and Nilesh Jaiswal
A Unified ML/RL Framework for Intraday Trading with Risk-Aware Evaluation and Explainability
Lucy Jomo, Sanchita Ghose, Abraham Zepeda and Shivangi Narayan
Break
Evaluating AI Effectiveness in Small and Rare Object Detection Using Controlled Synthetic Data Generation Environments
Catherine Spooner, Jesse Claiborne, Miriam Delgado, Michael Backus and Sambit Bhattacharya
A Comparative Study of Machine Learning Models for Multiclass Employee Absenteeism Prediction with Explainability
Rafael Silva Taveira, Helena S. Balbino, Jurandir Silva, Rogerio Salvini and Juliana Felix
CLoS-VAE: A Steerable Approach for Exploring Images
Christopher P Beam and Andrew Willis
Is Adversarial Vulnerability a Real Trade-off in LoRA Fine-Tuned Models?
Ajinkya Shekhar More and Jonathan Rusert
Integrative Analysis of Gut Microbiome Profiles in Rheumatoid Arthritis Using Differential Abundance, Beta Diversity, and Sparse Machine Learning
Hatim Palitanawala, Sabira Dabeer, Ramprasad Goturkarnam, Santosh Kumar and Shamseerahammed Thendan Kandiyil
Ethical Governance Frameworks for AGI in Cyber-Physical Systems
Suchismita Chatterjee, Vivek Kumar and Guru Charan Kakaraparthi
Physics-Embedded Feature Learning for AI in Medical Imaging
Pulock Das, Al Amin, Kamrul Hasan, Rohan Thompson, Azuike Okpalaeze and Liang Hong
Evaluating ML Algorithms for Internet of Things (IoT) Identity Attacks Using CICIDS2017 Dataset
Shiva Kumara
Comparative Analysis of Machine Learning Models for Efficient MOSFET Current-Voltage Modeling
Kazi Mohammad Mamun, Sergio Garcia Paravisini, Joshua Natal Curet, Mst Shamim Ara Shawkat and Nezih Pala
Efficient AI-Powered Decision Support Systems: A Framework for Scalable Real-Time Predictions
Krishnam Raju Narsepalle, Revanth Reddy Bandaru and Sreepal Reddy Bolla

Sunday, March 8 14:30 - 17:00

V7: Automation, Dynamical Systems and Controls (Virtual)

Room: Virtual A
Chair: Ebonee A. Walker

Sunday, March 8 17:00 - 18:00

V8: Engineering Education (Virtual)

Room: Virtual A
Chairs: Sherif Abdelhamid, Stephen Andrew Wilkerson

Sunday, March 8 18:00 - 18:30

V9C: General 3 (Virtual)

Room: Virtual A
Chair: Krishna kishore Pilla
Intent-Aware in-Network Enforcement for Protocol Misuse Detection Using P4 Data Planes
Mohammad Ibrahim, Sumit Chakravarty and Michail Alexiou
Design and Preliminary Evaluation of a Compliant Rolling-Contact Bipedal Robot Guided by Human Motion Data
Regina Martinez Moctezuma, Rob Montgomery, Connor Talley, Deniz Kerimoglu and Ayse Tekes

Sunday, March 8 18:30 - 19:15

V10D: Makeup Session 4

MAXIMUM 3 PAPERS
Room: Virtual A

Sunday, March 8 19:15 - 19:45

V5C: Microelectronics, Devices and Sensors 3 (Virtual)

Room: Virtual B
Chairs: Krishna Kandi, Vaibhav Pandey

Monday, March 9

Monday, March 9 8:00 - 13:00

V6G: AI and Predictive Modeling 7 (Virtual)

Room: Virtual B
Chair: Tarek Youssef
Explainable AI Techniques for Transparent Algorithmic Trading Decisions
Deepak Kumar Giri and Swathi Gangarapu
Agentic Correlation Engine: Dynamic Incident Generation Based on Knowledge Graphs
Rashmi Singh, Keshav Ranjan and Abhishek Kumar
From Prototype to Production: A Checklist for Production-Ready AI (Focused on Data Quality, Monitoring, and Human Oversight)
Femi Oke, Anjum Razzaque and Abdullahi O Ibiyeye
Hybrid Federated and Split Learning for Privacy Preserving Clinical Prediction and Treatment Optimization
Farzana Akter, Rakib Hossain, Deb Kanna Roy Toushi, Mahmood Menon Khan, Sultana Amin and Lisan Al Amin
Security-Aware Retrieval-Augmented Generation System for Post-Quantum Cryptography Intelligence
Gayathri Priya Kolavennu, Yong Shi, Kun Suo, Tu N. Nguyen, Chen Zhao and Zongxing Xie
Balancing Accuracy, Interpretability, and Efficiency in Credit Risk Prediction: A Comparative ML Study with SHAP Explanation
Veeramani Sampathkumar, Ishan Prashant Pathak, Dinesh Kumar Ramaraj, Gayathri Balakumar, Pavan Kumar Joshi and Abinaya Mettupatti Sivagnanam
Analysis of Heterogeneous Collaborative Spectrum Sensing Applied to Emitter Identification
Dylan Green, Maymoonah Toubeh and William C Headley
Self-Healing Security Orchestration for Financial Fraud Systems: Autonomous Incident Response and Infrastructure Stabilization
Madhusudan Bangalore Nagaraja, Damodhara Reddy Palavali, Abhishek Jain and Renuka Yallappa Hosamani
Real-Time Energy Optimization and Predictive Maintenance for Commercial Building Portfolios Using Tensor-Based Multi-Zone Modeling
Dinesh Kumar Elumalai and Damodhara Reddy Palavali
Break
Fine-Tuning Large Vision Models for Robust Diabetic Retinopathy Detection
Nada Elmenabawy, Eslam Hasan and Mostafa Fouda
Street2Sat: Lightweight Cross-View Geo-Localization via Topological Graph Matching
Svaran Medavarapu
Deduplication-Aware PowerShell Malware Detection Using Similarity Components and Prototype
Noureldin Youssef, Adel S Elmaghraby and Nour Elbarawy
CNN-Based Detection of Bearing Race Defects from Variable Reluctance Sensor Signals
Collin Daly and Rami J. Haddad
Energy-Efficient Transformer Inference: A Comparative Analysis of Model Size, Latency, Energy Consumption, and Carbon Footprint
Ameerat Olorunkemi Bello, Ahmad Al Doulat, Muyideen Adeyemi Bello and Chelsie Marie Dubay
Reliable AI for Predictive Modeling: From Training- Time Accuracy to Operational Forecasting
Dmytro Smirnov
Nomad-AMR: Generative Edge Intelligence and Predictive Modeling for Antimicrobial Stewardship in Data-Scarce Populations
Pooja Walia and Rajat Rawal
From Social Engineering to Financial Fraud: A Multi-Agent LLM Approach to Vishing Detection
Sherif Abdelhamid, James Bangura and Benjamin Davis
Performance Evaluation of Deep Learning Models for Early Detection of Infectious Diseases in Healthcare Systems
Sanjoy Mukherjee
Statistical Modeling of Vehicle Dynamics from Sensor Data for Autonomous Vehicle Testing
Kalia Lafferty and Ala Alnaser

Monday, March 9 14:00 - 19:00

V10: Makeup Sessions (Virtual)

