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SoutheastCon 2025

28A1 (Industry in Power and Energy)

Session time	Friday, 08:00 am until 09:45 am
Location	Carolina A
Talk time	15

08:00 am: Replacing Classical Algorithms to Determine the Reliability of Power Electronic Converters: an AI Method Based on the Nonlinear Autoregressive with Exogeneous Inputs Artificial Neural Network

David Andre Minott (Georgia Southern University, USA); Masoud Davari (Georgia Southern University’s Statesboro Campus, Allen E. Paulson CEC, USA); Isaac Otchere (Georgia Southern University, USA); Freede Blaabjerg (Aalborg University, Denmark)

08:15 am: Optimized PID Speed Controller Using Industrial Scenarios Case Study FrED

Pedro Ponce (Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico); Russel Bradley (MIT, USA); Brian Anthony (MIT, USA); Sergio Siller-Lobo (Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico); Erick Ramirez-Cedillo (Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico); Omar Mata (Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico)

08:30 am: Design and Implementation of AMI for Real-Time IoT Energy Monitoring System in Nigeria Power Distribution Network

Joshua Y. Kim (Charleston Southern University, USA); Olaoluwa John Adeleke (Independent Researcher, USA)

08:45 am: Digital Substation with Process Bus – a Comparative Review of IEC61850-9-2 and IEC 61869-9 Standards

Alexandr Stinskiy (Siemens Industry, USA); Evandro De Oliveira (Siemens Industry, USA)

09:00 am: HVAC Intelligence: Energy Conservation Based on Occupancy

Hiba Hamzeh Darwish (NCAT & North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, USA); Raymond Tesiero (North Carolina Agricultural and Technical University, USA); Marwan Bikdash (North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, USA); Balakrishna Gokaraju (North Carolina A&T State University, USA)

09:15 am: Implementation of Proactive Load Shedding for a Power Management Systems on an Running Offshore Platform

Muthu Madhu (Corporate Employee & SIEMENS Industry Inc, USA); Rodrigo Munoz (Siemens Smart Infrastructure Inc, USA)

09:30 am: Classification of Distribution System Modeling Inaccuracies and Their Effects on Planning Studies

Rakesh Kumar Belchandan (UNC Charlotte, USA); Valentina Cecchi (UNC Charlotte, USA)

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28B1 (Communication and Industry Systems)

Session time	Friday, 08:00 am until 09:45 am
Location	Carolina B
Talk time	15

08:00 am: SOVA Decoded Serially Concatenated Continuous Phase Modulations with Binary Markov Source

Zhijie Guo (University of Mississippi, USA); Lei Cao (The University of Mississippi, USA)

08:15 am: Can IRS Alone Guarantee Secure Wireless Communication Without Eve’s CSI?

Babita Pradhan (Unviersity of Mississippi, USA); Ramanarayanan Viswanathan (University of Mississippi, USA); Lei Cao (The University of Mississippi, USA)

08:30 am: LEO Satellite Sensing Using Support Vector Machine over Riemannian Manifolds

Joarder Sadique (Florida International University, USA); Ahmed S. Ibrahim (Florida International University, USA)

08:45 am: Using Side-Channel Analysis as Anomaly Detection in Embedded Systems

Tristan A Clark (University of South Alabama, USA); Jeffrey Todd McDonald (University of South Alabama & School of Computing, USA); Dylan P Johnson (University of South Alabama, USA); Tristen Mullins (University of South Alabama, USA); Kylie Arnett (University of South Alabama, USA); Berk Kivilcim (University of South Alabama, USA); Zachary Neal (University of South Alabama, USA); Ryan Styles (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA)

09:00 am: Deep Learning-Based Physical Layer Authentication in LiFi Networks Under Multi-User Mobility

Elmahedi Mahalal (University of New Haven, USA); Eslam Hasan (Tennessee Tech University, USA); Muhammad Ismail (Tennessee Tech University, USA); Zi-Yang Wu (Northeastern University, China); Mostafa M Fouda (Idaho State University, USA); Zubair Md Fadlullah (University of Western Ontario, Canada)

09:15 am: Security Analysis and Threat Modeling of Research Management Applications

Boniface M Sindala (University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA); Ragib Hasan (University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA)

09:30 am: A Case Study for Broadband Networks Performance Testing in Leon County

Nancy Joseph (FAMU, USA); Shonda Bernadin (FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, USA)

SoutheastCon 2025

28C1 (AI in Agriculture)

Session time	Friday, 08:00 am until 09:45 am
Location	Carolina C
Talk time	15

08:00 am: Non-Invasive Pig Weight Prediction Using SAM-Enhanced Deep Learning and Depth Imaging

Sanjana Bharadwaj (Virginia Tech, USA); Pranjal Ranjan (Virginia Tech, USA); Yingqi Pei (Virginia Tech, USA); Jay Yim (Virginia Tech, USA); Ye Bi (Virginia Tech, USA); Dong Ha (Virginia Tech, USA); Gota Morota (The University of Tokyo, Japan); Sook Shin (Virginia Tech, USA)

