Detailed program and papers March 19th

8:00 – 9:00
Registration and Breakfast Treats
Room: Great Hall in Levering Hall

9:00 – 10:15
Toward Mission-Ready AI Systems I
Room: 213
Session Chair(s): Jared Markowitz (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics
Laboratory, USA)
9:00
Generative Planning for High Speed Navigation in Clutter
Brian Bittner (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, USA)
9:25
Active learning for robust machine learning
Greg Canal (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, USA)
9:50
Probabilistically Safe Stochastic MPC for Highly Agile Robots
Joseph Moore (Johns Hopkins University, USA)

9:00 – 10:15
Deep Learning I
Room: 305
Session Chair(s): Perveshwer Jaswal (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
9:00
1571103312: Distributional and Byzantine Robust Decentralized Federated
Learning
Kaichuang Zhang and Ping Xu (University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, USA); Zhi
Tian (George Mason University, USA)
9:25
1571087947: Neural Networks with Complex-Valued Weights Have No
Spurious Local Minima
Xingtu Liu (Simon Fraser University, Canada)

9:00 – 10:15
Information Theory, Communications, and Coding I
Room: 316
Session Chair(s): Pablo Iglesias (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
9:00
1571088087: Kalman Filter-Mutual Information Models Suggest Improved
Training Protocols for Treating Cortical Blindness
Christopher C Pack (McGill University, Canada); Charles D. Pack (Monmouth
University, USA)
9:25
1571103444: Relay Selection and User Equipment Admission in Resource Efficient NextG Sidelink Communications
Yalin E Sagduyu (Nexcepta, USA); Tugba Erpek (Virginia Tech, USA); Sastry
Kompella (NEXCEPTA INC, USA); Kemal Davaslioglu (Nexcepta Inc, USA)
9:50
1571102216: Performance Analysis of 5G Enabled Mission Critical Push-toTalk (MCPTT) Services for Secured Smart City
Shenko Chura Aredo (Hawassa University, Ethiopia); Hailu Jelde Wedajo (Adama
City Administration, Ethiopia); Hailu Kassa Belay and Kevin Kornegay (Morgan
State University, USA)

9:00 – 10:15
Optimization I
Room: 301
Session Chair(s): Rosy Xiong (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
9:00
1571095696: A Note on Arithmetic-Geometric Mean Inequality for WellConditioned Matrices
Xingtu Liu (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
9:25
1571103032: Optimal Link Configuration for Covert Heterogeneous Wireless
Networks with Power Constraints
Amna Gillani and Beatriz Lorenzo (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA);
Majid Ghaderi (University of Calgary, Canada); Fikadu Dagefu (Army Research
Laboratory, USA); Dennis Goeckel (University of Massachusetts, USA)

9:00 – 10:15
Resource Optimization And Machine Learning For Diagnosis And Anomaly
Detection I
Room: 203
Session Chair(s): Cleon Davis (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
9:00
1571103515: Simulation-Based Optimization for Policy Incentives and
Planning of Hybrid Microgrids
Nanrui Gong (Johns Hopkins University, USA); James Spall (Applied Physics
Laboratory, USA)
9:25
1571103225: Resource and Performance Improvements of Optimized
Convolutional Neural Networks for FPGA Implementations of Automatic
Modulation Recognition
Joshua A Rothe and Haya Shajaiah (Johns Hopkins University, USA)

9:00 – 10:15
Signal and Image Processing I
Room: 315
Session Chair(s): Roger David Soberanis Mukul (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
9:00
1571103442: Using Random Forest and Linear SVM for Dyslexia Classification
on Hebb-Williams Mazes
Padmanabh Kaushik, Yih-Choung Yu and Lisa Gabel (Lafayette College, USA)
9:25
1571103455: Bayesian Graph Signal Estimation in Nonlinear GSP Models with
Multiple Topologies
Eyal Zeltzer (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel); Tirza Routtenberg (Ben
Gurion University of the Negev, Israel)
9:50
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)

10:15 – 10:45
Coffee Break
Room: Great Hall in Levering Hall

10:45 – 11:35
Toward Mission-Ready AI Systems II
Room: 213
Session Chair(s): Jared Markowitz (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
10:45
Bridging the Human-Machine Information Gap for AI Fighter Pilots
John Winder (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, USA)
11:10
ConceptAgent: LLM-Driven Precondition Grounding and Tree Search for
Robust Task Planning and Execution
Corban Rivera (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, USA)

10:45 – 11:35
Deep Learning II
Room: 305
Session Chair(s): Perveshwer Jaswal (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
10:45
1571103212: SmartPattern: a Machine Learning Framework for Detecting
Reentrancy Vulnerabilities in Blockchain Smart Contracts
Peter Taiwo, Temitope Ajibola and Opeyemi Adeniran (Morgan State University,
USA)
11:10
1571103488: Novel Vector Embeddings by Molecular Attributes Helps deNovo Molecular Generation
Nandan Ajit Joshi (Johns Hopkins University, USA); Erhan Guven (JHU, USA