Room: Virtual B
Chairs: Wael Al-Kouz, John N. Spitzmiller
Automated Schema Enforcement and Stateless Deduplication in Distributed Data Pipelines: A Contract-Driven Approach
Suresh Chaganti
Understanding Human-AI Teaming and Engagement Behaviors in Critical Mission Scenarios in Virtual Environments
Joseph Schwalb, Eric Sung, Vineetha Menon, Kristin Weger and Bryan Mesmer
A Virtual Braille Keyboard Prototype for Accessible Text Input on Smartphones
Larissa Braga de Carvalho, Afonso Ueslei da Fonseca, Thamer Horbylon Nascimento, Eduardo Amorim, Juliana Felix and Fabrizzio Soares
Edge-AI Awareness Module for Autonomous Indoor Spaces: A Privacy-Preserving Multimodal Sensing Prototype with a Nonclinical Fall-Detection Case Study
Edward Clarkston, Yusun Chang and Razvan Cristian Voicu
Can Domain Transfer Counter Adversarial Attacks in Traffic Sign Classification Systems?
Mulham Fawakherji and Ahmad Patooghy
Unsupervised Skin Lesion Segmentation Using Recursive Quantum-Inspired Annealing and Similarity Refinement
Sapthak Mohajon Turjya and Mulham Fawakherji
Privacy-Preserving Lung Nodule Segmentation via Detection-Guided Coordinate Attention
Mulham Fawakherji and Sapthak Mohajon Turjya
Deterministic Kinematic Synchronization for High-Speed Manipulation of Non-Rigid Substrates
Santosh Yadav
Trend-Aware TinyML Co-Design on Microcontrollers: Quantization, Structured Sparsity, and on-Device Adaptation Under Tight Memory-Energy Budgets
Naga Sujitha Vummaneni, Adarsh Mittal, Ishan Kumar, Srilakshmi Bharadwaj and Himani Varshney
Break
Scalability-Aware Performance Analysis of Edge Nodes in Large-Scale IoT Networks
Naga Sujitha Vummaneni, Adarsh Mittal, Ishan Kumar, Srilakshmi Bharadwaj and Himani Varshney
Toward Transparent Document Intelligence: An Instrumented LLM-Based Framework with Hybrid Retrieval
Jas Tandon
Detecting Spoofed Remote ID Messages Using Radio-Frequency Fingerprints: A Python-Based Simulation Study
Harkiran K Bhullar, Ashley Moinard and Laxima Niure Kandel
Quantum-Enhanced Transactional Cloud Operations Using Agentic AI
Shalini Sudarsan, Nihar R Karra, Milankumar Rana and Manan Agrawal
Control and Safety Boundaries for Agentic AI in Cloud-Native Distributed Systems
Shaibal Maji
A Comparative Analysis of Large Language Models on Integration by Parts
Nirjara K.c and Prasanthi Sreekumari
An Ambient Assisted Finite Element Approach for DLR Evaluation of Transmission Lines Based on FERC Order 881
Lava Kumar Vandrangi and Zeeshan Rashid
AI Smart Stick for Elderly and Visually Impaired Individuals Using YOLO Methods
Samson Kitsao Mramba, Abraham Mutunga Nyete and Peter Moses Musau
Machine Learning Algorithms for FPGA Implementation in Software Engineering Applications
Rohith Goura, Jyothi Swaroop Arlagadda N and Ram Babu Penugonda
Hybrid Deep Learning and Statistical Forecasting for Short-Term Electric Load
Sevan Brodjian, Jason Liao, Abhishek Goswami and Prasenjit Shil

Friday, March 13

Friday, March 13 8:00 - 10:00

Track 1 -: Power and Energy Systems-Session 1

Room: Embassy - Big Spring A
Chair: Greg Bacon

Track 3 -: Computing Systems-Session 1

Room: Embassy - Big Spring B
Chair: Ebonee A. Walker
Evaluating Migration Strategies: A Scoring-Based Comparison of Big Bang and Incremental Approaches
Lionel E. Standridge and Frank J. Mitropoulos
Detecting ROS 2 Man-in-the-Middle Attacks in Simulated Environments with NLPSA
William Locklier, George W. Clark and Jeffrey Todd McDonald
Optimizing Multi-Path Routing in Large-Scale Quantum Networks Using Quantum Annealing
Parker Jones and Vini Chaudhary
Defense Methods for Adversary Patches in Autonomous Robotic Systems
Thanh Le, George W. Clark, Jeffrey Todd McDonald and Na Gong
Mining User Forums to Evaluate Quality-in-Use of Environmental Software
Yvette D Hastings, Jeffrey Carver, A. Redempta Manzi Muneza, Robert A. Payn, Stephanie A. Ewing, Stephan Warnat and Ann Marie Reinhold
Impact of Ordering on Sparse Tensors
Shae Bolt and Joshua Dennis Booth

Friday, March 13 8:00 - 9:00

Track 5: Microelectronics, Devices and Sensors- Session 4

Room: Embassy - Redstone
Chairs: Vijaya Sai Munduru, Yesha Patel
Wireless Data Transmission in Mobility Devices for Children with Cognitive Impairment: Enhancing Rehabilitation Monitoring
DaQwan Fredericks, Juan Aceros, Brian Rivera, Logan Licini, Andrew Bultman, FNU Dhruv, Hemani Kaushal and Guilherme M Cesar
Continuous-Time FIR Filters Using Asynchronous FPGAs
Aubrey Beal, Seth Cohen, Casey Fendley and Austin Davis

