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Program Schedule

TIME 2026 will be held virtually on Tuesday, June 30, 2026, with all sessions scheduled in Dubai time (GST, UTC+4).

Time Event Session Chair(S)
10:00 am -
10:20 am		 Welcome & Opening comments Dr. Syed Mohammed Shamsul Islam
10:20 am -
10:55 am		 1st Keynote speech
From Trustworthy AI to Trustworthy Health: Agentic Intelligence for Human Longevity Speaker: Assoc. Prof. Imran Razzak (MBZUAI) Abstract: Artificial intelligence is poised to transform healthcare from episodic treatment to continuous health optimization. This keynote explores the convergence of trustworthy AI, agentic healthcare systems, and wearable-driven health intelligence to create a future where care is proactive, personalized, and lifelong. The discussion will cover how AI agents can support clinicians and patients, how multimodal data streams from wearables can unlock new insights into aging and disease prevention, and why trust, safety, transparency, and accountability must remain at the center of healthcare innovation.
Dr. Syed Mohammed Shamsul Islam
10:55 am -
11:40 am		 Long oral session 1: Visual Intelligence, Security, and Evaluation
  • Rethinking Object Detection and TrackingArpit Sharma, Lei Wang, Yongsheng Gao[slides]
  • How Quantum Period Finding Breaks Rivest Shamir Adleman AlgorithmsMd Sarwar Kamal, Sonia Farhana Nimmy, Ripon Chakrabortty, Md Zakir Hossain, Md Rafiqul Islam
  • Towards Better Evaluation Metrics for Text-to-Motion GenerationWenshuo Chen, Haozhe Jia, Kuimou Yu, Songning Lai, Lei Wang, Yutao Yue
 Prof. Rafiqul Islam
11:40 am -
12:10 pm		 Coffee break -
12:10 pm -
12:45 pm		 Short oral session 1
  • Measuring Privacy Risks and Tradeoffs in Financial Synthetic Data GenerationMichael Zuo, Inwon Kang, Stacy Patterson, Oshani Seneviratne[slides]
  • Orchestrating Heterogeneous Experts: A Scalable MoE Framework with Anisotropy-Preserving FusionYe Liu, Wuji Chen, Xu Chen, Mang Li[slides][video]
  • Feasibility of Cryptography In a Blockchain-Enhanced ICS SecurityKazi Kamal, Rafiqul Islam, Azizur Rahman
 Prof. Rafiqul Islam
12:45 pm -
1:30 pm		 Long oral session 2: Trustworthy Systems and Generative Methods
  • Guided Path Sampling: Steering Diffusion Models Back on Track with Principled Path GuidanceHaosen Li, Wenshuo Chen, Shaofeng Liang, Lei Wang, Haozhe Jia, Yutao Yue
  • An Edge Computing Framework for Deep Learning-Based Anomaly Detection in Satellite-Linked Autonomous VehiclesMd Mehedi Hasan, Maumita Bhattacharya, Md Rafiqul Islam
  • Evaluating Trustworthiness in Reactive Web Architectures: A Structured Framework and Comparative AnalysisShrinivass Arunachalam Balasubramanian[video]
 Dr. Md Zakir Hossain
1:30 pm -
2:00 pm		 Break -
2:00 pm -
2:35 pm		 2nd Keynote speech
Advancing Cybersecurity: Building Business Cyber Resilience Through Awareness and Education Speaker: Prof. Rafiqul Islam (Charles Sturt University) Abstract: Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming education through intelligent learning, personalised instruction, and data-driven decision-making, while also introducing new cybersecurity, privacy, and ethical challenges. This keynote explores the evolving intersection of AI, cybersecurity, and educational technology through a comprehensive bibliometric analysis of the research landscape. It highlights emerging trends, influential research themes, global collaborations, and the shift towards machine learning, learning analytics, AI governance, and cyber ethics. The talk concludes with strategic insights for building secure, trustworthy, and AI-enabled higher education ecosystems that are resilient and future-ready.
Dr. Syed Mohammed Shamsul Islam
2:35 pm -
3:20 pm		 Long oral session 3: Efficient Models, Wireless AI, and Media Generation
  • Beyond Fine-Tuning: The Present and Future of Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning in Vision TransformersEdwin Kwadwo Tenagyei, Lei Wang, Yongsheng Gao[slides]
  • RadioAR: Autoregressive Modeling for Accurate Radio Map EstimationPeilin Zheng, Xiucheng Wang, Wenshuo Chen, Ruijin Sun, Lei Wang, Yutao Yue, Nan Cheng
  • Talking-Head Generation in PracticeZhicheng Zhang, Lei Wang, Yongsheng Gao, Yu Zhang[slides][video]
 Dr. Syed Mohammed Shamsul Islam
3:20 pm -
3:50 pm		 Coffee break -
3:50 pm -
4:25 pm		 Short oral session 2
  • Graph Aggregation Beyond Homophily Assumption - a more meaningful way to model networksLucy Lu, Ming Lu[slides][video]
  • Privacy-Aware Machine Unlearning with SISA for Reinforcement Learning-Based Ransomware DetectionJannatul Ferdous, Rafiqul Islam, Md Zahidul Islam
  • Decentralised Trust Layers for the Web: Towards Transparent AI-Powered PlatformsQuazi Ehsanul Kabir Mamun, Md Rafiqul Islam
  • Fine-Grained Visual Understanding for Multimodal and Trustworthy AISyuan-Hao Li, Yi-Jui Huang, Lei Wang, Yongsheng Gao[slides][video]
 Dr. Md Zakir Hossain
4:25 pm -
5:15 pm		 Interactive Panel Discussion
Beyond Benchmarks: Are We Building the Right AI for Next Web? Perspectives from vision, generative models, security, trustworthiness, and autonomous systems. [interactive panel discussion]
  • Panelists: Dr. Rimma Shafikova (VGW), Prof. Rafiqul Islam (CSU), Assoc. Prof. Imran Razzak (MBZUAI) and Dr. Syed Mohammed Shamsul Islam (ECU).
  • Award winning panelists: Haozhe Jia (HKUST) and Md Mehedi Hasan (CSU)
TIME 2026 panel discussion cover
Dr. Md Zakir Hossain
5:15 pm -
5:30 pm		 Closing comments Prof. Rafiqul Islam

Awards

The TIME 2026 Award Committee selected the paper awards on the basis of scientific contribution, methodological rigor, clarity of presentation, and significance to the workshop's research themes.