The 34th Annual Newfoundland Electrical and Computer Engineering Conference
November 12, 2026 Holiday Inn St. John's Conference Centre St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador
Agenda
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Time
Description
8:30 AM
Registration
9:00 AM
Morning Keynote Presentation
Marc Lanctot: If We Want AGI, Let's Talk about the 'G': Breadth vs. Depth in Strategic Decision-Making AI
Room: Salon C/D
10:00 AM
Remote Sensing & Earth Observations I
Room: Salon A
Presentations
Title: Iceberg and Ship Detection in Sentinel-2 Imagery Using Machine Learning Presenter: Yulmetova, Maria
Title: Exploring Marine Target Monitoring using C- and L-band Data Presenter: Bobby, Pradeep
AI for Healthcare and Clinical Applications
Room: Salon B
Presentations
Title: ClinNoteRAG: Agentic RAG for Clinical Concept Coverage Assessment of Medical Student Patient Notes Presenter: MURSALIN, GOLAM SARWAR MD
Title: MamNet-6: Multi-View Fusion, CrossView Transformer, and Uncertainty-Aware Triage for Breast Cancer Detection on VinDr-Mammo Presenter: Luo, Haoming
Intelligent Transportation and Navigation
Room: Salon E
Presentations
Title: MUN UAV Navigation Testbed: A Multi-Sensor Dataset for Aerial SLAM Evaluation Presenter: Thilakanayake, Thakshila
Title: OpenStreetMap-Based Bus Route Planning for Public Transportation Coverage in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador Presenter: Shiri, Parinaz
Title: Rotation Optimisation for Six-Dimensional Movable Antenna Systems Using a Bayesian Quantum Neural Network Presenter: Thoong, Quoc Thao Nhien
10:40 AM
Coffee Break & Morning Poster Presentations
Presentations
Title: Automated segmentation of Arctic sea ice features for accelerated dataset pre-labelling Presenter: Babur, Muhammad Arslan
Title: Clock-Induced State Aliasing in Scripted Demonstrations for Robot Imitation Learning Presenter: Kumpati, Benny
Title: Security for Banking Industry: A Comparative Analysis of Cryptographic Hashing Algorithms. Presenter: Ogbonna, Divine
Title: MUNStar-1 CubeSat Project: Monitoring the Canadian North Atlantic Ocean Environment Presenter: Critch-Doran, Olivia
Title: QuickBite: A Personalized Multi-Vendor Food Delivery Platform with Explainable Recommendations and an AI Food Assistant Presenter: Younis, Hafiz Muhammad Fahim
11:00 AM
Remote Sensing & Earth Observations II
Room: Salon A
Presentations
Title: Placentia Bay Radio Oceanography Presenter: Craig, Joe
Title: The Communications System of the MUNStar-1 Cubesat Presenter: Norvell, Theodore
Title: Sea-Ice Concentration Estimation From Shipborne X-Band Marine Radar Data and Geometry-Aligned Camera Observations Presenter: Yang, Zhiding
Title: DAVE-BN: Data-Adaptive VAE–Bayesian Network for Pipeline CUI Risk with Dual-Gate Out-of-Distribution Detection Presenter: Momohjimoh A. Yakubu
Title: Sim-to-Real Transfer Learning with Domain Adaptation for Online Fault Detection in a Continuous Stirred Tank Heater Presenter: Nazari, Amin
Title: A Multi-Scale Attention and Residual Fusion Deep Learning Framework for Infrastructure Crack Segmentation Presenter: Metu, Chidiebere
Title: Physics-Grounded Neural Inference for Diffusive Molecular Communication Channel Characterization Presenter: Echeverri Urrea, Nikolas
Robot Learning and Tactile Perception
Room: Salon E
Presentations
Title: Multimodal Tactile Texture Classification on a 3D-Printable Benchmark Presenter: Nazario Coelho, Mateus
Title: Learning Continuous Prosthetic Hand Motion and Force from Contralateral Demonstrations Presenter: Mohammadreza, Elaheh
Title: OpenRIF: Open Robot Interaction Force Dataset for Learning-Based Interaction Force Estimation Presenter: Lu, Jiaoyang
Title: Signal Fusion for Short-Duration Tactile Texture Perception in Robots Presenter: Martins de Sousa, Frederico Luiz
Biomedical Engineering