Friday, March 13 8:00 - 10:00

Track 5 -: Microelectronics, Devices and Sensor-Session 1

Room: Embassy - Big Spring C
Chair: Sabrina Perry

Track 6 -: AI and Predictive Modeling-Session 6

Room: Embassy - Big Spring D
Chair: Saman Sargolzaei

Track 7: Automation, Dynamical Systems and Controls - Session 3

Room: Embassy - Madison
Chair: Joyjit Roy
3-Dimensional Gas Source Localization via Chemotaxis Using Uncrewed Aircraft Systems
Jiahao Li and Lingxiao Wang
Autonomous Ground Vehicle for Precision Weed Detection and Targeted Pesticide Spraying Using Deep Learning
Justin Finn, Thomas Paxton, Jesse Warren, Arden Stanley, Barbara Darroch and Saman Sargolzaei
A Scalable and Fault-Tolerant Data Infrastructure for Smart Manufacturing Research
Cy Dixon, Madison Gardner, Jeffrey Galloway and Gregory K. Arbuckle

Track 7 -: Automation, Dynamical Systems and Controls-Session 2

Room: Embassy - Monte Sano
Chair: John N. Spitzmiller
Flexible Drones: ROS 2 Action-Based Coordination of Multiple Heterogeneous Drones
Emma R. Faith, Aubrie B. Kooiker, Andrew J Farney, Sebastian Fox, Evangelina Grimes and David C. Conner
Design, Fabrication, and Performance of a Multi-Layer Thermal Plant with Digital Control for Precision Timing Research and Development
Neil Furman, Todd Freeborn and Bryan Owings
Design of Lidar Based Sweeper Robots: 3D Game Engine Simulations and Experimental Results
Onur Toker and Steffen Ullmann
Improved Hopping Control on Slopes for Small Robots Using Spring Mass Modeling
Heston Roberts, Pronoy Sarker, Sm Ashikul Islam and Mingyu Kim
Angle-Free Mobile Robot Position Control
Douglas Isenberg and Nick Maloziec

Friday, March 13 10:30 - 12:00

Track 1 -: Power and Energy Systems- Session 2

Room: Embassy - Big Spring A
Chair: Robert Smith
Assessing Environmental Risk Factors in Smart Grids: A Framework for Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Analyzing Plant Efficiency
Michael J. Paul, Asmah Muallem, Loni Taylor, Firdous Kausar and Sajid Hussain
Marine EV (E-Boat) Battery Charging System
Shreyasee Mandal, Breanna Laski, Eduard Muljadi, Yufei Tang, Tianqi Hong, Mark Nelms, Olivia Gann and Minh Thang Le
Kalman-Augmented Estimation for Enhancing the Reliability Analysis of Power Electronic Converters via Sensor-Error Mitigation
Esther Omoyiwola and Masoud Davari
Real-Time Validation of Hierarchical Control for Inverter-Based Resources in Islanded Microgrids
Rawan Taha, Ahmed Aghmadi and Osama Mohammed

Track 2: Communications and Electromagnetics - Session 3

Room: Embassy - Madison
Chair: Suresh Chaganti
Characterization of Solar Radiation Effects on Free Space Optical Communication Using High-Altitude Balloon Measurements
Lucas Marsh, Hemani Kaushal and Nirmalkumar Patel
Resource Allocation for Deep Joint Source-Channel Coding-Assisted Earth Observation Missions in LEO Satellite Systems
Ti Ti Nguyen, Vu Nguyen Ha, Hung Nguyen-Kha, Thanh-Dung LE, Duc Dung Tran, Juan Andres Vásquez Peralvo, Juan Duncan and Symeon Chatzinotas
Deep Learning for Anomaly Detection in Satellite Signal Traffic: Securing Space-Based Infrastructure
Sai Karthik Garnepudi, John Watkins, Edwin Sawan and Geethalakshmi Lakshmikanth

Track 3 -: Computing Systems-session 2

Room: Embassy - Big Spring B
Chair: RN Uma

Track 5 -: Microelectronics, Devices and Sensors-Session 2

Room: Embassy - Big Spring C
Chairs: Laurence Mailaender, Yesha Patel

Track 6 -: AI and Predictive Modeling-Session 7

Room: Embassy - Big Spring D
Chair: Bhushan Lohar

Track 8: Engineering Education - Session 3

Room: Embassy - Redstone
Chairs: Yukti, Delores Parker Baker
Identifying Affective Engagement States in Digital Learning Using Synchronized Electroencephalography
Menekse Adar, Serkan Varol and Zack Ridder
FRAME: A Failure-Aware Resilient Approach for Mastery in Pre-Engineering Education
Ragavanantham Shanmugam, Peter Romine, Raihan Quader and Raguraman Munusamy

