Program
Speakers & Agenda
Final Conference Schedule
Day 1 in person at Grambling State University and Days 2 and 3 online. All Chicago participation is online.
All times are Louisiana local time, Central Daylight Time (CDT, UTC-5).
Days 1 and 2 paper presentations: 10 minutes per talk, followed by 5 minutes of Q&A.
Day 1 / 25 September 2026
Grambling State University · In person
8:00 AM
Registration
8:00 - 9:30 AM
Breakfast
10:00 AM
Opening Remarks
Presidents / Conference Chair
10:30 - 11:15 AM
Keynote 1
Rajkumar Buyya

Neoteric Frontiers in Cloud and Quantum Computing
Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor, University of Melbourne; Director, qCLOUDS Laboratory; Founding CEO, Manjrasoft
11:30 AM - 12:15 PM
Keynote 2
Vithalbhai Dhaduk
12:30 - 1:30 PM
Lunch Break
2:00 - 4:00 PM
Session 1 (Session chairs: Bharat S. Rawal & Vashanth Iyer)
- Paper 8Hybrid No-Sum Sequences for Cryptography
- Paper 63Analysis of Personally Identifiable Information (PII) Extraction from Large Language Models
- Paper 49Next-Generation Cryptography for Secure E-Commerce Platforms: A Restaurant Case Study
- Paper 32BDZT: Behavior-Driven Zero Trust Security with Post-Quantum Cryptography for Heterogeneous Quantum Processors
- Paper 39Enhancing Facial Emotion Recognition Using EfficientNet-B4 with Advanced Augmentation Techniques
- Paper 95Design of a Hybrid Classical-Quantum Framework for Quantum-Aware Database Query Processing
- Paper 97An Intent-Based Networking Framework for Closed-Loop Reliable Small UAS Operations
4:00 PM
Coffee Break
4:30 - 5:30 PM
Keynote 3
Jamesh Joshi
6:00 PM
End of Day
Day 2 / 26 September 2026
Virtual (Online)
8:00 - 8:40 AM
Keynote 4
S.S. Iyanger
8:45 AM - 10:45 AM
Session 2 (Session chairs: Vivya Kalidindi & Ujunwa Madububa Mbachu)
- Paper 34RDQG: Rare Disease Quantum Graph Intelligence
- Paper 39Enhancing Facial Emotion Recognition Using EfficientNet-B4 with Advanced Augmentation Techniques
- Paper 52Post-Quantum Migration Barriers in Cloud-Native Service Meshes: An eBPF-Supported Readiness Study
- Paper 67Explainable AI-Driven Cybersecurity for Energy-Aware Green IoT Networks
- Paper 78Zero-Trust Guardrails for Shared Student Cyberinfrastructure
- Paper 79Quantum-Enhanced Federated Learning for Privacy-Preserving Healthcare Analytics
- Paper 80EnterpriseBench: A Benchmark Framework for Evaluating Agentic AI Systems in Enterprise Environments
11:00 - 11:45 AM
Keynote 5
Ashutosh Dutta
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Session 3 (Session chairs: Yufan Chen & Krutthika Hirebasur Krishnappa)
- Paper 37Benchmarking Machine Learning Pipelines for Network Intrusion Detection on NSL-KDD: A Systematic Zero-Day Gap Analysis
- Paper 59GovernRAG: A Governance-Manifest Architecture with Reference-Monitor Mediation for Auditable Retrieval-Augmented Generation
- Paper 68Enhancing College Students' Mental Health Using Graph Neural Network on mHealth Dataset.
- Paper 71DQN-Based Trajectory Optimization for Mobile Boat-Assisted RF–UWOC Networks
- Paper 76Predictive Biomarker Discovery for Diabetic Retinopathy via Machine Learning Analysis on Gene Expression Data
- Paper 77Adaptive Quantum Feature Encoding for Hybrid Quantum Machine Learning: A Dynamic Feature-weighted Framework for Prediction of Soil Fertility
- Paper 85AI-Tagged Quantum Retrieval for Galaxy Morphology Catalogs Using DenseNet121 Classification and Simulated Grover Search
- Paper 93The Governance Evidence Reference Architecture (GERA): An Evidence-Centric Design Science Artifact for Trustworthy and Auditable AI Governance
1:30 - 3:30 PM
Session 4 (Session chairs: Vasanth Iyer & Jaya Sharma)
- Paper 1Title not provided in the schedule.
- Paper 3Algorithmic Opacity and Consumer Welfare: A Discrete Choice Analysis of AI-Mediated Markets
- Paper 40A Quantum-Inspired Resonance Framework for Mantra-Induced Neural Coherence, Standing-Wave Synchronization, Vagus Nerve Modulation, and Biomagnetic Organization
- Paper 54DevOps Data Intelligence for Continuous Delivery Performance Optimization
- Paper 55AI-Driven Workforce Skill Evolution Modelling
- Paper 64A Survey of AI-Driven Modern Database Systems: Security Risks, Consistency Challenges, and Performance Trade-offs
- Paper 88Multi-Objective Quantum Neural Network Architecture Search for Disaster Traffic Forecasting
- Paper 91TRUST-IT: Trustworthy User-Level Security Learning for Insider Threat Detection
4:00 PM
Coffee Break
5:00 - 6:00 PM
Keynote 5
Eman Hammad
6:00 PM
End of Day
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Biswaranjan Senapati
Accenture
Bio-Quantum Computers and Industrial Application in Cybersecurity
Dharmateja Priyadarshi Uddandarao
Senior Data Scientist, Amazon
Measuring AI Investment Through Causal Thinking: From Counterfactuals to Capital Allocation
Vijay Sudhakar
Sr. Technical PM, Apple
How AI / ML is transforming and enabling enterprises to adopt and leverage its benefits

Sreekanth Narayan
Sr. IT Program Manager
Enterprise Architecture to Regulated Industries
Pankaj Kumar Yadav
Database Engineering Expert
Designing Agentic AI Systems with Advanced RAG & Modern Data Architectures
Anjan Chatterjee
Sr. Architect, AbbVie
Quantum-Ready Prior Authorization for Patient Access
Lakshman
Topic to be announced
Vivek Gunasekaran
AI Governance Specialist
Trustworthy AI in High-Stakes Environments: A Six-Level Governance Lifecycle for Regulated Industries
Ramprasad Ohnu
Founder & CEO, xoCaliber Inc.
AI for Legal Basics
Kiran Palla
Chief Information Officer
Deep Dive into Quantum-Resilient AI Infrastructure
Harshavardhan Peddireddy
Platform Data Architect, Meijer Inc.
Privacy-Preserving Synthetic Data for Trustworthy Enterprise AI: A Governance-Driven Framework Validated at Scale

Saroj Nayak
Leveraging Oracle Cloud for Large-Scale Machine Learning Models
Vignesh
Topic to be announced
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