08:15 am: AI-Powered CubeSat System for Real-Time Flood Detection and Predictive Modeling

Abigail Merchant (Orlando Science High School & Helios Innovations, USA)

08:30 am: Fuzzy Logic System for Preference Aware Interplanting in Container Gardens

Joshua A Appel (Purdue University Fort Wayne & C.E. Electronics, Inc., USA); Mohammadreza Hajiarbabi (Purdue University Fort Wayne, USA)

08:45 am: Proof of Concept: Creation of a Computer Vision Dataset for Tomato Brown Rugose Fruit Virus Detection

Mario Rojas (Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico); David Christopher Balderas (Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico); Alfredo Diaz-Lara (Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico); Juana I. Méndez-Garduño (Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico); Arturo Dominguez-Pacheco (Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Mexico); Pedro Ponce (Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico)

09:00 am: Autonomous Greenhouse Integrated System (AGIS): a Community-Driven Framework for Research and Education in Sustainable Agriculture

Bryan Garcia Rodriguez (University of Central Florida, USA); Ryan A Integlia (University of Southern Indiana, USA); Roberto W Batista (University of Southern Indiana, USA); Magdalena Viktora-Jones (University of Southern Indiana, USA)

SoutheastCon 2025

28A2 (Power and Energy Systems)

Session time	Friday, 10:15 am until 12:00 pm
Location	Carolina A
Talk time	15

10:15 am: Sustainable Agriculture Monitoring: Energy and Carbon Footprint Analysis of LoRa-Based Wireless Sensor Networks

Sayani Sarkar (Bellarmine University, USA)

10:30 am: Electrothermal Modeling of a Module of Ultracapacitors

Valentin Bolborici (The Citadel, USA)

10:45 am: Automating Power System Optimization and Analysis Through ETAPPy Integration

Elias Rooker (Christopher Newport University, USA); Hessam Keshtkar Vanashi (Christopher Newport University, USA); Farideh Doost Mohammadi (Christopher Newport University, USA)

11:00 am: Solar PV Augmented Battery Electric Vehicle State of Charge and Temperature Analysis in SIMSCAPE

Ankit Soni (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA); Wesley Williams (University of North Carolina Charlotte, USA); Jaewon Oh (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA); Maciej Noras (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA); Michael Smith (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA)

11:15 am: Comparative Analysis of Human Braking Behavior and Automated Regenerative Braking Systems in Electric Vehicle

Hamed Faghihian (University of South Florida, USA); Seçkin Özkul (University of South Florida, USA); Arman Sargolzaei (University of South Florida, USA)

11:30 am: A Review of Electric Vehicle Smart Charging and Its Impact on Power Grid

Mohammad Hasin Abrar (University of North Carolina Charlotte, USA); Badrul Chowdhury (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA)

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28B2 (Cybersecurity)

Session time	Friday, 10:15 am until 12:00 pm
Location	Carolina B
Talk time	15

10:15 am: Why the Chicken Crossed the Road: Commercial Egg Production Cybersecurity Threats and Testbed Design

Isabelle S Brown-Cantrell (The University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA)

10:30 am: Dueling Deep Q-Learning for Intrusion Detection

Logan C. Luna (Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, USA); Laxima Niure Kandel (Embry Riddle Aeronautical University, USA); Mathew Berkowitz (Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, USA); Sirio S Jansen-Sánchez (Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, USA)

10:45 am: Exploiting DPAPI and Local State Decryption for Web Cookie Session Theft in Cross-Device Chrome Migrations

Kyle A Herman (Georgia Southern University, USA); Lei Chen (Georgia Southern University, USA)

11:00 am: Adaptive Intrusion Detection with PPO and Zero Trust Continuous Verification

Ekramul Haque (Tennessee State University, USA); Kamrul Hasan (Tennessee State University, USA); Imtiaz Ahmed (Howard University, USA); Sharif Ullah (University of Central Arkansas, USA); Tariqul Islam (Syracuse University, USA); Mir Mehedi Ahsan Pritom (Tennessee Tech University, USA)

11:15 am: A Chiplet-Based High-Performance and Secure Hybrid Interconnection Network Design Against DoS and Sniffing Attacks

Md Tareq Mahmud (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA & Dhaka University of Engineering & Technology, Bangladesh); Ke Wang (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA)

11:30 am: Comparative Study of Software Security Flaw Detection Based on Various Neural Networks

Fenghui Yao (Tennessee State University, USA)

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28C2 (AI and the Human)

Session time	Friday, 10:15 am until 12:00 pm
Location	Carolina C
Talk time	15

10:15 am: Predicting Teamwork Performance Using a Large Language Model to Annotate Repair and Grounding Utterances in Task-Based Conversations

Akshitha Kartigueyan (Purdue University, USA); Joseph P Salisbury (Riverside Research, USA)

10:30 am: Identifying Key Diagnostic Codes for Initial Belief State Prediction for Modeling Colorectal Cancer Screening Based on Reinforcement Learning