Track 8 -: Engineering Education-Session 1

Room: Embassy - Monte Sano
Chair: Ebonee A. Walker
EduCore: A Privacy-Aware LLM-Driven Education Framework with Intelligent Multi-Agent Support
Debashis Das, Tenicka T. Norwood, Pushpita Chatterjee and Uttam Ghosh
Generative AI as a Motivational Support in Undergraduate Electrical and Computer Engineering Education
Arezoo Ghooreian and Omid Reyhanigalangashi
An AI-Assisted Framework for Dynamics and Control Laboratory with Chatbot-Supported Multiple Representations of Learning
Deekshitha Kanala, Rob Montgomery, Ayse Tekes, Tristan Utschig and Coskun Tekes
A Research to Practice of Privacy, Fairness, and Utility Tradeoffs in Federated Learning
Andre Kenneth Chase Randall, Ruzan Almutairi, Kiet Chu, Neeladri Bhuiya and Beverly Park Woolf

Friday, March 13 13:00 - 15:00

Track 1 -: Power and Energy Systems- Session 3

Room: Embassy - Big Spring A
Chair: Bobby Johnson

Track 3 -: Computing Systems-Session 3

Room: Embassy - Big Spring B
Chair: Arman Sargolzaei
Automated Testing in a Multi-Agent Systems Simulation Platform
Connor H. Wells and Roberto A. Flores
A Survey of IoT Worm Behavior and Evolution
Aiden Melton, Wesley Huntington and Hwajung Lee
Selecting Emerging Non-Volatile Memories for Embedded and IoT Systems: A Practical Guide
Vojin Dzeletovic and Aleksandar Milenkovic
SCOPE: Satellite Communication Security Analysis and Mitigation Strategies Using STRIDE and Data Flow Diagrams
Joy Wang, Rand Ashour, Md Ismail Hossain and Ragib Hasan
A Systematic Evaluation of Data Poisoning Severity Under Label Flipping and Gradient Manipulation Based Attacks
Sabrina Perry, Yili Jiang and Charles Walter
Availability Attacks Without an Adversary: Evidence from Enterprise LANs
Rajendra Paudyal, Rajendra Upadhyay, Al Nahian Bin Emran, Lisa Donnan and Duminda Wijesekera

Track 4: Signal and Image Processing - Session 4

Room: Embassy - Madison
Chair: John N. Spitzmiller
Adapting 3D Point Cloud Moving Object Segmentation to Challenging Tasks
Dylan Marcus Wright, Susanta Deka, Daniel Carvalho, Jarrod Brown, Christian Keyser, Bhuvaneswari Ramachandran and Achraf Cohen
A Transmitter Architecture for Digital-Pre-Distortion of Power Amplifiers for Systems with Insufficient Sampling-Rate
Walid Ahmed and Laurence Mailaender
Using Higher-Order Spectral Growth in Pant Pocket-Worn Accelerometers for Cough-Detection Apps
Rushi Vyas and RyanA Connelly

Track 5 -: Microelectronics, Devices and Sensor-Session 3

Room: Embassy - Big Spring C
Chair: Ahmed Elsayed
Ultra-High-Frequency Transmission Analysis and Comparative Evaluation of Various TSV Geometries
Prosen Kirtonia, Shelby Williams, Sonia Akter, Kasem Khalil and Magdy Bayoumi
Design and Silicon Bring-Up of a CMOS Integrated Circuit in 180 nm Technology
Fabian Sanchez, Baraka Chimba, Meek Simbule, Nehemiah Edison, Goodwill Kwenda and Zhigang Xiao
A Continuous-Time Auto-Ranging Interface for Wide-Dynamic-Range Resistive Sensing
Faisal Alamri, Hussian Maanaki, Ali Farahani, Hossien Niakan, Jun Wang and Babak Parkhideh
A Sampling Frac-N PLL with Current Steering Inverse-Constant-Slope DTC
Ergen Tao, Niu Guofu and Fa Foster Dai
Optical Field and Absorbed Photon Density Mapping for CMOS SPADs
Shante Hicks, Andrei Nomerotski and Mst Shamim Ara Shawkat
A Low-Cost, Rapidly Deployable Apparatus for Atmospheric Characterization Measurements
Owen Taylor and William North