Room: Trinity Room (4th floor)
Presentations
Title: Validation of Segmentation Accuracy, Spinal Annotation, and Longitudinal Reliability of an Automated CT-Based Body Composition Software Presenter: Dhulipala, Venkata Kousik
Title: Individual Differences in PPG Feature Relevance for Resting Beat-to-Beat Systolic Blood Pressure Estimation Presenter: Wu, Ziang
Title: Partially Observable, Multi-Receiver-Aware Reinforcement Learning for Relay-Assisted Molecular Targeted Drug Delivery Presenter: Baramaki, Nazanin
Title: Identifying Cognitive Fatigue Biomarkers in Multiple Sclerosis using Explainable AI and fNIRS Hemodynamic Variability Presenter: Islam, Sadman Saumik
12:20 PM
Luncheon Keynote Presentation
Fouad Hassouneh: Innovating with Disrupt
Room: Salon C/D
2:00 PM
Joint YP WIE Event
Room: Salon A
AI for Industrial and Environmental Applications
Room: Salon B
Presentations
Title: Quality-Aware OCR Engine Routing for Cost-Efficient Bank Cheque Processing Presenter: MURSALIN, GOLAM SARWAR MD
Title: PRIMA: Pipeline Real-time Integrity Monitoring with AI — A Six-Output System for Industrial Leak Detection Presenter: Sormeh Serpoosh
Title: High-resolution Arctic wetland methane flux modeling using a geospatial foundation model Presenter: Radman, Ali
State Estimation and Intelligent Mobility
Room: Salon E
Presentations
Title: Consistent Optimization-Based State Estimation on Lie Groups Without State Initialization Presenter: Elsayed, Mahmoud
Title: Consistent Decentralized Cooperative Localization with Unknown Correlations and Gyroscope Bias Presenter: Samarakoon, Rajana
Title: A Low-Cost Smart Friction-Drive E-Bike Conversion Kit with BLE Cruise Control and Dual-Source Charging Presenter: Ijaz, Neha
Cybersecurity and Data Systems
Room: Trinity Room (4th floor)
Presentations
Title: Benchmarking Post-Quantum and Classical Threshold Authentication Schemes over Wireless Mesh Networks Presenter: Hodae, Alireza
Title: Trustworthy Machine Learning for Cybersecurity: A Decision-Centric Survey of Explainability, Uncertainty, and Human Factors Presenter: Chowdhury, Israt Jahan
Title: Empirical Performance Evaluation of Apache Beam Versus Cascading for Distributed Healthcare Data Aggregation and Joins Presenter: Regmi, Niraj
3:00 PM
Coffee Break & Afternoon Poster Presentations
Presentations
Title: Benchmarking Deep-Learning and Foundation-Model Segmentation for UAV Kelp Canopy Mapping on the Newfoundland Coast Presenter: Faruk, Syed Omar
Title: Evaluating Self-Supervised Pretraining for Multi-Task Sea Ice Classification Across Arctic Domains Presenter: Ahmadian, Nima
Title: Track-Wise Self-Supervised Learning for Global Wave Height Estimation From GNSS-R Data Presenter: Qiao, Xin
Title: Surface Mine Detection in Satellite Imagery Using an Enhanced YOLOv11 Presenter: Ariyarathne, Manjula
Practical AI Applications
Room: Salon B
Presentations
Title: Acoustic Signal Classification for Potash Mine Sidewall Assessment Using Dimensionality Reduction with Support Vector Machine Presenter: Miah, Mohammad Islam
Title: Zero-Instrumentation Benthic Substrate Classification from Baited Underwater Video Presenter: SULEIMAN, ISSAH
Title: Eye-Tracking to Infer Trust in Human-AI Interactions: Insights from a Literature Review Presenter: Eagles, Madison
Title: Deep-RL Station-Keeping Controllers for an Unmoored FOWT in a Coupled Aero-Hydro-Servo-Elastic Environment Presenter: Amarappulige, Charuka
Title: Weighted Voronoi Cell Partitioning for Multi-Agent Foraging Presenter: Hawley, John
Maritime Cybersecurity and Authentication
Room: Trinity Room (4th floor)
Presentations
Title: Automated Personnel Tracking and Identification in Maritime Environments: Evaluating Gait Recognition for Frictionless Authentication Presenter: O'Hara , Chelsea
Title: ENABLING MARINE CYBERSECURITY THROUGH 10BASE-T1S IN NMEA Presenter: Akinyemi, Hope