Benjamin J. Handshoe (University of Kentucky, USA); Sujin Kim (University of Kentucky, USA); Jihye Bae (University of Kentucky, USA)

10:45 am: Enhancing Elderly Care with AI: a Review of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Applications

Stutika Thapa Shrestha (Jacksonville State University, USA); Arup Kumar Ghosh (Jacksonville State University & IEEE Alabama Section, USA)

11:00 am: Evaluating the Impact of Gender on Facial Expression Recognition

Abdul-Qadir Mohammed (Winston-Salem State University, USA); Mustafa Atay (Winston-Salem State University, USA)

11:15 am: Leveraging Cloud Computing and Cutting-Edge Technology for Early Cancer Diagnosis

Sairohith Thummarakoti (HCA Healthcare, USA)

11:30 am: GNAPing on the Job: Attacking and Defending Facial Detection on Edge Devices

Abhijeet Solanki (Tennessee Technological University, USA); Ryan Taylor Thornto (Lander University, USA); Syed Rafay Hasan (Tennessee Tech University, USA); Uvais Qidwai (Qatar University, Qatar)

11:45 am: Comparison of SVM and Random Forest for Multimodal Hand Gesture Recognition

Farin Rahman (The University of Tennessee Knoxville, USA); Joshua Samuel (Rochester Institute of Technology, USA); Nicole McFarlane (University of Tennessee Knoxville, USA)

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28A3 (Materials and Measurement)

Session time	Friday, 01:00 pm until 02:45 pm
Location	Carolina A
Talk time	15

01:00 pm: Dual-Mode Reflective-Transmissive Polarization Conversion by Symmetry Breaking in Stereometamaterials

Mohammad Parvinnezhad Hokmabadi (UNC Charlotte, USA); Sanchita Sarker (UNC Charlotte, USA)

01:15 pm: Automated Contact Resistance Measurement for Solar Devices

Donald L. Intal (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA); Danil Phrakousonh (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA); Jordan Cook (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA); Freedie Vasquez-Rios (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA); Nabila Bousaba (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA); Abasifreke Ebong (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA)

01:30 pm: Parametric Study of Frequency Suppression by Metamaterial

Arun K Saha (Albany State University, USA); Maimuna Jammeh (Albany State University, USA)

01:45 pm: Low-Cost Embedded Instrumentation for Automated Semiconductor Diode Characterization

Sandip Das (Kennesaw State University, USA); Teja Venkata Sai Naveen Vuddagiri (Kennesaw State University, USA); Colby Baldwin (Kennesaw State University, USA)

02:00 pm: Comparative Analysis of Deep Learning Approaches for Predicting Thermomechanical Behavior of Shape Memory Polymers

Khan Raqib Mahmud (Louisiana Tech University, USA); Lingxiao Wang (Louisiana Tech University, USA); Jinyuan Chen (Louisiana Tech University, USA); Xiyuan Liu (Louisiana Tech University, USA); Sunzid Hassan (Louisiana Tech University, USA)

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28B3 (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping)

Session time	Friday, 01:00 pm until 02:45 pm
Location	Carolina B
Talk time	15

01:00 pm: Lidar Based Autonomous Navigation of an Unmanned Ground Vehicle Using Statistical and AI Based Steering

Onur Toker (Florida Polytechnic University, USA); Rawa Adla (Florida Polytechnic University, USA)

01:15 pm: Coordinating Autonomous Vehicles Using Reinforcement Learning

Jenny Jung (Cornell University, USA); Melissa Shun (University of Southern California, USA); Bhaskar Krishnamachari (University of Southern California, USA)

01:30 pm: DP-NAV: a Hybrid Algorithm for Dynamic Path Planning in Autonomous Underwater Vehicles

Matthew Rice (Bellarmine University, USA); Sayani Sarkar (Bellarmine University, USA); Nathan Johnson (Bellarmine University, USA)

01:45 pm: Robust Lightless Intersection Control Framework for Heterogeneous Vehicles

Joel Seepersaud (Mercer University, USA); Khalil Anderson (Mercer University, USA); Ethan Choi (Mercer University, USA); Gracy Padgett (Mercer University, USA); Hunmin Kim (Mercer University, USA); Anthony Choi (Mercer University, USA)

02:00 pm: End-to-End Deep Learning Approach for Comprehensive Autonomous Driving in Simulated Environments

Willian A Aristizabal (Universidad Santo Tomas, Colombia); Sindy Amaya (Universidad Santo Tomas, Colombia); Juan M Calderon (Bethune Cookman University, USA)

02:15 pm: Integrating Deep Planning-Based Object Detection with 3D-Depth Camera for Collision Avoidance in Indoor Robotics Navigation

Sally Acquaah (North Carolina a and t State University, USA); Christopher Nenebi (North Carolina a and t State University, USA); Issa W. AlHmoud (North Carolina a and T State University, USA); Balakrishna Gokaraju (North Carolina A&T State University, USA); Kourtney Tucker (North Carolina a and t State University, USA)