Program

Day 1: November 5th

• 7:30 AM – 8:30 AM: Registration and Welcome Coffee

  • Location: ETS A-1592 

  • Meet and greet fellow participants, enjoy a morning coffee, and explore informational stands.

• 8:30 AM – 8:45 AM: Opening Remarks and forewords

  • Location: ETS A-1592 

  • Welcome address and introduction to the workshop’s goals and schedule.

• 8:45 AM – 9:45 AM: DRDC presentation -Session 1-

  • Speaker: Dr. Ahmed Bali

  • Topic: TinyML for edge devices

  • Location: ETS A-1592  

• 9:45 AM – 10:25 AM: ETS – researcher presentation with demo -Session 2-

  • Speaker: Mr. Reda Morsli, IMAGIN Lab

  • Topic: Leveraging Multi-Dimensional Context Information for Advanced Cyber Threat Detection 

• • Location: ETS A-1592 

• 10:25 PM- 11:00 PM: ETS – researcher presentation with demo -Session 3-

  • Speaker: Mr. Anes Abdennebi, IMAGIN Lab

  • Topic: Leveraging LLMs for Context-Aware Cybersecurity

  • Location: ETS A-1592  

• 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM: - Industry presentation -Session 4-

  • Speaker: Mrs. Alison Cossette from Neo4j

  • Topic: Hands-on tutorial on Neo4j/LLM Knowledge graphs

  • Location: ETS A-1592 

• 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM: Lunch/Buffet Break

  • Location: ETS A-1592 

  • Enjoy a catered lunch and network with attendees.

• 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM: Keynote 1

  • Speaker: Prof. Mohamed Younis (Director of the Embedded Systems and Networks Laboratory (ESNet), University of Maryland Baltimore County)

  • Topic: Hardware-assisted IoT Security

  • Location: ETS A-1592 

• 3:00 PM – 3:15 PM: Coffee Break

  • Location: ETS A-1592 

  • Casual networking with light refreshments and a chance to relax and socialize, engage in discussions, and enjoy refreshments.

• 3:15 PM – 3:50 PM: ETS – researcher presentation with demo -Session 5-

  • Speaker: Mr. Omar Tahmi, LCSec Lab

  • Topic: Searchable Encryption for Privacy Preserving Signature-Based Network Intrusion Detection

  • Location: ETS A-1592 

• 3:50 PM – 4:25 PM: ETS – researcher presentation with demo -Session 6-

  • Speaker: Mr. Mohamed Arafeh, LCSec Lab

  • Topic: ModularFed: Leveraging modularity in federated learning frameworks.

  • Location: ETS A-1592 

• 4:25 PM – 5:15 PM: ETS – researcher presentation with demo -Session 7-

  • Speaker: Dr. Houssem Eddine Mohamadi, IMAGIN Lab

  • Topic: A versatile chaotic cryptosystem with a novel substitution-permutation scheme for internet-of-drones photography

  • Location: ETS A-1592 

• 5:30 PM: Closing Remarks

  • Location: ETS A-1592 

  • Summary of the workshop, acknowledgments and networking opportunity.

Day 2: November 6h

• 8:30 AM – 9:00 AM: Morning Coffee and Networking

  • Location: ETS A-1592 

  • Start the day with coffee and networking.

• 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM: Keynote 2

  • Speaker: Dr. Merouane Debbah (Khalifa University, founding director of the Khalifa University 6G Research Center)

  • Topic: TelecomGPT: Next Generation AI-Powered Network

  • Location: ETS A-1592 Remote keynote

• 10:00 AM – 11:15 AM: - Industry presentation -Session 1-

  • Speaker: Mr. Michael Duchesne from T-Rize

  • Topic: Decentralized Federated Learning: Improving Security and reliability of FL.

  • Location: ETS A-1592 

• 11:15 AM – 12:15 PM: - Panel discussion -Session 2-

  • Panelists:

  • Topic: AI and Sustainability: where we are, where we are going, and where we want to be

  • Location: ETS A-1592 

·        12:15 PM – 1:30 PM: Lunch/Buffet Break

• • Location: ETS A-1592 

  • Enjoy a catered lunch and network with attendees.

• 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM: - Industry presentation -Session 3-

  • Speaker: Mr. Isael Pelletier from AWS

  • Topic: Sustainability in cloud/serverless computing

  •  Location: ETS A-1592 

• • 3:00 PM – 3:15 PM: Coffee Break and Poster Session

  • Location: ETS A-1592 

    • Casual networking with light refreshments, engage in discussions, and enjoy refreshments.

• 3:15 PM – 3:55 PM: ETS – researcher presentation with demo -Session 4-

  • Speaker: Dr. Zouhir Bellal, IMAGIN Lab

  • Topic: Navigating the Challenges of Sustainability in Shared Cloud Environments

  • Location: ETS A-1592 

• 3:55 PM – 4:35 PM: ETS – researcher presentation with demo -Session 5-

  • Speaker: Mr. Said Mohamed, IMAGIN Lab

  • Topic: Power-Aware Scheduling in Multi-Core CPUs Using DVFS and THEAS with gem5 Simulator

  • Location: ETS A-1592 

• 4:35 PM – 5:15 PM: ETS – researcher presentation with demo -Session 6-

  • Speaker: Mr. Mirza Wahid Anas, IMAGIN Lab

  • Topic: Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Systems: Components and High-Fidelity Simulation Frameworks

  • Location: ETS A-1592 

• 5:15 PM: Closing Remarks

  • Location: ETS A-1592 

  • Summary of the workshop, acknowledgments, and final networking opportunity.