Program

** July 25, 2025: Tentative Workshop program released. Please note that changes may be made to the program according to the SMC 2025 main event program, so please check back often for the latest updates.

** August 26, 2025: Updated Workshop program released (see below).

Agenda for the 2025 2nd IEEE SMC Workshop on AI and cybersecurity: Friend or Foe?

Sponsorship: CIRICS (Interdisciplinary Centre for Research and Innovation in Cybersecurity and Society)

DATE: Sunday, October 5, 2025 

LOCATION: Room 0.96

8:30 – 9:00 Networking, Welcome from Organizers, and Introduction to Workshop

9:00-9:45 Keynote Speaker 1: Hadis Karimipour (Canada Research Chair on Secure and Resilient Cyber-physical Systems, University of Calgary, Canada) – Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity in the Era of AI

9:45-10:30 Keynote Speaker 2: Hajar Moudoud (Professor at the University of Quebec in Outaouais, Canada) – Zero Trust Meets Artificial Intelligence: Transforming Cybersecurity for the Digital Age.

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 – 12:00 Technical Talks (Session 1)

11:00-11:15: Adaptive Heterogeneous Ensemble Learning for Attack Detection in IoT Networks, Soultana Ousmane Alassane and Hajar Moudoud 

11:15-11:30 Detecting MitM Attacks in SDN Edge Architectures Using Light Models, Anass Sebbar, Othmane Cherqi, brahim Anegdouil, Mohammed Boulmalf

11:30-11:45 Enhancing Network Intrusion Detection Systems: A Multi-Layer Ensemble Approach to Mitigate Adversarial Attacks, Nasim Soltani Soulegan, Shayan Nejadshamsi, Zakaria Abou El Houda, Raphael Khoury, Kelton A. Pontara da Costa, Tiago H. Falk, Anderson Avila

11:45-12:00 Enhancing CNNs for AES Side-Channel Key Recovery using Random Search-based Neural Architecture Search, Amina Amrouche, Larbi Boubchir, Said Yahiaoui

12:00-12:45 Keynote Speaker 3: Chao Shen (Director of the Cyber-Physical System Security and Privacy Lab, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China) - Defending AI and LLMs from attacks

12:45-14:00 Networking and Lunch break

14:00 – 14:45 Keynote Speaker 4: Anderson Rocha (Director of the Artificial Intelligence Lab., Recod.ai, at University of Campinas, Brazil) – Synthetic Realities threats to forensics and security in the age of AI 

14:45 – 15:45 Technical Talks (Session 2)

14:45-15:00 DeepSick: Deceiving Voice-Based Diagnostic Models with Synthetic Multilingual Pathological Speech Signals, Yi Zhu, Alan Davoust, Tiago H. Falk

15:00-15:15 Audio-Visual Cross-Attention for Improved Deepfake Video Detection and Forgery Localization, Oussama Jalleli, Yi Zhu, Tiago H. Falk 

15:15-15:30 Towards Robust Retrieval-Augmented Generation Based on Knowledge Graph: A Comparative Analysis, Hazem Amamou, Stéphane Gagnon, Alan Davoust, Avila Anderson

15:30-15:45 Phonetic Analysis of Real and Synthetic Speech Using HuBERT Embeddings: Perspectives for Deepfake Detection, Dia elhak Temmar, Assia Hamadene, Mohand Said Allili, Vamshi Nallaguntla, Aishwarya Fursule, Shruti Kshirsagar, Anderson Avila

15:45  – 16:30 Networking and Coffee Break

16:30 – 17:15 Keynote Speaker 5: Peng Shi (Distinguished Professor and Director of Laboratory of Advanced Unmanned Systems at the University of Adelaide, Australia) - Hybrid attacks design on cyber-physical systems

17:15 – 18:00 Closing remarks from IEEE SMC President and networking with Workshop participants,  IEEE SMC Executive Committee, and organizers of the 2026 IEEE Conference on AI (to be held in Spain)

19:30-21:00 SMC 2025 Welcome Reception