Detailed program and papers March 20th

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): Zhi Tian and Brian Mark (George Mason University, USA)
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)
9:50
1571123357: LOS/NLOS Classification for UAV Communications: a TimeFrequency Multimodal Learning Approach
Mingze Pan and Ying Wang (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA)

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): Yu Sun (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
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): Pablo Iglesias (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
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: 315
Session Chair(s): Laureano Moro-Velazquez (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
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 II
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: 301
Session Chair(s): Zhi Tian and Brian Mark (George Mason University, USA)
10:45
1571103287: Cooperation and Decision-Making of LLM Agents in BayesianInformed 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)

10:45 – 11:35
Information Theory, Communications, and Coding VI
Room: 316
Session Chair(s): Pablo Iglesias (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
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)

11:35 – 11:45
Break

11:45 – 12:45
Plenary Speaker | Jessika Trancik
Room: Hodson Hall Room 110
Session Chair(s): Yury Dvorkin (Johns Hopkins University, USA)

12:45 – 14:30
Lunch – on own

14:30 – 15:45
Biological Systems
Room: 203
Session Chair(s): Rosy Xiong (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
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 GonzalezMartinez (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 I
Room: 305
Session Chair(s): Thomas Thebaud (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
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
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)
15:20
1571099663: IDOS: Lightweight Nonparametric Outlier Detection Algorithm
for Resource-Constrained Applications
Angela Li (Stony Brook University, USA); Yu Wang (Yeshiva University, USA);
David Li (Yeshiva University, USA)

14:30 – 15:45
Network Systems
Room: 316
Session Chair(s): Daniel Mendat (Johns Hopkins University, USA
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: 301
Session Chair(s): Augustin Castellano (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
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 TimeVarying Communication Network
Matthew A Crespo and Chinwendu Enyioha (University of Central Florida, USA)

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): Pablo Iglesias (Johns Hopkins University, USA)

17:30 – 19:30
Reception
Room: Glass Pavilion in Levering Hal