Track 6 -: AI and Predictive Modeling- Session 8

Room: Embassy - Big Spring D
Chair: Aniruddha Maiti

Track 9 -: General - Session 1

Room: Embassy - Monte Sano
Chair: Romail Arif

Friday, March 13 15:30 - 16:30

Track 1 -: Power and Energy Systems-Session 4

Room: Embassy - Big Spring A
Chair: Rawan Taha

Friday, March 13 15:30 - 17:00

Track 3 -: Computing Systems- Session 4

Room: Embassy - Big Spring B
Chairs: Yukti, Guillermo Campos

Track 4: Signal and Image Processing - Session 5

Room: Embassy - Madison
Chair: Amol Bhatnagar

Track 6 -: AI and Predictive Modeling- Session1

Room: Embassy - Big Spring C
Chair: Malar Mangai Kondappan

Track 6 -S9: AI and Predictive Modeling-Session 9

Room: Embassy - Big Spring D
Chair: Dhivya Guru
Towards the Development of a Deep Learning Based Maize-Weed Detection Using YOLO Architectures
Folorunso Taliha Abiodun, Jubril Bala, Trusting Inekwe, Williams Thistleton, Anaja Yadav and Adegboyega Adebayo
Marine Radar-to-Camera Projection for Maritime Sensor Fusion
Ty Dangerfield, Douglas Cahl and Yi Wang
An Evaluation of Machine Learning Models' Efficacy in Determining UAV Spoofing Attacks
Nicholas N Machado, Jaxon M Selzer, Sarah A Reynolds and Omar Ochoa

Track 8 -: Engineering Education-Session 2

Room: Embassy - Monte Sano
Chair: Lionel E. Standridge

Friday, March 13 15:30 - 16:30

Track 9: General - Session 3

Room: Embassy - Redstone
Chair: Pallab Haldar
A Concept Study of Reflectivity Control Devices for Next-Generation Solar Sail Missions
Bhushan Lohar, Ninad Pandit, Sai Raghava Pathuri and Sudhanshu Tarale
Noise Robustness Study of Convolutional Neural Networks and Transfer Learning for Quantifying Lateral Flow Assays
Kingsley Amponsah and Asahi Tomitaka
A Security and Privacy Assessment of Mobile Ride-Sharing Applications
Peter Andrews Jr, Brian Fitzgerald, Schuyler Winston, Troy Georges, Shalisa McKenzie-McAulay, Daniel Wilson-Eche and Suzanna Schmeelk

Saturday, March 14

Saturday, March 14 8:00 - 10:00

Track 3 -: Computing Systems-Session 5

Room: Embassy - Big Spring B
Chair: Saman Sargolzaei

Track 4 -: Signal and Image Processing- Session 1

Room: Embassy - Big Spring A
Chair: Daniel Sanchez Castan

Track 6 -: AI and Predictive Modeling-Session 2

Room: Embassy - Big Spring C
Chair: Samaresh Kumar Singh

Track 6 - S10: AI and Predictive Modeling-Session 10

Room: Embassy - Big Spring D
Chairs: Malar Mangai Kondappan, Joyjit Roy

Track 6 - S14: AI and Predictive Modeling - Session 14

Room: Embassy - Madison
Chairs: Michael Bumpus, Adriano Urgena

Track 9 -: General - Session 2

Room: Embassy - Monte Sano
Chair: Lingxiao Wang

Saturday, March 14 9:00 - 10:00

HKN: HKN Student Papers

Room: Embassy - Redstone
Chair: James M. Conrad

Saturday, March 14 10:00 - 12:00

P1: Posters

Room: Embassy - Prefunction Area
Chair: Tamseel Syed
Digital Mammography Pre-Processing Techniques Using Gaussian Denoising and CLAHE
Christina Washington and Khalil Shujaee
Emotion Classification from EEG Using CNN-LSTM Architectures with Continuous Intensity Modeling
Ryan Haider and Mohammad Ahad
How Much Attention is Enough?
Betelihem Wereta and RN Uma
Assessing the Practical Limits of Quantum Annealing with Min-Cut
Ed Brown, Joshua Dennis Booth, Patrick Gemperline and Jameson Venema
The Impact of Doping Variations on the Infrared Photoconductivity of Silicon
James McEneaney and J. Shawn Addington
Beyond Content Filtering: A "Circuit Breaker" Architecture for Autonomous Agent Action Safety
Harini Sridharan and Reshma Nair
Flexible Graphene Tactile Sensors with Spider Web Designs for Human-Computer Interaction
Brandon Singleton, Teja Venkata Sai Naveen Vuddagiri, Juan Zepeda Maldonado, Mose Williams and Sandip Das
Project Management and Assignment Software for Academic Design Projects in Universities
Asher Lear, Joshua Bays, Peter Cao, Matthew Dodd, David Coe and Buren Earl Wells

