Technical Program – March 20, 2025
8:00 – 9:00
Registration and Breakfast Treats
Room: Great Hall in Levering Hall
9:00 – 10:15
AI in Wireless I
Room: 301
Session Chair(s):
9:00
1571103081: Reinforcement Learning-Based Beam Hopping for Anti-Jamming mmWave Communication
Farshad Soleiman, Massieh Kordi Boroujeny and Kai Zeng (George Mason University, USA)
9:25
1571103285: Causal Digital Twins for Physical System Control
Saeed Mohseni-Sehdeh (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA); Walid Saad (Virginia Tech, USA); Kei Sakaguchi (Tokyo Institute of Technology & Fraunhofer HHI, Japan); Tao Yu (Institute of Science Tokyo, Japan)
9:00 – 10:15
Coupled power and transport systems I
Room: 203
Session Chair(s): Constance, Crozier (Georgia Tech, USA)
9:00
A Bayesian Potential-based Architecture for Mutually Beneficial EV Charging Infrastructure-DSO Coordination
Liang Du (Temple University, USA)
9:25
Bidirectional Charging Use Cases and Deployability
Nelson Nelson
9:00 – 10:15
Computer Vision
Room: 305
Session Chair(s):
9:00
1571103017: Automated Traffic Video Analysis with a Modular Computer Vision Pipeline and SQL-Based Analytics
Tasmeer Alam, Kofi Nyarko, Celeste Chavis, Kelechi Nwachukwu, Anjolie Anthony, Opeyemi Adeniran and Richard Pianim (Morgan State University, USA)
9:25
1571103477: Virtual Yoga Instructor with Real-Time Feedback
Nikesh Chithambaram, Abhijeet Gupta, Shruti Singh and Tam V Nguyen (University of Dayton, USA)
9:50
1571103470: SADA: Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for Reliable Scene Awareness
Hossein Maghsoumi, Yaser P. Fallah and George Atia (University of Central Florida, USA)
9:00 – 10:15
Information Theory, Communications, and Coding V
Room: 316
Session Chair(s):
9:00
1571100971: Minimizing Inconsistency in Pairwise Comparison Matrices Using Genetic Algorithm
Atiyeh Sayadi, Baran Shajari and Ryszard Janicki (McMaster University, Canada)
9:25
1571102014: GRAND-AM in Uplink MIMO NOMA Systems
Kathleen Yang (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA); Muriel Médard (MIT, USA); Ken R. Duffy (Northeastern University, USA)
9:50
1571103023: Carrier Frequency Offset Compensation for OSDM in Underwater Acoustic Communications: Theory and Experiments Using a Vector MIMO Modem
Zhuoran Qi (Rutgers University, USA); Rami Rashid (NJIT, USA); Ali Abdi (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA); Dario Pompili (Rutgers University, USA)
9:00 – 10:15
Signal and Image Processing V
Room: 301
Session Chair(s):
9:00
1571102724: Observation-Transformed Distributed Detection in Sensor Networks
Lei Cao (The University of Mississippi, USA); Ramanarayanan Viswanathan (University of Mississippi, USA)
9:25
1571100375: Convolutional Neural Network Approach for Emitter Association Using Channel Identification in a MIMO System Based on Propagation Features
Michael F Talley, Jr (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, USA); Kofi Nyarko, Willie Thompson, Arlene A. Cole-Rhodes and Craig Scott (Morgan State University, USA)
9:50
1571103460: EADR: Entropy Adjusted Dynamic Routing Capsule Networks
Reza Babaei and Huong Pham (The University of Oklahoma, USA); Samuel Cheng and Shangqing Zhao (University of Oklahoma, USA)
10:15 – 10:45
Coffee Break
Room: Great Hall in Levering Hall
10:45 – 11:35
Coupled Power and Transport Systems I
Room: 203
Session Chair(s): Constance, Crozier (Georgia Tech, USA)
10:45
Scalable Optimization for Hydrogen/Battery EV Fleets and Distributed Energy Resources Considering Grid Services
Sijia Geng (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
11:10
Quantifying the Potential of Electrified Supply Chains for Long Duration Demand Flexibility
Constance, Crozier (Georgia Tech, USA)
10:45 – 11:35
AI in Wireless II
Room: 315
Session Chair(s):
10:45
1571103287: Cooperation and Decision-Making of LLM Agents in Bayesian-Informed Infinitely Repeated Games
Dingwen Pan (University of Houston, USA); Weilong Chen (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Jian Shi (University of Houston, USA); Chenye Wu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong - Shenzhen, China); Dan Wang (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong); Choong Seon Hong (Kyung Hee University, Korea (South)); Zhu Han (University of Houston, USA)
11:10
1571123067: Joint Optimization of Model Splitting and Device Task Assignment for Private Multi-Hop Split Learning
Dongyu Wei (University of Miami, USA); Qianqian Zhang (Rowan University, USA); Yuchen Liu (North Carolina State University, USA); Mingzhe Chen (University of Miami, USA)
11:35
1571123357: LOS/NLOS Classification for UAV Communications: a Time-Frequency Multimodal Learning Approach
Mingze Pan and Ying Wang (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA)
10:45 – 11:35
Information Theory, Communications, and Coding VI
Room: 316
Session Chair(s):
10:45
1571103238: Modeling Network Coding-Enabled Protocols on Bursty Channels
Yunus Alp Biyikoglu (Middle East Technical University, Turkey); Vipindev Adat Vasudevan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA); Muriel Médard (MIT, USA)
11:10