10:45 – 11:35
Information Theory, Communications, and Coding II
Room: 316
Session Chair(s): Pablo Iglesias (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
10:45
1571103505: A Low-Complexity Scheme for Multi-Message Private
Information Retrieval
Ningze Wang (Texas A&M University, USA); Anoosheh Heidarzadeh (Santa Clara
University, USA); Alex Sprintson (Texas A&M University, USA)
11:10
1571103214: Key Exchange in the Quantum Era: Evaluating a Hybrid System of
Public-Key Cryptography and Physical-Layer Security
Paul Staat (Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy, Germany); Meik
Dörpinghaus (TU Dresden, Germany); Azadeh Sheikholeslami (Suffolk
University, USA); Christof Paar (Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy,
Germany); Gerhard P. Fettweis (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany);
Dennis Goeckel (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA)

10:45 – 11:35
Optimization II
Room: 301
Session Chair(s): Rosy Xiong (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
10:45
1571098385: When a Straight-a Student Isn’t the Best: Fuzzy Ranking and
Optimization from a Probabilistic Perspective
Angela Li (Stony Brook University, USA); Xinyan Cui (Yeshiva University, USA);
David Li (Yeshiva University, USA)
11:10
1571103464: A Dynamic Framework for Optimizing Reward Policies in the
Sharing Economy
Angela Li (Stony Brook University, USA); Chengkun Yao and Cheng Li (Yeshiva
University, USA); David Li (Yeshiva University, USA)

10:45 – 11:35
Resource Optimization And Machine Learning For Diagnosis And Anomaly
Detection II
Room: 203
Session Chair(s): Cleon Davis (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
10:45
1571107480: Breast Cancer Diagnosis via Swarm-Optimized Adaptive NeuroFuzzy Inference System
Aidan Greenlee (Johns Hopkins University, USA & Johns Hopkins University
Applied Physics Laboratory, USA); Neil Palumbo (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
11:10
1571103291: Hybrid 1D and 2D CNN-Transformer Architectures for Multilabel
12-Lead EKG Anomaly Detection
Ian J DeTore, John Samsundar and Cleon Davis (Johns Hopkins University, USA)

10:45 – 11:35
Signal and Image Processing II
Room: 315
Session Chair(s): Roger David Soberanis Mukul (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
10:45
1571102507: Mismatch-Robust Underwater Acoustic Localization Using a
Differentiable Modular Forward Model
Dariush Kari (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA); Yongjie Zhuang and
Andrew C. Singer (Stony Brook University, USA)
11:10
1571102867: Structured Sampling for Robust Euclidean Distance Geometry
Chandra S Kundu (University of Central Florida, USA); Abiy Tasissa (Tufts
University, USA); HanQin Cai (University of Central Florida, USA)

11:35 – 11:45
Break

11:45 – 12:45
Plenary Speaker | Gil Zussman
Room: Hodson Hall 110
Session Chair(s): Pablo Iglesias (Johns Hopkins University, USA)

12:45 – 14:30
Lunch – on own

14:30 – 15:45
AI for Safety-Critical Systems
Room: 213
Session Chair(s): Tamim Sookoor (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics
Laboratory, USA)
14:30
Autonomic Computing-based Methods for ICS/SCADA and IIoT Security
Christopher Rouff, (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, USA)
14:55
Testbed For Human-Autonomy Teaming (Testbed4HAT)
Aurora Schmidt (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, USA)
15:20
Countering Drones in The Homeland
Charles Leeper (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, USA)
15:45
Bridging Climate Projections and Infrastructure Planning: Advances in Deep
Learning-Based Downscaling
Marisel Villafane-Delgado (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, USA)

14:30 – 15:45
Estimation Performance Bounds I
Room: 203
Session Chair(s): Tirza Routtenberg (Princeton University, USA)
14:30
1571103510: On the Misspecified Cramer-Rao Bound and Elliptically
Symmetric Distributions
Christ D. Richmond (Duke University, Durham, NC, USA & Pratt School of
Engineering, USA)
14:55
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
1571102633: Misspecified Barankin Type Bound
Nadav Eliran Rosenthal and Joseph Tabrikian (Ben-Gurion University of the
Negev, Israel)

14:30 – 15:45
Deep Learning III
Room: 305
Session Chair(s): Daniel Mendat (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
14:30
1571102717: Synthetic Time Series Data Generation for Healthcare
Applications: a PCG Case Study
Ainaz Jamshidi (University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA & Koc University,
Turkey); Muhammad Arif (Colorado State University, Pueblo, USA); Sabir Ali
Kalhoro (University of Colorado, USA); Alexander Gelbukh (Instituto Politécnico
Nacional & Mexican Academy of Sciences, Mexico)
14:55
1571103013: Demographic Attributes Prediction from Speech Using WavLM
Embeddings
Yuchen Yang and Thomas Thebaud (Johns Hopkins University, USA); Najim
Dehak (Hopkins University, USA)
15:20
1571103284: Communication-Efficient Federated Learning via Clipped
Uniform Quantization
Zavareh Bozorgasl and Hao Chen (Boise State University, USA)