Saturday, March 14 10:30 - 12:00

Track 2 -: Communications and Electromagnetics-Session 1

Room: Embassy - Big Spring A
Chair: Bobby Johnson

Track 3: Computing Systems - Session 8

Room: Embassy - Madison
Chair: Samaresh Kumar Singh

Track 3 -: Computing Systems-Session 6

Room: Embassy - Big Spring B
Chair: Raziq Yaqub
Quantifying Cyber-Risk in Commercial Egg Production: A Stochastic Simulation Approach
Gilbert Munoz Cornejo, Margareth Barth, Sydeena Isaacs, Kathryn Hoy and John Arrowood
Filling the Gaps in System Monitoring - Zombie Exporter: A Prometheus Exporter for Zombie Process Detection
Timothy W. Tron and Abdelbaset S. Hamza
MIA: A Unified Metadata Integrity and Authorization Framework for Trusted Web, Asset, and AI Processing
Sreenivas Chandran, Thushara Chamathakundil and Revathi Venkataraman

Track 6 -: AI and Predictive Modeling-Session 3

Room: Embassy - Big Spring C
Chairs: Sandra Kopecky, Yi Wang

Track 6 - S11: AI and Predictive Modeling-Session 11

Room: Embassy - Big Spring D
Chair: Pallab Haldar
AI-Integrated Insurance Framework: Scenario Based Analytical Approach in Hybrid Environment
Malar Mangai Kondappan
A Digital Twin Framework for Cyber-Physical System Detection in Water Treatment Infrastructure
Jonas Chen, Lewis S. Rowles and Rami J. Haddad
Reducing Regression Test Execution Time in Low-Code Platforms with AI-Driven Selection
Abinaya Mettupatti Sivagnanam, Gayathri Surianarayanan, Srikanth Singireddy and Veeramani Sampathkumar
Enhancing Software Quality Engineering in Enterprise Systems Using Predictive and Generative AI
Srikanth Singireddy, Abinaya Mettupatti Sivagnanam and Gayathri Surianarayanan

Track 6 - S13: AI and Predictive Modeling-Session 13

Room: Embassy - Monte Sano
Chairs: Joshua Olowolaju, Adriano Urgena

Saturday, March 14 13:00 - 15:00

Track 3 -: Computing Systems- Session 7

Room: Embassy - Big Spring B
Chairs: Suresh Chaganti, Abinaya Mettupatti Sivagnanam
System-Aware Evaluation of Differential Privacy Mechanisms for Resource-Constrained Edge AI
Madhu Mohan Mekala Satheesh, Priya Deshmukh, Venkat Kumar and Sreelakshmi Sreeharan
Proactive Data Availability Visualization for IoT APIs: A Beehive Monitoring Case Study
Matthew Dustin, Abdelbaset S. Hamza, Christopher L Campell, Rahman Tashakkori and R Thompson Dickson
Serverless, Model-Agnostic Fog-Based Inference Framework for COTS Devices
Brycen Dunn, Brian T Bennett and Shehenaz Shaik
Energy Efficient Data Pipelines
Amol Bhatnagar
Device-Native Autonomous Agents for Privacy-Preserving Negotiations
Joyjit Roy and Samaresh Kumar Singh
NANDWorks: A Low-Cost Testbed for ONFI-Compatible NAND Flash Experiments
Mark Scheidker, Prawar Poudel and Aleksandar Milenkovic

Track 4 -: Signal and Image Processing-Session 2

Room: Embassy - Big Spring A
Chair: Arezoo Ghooreian

Track 6 -: AI and Predictive Modeling- Session 4

Room: Embassy - Big Spring C
Chairs: Delores Parker Baker, Srikanth Singireddy
Building Trust in the Skies: A Knowledge-Grounded LLM-Based Framework for Aviation Safety
Anirudh Iyengar, Alisa Tiselska, Dumindu Samaraweera and Hong Paul Liu
A Mathematical Framework for Wise AI
Santiago Grijalva and Nicholas Grijalva
Secure by Design: Quantifying Architectural Resilience and the Agents Rule of Two
Qianlong Lan, Anuj Kaul, Shaun Jones and Stephanie Westrum
Developing a Vietnamese Text Summarization Large Language Model on Limited Hardware
Tin Pho and Bernardo Flores
MedAssist: Towards Explainable Multi-Task ICU Risk Prediction for Clinical Deployment
Tenicka T. Norwood, Jaclyn Claiborne, Pushpita Chatterjee, Debashis Das and Uttam Ghosh
Analyzing Wikipedia Edits: Patterns, Trends, and Insights from Collaborative Knowledge Construction
Aniruddha Maiti, Bimal Neupane, Huta Banjade, Karthik Alavalapati, Kartha Veerya Jammuladinne, Niladri Sengupta and Upali Karunathilake