1571103280: SOGRAND Decoding of Non-Binary Product Codes
Lukas Rapp (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA); Muriel Médard (MIT, USA); Ken R. Duffy (Northeastern University, USA)
10:45 – 11:35
Machine Learning I
Room: 305
Session Chair(s):
10:45
1571103514: PC-DSL: Peer-to-Peer Critical-Infrastructure-Free Distributed Swarm Learning
Yue Wang (Georgia State University, USA)
11:10
1571101242: Resource Description Framework Parsing Method on the UAS Integration Safety and Security Technology Ontology
Hunter Harris, Minh To and Matthew Beach (Mississppi State University, USA); Dylan Couch (Mississppi State Univrsity, USA); Rebecca A. Garcia and Shawn McNutt (Mississppi State University, USA); Asad W Malik and Samee U. Khan (Mississippi State University, USA)
10:45 – 11:35
Signal and Image Processing VI
Room: 301
Session Chair(s):
10:45
1571103255: Incorporating Multi-Source Transfer Learning into an Unscented Kalman Filter for Object Tracking
Omar Alotaibi (George Mason University, USA & King Saud University, Saudi Arabia); Brian L Mark (George Mason University, USA)
11:10
1571102633: Misspecified Barankin Type Bound
Nadav Eliran Rosenthal and Joseph Tabrikian (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel)
11:35 – 11:45
Break
11:45 – 12:45
Plenary Speaker | Jessika Trancik
Room: Hodson Hall Room 110
Session Chair(s):
12:45 – 14:30
Lunch – on own
14:30 – 15:45
Biological Systems
Room: 301
Session Chair(s):
14:30
1571101590: Neural Correlates from the Middle Temporal Gyrus via Machine Learning Decode Decision Making Variables During Gambling in Humans
Daniel S Wang, Sridevi Sarma, Aaron L. Sampson and Veit Stuphorn (Johns Hopkins University, USA); Ernst Niebur (Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, USA); Pierre Sacré (University of Liège, Belgium); Jorge Gonzalez-Martinez (University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, USA); Daniel Dorman (Hope College, USA)
14:55
1571103481: Mouse Brain Cell Segmentation in Fluorescence Microscopy Images
Aditya Shrivastava, Abhijeet Gupta and Shruti Singh (University of Dayton, USA); Tan-Cong Nguyen (University of Science, Vietnam); Aaron Sathyanesan and Tam V Nguyen (University of Dayton, USA)
15:20
1571103459: Training Threshold Boolean Networks: Applications to Gene Regulatory Network Modeling
Gonzalo A Ruz (University Adolfo Ibáñez, Chile)
14:30 – 15:45
Machine Learning II
Room: 305
Session Chair(s):
14:30
1571103496: Informative Path Planning for Nano-Surgical Robot Adaptive Drug Delivery
Sujatha Alla, Venkata Ramachandra Nagesh Bheesetty and Hyoshin (John) Park (Old Dominion University, USA)
14:55
1571099663: Lightweight Non-Parametric Outlier Detection Algorithm for Resource-Constrained Applications
David Li (Yeshiva University, USA); Angela Li (Stony Brook University, USA); Yu Wang (Yeshiva University, USA)
Network Systems
Room: 316
Session Chair(s):
14:30
1571100555: Securing Multi-Domain Attacks: a Game-Theoretic Approach
Satyaki Nan and Nahkiyahs Felder (Georgia Southwestern State University, USA)
14:55
1571103282: Overbooking-Based Management of Physical Resource Blocks in 5G Networks
Cariappa Kotrangada Suresh and Swastik Brahma (University of Cincinnati, USA)
15:20
1571101148: Behavioral and Strategic Modeling of Trojan Insertion and Testing Under Imperfections
Satyaki Nan (Georgia Southwestern State University, USA)
14:30 – 15:45
Reinforcement Learning
Room: 315
Session Chair(s):
14:30
1571103369: Generative AI-Enhanced Cooperative MEC of UAVs and Ground Stations for Unmanned Surface Vehicles
Jiahao You, Ziye Jia, Chao Dong and Qihui Wu (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China); Zhu Han (University of Houston, USA)
14:55
1571103499: QoS-Aware State-Augmented Learnable Algorithms for Coexistence of 5G NR-U/Wi-Fi
Mohammad Reza Fasihi (George Mason University, USA & Kateb University, Afghanistan); Brian L Mark (George Mason University, USA)
15:20
1571103495: Distributed Policy Evaluation with Local Updates over Time-Varying Communication Network
Matthew A Crespo and Chinwendu Enyioha (University of Central Florida, USA)
14:30 – 15:45
Signal and Image Processing VII
Room: 203
Session Chair(s):
14:30
1571102334: Opportunities and Challenges in Learning to Bound
Hai Victor Habi (Tel Aviv University, Israel); Hagit Messer (Tel-Aviv University, Israel); Yoram Bresler (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
14:55
1571102975: New Insights into Lower Bound for Lie Groups and Their Applications
Sara El bouch (University Cote d'Azur, France); Samy Labsir (IPSA TéSA, France); Alexandre Renaux (University of Paris-Saclay, France); Jordi Vilà-Valls (ISAE-SUPAERO, University of Toulouse, France); Eric Chaumette (ISAE, France)
15:20
1571103098: Cramér-Rao Bound for Non-Bayesian Estimation After Detection
Nadav Harel (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel); Tirza Routtenberg (Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel)
15:45 – 16:15
Coffee Break
Room: Great Hall in Levering Hall
16:15 – 17:15
Plenary Speaker | Elad Hazan
Room: Hodson Hall Room 110
Session Chair(s):
17:30 – 19:30
Reception
Room: Glass Pavilion in Levering Hall