14:30 – 15:45
Information Theory, Communications, and Coding III
Room: 316
Session Chair(s): Yen-Ju Lu (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
14:30
1571101240: Spectral Estimation of Weak Signals with Strong Interference via
Modulo Sampling
Shoaib Ahmed, Cengcang Zeng and Hongbin Li (Stevens Institute of Technology,
USA)

14:55
1571102453: One-Dimensional Kalman Filter with Measurement Noise
Replaced by Quantization
Pedro Aquino de Alcantara (Michigan Technological University, USA); Flavio
Costa (Michigan Tech, USA); Daniel Fuhrmann (Michigan Technological
University, USA)
15:20
1571103497: Analysis of Simplified Circuit Level Noise in T Gate
Implementation
Yumin Li and Javier Garcia-Frias (University of Delaware, USA)

14:30 – 15:45
Signal and Image Processing III
Room: 315
Session Chair(s): Tülay Adali (University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA)
14:30
1571100815: LS Channel Estimation with SIC Equalization of Mixed Signals for
a MIMO OFDM System
Funmilola B Akeju and Arlene A. Cole-Rhodes (Morgan State University, USA)
14:55
1571104211: Fusion of Multitask fMRI Data with Constrained Independent
Vector Analysis
Emin Erdem Kumbasar (University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC),
USA); Hanlu Yang (University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA); Trung Vu
(University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA); Vince Calhoun (Georgia
Institute of Technology, USA); Tulay Adali (University of Maryland, Baltimore
County, USA)
15:20
1571104208: Adaptive Constrained ICA with Mixing Matrix Column
Constraints: Application to fMRI Data
Chunying Jia (University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA); Weixin Wang and
Trung Vu (University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA); Hanlu Yang and Ben
Gabrielson (University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA); Vince Calhoun
(Georgia Institute of Technology, USA); Tulay Adali (University of Maryland,
Baltimore County, USA)

14:30 – 15:45
Statistical Inference
Room: 301
Session Chair(s): Cleon Davis (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
14:30
1571101460: Detection of Performance Interference Among Network Slices in
5G/6G Systems
Van Sy Mai (National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA); Richard J La
(University of Maryland, USA); Tao Zhang (National Institute of Standards and
Technology, USA)
14:55
1571102506: A Hypothesis Testing-Based Cyber Deception Framework Under
Sequential Reconnaissance
Abhinav Kumar and Swastik Brahma (University of Cincinnati, USA); Charles A
Kamhoua (DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory & Network Science Division,
USA)
15:20
1571103313: Comparative Confidence Regions Using Expected and Observed
Fisher Information
Geng Zhang (Johns Hopkins University, USA); James Spall (Applied Physics
Laboratory, USA)

15:45 – 16:15
Coffee Break
Room: Great Hall in Levering Hall

16:15 – 17:05
Panel: AI for Safety-Critical Systems: Are We Ready?
Room: 213
Session Chairs(s): Enrique Mallada and Yury Dvorkin (Johns Hopkins University,
USA)
Alvaro Velasquez (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency – DARPA); Amy
Henninger (U.S. Department of Homeland Security – DHS); Jane Pinelis (JJHU/
APL)
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16:15 – 17:05
Estimation Performance Bounds II
Room: 203
Session Chair(s): Tirza Routtenberg (Princeton University, USA)
16:15
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)
16:40
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 (ISAESUPAERO, University of Toulouse, France); Eric Chaumette (ISAE, France)

16:15 – 17:05
Information Theory, Communications, and Coding IV
Room: 316
Session Chair(s): Yen-Ju Lu (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
16:15
1571099044: Mobile User-RIS Channel Estimation Using Kalman Filter Based
Approaches
Zhuoxuan Ju and Milos Doroslovacki (The George Washington University, USA)
16:40
1571103106: Blind SIMO Channel Estimation Subspace Method with Linear
Constraints and Channel Overmodeling: a Sensitivity Study
Kareem Y Bonna (Rutgers University & Peraton Labs, USA); Predrag Spasojevi?
(Rutgers University, USA)

16:15 – 17:05
Signal and Image Processing IV
Room: 315
Session Chair(s): Tülay Adali (University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA)
16:15
1571103277: 2D-DOA Estimation in Uniform Circular Arrays in the Presence of
Mutual Coupling
Zavareh Bozorgasl and Hao Chen (Boise State University, USA); Mohammad
Javad Dehghani (Shiraz University of Technology, Iran)
16:40
1571104471: Grassmannian Kernels for Efficient and Effective Detection of
Group Differences in fMRI Data
Ashfia Binte Habib (University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC),
Bangladesh); Ben Gabrielson and Hanlu Yang (University of Maryland Baltimore
County, USA); Tulay Adali (University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA);
Vince Calhoun (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)

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