Track 6 - S15: AI and Predictive Modeling - Session 15

Room: Embassy - Monte Sano
Chair: Yi Wang

Saturday, March 14 13:00 - 14:00

Track 6 - S16: AI and Predictive Modeling - Session 16

Room: Embassy - Madison
Chairs: Afnan, Amit Dubey
Integrating Automated Accessibility Checks in Web and Mobile Workflows
Soumya Karnala
MHDash: An Online Platform for Benchmarking Mental Health-Aware AI Assistants
Yihe Zhang, Finn Mohawk, Kaiying Han, Vijay Srinivas Tida, Manyu Li and Xiali Hei
Edge AI Based Real-Time Glucose Prediction
Sean Digman, Harshvardhan Uppaluru, Jinhui Wang and Shenghua Wu

Saturday, March 14 13:00 - 15:00

Track 7 -: Automation, Dynamical Systems and Controls-Session 1

Room: Embassy - Big Spring D
Chairs: Romail Arif, Harikrishnan Muthukrishnan

Saturday, March 14 15:30 - 17:00

In Person: Combined Tracks 1

Room: Embassy - Madison
Chairs: John N. Spitzmiller, Raziq Yaqub
A Stress-Testing Approach for Multimodal Fusion Under Missing Modalities in Cyber-Physical Systems
Laure Bien Aime, Debashis Das, Pushpita Chatterjee and Uttam Ghosh
Application of BIM Methodologies in the Retrofit of Operating 500 kV-2,400 MVA GIS Substations: Accuracy, Efficiency, and INTEGRATED Management
Daniel Sanchez Castan, Marlon Subtil Pazinato, Pedro Scapini, Claudio H. Ruiz and Jordi Manzano Ferrer
A Methodology to Evaluate Patch-Based Backdoor Vulnerabilities in Vision Transformers
William Livengood, Drew Phelps and Syed Rafay Hasan

Track 2 -: Communications and Electromagnetics-Session 2

Room: Embassy - Big Spring A
Chairs: Muzeeb Mohammad, Danny Sit
Defense Beneath the Waves: A Comparative Cyber Security Analysis of Underwater Systems
Williams Beaumont
Augmented Combined Field Integral Equation with Static Extraction
Benjamin J. Carey, Robert J Adams, Cai-Cheng Lu and John C. Young
Reinforcement Learning-Based Data Compression and Routing Design for Multi-Satellite Systems
Duc Dung Tran, Vu Nguyen Ha, Ti Ti Nguyen, Thanh-Dung LE, Hung Nguyen-Kha, Konstantinos Ntontin and Symeon Chatzinotas
SemCom Malicious Routing Attacks and Defense Using Machine Learning and Blockchain Integrity Anchoring
Samer Al Musawi, Liang Hong and Kamrul Hasan

Track 6 -: AI and Predictive Modeling- Session 5

Room: Embassy - Big Spring C
Chair: Harikrishnan Muthukrishnan
Evaluation of Large Language Models for Implicit Hate Speech and Offensive Language Detection.
Meghanath Reddy Mulinti, Amit Das and Mark Gary Terwilliger
Cough Detection for Smart-Home Health Monitoring: Room-Scale Edge Acoustic Sensing with Mel-Spectrogram Classification
Jelan Womack, Fariha Alam, Muhammad Hassan Tanveer, Yusun Chang and Razvan Cristian Voicu
Factors Impacting Performance of Multiclass Image Classification: A Study Using Mars Images
RN Uma, Samarth Das and Venkata Shaurya Mantrala
From Language to Action: Small Language Model-Driven Humanoid Control with Visual Grounding Under the Model Context Protocol
Rhimesh Lwagun, John Yare, Justin Lukose, Olasubomi Rufai, Justin Thomas and Yan Fang

Track 6 - S12: AI and Predictive Modeling-Session 12

Room: Embassy - Big Spring D
Chairs: Sitaram Srivatsavai, Gayathri Surianarayanan

Sunday, March 15

Sunday, March 15 17:00 - 20:00

V12: Makeup Session 12

Last Chance
Room: Virtual MAKEUP SUNDAY