Detailed Program

Time zone: Tampa Time (GMT-4)

Monday, May 19th 2025

08:00 - 9:00
Registration & Breakfast
09:00 - 09:15
Openning
09:15-10:00 AM
Keynote 1: Roger Grimes
Title: Taming the Hacker Storm: A Way to Defeat Cybercriminals and Malware
10:00-11:00 AM
Keynote 1: Michael Esola
Title: Catching 'Em All: Navigating Data Privacy and Cybersecurity in Augmented Reality Games
11:00 -11:15 AM
Break
11:15 - 12:30
Technical Session 1
Chair: TBA
Room: TBA
  • Protect Data Confidentiality for On-device Machine Learning through Split Inference
    Yongzhi Wang and Ahsan Habib
  • Optimizing IoT Edge Processes Using Low-Code Platforms
    Junior Dongo and Charif Mahmoudi
  • Efficient and Adversarially Robust Electricity Theft Detection Approach
    Adam Aberbach, Mohamed Baza, Mahmoud Badr, Amar Rasheed, Sherif Abdelfattah and Gautam Srivastava
12:30 - 13:30
Lunch Break
13:30 - 15:30
Technical Session 2
Chair: TBA
Room: TBA
  • Machine Learning-based IoT Cyber Threat Prediction Using Network Traffic Analysis
    Mustafa Daraghmeh, Yaser Jararweh, Anjali Agarwal and Kuljeet Kaur
  • Harnessing IoT for Real-Time Anomaly Detection in sUAS Security
    Amar Rasheed, Mohamed Baza, Gautam Srivastava and Sherif Abdelfattah
  • Security and Privacy in FMEC-Enabled Intelligent Transportation Systems: A Surveye
    Brooke Elizabeth Kidmose, Andreas Brasen Kidmose and Weizhi Meng
  • Resource Management for Multiuser Opportunistic Edge-Inference by Conformal Lyapunov Optimization
    Francesco Binucci, Osvaldo Simeone and Paolo Banelli
  • Towards a Sustainable Workflow Scheduling Approach in Edge-Cloud Infrastructures
    Fahed Alkhabbas, Sadi Alawadi, Hussam N. Fakhouri, Feras M. Awaysheh, Majed Ayyad and Muhammad Al-Abdullah
  • Custom Transformer Implementation for Edge
    Yunus Esergun and Ozcan Ozturk
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:30
Technical Session 3 (Online)
Chair: TBA
Room: TBA
  • AI-Driven Continuous Integration: Automating Code Review and Deployment with LLMs
    Dina Salem, Yazan Alahmed, Ragad Fnich, Meryem Mazroub and Mohammad Fnich
  • LLM-Powered Cooperative Perception Framework for Mixed UAV-Vehicle Platoons
    J. de Curtò and I. de Zarzà
  • Crown Shyness Optimization Algorithm (CSOA)
    Tarik Eltaeib and Mostafa Al Ghamdi
  • Fault-Tolerant Offloading of Federated Learning Training Tasks in IoT-Edge Systems
    Bipul Thapa, Jianbo Zhang and Lena Mashayekhy

