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IEEE Baltimore Technical Colloquium Program

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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2ND 2024
8:00 AM - 12:00 PMREGISTRATION (FOYER)
8:15 AM - 9:15 AMCONTINENTAL BREAKFAST (116)
8:45 AM - 8:55 AMOPENING REMARKS & WELCOME NOTE (116)
Carole Carey| Conference Chair, 2024 IEEE Baltimore Technical Colloquium
8:55 AM - 9:05 AMIEEE WELCOME REMARKS (116)
Drew Lowery | IEEE Region 2 Director
9:05 AM - 9:25 AMKEYNOTE (116)
“Move with Purpose"
Mary Ellen Randall | 2025 IEEE President-Elect | President & CEO | Ascott Technologies, Inc.
9:25 AM - 9:45 AMKEYNOTE (116)
"AI and Cybersecurity: the twain do meet at UMBC"
Anupam Joshi | Acting Dean and Oros Family Professor College of Engineering & Technology | UMBC
9:45 AM - 10:05 AMKEYNOTE (116)
“Is Technology Making Us Dumber?”
Murty Polavarapu | President | Space Electronics Solutions LLC
10:05 AM - 10:30 AMCOFFEE, NETWORKING, EXHIBITS, POSTERS & DEMOS (116); MOVE Truck (STEM Exhibit) Outside Garage (Commons Drive)
TRACK 1: (RM 118)
ENGINEERING IN
MEDICINE		TRACK 2: (RM 237)
POWER, ENERGY &
ELECTRONICS		TRACK 3: (RM 230)
COMMUNICATIONS
COMPUTING		TRACK 4: (RM 101)
POWER SKILLS
DEVELOPMENT
10:30 AM - 10:55 AM"Quantitative
Psychophysiology as
a Measure of Mind-
Body Fitness"
Justin Brooks | UMBC		"Data Centers and
Its Impact on the
Bulk-Power
System"
Edvina Uzunovic |
Worcester
Polytechnic Institute		"Enabling Access and
Topology
Optimization of
Underwater
Networks through an
Aerial Vehicle"
Mohamed Younis |
UMBC		WORKSHOP
"Mastering the Art of
Negotiations:
Accelerating Your
Career"
Donna Haire | ERIAH
Group, Inc
10:55 AM - 11:20 AM"Wearable Acoustic
Monitoring for COPD:
Early Detection
through Bilateral
Sensing and AI"
Lloyd Emokpae |
Lasarrus Clinic &
Research Center
11:20 AM - 11:45 AM"Wireless wearable,
implantable and
ingestible technology
in Healthcare: A
perspective on
opportunities and
challenges"
Kamran Sayrafian |
NIST		“A Road to Fusion
Power with the
Centrifugal Mirror”
Carlos Romero-
Talamas | UMBC		"Neuro-symbolic AI:
The Third Wave of
AI"
Houbing Herbert
Song | UMBC		PANEL
“Breaking Barriers
& Shaping the
Future: Women
Leaders in STEM”
Moderator: Donna
Haire
Panelists: Mary Ellen
Randall, Edvina
Uzunovic, Girija
Subramaniam,
Rhonda Farrell
11:45 AM - 12:10 PM"De-Conflicting
Mediation of Closed-
Loop Automated
Critical Care
Treatments"
Jin-Oh Hahn | UMD
12:10 PM - 1:10 PMLUNCH (116)
12:20 PM - 12:50 PMKEYNOTE (116)
"AI in Security: Challenges and Opportunities"
Vivek Shandilya | Professor Department of Computer Science | Bowie State University
12:50 PM - 1:05 PMKEYNOTE (116)
What is IEEE Humanitarian Technologies Board (HTB), and how can you get involved?”
Bhanu Sood | HTB Coordinator | IEEE Region 2
1:05 PM - 1:20 PMBREAK TRANSITION and GROUP PHOTO (FOYER)
1:20 PM - 1:45 PM"Self-supervised
learning for Medical
Image Analysis"
Syed Anwar |
Children’s National
Hospital		"Communications
and Power
Transmission
Comparisons"
Sandeep Sadanandan		"Beyond the Cutting
Edge: Unleashing
Innovation and
Opportunity for the
Future of Space
Exploration and
Science"
Bhanu Sood| NASA		"How To Navigate The
Job Market As A Young
Professional"
Rowena Winkler |
UMBC
PANEL
"How to Stand Out as
a Young Professional”
Moderator: Chinonso
Ezeobi |UMBC
Panelists: Rowena
Winkler, Don Herres,
Huguens Jean, Ashutosh
Dutta
1:45 PM - 2:10 PM"Use of polarized
light for diagnostics
in ophthalmology "
Boris Gramatikov |
JHU		WORKSHOP
"Solar Energy:
Changing How We
Power our Homes"
BethAnn Lederer |
Working Wonders
2:10 PM - 2:35 PMPANEL
"A Transdisciplinary
Framework for
Effective and
Reliable Continuum
of Connected Health
Care”
Moderator: Maria
Palombini | IEEE
Standards Association
Panelists: Ashutosh
Dutta, Narenda Mangra,
Carole Carey, Erkan
Hassan		"Role of electric
utilities in transition
towards net-zero
emissions"
Ritesh Kumar Singh |
Tetra Tech		“Object
Classification at the
Speed of Light”
Ergun Simsek |
UMBC		"Problem-Solving with
Generative AI:
Exploring the
Spectrum of LLMs and
SLMs"
Tom Cain | Center for
Applied AI
2:35 PM - 3:00 PM"Beyond the Data
Center: The Unsung
Heroes of Cloud
Performance"
Vinay Tripathi |
Google		"Freelance Consulting
for Intelligent
Interdisciplinary
Engineering Systems"
Girija Subramaniam |
Forcing Function, LLC
3:00 PM - 3:20 PMCOFFEE, NETWORKING, EXHIBITS, POSTERS & DEMOS (116); MOVE Truck (STEM Exhibit) Outside Garage (Commons Drive)
3:20 PM - 3:45 PM"Machine Learning in
Breast Cancer
Treatment for
Enhanced Outcomes
with Regional
Inductive
Hyperthermia and
Chemotherapy"
Balaji Singaram |
Compunnel, LLC		“Small but Mighty:
Harvesting
Vibrational Energy
for Self-Sustained
Sensing Systems
Through Smart
Materials and
Innovative Designs”
Soobum Lee | UMBC		"Building and
Benchmarking Self-
Driving Capabilities
in Robots"
Johann Mission |
UMBC		STUDENTS PROGRAM
Facilitators: Yuji
Zhang |UMSoM &
Fow-Sen Choa |UMBC

“Lightning Talks”
3:45 PM - 4:10 PM"Extracting Functional
Connectivity
Signatures in
Substance Use
Disorder Using Energy
Landscape Analysis"
Sravani Varanasi |
UMBC		"Optimizing
Ecommerce Supply
Chain with AI and
Advanced Analytics"
Jubin Thomas |
Signet Jewelers		RESUME RUSH
“5-minute Speed
Reviews”
Interviewing Managers:
Neeta Basantkumar,
Donna Haire, Drew
Lowery, Victor Hare,
Bhanu Sood, Jeanni
Nseir
4:10 PM - 4:20 PMBREAK TRANSITION
4:20 PM - 4:50 PMKEYNOTE (116)
Nilanjan Banerjee | Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering | UMBC
CEO, Tanzen Medical, Inc. | CSO, LifePlus, Inc.
4:50 PM - 5:00 PMWRAP UP & ADJOURN (116)