Tuesday, May 20th 2025

08:00 - 9:00
Registration & Breakfast
09:00-10:00 AM
Keynote 2: Prof. Abdelsalam (Sumi) Helal
Title: IoTility: Unleashing the Utility of Internet of Things through Microservices Architectural Extensions
10:00 -10:30 AM
Coffee Break
10:30 - 12:30
Technical Session 4
Chair: TBA
Room: TBA
  • Leveraging Dataflow as an Intermediate Representation for Portable Edge Deployments
    Rich Wolski, Chandra Krintz and Markus Mock
  • An Empirical Evaluation of Energy Consumption Across Web Browsers
    Anthony DiBenedetto and Fadi Wedyan
  • Securing EVCS Infrastructure Against Cyberattacks with a Deep Learning-Based Detection Model
    Md Rakibul Ahasan, Shahriar Rahman Fahim and Abdulrahman Takiddin
  • Towards A Robust Federated Learning Architecture with Modular Aggregation Strategies
    Harasic Harasic, Dennis Lehmann, Roman Laas and Adrian Paschke
  • Towards Emergent Collective Cognitive Cyber Defense: Architectural Framework for Proactive Cybersecurity
    Volodymyr Tkach and Victor Kebande
  • Trust Evaluation Based on a Risk Assessment and Game Theory for Virtual Machines in a Cloud Environment
    Victor Morales and Cihan Tunc
12:30 - 13:30
Lunch Break
13:30 - 15:30
Technical Session 5 (online)
Chair: TBA
Room: TBA
  • An Overview of Hyper-Heuristic Approaches for Fog-Cloud Resource Allocation: Current State and Future Directions
    Maryam Alsubaie, Noor Bajunaid, Hanan Alotaibi and Asma Cherif
  • AMP4EC: Adaptive Model Partitioning Framework for Efficient Deep Learning Inference in Edge Computing Environments
    Guilin Zhang, Wulan Guo, Ziqi Tan and Hailong Jiang
  • Fair Allocation of Bandwidth At Edge Servers For Concurrent Federated Learning Processes
    Md Anwar Hossen, Fatema Siddika and Wensheng Zhang
  • A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach for Joint Task Offloading, Caching, and User Association in Mobile Edge Computing
    Tasnia Ashrafi Heya and Sayed Erfan Arefin
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee Break
16:00 - 18:00
Technical Session 6 (online)
Chair: TBA
Room: TBA
  • A Tailored Genetic Algorithm Approach for SLA-Based Service Provisioning in Vehicular Cloud Networks
    Farhoud Jafari Kaleibar, Marc St-Hilaire and Masoud Barati
  • Enhancing IoT Applications' Placement in the Fog with Proactive Infeasibility Detection and Repair
    Ye Xia and Xing Zhang
  • A Secure Transaction Execution Model to Maintaining Integrity of Fog-Based Databases
    Brajendra Panda and Anthony Pham
  • Explainability-Aware Adversarial Threats and Mitigation in Federated Learning Based Anomaly Detection for Cooperative Smart Farming
    Lopamudra Praharaj, Maanak Gupta and Deepti Gupta

Wednesday, May 21st 2025

08:00 - 9:00
Registration & Breakfast
09:00-10:00 AM
Keynote 3: Bryson Bort
Title: From Cyber Threats to National Security: Turning Adversarial Weaknesses into Resilient Defenses
10:00 -10:30 AM
Coffee Break
10:30 - 12:30
Technical Session 7
Chair: TBA
Room: TBA
  • EdgeMetric: A Federated Learning Solution for Edge Infrastructure Security
    Muhammad Hamza Karim, Aditya Sapkota, Changcun Lei and Prakash Ranganathan
  • Optimizing Remaining Useful Life Prediction in the Industrial Metaverse with TinyFL
    Sai Ananya Katakam, Abhishek Hazra and Mohan Gurusamy
  • FLAME: Federated Learning with Adaptive Model Expansion for Metaverse
    Veera Manikantha Rayudu Tummala, Abhishek Hazra and Mohan Gurusamy
  • Hierarchical Bidirectional Aggregation for Federated Learning under Concept Drift
    Nisal Hemadasa, Dominik Kaaser and Stefan Schulte
  • TConceptual Metaverse Forensics Model: Proactive link between Augmented Reality and Security Incidents
    Victor Kebande
12:30 - 13:30
Lunch Break
13:30 - 15:30
Technical Session 8 (online)
Chair: TBA
Room: TBA
  • Traffic Signal Control using Fog Computing and Self-Attention-Based Reinforcement Learning
    Chengyu Tang and Sanjeev Baskiyar
  • Digital Twins as the Keystone of the Design of Distributed Systems
    Luc Hogie
  • Fog-Based Transformer Learning for Multi-Class Classification of RPL-Based Attacks
    Muhammad Hassan, Noshina Tariq, Farrukh Aslam Khan and Jalal Al-Muhtadi
  • Adaptive Aggregation for Robust Federated Learning Against Label Flipping and Backdoor Attacks
    Chaima Lhasnaoui, Oscar Bergling, Addi Ait-Mlouk and Tarik Agouti
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee Break
16:00 - 18:00
Technical Session 9 (online)
Chair: TBA
Room: TBA
  • To the Edge of the Fog: Location of Smart Fusion Nodes for Optimal Use of Communication Networks
    Michael Hirsch, Hector Ortiz-Pena and Moises Sudit
  • Edge Data Analytics in Remote Industrial Environments: An Experimental Study
    Mohammad Newaj Jamil, Olov Schelén, Ahmed Afif Monrat and Karl Andersson
  • A study on developing image upload/download system using cloud services and integration with iOS mobile application
    Shubham Kamdi and Ao Liu
  • System Support for Accountable and Trusted Data Collection and Fog Processing in Remote Electronic Monitoring
    Aril Bernhard Ovesen, Mohsin Khan, Håvard Dagenborg and Dag Johansen

Thursday, May 22nd 2025

09:00 - 12:30
Open Day
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch