ICECE 2020 AT A GLANCE

Three parallel sessions will be held in three Zoom Rooms (Room-1, Room-2 and Room-3). Inaugural and Closing Sessions and Keynote Talks will
be held in Ball Room
09:00-9:50 Virtual Platform Trial for Authors
10:00-11:00 Inaugural Ceremony (Ball Room)
11:10-12:00 Keynote Talk (K1) (Ball Room)
17 December, 2020 Virtual 13:00-14:30 Break
Thursday P&E1 (Room 1) E&D1 (Room 2) C&S1 (Room 3)
14:30-16:15
Renewable Energy-1 (6) Electron Devices-1 (6) Biomedical-1 (6)
16:20-17:00 Keynote Talk (K2) (Ball Room)
P&E2 (Room 1) E&D2 (Room 2) C&S2 (Room 3)
17:15-19:00
Renewable Energy-2 (6) Materials and Devices (6) Biomedical-2 (6)
19:15-21:00 Keynote Talks (K3, K4) (Ball Room)
P&E3 (Room 1) E&D3 (Room 2) C&S3 (Room 3)
09:00-11:00
Power System-1 (6) Nanophotonics and Nanotechnology (6) Signal Processing (6)
11:10-12:00 Keynote Talk (K12) (Ball Room)
Comp-1 (Room 2)
P&E4 (Room 1) C&S4 (Room 3)
14:30-16:15
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Wireless and Optical Fiber
Power System-2 (5)
18 December, 2020 Virtual Learning -1 (6) Communication-1 (6)
Friday 16:20-17:00 Keynote Talk (K6) (Ball Room)
Comp-2 (Room 1)
E&D4 (Room 2) C&S5 (Room 3)
17:00-19:00 Artificial Intelligence and
Wireless and Optical Fiber
Machine Learning -2 (6) VLSI (5)
Communication-2 (6)

19:15-21:00 Keynote Talks (K7, K8)) (Ball Room)

9:00-13:00 Keynote Talks (K9, K10, K11) and Tutorial (Ball Room)
P&E5 (Room 1)
E&D5 (Room 2) Comp-3 (Room 3)
14:30-16:15
Power System and Power Artificial Intelligence and Machine
Internet of Things (6)
Electronics (6) Learning-3 (6)
19 December, 2020 P&E6 (Room 1) E&D6 (Room 2)
Virtual Comp-4 (Room 3)
Saturday
16:30-18:30
Electrical Machines and Smart
SensorS (5) Computer Vision (6)
Grids (6)
18:45-19:45 Author Feedback Session (Ball Room)
20:00-21:00 Award and Closing Ceremony (Ball Room)
P&E = Power and Energy, E&D = Electronics and Devices, C&S= Communication and Signal Processing, Comp = Computer and AI
 Virtual Room Links and Time Schedule of ICECE 2020
17-19 December 2020

https://bdren.zoom.us/j/68804415409?pwd=ckJYdmROcjU1L3FzQ3ljMDNDUm92Zz09
Ball Room Zoom ID: 688 0441 5409
Password: 712422
https://bdren.zoom.us/j/63069528914?pwd=UncwcDlaTk04UEhCZnp6Mml5aThxQT09
Room #1 Zoom ID: 630 6952 8914
Password: 750969
https://bdren.zoom.us/j/65304740561?pwd=U1pPMFhJcVk2SW1FZ1NZZU9KUFpEZz09
Room #2 Zoom ID: 653 0474 0561
Password: 973997
https://bdren.zoom.us/j/64017266563?pwd=QnU5akJyUkdwTUppc2hGM2t6Vytxdz09
Room #3 Zoom ID: 640 1726 6563
Password: 856901

17-Dec-20 10:00 am - 11:00 am Inaugaural Ceremony

11:00 am - 12:00 pm Keynote Talk 1 (K1)
4:20 pm -5:00 pm Keynote Talk 2 (K2)
7:15 pm - 8:00 pm Keynote Talk 3 (K3)
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm Keynote Talk 4 (K4)
18-Dec-20 11:00 am -12:00 pm Keynote Talk 12 (K12)
4:20 pm -5:00 pm Keynote Talk 6 (K6)
Ball Room 7:15 pm - 8:00 pm Keynote Talk 7 (K7)
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm Keynote Talk 8 (K8)
19-Dec-20 9:00 am - 10:00 am Keynote Talk 9 (K9)
10:00 am - 11:00 am Keynote Talk 10 (K10)
11:00 am - 12:00 pm Tutorial
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Keynote Talk 11 (K11)
6:45 pm - 7:45 pm Author Feedback Session
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm Award and Closing Ceremony
 Virtual Room Links and Time Schedule of ICECE 2020
17-19 December 2020

17-Dec-20 2:30 pm - 4:15 pm Power and Energy Session 1 (P&E1)

5:15 pm - 7:00 pm Power and Energy Session 2 (P&E2)
18-Dec-20 9:00 am -11:00 am Power and Energy Session 3 (P&E3)
Room 1 2:30 pm - 4:15 pm Power and Energy Session 4 (P&E4)
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm Coputer and AI Session 2 (Comp2)
19-Dec-20 2:30 pm - 4:15 pm Power and Energy Session 5 (P&E5)
4:30 pm - 6:30 pm Power and Energy Session 6 (P&E6)

17-Dec-20 2:30 pm - 4:15 pm Electronics and Devices 1 (E&D1)

5:15 pm - 7:00 pm Electronics and Devices 2 (E&D2)
18-Dec-20 9:00 am -11:00 am Electronics and Devices 3 (E&D3)
Room 2 2:30 pm - 4:15 pm Computer and AI Session 1 (Comp1)
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm Electronics and Devices 4 (E&D4)
19-Dec-20 2:30 pm - 4:15 pm Electronics and Devices 5 (E&D5)
4:30 pm - 6:30 pm Electronics and Devices 6 (E&D6)

17-Dec-20 2:30 pm - 4:15 pm Communication and Signals Session 1 (C&S1)

5:15 pm - 7:00 pm Communication and Signals Session 2 (C&S2)
18-Dec-20 9:00 am -11:00 am Communication and Signals Session 3 (C&S3)
Room 3 2:30 pm - 4:15 pm Communication and Signals Session 4 (C&S4)
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm Communication and Signals Session 5 (C&S5)
19-Dec-20 2:30 pm - 4:15 pm Computer and AI Session 3 (Comp3)
4:30 pm - 6:30 pm Computer and AI Session 4 (Comp4)
 ICECE 2020 Program Details

17 December 2020, Thursday

09:00-9:50 Virtual Platform Trial for Authors
10:00-12:00 Inaugural Ceremony

Keynote Talk 1 (11:10 - 12:00)

Session Chair: Prof. Dr. Satya Prasad Majumder
Vice-Chancellor, BUET
Detecting Internet Worms, Ransomware, and Blackouts Using Recurrent Ljiljana Trajkovic, PhD., Life Fellow of IEEE
Neural Networks IEEE Division X Director (2019–2020)

17 December 2020, Thursday (14:30-16:15)

Session P&E1: Renewable Energy-1
Room 1
Session Chair(s): Prof. Farseem Mannan Mohammedy, BUET and Prof. Md. Abdul Mannan, AIUB
Performance Assessment of Bi-facial PV Module Anam , Md. Zahidul ; Mahazabeen, Maliha ; Islam,
385
Considering Cloud & Albedo Mohaimenul*
Multiple Systems Integration with Solar DC Micro-Off-Grid
415 by using Energy-Efficient 3-phase VFD Inverter for Small Uddin, Mohammad Rejwan*
Agro-Industrial Applications
Solar PV Integrated Distributed Generation System Alam, M. Shafiul*; Saleh AL-Ismail, Fahad ; Abido,
672
Protection with Bridge Current Limiter Controller Mohamed; Islam, Muhammad Azharul
Integral Adaptive Controller Design for Single-Phase-Grid- Roy, Dr Tushar Kanti*; Ghosh, Subarto Kumar;
707
Connected Solar PV Systems with Output LCL Filters Pramanik, Md Abu Hanif; Anower, Md. Shamim
Design of a Sustainable Electric Boat with Renewable Dutta, Writtik*; Ankan, Swakshar Talukder; Khan, Md.
791
Energy Based Charging System Ziaur Rahman
Numerical Analysis of Light Absorption in Tapered Ghosh, Arnob*; Dipta, Shahriyar Safat; Md.
365
Nanowire Based Perovksite Solar cell Shafiqul Islam, Prof. Dr.
 17 December 2020, Thursday (14:30-16:15)
Session E&D1: Electron Devices-1
Room 2
Session Chair(s): Prof. Sharif Mohammad Mominuzzaman, BUET and Dr. Mahbub Alam, BUET
Comparative Study of Electromechanical Behavior of Lead-
702 Free Sn-Al Solder and Traditional Lead Solder for High Fazlullah, Fahim*; Sharmila, Raisa
Temperature Applications
Simulation Framework for Performance Evaluation of
708 Dutta, Tonushree; Alam, Md. Kawsar*
HfZrOx Based Ferroelectric Synaptic Devices
Computational Study of Electron Transport Properties in
Chowdhury, Md. Tawsif Rahman*; Mohammedy,
715 Graphene Nanoribbon and Nanoribbon-based Resonant
Farseem M
Tunneling Diodes
Electronic properties of Ge/2D-GaP heterobilayer: A first- Mojumder , Md. Rayid Hasan ; Islam, Dr. Md. Sherajul*;
731
principles investigation Hassan, Md. Sakib; Hossain, Md. Jikrul Sayeed

Quantum transport of electrons in Molybdenum di-selenide

799 Sharma, Joy*; Helaly, Nishat Mahzabin; Alam, Mahbub
nanoribbon.
Electronic and Optical Properties of BeO Co-doped 2D GaN Hasan Khan, Md. Sakib*; Islam, Md. Rafiqul ; Hasan,
796
using First-principles Md. Tanvir

17 December 2020, Thursday (14:30-16:15)

Session C&S1: Biomedical-1
Room 3
Session Chair(s): Prof. Mohammad Ariful Haque, BUET and Dr. Hafiz Imtiaz, BUET
A Transfer Learning Based Approach for Skin Lesion
663 Rahman, Zillur*; Ami, Amit Mazumder
Classification from Imbalanced Data
A Robust CNN Framework with Dual Feedback Feature
Alam, Md. Jahin ; Ali, Shams Nafisa*; Hasan, Md.
673 Accumulation for Detecting Pneumonia Opacity from Chest
Zubair
X-ray Images
Identification and Analysis of Risk Factors of Lower Back
716 Amit Hasan, Kazi*; Hasan, Md. Al Mehedi
Pain Using Machine Learning Approaches
Ferdous, Jahid*; Nizam, Nusrat Binta; Jinan, Tohfatul;
739 Android Based Low Cost Sitting Posture Monitoring System
Aurthy, Wahida Binte Naz; Hossen, Md. Rakib
 Development of an Irreversible Electroporation (IRE) Ahamed, Md. Kabir; Karal, Mohammad Abu Sayem *;
826
Device for Vesicle Ablation Ahmed, Marzuk

Breast Cancer Classification Using Ensemble Hard Voting Habib, Al-Zadid Sultan Bin*; Islam, Kazi Tanvir; Pranto,
856
with Random Under-Sampling Md Munimul Hasan; NOORUDDIN, MOHAMMAD

Keynote Talk 2 (16:20 - 17:00)

Session Chair: Prof. Dr. Mohammad Mahfuzul Islam,
Vice-Chancellor, CUB
Vincenzo Piuri, PhD, Fellow of IEEE
Artificial Intelligence in Cloud Computing and Internet-of-Things Vice President, IEEE Technical Activities Board
(2015)

17 December 2020, Thursday (17:15-19:00)

Session P&E2: Renewable Energy-2
Room 1
Session Chair(s): Prof. Md. Abdur Razzak, IUB and Dr. Sajid Muhaimin Choudhury, BUET
Performance Analysis of Floating Bouy Point Absorber: In
821 Rahman, Lamiya; Masood, Dr Nahid Al*
Perspective of Variability Reduction
Design of a Low Power Off-Grid Photovoltaic Water Rahman, Mahbubur*; Hassan, Nazmul; Khan, Md. Ziaur
825
Pumping System for Rural Areas Rahman
Load Forecasting Based Dynamic Pricing Model for Power Mahmud, Ishtiak*; Medha, Mohtarima Begum; Khan,
827
Sharing in Solar Home Systems Md. Ziaur Rahman
Mannan, Tahmid Ibne*; Abdul Hasib Chowdhury, Prof.
808 Connecting A Nuclear Power Plant to A Weak Grid
Dr.
The Net Metering Guideline of Bangladesh- Potential and
885 Chowdhury, Shahriar Ahmed*; Khan, Md. Ziaur Rahman
Way Forward
Design and Performance Assessment of a Locally Rahman, Mohammad Mahinur*; Khan, Md. Ziaur
890
Developed Solar Pipe Light Rahman
 17 December 2020, Thursday (17:15-19:00)
Session E&D2: Materials and Devices
Room 2
Session Chair(s): Prof. Samia Subrina, BUET and Dr. Md Zunaid Baten, BUET
809 Sensitivity Analysis of a Cs2AgBiBr6 X-ray Image Detector Sultana, Naznin*; Mahmood, Shaikh Asif

Chowdhury , Tasnimul Hasan; Mamun, Md. Muntasir *;

854 Verbalink-A Gesture Based Speech Generating Device
Asif, Asikul; Tabassum, Syeda Nazifun; Karim, Tajbia

Effect of Vacancy on Electronic Properties of MX2 (M = Ifti, Iztihad Mahfuz; Hasan, Md. Mahmudul; Arif,
862
Mo, W and X = S, Se) Monolayers Mohammad Anwarul Hoque; Zubair, Ahmed*
Non-Ballistic Conduction in Bundle of Single-Wall Carbon
874 Habibullah, Md. Tarique; Zubair, Ahmed*
Nanotubes with Disorder
Nested Antiresonant Hollow-Core Fiber with Ultra-Low Shaha, Kumary Sumi Rani*; Khaleque, Abdul; Hasan ,
408
Loss Md. Imran
Effects of Anti-reflection Coating and Plasmonic Puja Das; Md.Tarake Emam Rahat; Md Asaduz Zaman
422 Nanoparticle on the Performance Characteristics of Three Mamun*
Terminal Bipolar Transistor Architecture Based Solar Cell

17 December 2020, Thursday (17:15-19:00)

Session C&S2: Biomedical-2
Room 3
Session Chair(s): Prof. Md. Aynal Haque, BUET and Prof. Prof. A. B. M. Aowlad Hossain, KUET
Molecular Dynamics Study in Diffusion Weighted MRI - A
860 Karal, Mohammad Abu Sayem *; Azim, Ehtesamul
computational model approach
Accurate Recognition of Leukemia Sub-types by Utilizing a Hasan, Md. Mehedi; Srizon, Azmain Yakin*; Sayeed,
879
Transfer Learned Deep Convolutional Neural Network Abu; Hasan, Md. Al Mehedi
Parametric Image-based Breast Tumor Classification Using Kabir, Shahriar Mahmud*; Tanveer, Md. Sayed;
886 Convolutional Neural Network in the Contourlet Transform Shihavuddin, ASM; Hassan Bhuiyan, Mohammed
Domain Imamul
 Deep Convolutional Neural Network Based Sleep Apnea
Dr. Shaikh Anowarul Fattah, Prof. Dr.; Khan, Ishtiaque
894 Detection Scheme Using Spectro-temporal Subframes of
Ahmed; Mahmud, Talha Ibn*; Mahmud, Tanvir
EEG Signal
Siam, Zakaria Shams*; Hasan, Rubyat Tasnuva; Karal,
Analysis of Continuous Motor Nerve Conduction Velocity
900 Mohammad Abu Sayem ; Masud, M. A.; Mahbub, Zaid
Distribution from Compound Muscle Action Potential Bin
An Automatic Ocular Disease Detection Scheme from
Dr. Shaikh Anowarul Fattah, Prof. Dr.; Khan, Ishtiaque
909 Enhanced Fundus Images Based on Ensembling Deep CNN
Ahmed*; Sajeeb, Asaduzzaman
Networks

Keynote Talk 3 (19:15 - 21:00)

Session Chair: Prof. Dr. A. B. M. Harun-Ur-Rashid, BUET
Fred Schindler, PhD, Fellow of IEEE, IEEE
A New Generation of Quenchingless Regenerative Circuits Division IV Director 2021, Past President, IEEE
MTTS, USA

Keynote Talk 4 (19:15 - 21:00)

Session Chair: Prof. Dr. Shaikh Fattah, BUET
Science, Technology and Society’s Critical Thinking: Public Health and the Luis Kun, PhD, Life Fellow of IEEE
Price of Prevention in the Safety and Security of the Global Citizen Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE EMBS
 18 December 2020, Friday
18 December 2020, Friday (9:00-11:00)
Session P&E3: Power System-1
Room 1
Session Chair(s): Prof. Mohammad Jahangir Alam, BUET and Dr. Nahid-Al-Masood, BUET
Islam, Muhammad Azharul*; Alam, M. Shafiul; Rahman,
Modified bridge type fault current limiter based protective
740 Ashrafur; Abido, Mohamed; Saleh AL-Ismail, Fahad ;
framework for inverter based distributed generation system Tanvir, Faysal Amin
An EMD-based Method for the Detection of Power Sami, Shoaib Meraj*; Hassan Bhuiyan, Mohammed
758
Transformer Faults with a Hierarchical Ensemble Classifier Imamul
Fault Characteristic of a Power Transformer in Bangladesh Kabir, Md. Arifur *; Alom, Khurshed; Chowdhury, Abdul
798
Power Grid Hasib
An Effective Short-Term Load Forecasting Methodology Rafi, Shafiul Hasan Rafi; Masood, Dr Nahid Al*; Deeba,
807
Using Convolutional Long Short Term Memory Network Shohana Rahman
Frequency Stability Enhancement of a Large-Scale PV Jawad, Atik ; Naim, Shakir Ahmed ; Saha, Chinmoy ;
813
Integrated Grid Masood, Dr Nahid Al*
Sadik , Farhan Sadik*; Ghosh, Arnob ; Hossain,
684 IoT Based Smart Energy Monitoring and Warning System
Md. Junaed AL

18 December 2020, Friday (9:00-11:00)

Session E&D3: Nanophotonics and Nanotechnology
Room 2
Session Chair(s): Prof. Md Kawsar Alam, BUET and Dr. Ahmed Zubair, BUET
Effect of capillary parameters on the performance of
738 Akand, Tawhida ; Jahirul Islam, Md*; Kaysir, Md Rejvi
modified negative curvature hollow core fibers
Nanostructured-Gratings for Enhanced Light Absorption in
841 Zaman, Sameia*; Hossain, Mainul
Ultra-Thin Crystalline Si Solar Cells
Design of a Broadband Hybrid Plasmonic Waveguide for Hasan, K. B. M. Rakib; Islam, Md. Asiful; Alam, Md.
852
High Bulk Index Sensitivity Shah *
 Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering of Silver Nanoparticles
853 Zulfikar, Mahdi; Islam, Md. Asiful; Alam, Md. Shah *
with Slot Waveguide
Design and Investigation of a Low-Loss Surface Plasmon
Mohammad Rakibul Islam; Ehtesam Moazzam; Rakina
888 Resonance based PCF Biosensor with a Gold Coated
Islam; Raisa Labiba Khan; Zarrin Tasnim
Structure
A Novel Photonic Crystal Fiber Biosensor Using Single Mohammad Rakibul Islam*; Aadreeta Hossain, Zareen
899
Hexagonal Lattice Structure Mustafa; Tahia Tahsin

18 December 2020, Friday (9:00-11:00)

Session C&S3: Signal Processing
Room 3
Session Chair(s): Prof. Shaikh Anowarul Fattah, BUET and Prof. Ajay Krishno Sarkar, RUET
High-Performance Object Recognition by Employing a Hasan, Md. Mehedi; Srizon, Azmain Yakin*; Sayeed,
793
Transfer Learned Deep Convolutional Neural Network Abu; Hasan, Md. Al Mehedi
Numerical Data Extraction from ECG Paper Recording
848 Tabassum, Tahmida*; Ahmad, Mohiuddin
Using Image Processing Technique
Detection of Myocardial Infarction from ECG Signal Omar, Nuzaer*; Dey, Monisha; Ullah, Dr. Muhammad
865
Through Combining CNN and Bi-LSTM Ahsan
Agricultural Analysis and Crop Yield Prediction of Habiganj
Shahrin, Fariha*; Zahin, Labiba; Rahman, Ramisa;
390 using Multispectral Bands of Satellite Imagery with
Hossain, A S M Jahir; Kafi, Abdulla Hil; Azad
Machine Learning
Home Automation System Using Gesture Pattern & Voice Shehab, Sadat Hasan*; Rahman, Md. Lizur; Chowdhury,
402
Recognition for Paralyzed People AZM Ehtesham; HASAN, MD. HASIBUL
Bangla Sign Digits: A Dataset for Real Time Hand Gesture Tasmere, Dardina*; Ahmed, Dr Boshir; Hasan, Md.
749
Recognition Mehedi

Keynote Talk 12 (11:00 - 12:00)

Session Chair: Dr. Nahid-Al-Masood, BUET
Sudip K. Mazumder, Ph.D, Fellow of IEEE
New Innovations in Control of Power-Electronic Systems
IEEE PELS DL (2016-19), EiC, IEEE TPEL
 18 December 2020, Friday (14:30-16:15)
Session P&E4: Power System-2
Room 1
Session Chair(s): Prof. S. Shahnawaz Ahmed, BUET and Prof. Md Ziaur Rahman Khan, BUET
Feedback Path Selection for Load Frequency Control of Rahman, Md. Mijanur*; Abdul Hasib Chowdhury, Prof.
822
Interconnected Power Systems Dr.
Malek, Ihtesham Ibn*; Islam, Md. Zahidul; Hasan,
GIC Effects on 400 kV Transmission Lines of Bangladesh
830 Mahmud; SUHANUR RAHMAN, MOHAMMAD;
Power System Abdul Hasib Chowdhury, Prof. Dr.
Effect of Covid-19 and Lock-down on the Electricity Sector
847 Sieed, Jubair*; Komiyama, Ryoichi; Fujii, Yasumasa
in Bangladesh
Performance Comparison between Synchronous Condenser
870 and Static VAR Compensator to Improve System Strength in Mahmud, Sajjad Uddin ; Masood, Dr Nahid Al*
a Wind Dominated Power Grid
Harmonic Reduction for Non-linear Loads using Simulink Afridi, Ali Ahmed *; Enayet Ullah, Md. Adel; Hossain,
892
Based Filter Design Shah Mohazzem

18 December 2020, Friday (14:30-16:15)

Session Comp1: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning-1
Room 2
Session Chair(s): Prof. Muhammad Masroor Ali, BUET and Prof. M. M. A. Hashem, KUET
A RNN Based Parallel Deep Learning Framework for
Chowdhury, Sakib; Rahman, Md. Latifur; Ali, Shams
368 Detecting Sentiment Polarity from Twitter Derived Textual
Nafisa*; Alam, Md. Jahin
Data
Traffic Surveillance using Vehicle License Plate Detection Onim, Md Saif Hassan*; Akash, Muhaiminul Islam;
714
and Recognition in Bangladesh Haque, Mahmudul; Hafiz, Raiyan Ibne
Prediction and Rule Generation for Leukemia using Md Wahid Hasan, Anamika Das Mou, Protap Kumar
720
Decision Tree and Association Rule Mining Saha*, Nabil Al Raian Priom
An improved deep learning based classification of human Siddique , Md. Abu Ismail*; Aziz, Abu Zahid Bin ;
735
white blood cell images Matin, Abdul
 Public Sector Corruption Analysis with Modified K-means Pramanik, Anik *; Sarker, Amlan; Islam, Md. Zabirul;
754
Algorithm Using Perception Data Hasehm, Dr. M. M. A.
A Machine Learning Approach to Recognize Speakers
Hossain, Md. Fahad*; Hasan, Md. Mehedi; Ali, Hasmot;
760 Region of the United Kingdom from Continuous Speech
Rasel Sarker, Md Rahmatul Kabir; Hassan, Md. Toukirul
Based on Accent Classification

18 December 2020, Friday (14:30-16:15)

Session C&S4: Wireless and Optical Fiber Communication-1
Room 3
Session Chair(s): Prof. Muhammad Anisuzzaman Talukder, BUET and Prof. Md. Abdur Rahman, AIUB
Gain Improvement of a Circularly Polarized Metamaterial-
680 Based Antenna Using Square Ring-Shaped Defected Ground Shil, Anaynna*
Structure
Dual Band Rectangular Slotted Electromagnetic Band Gap
687 Structure Design for improving Microstrip Patch Antenna Das, Urmi*
Performance
A Low-Cost Dual Band Notched Planar Patch Antenna for Rahman, Mahfujur*; AHMED, FOEZ; Md. Abdur
705
Ultra-Wideband Applications Rahman, Aurangzib
Application of a Complementary Split Ring Resonator
Abir, Md. Al-Imran*; Ahmed, Sumnoon; Alam, Md. Shah
737 Based Biosensor for Detection of Micromolar Glucose
; Islam, Md. Asiful
Concentrations in Aqueous Solution
Frequency Tunability Study of an SRR and SNG Dhar, Nipa*; Asad Rahman, Muhammad; Hossain, Md.
849
Metamaterial Integrated UWB Antenna Azad
Dual Ring Complementary Split Ring Resonator (DR-
Ibnath, Afia*; Sultana , Razia; Ullah, Dr. Muhammad
868 CSRR) Sensor For Non-invasive Glucose Sensing
Ahsan
Application.
 Keynote Talk 6 (16:20 - 17:00)
Session Chair: Prof. Dr. Md. Aynal Haque, BUET
Nikhil R. Pal, Ph. D., FIEEE
Past President, IEEE Computational Intelligence
Can We Make Neural Networks (a little more) parsimonious, trustworthy,
Society
comprehensible, and biologically plausible?

18 December 2020, Friday (17:00-19:00)

Session Comp2: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning-2
Room 1
Session Chair(s): Prof. S. M. Mahbubur Rahman, BUET and Dr. Rifat Shahriyar, BUET
Attention Based LSTM CNN for sentimentextraction from
772 Dey, Arunavo*
Bengali Texts
Automated Recognition of Rice Grain Diseases Using Deep Emon, Solayman Hossain*; Mridha, Md. Afranul Haque;
775
Learning Shovon, Mohtasim Hossain
A Comparative Study of CNN Transfer Learning
Seum, Ashek*; Hossain Raj, Amir; Sakib, Shadman;
778 Classification Algorithms with Segmentation for COVID-19
Hossain, Tonmoy
Detection from CT Scan Images
Subject Independent Classification of Hand Gesture from
787 Paul, Joydip*; Alam, Mohammad Tahmidul; Paul, Sudip
sEMG using an Approximate Entropy Based Approach
Identifying the Stability of Couple Relationship Applying Satu, Md. Shahriare*; Howlader, Koushik Chandra;
792
Different Machine Learning Techniques Moni, Mohammad Ali
Social Media Content Categorization Using Supervised
Alam, Md. Rejaul*; Akter, Afsana; Abedin Shafin,
800 Based Machine Learning Methods and Natural Language
Minhajul ; Hasan, Md. Mehedi; Mahmud, Antara
Processing in Bangla Language
 18 December 2020, Friday (17:00-19:00)
Session E&D4: VLSI
Room 2
Session Chair(s): Prof. A. B. M. Harun-Ur-Rashid, BUET and Dr. Muhammad Abdullah Arafat, BUET
Hardware Trojan Detection Using Slope of Path Delay Hasan, Md Mahmudul*; Baul, Sudipto; Binte Hashem,
733
Trend: Combination of Clock and DC Sweep Maeesha ; Rahman, Hamidur
A Low Power, Low Noise 1.6GHz Charge Pump Integer-N
Hassan, Tasnuva; Ahsan, S M Mojahidul*; Afroz,
750 PLL Design and Performance Analysis in Different PVT
Nosheen; Hasan, Saad Ibn; Raisa , Sanjana Afrin
Corners
Exploring the Prospect of FinFET and CNTFET in
816 Mehjabin, Suhee Sanjana*; Akib, Abir A
Implementation of a Two-Stage Operational Amplifier
Comparative Analysis of MOSFET and FinFET Based Full
817 Reefat, Hasin Ishraq*; Mehjabin, Suhee Sanjana
Protected Soft Error Tolerant Latch
Design of a Built-in-Self-Test Implemented AES Crypto
846 Rahman, Md. Shazzatur*; Ali, Professor Dr. Md. Liakot
Processor ASIC

18 December 2020, Friday (17:00-19:00)

Session C&S5: Wireless and Optical Fiber Communication-2
Room 3
Session Chair(s): Prof. Raqibul Mostafa, UIU and Prof. Lutfa Akter, BUET
Aperture Averaged BER Performance Analysis of a non-
Islam, Md. Shariful*; SP Majumder, Prof. Dr.;
802 Hermitian coherent optical OFDM FSO system with
Mohammed Imamul Hassan Bhuiyan, Prof. Dr.
polarization diversity
A Zigbee Based Centralized Health Monitoring Wireless
835 Anwar, Md Shakil*; Hossain, Md. Farhad
Network for Transformers in Smart Grid
A Deep Learning Based Energy Efficient Downlink Power Biswas, Subrata K*; Mohammod Nasir, Aurongo;
844
Control Mechanism for Cellular Networks Hossain, Md. Farhad
Performance Analysis of GMSK and Chirp-Binary
Mobin, Mohammad Abdul*; Islam, Mahmudul; Rahman,
887 Orthogonal Keying in AWGN and Multipath Fading
Md. Saifur
Channels
Channel Decoding Using Cyclic Elimination Algorithm for
678 Haider, Mohammad R*; Hossain, Md
Pulse Based UWB Transceiver
Design and Construction of a Radio Controlled Floating Ahsan, MD. Shahnauze *; Mobarak, Hossen ; Nahar
704
Waste Collector Robot Chy, Kainatun
 Kenote Talk 7 (19:15 - 21:00)
Session Chair: Prof., Dr. Pran Kanai Saha, BUET
Bozenna Pasik-Duncan, Ph.D., Life Fellow of
Interdisciplinary research addressing new challenges: The central role of
IEEE, Past Chair of IEEE WIE
stochastic systems and control.

Keynote Talk 8 (19:15 - 21:00)

Session Chair: Prof. Dr. S. Shahnawaz Ahmed, BUET

Bikash Pal, Ph.D, Fellow of IEEE

Dynamic Estimation and Control of Power System Vice President, IEEE PES Publications (2019-date)
 19 December 2020, Saturday
Keynote Talk 9 (9:00 - 13:00)
Session Chair: Prof. Dr. Abdul Hasib Chowdhury, BUET

Tomy Sebastian, Ph.D, Fellow of IEEE

President, IEEE Industry Applications Society
Mechatronics Developments in Automobiles (2017-2018)

Kenote Talk 10 (9:00 - 13:00)

Session Chair: Prof. Dr. M. Imamul Hassan Bhuiyan, BUET

Anna Scaglione, Ph.D, Fellow of IEEE,

Distributed learning and signal processing algorithms
IEEE Signal Processing Society DL

Keynote Talk 11 (9:00 - 13:00)

Session Chair: Prof. Dr. Muhammed Fayyaz Khan
Vice-Chancellor, BUBT

Frede Blaabjerg, Ph.D, Fellow of IEEE

Power electronics — the key technology for grid integration
President , IEEE Power Electronics Society (19-20)

Tutorial (9:00 - 13:00)

Session Chair: Prof. Dr. Celia Shahanaz, BUET
Dominique Duncan, Ph.D, SMIEEE
Neuroinformatics applied to traumatic brain injury, epilepsy, and COVID-19
 19 December 2020, Saturday (14:30-16:15)
Session P&E5: Power System and Power Electronics
Room 1
Session Chair(s): Prof. Shahidul Islam Khan, BRACU and Prof. Abdul Hasib Chowdhury, BUET
HF Transformer Linked Soft Switching PWM Full-Bridge
419 DC-DC Power Converter for Portable Arc Welding Machine Uddin, Mohammad Rejwan*
for Grid and PV Applications
Analytical Loss Model of Modular Multilevel Converter Islam, Md. Mazharul*; RAHMAN, MD ASHIB; Islam,
435
with Reduced Switching Topology Md. Rabiul ; Mahmud, Md Sultan; Rana, Md. Sohel
Modulated Model Predictive Current Control of Three-Level
730 Hossain, Sheikh Abid; Habibullalh, Dr Md*
NPC Inverter with Overmodulation Capability
MCPWM Based 21 Level Inverter Design for Grid
744 Goopta, Rubell Sen*; Bhattacharya, Avik
Connected PV System
Comparative Wind Power Assessment by Weibull Mridul, Mazbah Kabir*; Mahbub, Abdullah Al; Ali ,
374
Distribution Function in Faridpur Muhammad

Stability preservation of frequency-limited balancing based Bin Iqbal, Kife I.; Uddin, Mohammad Monir*; Forhad
434
reduced order model of large scale index-1 descriptor system Uddin, Mohammed

19 December 2020, Saturday (14:30-16:15)

Session E&D5: Internet of Things
Room 2
Session Chair(s): Prof. Md. Saiful Islam, BUET and Prof. Md. Farhad Hossain, BUET
Analog Pulse Based Data Transmission for Internet-of-
433 Haider, Mohammad R*; Hossain, Md
Things Applications
An IoT Based Real-time Railway Fishplate Monitoring Rahaman, Md Mizanur*; Sufi, Suaib Al; Abedin, Abir
823
System for Early Warning Kallayan; Ahamed, Rizwan; Hossain, Md. Farhad
Smart Parking System Using MobileNet and Single Shot
671 Haidar, Galib Ibne*; Reefat, Hasin Ishraq
Detection Algorithm and IoT
 A Blockchain based Cost effective Digital Voting System Alvi, Syada Tasmia*; Uddin , Mohammed Nasir ; Islam,
895
using SideChain and Smart Contracts Linta; Ahamed, Sajib
Static Detection of Malicious Code in Programs Using Navid, Syed Zami-Ul-Haque; Dey, Protik; Hasan,
828
Semantic Techniques Shamiul; Ali, Muhammad Masroor *
A Patient Centric Agent Assisted Private Blockchain on
Wadud, Md. Anwar Hussen *; Bhuiyan, T. M. Amir - Ul -
752 Hyperledger Fabric for Managing Remote Patient
Haque H; Uddin, Md. Ashraf ; Rahman, Md. Motiur
Monitoring

19 December 2020, Saturday (14:30-16:15)

Session Comp3: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning-3
Room 3
Session Chair(s): Prof. Md. Saifur Rahman, BUET and Prof. A. B. M. Alim Al Islam, BUET
Classification of Osteosarcoma Tumor from Histological Arman Nabid, Rahad ; Rahman, Md. Latifur*; Hossain,
851
Image Using Sequential RCNN Md. Farhad
Rahman, Md. Latifur*; Nizam, Nusrat Binta; Datta,
A Wavelet-CNN Feature Fusion Approach for Detecting
861 Prasun ; Hasan, Md. Moynul; Hasan, Taufiq; Mohammed
COVID-19 from Chest Radiographs Imamul Hassan Bhuiyan, Prof. Dr.

875 Effectiveness of Data Driven Diagnosis of Heart Disease Khan, Md. Istiaq Habib; Mondal, M. Rubaiyat Hossain*

Handwritten Numerals Recognition by Employing a

Hasan, Md. Mehedi; Srizon, Azmain Yakin*; Sayeed,
881 Transfer Learned Deep Convolution Neural Network for
Abu; Hasan, Md. Al Mehedi
Diverse Literature
Determination of Initial Projectile Velocity in the Presence Tanveer, Md. Sayed*; Kabir, Shahriar Mahmud;
891
of Static Fields Using Deep Actor Critic Method Shihavuddin, ASM
Machine Learning to Predict COVID-19 and ICU
903 Podder, Prajoy; Mondal, M. Rubaiyat Hossain*
Requirement
 19 December 2020, Saturday (16:30-18:30)
Session P&E6: Electrical Machines and Smart Grids
Room 1
Session Chair(s): Prof. Md. Nasim Ahmed Dewan, BUET and Prof. Md. Shamim Reza, BUET
Analysis Performances of Permanent Magnet Synchronous
Hossain, Md Jabed*; Shuvo, Yasir Ahamed; Anowar,
328 Machines with Different Rotor Anisotropy for Variable
Tanbir Ibne
Speed Drive Applications
Selective Voltage Vectors Based Predictive Torque Control
747 Shahadath Hossain Sabbir, Md.; Habibullalh, Dr Md*
of Five-Phase Induction Motor Drive
48V Three-Phase Induction Motor Development for a
794 Portable Industrial Vacuum Cleaner by using LV VFD Uddin, Mohammad Rejwan*
Controller
Transient and Steady State Characteristics of Induction
867 Motor Drive Using DTC-SVM Technique For EV gudey, satish kumar*; Malla, Mohan
Applications
Prospect of Demand Side Management in Bangladesh: A Nazmul Haider Sonet; Shadman Saqlain Rahman; Arik
866
Survey on Residential Application Subhana*; Fahim Abid
Electrical Power Consumption Profile Modelling of Air Hassan, K M Naimul; Biswas, Soumav ; Uddin, Md.
746
Conditioner for Smart Grid Load Management Forkan*

19 December 2020, Saturday (16:30-18:30)

Session E&D6: Sensors
Room 2
Session Chair(s): Prof. Md. Shah Alam, BUET and Dr. Md. Asiful Islam, BUET
Minimally produced inkjet-printed tactile sensor model for Haider, Mohammad R*; Gardner, Steven; Alexander, J.
432
improved data reliability Iwan; Massoud, Yehia
S-Parameters Based Channel Characterization Using Ultra-
677 Haider, Mohammad R*; Hossain, Md
Wideband Pulse Signal
Numerical analysis of Mach-Zehnder interferometer based
756 Ajad, Abul Kalam ; Jahirul Islam, Md*; Kaysir, Md Rejvi
optical sensors incorporating WGM ring resonator
Shima, Shabrina Kabir*; Toha, Tarik; Tanisha, Umama;
896 Automatic Fire Monitoring System In Textile Industry
Alam, Mominul; Riyad, Esrafil
Dual-Side Polished SPR Biosensor with Wide Sensing
905 Roni, Tanvir Alam*; Hassan, Rifat; M. Faisal, Prof. Dr.
Range
 19 December 2020, Saturday (16:30-18:30)
Session Comp4: Computer Vision
Room 3
Session Chair(s): Prof. Md. Rubaiyat Hossain Mondal, BUET and Prof. M. Moshiul Hoque, CUET
Lung Opacity Classification With Convolutional Neural Monowar, Khan Fashee*; Hasan, Md. Al Mehedi; Shin,
743
Networks Using Chest X-rays Jungpil
Deep Learning Approach Combining Lightweight CNN
Labib, Md. Mahir; Linkon, Ali Hasan Md.*; Bappy,
Architecture with Transfer Learning: An Automatic
761 Faisal Haque; Sarker, Soumik; Jannat, Marium-E-; Islam,
Approach for the Detection and Recognition of Bangladeshi Md. Saiful
Banknotes
Bengali Handwritten Compound Characters Recognition by Hasan, Md. Mehedi; Srizon, Azmain Yakin*; Sayeed,
766
Utilizing Transfer Learning Abu; Hasan, Md. Al Mehedi
Bengali Sign Language Characters Recognition by Utilizing Sayeed, Abu; Hasan, Md. Mehedi; Srizon, Azmain
877
Transfer Learned Deep Convolutional Neural Network Yakin*
Summarizing Online Product Reviews in Bengali Based on Islam, Md. Jahidul*; Ahammad, Khalil; Chowdhury, Md
412
Similarity Using Sequence to Sequence RNNs Kamal Hossain
Asif, Md. Asfi-Ar-Raihan; Nishat, Mirza Muntasir*;
Computer Aided Diagnosis of Thyroid Disease Using
771 Faisal, Fahim; Shikder, Md. Fahim; Udoy, Mahmudul
Machine Learning Algorithms Hasan; Dip, Rezuanur Rahman; Ahsan, Ragib

18:45-19:45 Author Feedback Session (Ball Room)

20:00-21:00 Award and Closing Ceremony (Ball Room)


ID Speaker
Ljiljana Trajkovic, PhD., Life Fellow of
K1 IEEE
IEEE Division X Director (2019–2020)
Vincenzo Piuri, PhD, Fellow of IEEE
K2 Vice President, IEEE Technical Activities
Board (2015)
Fred Schindler, PhD, Fellow of IEEE,
K3 IEEE Division IV Director 2021, Past
President, IEEE MTTS, USA
Luis Kun, PhD, Life Fellow of IEEE
K4
Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE EMBS
K5
Nikhil R. Pal, Ph. D., FIEEE
Past President, IEEE Computational
K6 Intelligence Society
Bozenna Pasik-Duncan, Ph.D., Life
University of Kansas, Lawrence,
K7 Fellow of IEEE, Past Chair of IEEE WIE
Bikash Pal, Ph.D, Fellow of IEEE
Vice President, IEEE PES Publications
K8
(2019-date)
Tomy Sebastian, Ph.D, Fellow of IEEE
President, IEEE Industry Applications
K9 Society (2017-2018)
ICECE 2020
Keynote Talks and Tutorial
Affiliation
Simon Fraser University, Canada
University of Milan, Italy
Chief Technology Officer of
Anlotek Ltd., USA
Distinguished Professor Emeritus
of National Security Affairs
Prevention in the Safety and Security of the Global
(CHDS), USA
Indian Statistical Institute,
Calcutta, India
Kansas, USA
Imperial College London, UK
Halla Mechatronics in Bay City,
Michigan, USA.
Title Session Chair
Detecting Internet Worms, Ransomware, and Prof. Dr. Satya Prasad Majumder
Blackouts Using Recurrent Neural Networks Vice-Chancellor, BUET
Artificial Intelligence in Cloud Computing and Prof. Dr. Mohammad Mahfuzul Islam,
Internet-of-Things Vice-Chancellor, CUB
A New Generation of Quenchingless Regenerative
Prof. Dr. A. B. M. Harun-Ur-Rashid, BUET
Circuits
Science, Technology and Society’s Critical
Thinking: Public Health and the Price of
Prof. Dr. Shaikh Fattah, BUET
Citizen
Can We Make Neural Networks (a little more)
parsimonious, trustworthy, comprehensible, and Prof. Dr. Md. Aynal Haque, BUET
biologically plausible?
Interdisciplinary research addressing new
challenges: The central role of stochastic systems Prof., Dr. Pran Kanai Saha, BUET
and control.
Dynamic Estimation and Control of Power System Prof. Dr. S. Shahnawaz Ahmed, BUET
Mechatronics Developments in Automobiles Prof. Dr. Abdul Hasib Chowdhury, BUET
 ICECE 2020
Keynote Talks and Tutorial
ID Speaker Affiliation Title Session Chair

Anna Scaglione, Ph.D, Fellow of IEEE, Distributed learning and signal processing
K10 IEEE Signal Processing Society DL Arizona State University, USA algorithms Prof. Dr. M. Imamul Hassan Bhuiyan, BUET

Frede Blaabjerg, Ph.D, Fellow of IEEE

Power electronics — the key technology for grid
President , IEEE Power Electronics Prof. Dr. Muhammed Fayyaz Khan
K11 Aalborg University, Denmark integration
Society (19-20) Vice-Chancellor, BUBT

Sudip K. Mazumder, Ph.D, Fellow of

IEEE New Innovations in Control of Power-Electronic
University of Illinois at Chicago,
K12 IEEE PELS DL (2016-19), EiC, IEEE Systems Dr. Nahid-Al-Masood, BUET
USA
TPEL

Dominique Duncan, Ph.D, SMIEEE University of Southern California, Neuroinformatics applied to traumatic brain
Tutorial Prof. Dr. Celia Shahanaz, BUET
USA injury, epilepsy, and COVID-19
Keynote Speakers

K1

Ljiljana Trajkovic, PhD

Life Fellow of IEEE
IEEE Division X Delegate/Director (2019–2020)

Short Bio:

Ljiljana Trajkovic received the Dipl. Ing. degree from University of Pristina, Yugoslavia, in 1974,
the M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering and computer engineering from Syracuse University,
Syracuse, NY, in 1979 and 1981, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from
University of California at Los Angeles, in 1986.

She is currently a Professor in the School of Engineering Science at Simon Fraser University,
Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. From 1995 to 1997, she was a National Science Foundation
(NSF) Visiting Professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Department,
University of California, Berkeley. She was a Research Scientist at Bell Communications
Research, Morristown, NJ, from 1990 to 1997, and a Member of the Technical Staff at AT&T Bell
Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, from 1988 to 1990. Her research interests include high-performance
communication networks, control of communication systems, computer-aided circuit analysis and
design, and theory of nonlinear circuits and dynamical systems.

Dr. Trajkovic serves as IEEE Division X Delegate/Director (2019–2020) and served as IEEE
Division X Delegate-Elect/Director-Elect (2018). She served as Senior Past President (2018–
2019), Junior Past President (2016–2017), President (2014–2015), President-Elect (2013), Vice
President Publications (2012–2013, 2010–2011), Vice President Long-Range Planning and
Finance (2008–2009), and a Member at Large of the Board of Governors (2004–2006) of the IEEE
Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society. She served as 2007 President of the IEEE Circuits and
Systems Society and a member of its Board of Governors (2004–2005, 2001–2003). She is Chair
of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society joint Chapter of the Vancouver/Victoria Sections. She
was Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Nonlinear Circuits and Systems (1998). She is
General Co-Chair of SMC 2020 and SMC 2020 Workshop on BMI Systems and served as General
Co-Chair of SMC 2019 and SMC 2018 Workshops on BMI Systems, SMC 2016, and HPSR 2014,
Special Sessions Co-Chair of SMC 2017, Technical Program Chair of SMC 2017 and SMC 2016
Workshops on BMI Systems, Technical Program Co-Chair of ISCAS 2005, and Technical
Program Chair and Vice General Co-Chair of ISCAS 2004. She served as an Associate Editor of
the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems (Part I) (2004–2005, 1993–1995), the IEEE
Transactions on Circuits and Systems (Part II) (2018, 2002–2003, 1999–2001), and the IEEE
Circuits and Systems Magazine (2001–2003). She is a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE
Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society (2020–2021) and the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society
(2010–2011, 2002–2003). She is a Professional Member of IEEE-HKN and a Life Fellow of the
IEEE.

Talk Title:

Detecting Internet Worms, Ransomware, and Blackouts Using Recurrent Neural Networks

Abstract:

Analyzing and detecting Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) anomalies are topics of great interest in
cybersecurity. Various anomaly detection approaches such as time series and historical-based
analysis, statistical validation, reachability checks, and machine learning have been applied to BGP
datasets. In this paper, we use BGP update messages collected from Reseaux IP Europeens and
Route Views to detect BGP anomalies caused by Slammer worm, WannaCrypt ransomware, and
Moscow blackout by employing recurrent neural network machine learning algorithms.

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Vincenzo Piuri, PhD
Fellow of IEEE
Vice President, IEEE Technical Activities Board(2015)

Short Bio:

Vincenzo Piuri has received his Ph.D. in computer engineering at Polytechnic of Milan, Italy
(1989). He is Full Professor in computer engineering at the University of Milan, Italy (since 2000).
He has been Associate Professor at Polytechnic of Milan, Italy and Visiting Professor at the
University of Texas at Austin, USA, and visiting researcher at George Mason University, USA.
His main research interests are: artificial intelligence, computational intelligence, intelligent
systems, machine learning, pattern analysis and recognition, signal and image processing,
biometrics, intelligent measurement systems, industrial applications, digital processing
architectures, fault tolerance, cloud computing infrastructures, and internet-of-things. Original
results have been published in 400+ papers in international journals, proceedings of international
conferences, books, and book chapters.
He is Fellow of the IEEE, Distinguished Scientist of ACM, and Senior Member of INNS. He is
President of the IEEE Systems Council (2020-21) and IEEE Region 8 Director-elect (2021-22),
and has been IEEE Vice President for Technical Activities (2015), IEEE Director, President of the
IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, Vice President for Education of the IEEE Biometrics
Council, Vice President for Publications of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society
and the IEEE Systems Council, and Vice President for Membership of the IEEE Computational
Intelligence Society.

He has been Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Systems Journal (2013-19). He is Associate Editor of the
IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing and has been Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions
on Computers, the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, the IEEE Transactions on
Instrumentation and Measurement, and IEEE Access.
He received the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society Technical Award (2002) and the
IEEE TAB Hall of Honor (2019). He is Honorary Professor at: Obuda University, Hungary;
Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology, China; Northeastern University, China;
Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan; and the Amity University, India.
Talk Title:

Artificial Intelligence in Cloud Computing and Internet-of-Things

Abstract

Recent years have seen a growing interest among users in the migration of their applications to the
Cloud computing and Internet-of-Things environments. However, due to high complexity, Cloud-
based and Internet-of-Things infrastructures need advanced components for supporting
applications and advanced management techniques for increasing the efficiency. Adaptivity and
autonomous learning abilities become extremely useful to support configuration and dynamic
adaptation of these infrastructures to the changing needs of the users as well as to create adaptable
applications. This self-adaptation ability is increasingly essential especially for non expert
managers as well as for application designers and developers with limited competences in tools
for achieving this ability. Artificial intelligence is a set of techniques which greatly can improve
both the creation of applications and the management of these infrastructures. This talk will discuss
the use of artificial intelligence in supporting the creation of applications in cloud and IoT
infrastructures as well as their use in the various aspects of infrastructure management.

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Fred Schindler, PhD

Fellow of IEEE
IEEE Division IV Director 2021
Past President, IEEE MTTS, USA

Short Bio:

Fred Schindler has spent his career in industry working on RF, microwave and mm-wave
semiconductors, leading the development of advanced RF semiconductor products for
commercial and defense applications. He currently works as an independent consultant and is
Chief Technology Officer of Anlotek Ltd., an RF technology company. He has worked as an
Engineering Director or Engineering Manager at Qorvo, RFMD, IBM, ATN Microwave and
Raytheon. Fred earned a BSEE from Columbia University in 1979 and an MSECE from UMass
Amherst in 1983. He holds 11 patents and has published over 40 technical articles. He has been
active in the IEEE, the MTT Society and IEEE Conferences since 1990, including service as
MTT President, Chair of the IEEE Conferences Committee and Chair of the International
Microwave Conference (IMS). He has contributed a column on Microwave Business to IEEE
Microwave Magazine since 2011. He has served on TAB, PSPB and PSC. He is an IEEE Fellow
and will serve as Division IV Director beginning in 2021.

Talk Title:

A New Generation of Quenchingless Regenerative Circuits

Abstract

Regeneration came into use over one hundred years ago, but fell out of favor as device gains
improved, and is not commonly used today. The challenges of maintaining stability, and the need
for quenching circuitry, have hampered it's broad application. A new approach, using multiple
resonators, overcomes these limitations. This talk will show how a multi-resonator regenerative
circuit acts as a single pole, with stable Q's of up to 7000, and eliminate the need for quenching
circuitry. A wide range of applications are possible, and some of these will be discussed.

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Luis Kun, PhD

Life Fellow of IEEE
Chair, IEEE Society of social implications of Technology (SSIT) Distinguished Lecturer (DL),
IEEE Distinguished Visitor for Computers
Distinguished Lecturer for the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS)

Short Bio:

Dr. Luis Kun graduated from Uruguay’s Merchant Marine Academy and holds a BSEE, MSEE
and Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from UCLA. He is a (Lifetime) Fellow of the IEEE, the
American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, and the International Academy of
Medical and Biological Engineering. He is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of National
Security Affairs (CHDS) and was Professor of Homeland Security at the National Defense
University (2003-2014). He was founding Editor in Chief of Springer's Journal of Health and
Technology. He spent 14 years at IBM; was Director of Medical Systems Technology at Cedars
Sinai Medical Center. As Senior IT Advisor to AHCPR he formulated the IT vision and was the
lead staff for High Performance Computers and Communications (HPCC) program and
Telehealth. In July 1997, as invited speaker to the White House, he was largely responsible for the
first Telemedicine Homecare Legislation signed by President Clinton, August 1997. While a
Distinguished Fellow at the CDC, he was first Senior Computer Scientist for the Health Alert
Network for Bioterrorism and later Acting Chief IT Officer for the National Immunization
Program where he formulated their IT vision on 10/2000. He was the founding chair of the IEEE
USA Healthcare Engineering Policy Committee’s Electronic Medical Record and HPCC WG, and
later the Founding Chair of the Bioterrorism and Homeland Security WG. In 2007 he became the
Founding chair of IEEE-USA’s Critical Infrastructure Protection Committee. Kun received many
awards including: AIMBE's first-ever Fellow Advocate Award in 2009; IEEE-USA Citation of
Honor Award, "For exemplary contributions in the inception and implementation of a health care
IT vision in the US." 2011 Golden Core Award by the IEEE CS. Named: "Profesor Honoris Causa"
Favaloro University, (Argentina); "Distinguished Visitor" by City of Puebla, Mexico (9/4/2013).
He is/was in the IEEE Distinguished Visitor Program for Computers, Distinguished Lecturer for
the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) and is the DL SSIT Chair. (2014)
Honorary Professor of the Electrical Engineering Dept. at the School of Engineering of the
University (UDELAR) in Montevideo, Uruguay. He received the Medal of Merit on October 20,
2016 in Mexico by the National Unit of Engineering Associations and named Visiting Professor
by the National Technological University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, October 2017

Talk Title:

Science, Technology and Society’s Critical Thinking: Public Health and the Price of Prevention
in the Safety and Security of the Global Citizen

Abstract

It is the end of the year 2020 and the world is dealing with one of the worst human and public
health crises of our lifetime. Within months several vaccines have been developed to prevent
future COVID-19 infections. Although several have been approved for distribution, society faces
certain risks since not all age groups have been included in the testing. Never before has the world
had to deal with the production and distribution of vaccine doses for close to 8 billion humans.
Thanks to many of the advancements in Science and Technology life expectancy for the average
person in the world has steadily increased since 1950. As individuals live longer, more chronic
conditions manifest in their lifetimes, which translates in unsustainable increases in healthcare
expenses, towards the end of life. Urban and suburban areas keep growing demographically and
their population densities are becoming “hot spots” for the transmission of infectious diseases, that
could decimate entire populations. Prevention is key to lowering the costs while improving quality
of life. While some technologies such as: Sensors, RFID, GIS/GPS, Drones, Data Mining, Block
Chain, Social Media, Blockchain and Wearables, offer many possibilities to change the way we
approach and deliver healthcare. Many of these new strategies will be delivered at the home and
they may incorporate Genetics, Nutrition, public health alerts and will require the use of
Telehealth, Electronic Medical Records, Computer Decision Support Systems and Fast Access
Internet.

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K6

Nikhil R. Pal, Ph. D.,

FWAST, FIETE, FNASc., FNAE, FNA, FIFSA, FTWAS, FIEEE
Past President, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, USA (2018-19)
Head, Center for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Professor, Electronics and Communication Sciences Unit
Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, India

Brief Bio

Nikhil R. Pal is a Professor in the Electronics and Communication Sciences Unit and the Head of
the Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning of the Indian Statistical Institute. His
current research interest includes brain science, computational intelligence, machine learning and
data mining.

He was the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems for the period January
2005-December 2010. He has served/been serving on the editorial /advisory board/ steering
committee of several journals including the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning,
Applied Soft Computing, International Journal of Neural Systems, Fuzzy Sets and Systems, IEEE
Transactions on Fuzzy Systems and the IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics.

He is a recipient of the 2015 IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) Fuzzy Systems
Pioneer Award, He has given many plenary/keynote speeches in different premier international
conferences in the area of computational intelligence. He has served as the General Chair, Program
Chair, and co-Program chair of several conferences. He has served as a Distinguished Lecturer of
the IEEE CIS (2010-2012, 2016-2018.) and was a member of the Administrative Committee of
the IEEE CIS (2010-2012). He has served as the Vice-President for Publications of the IEEE CIS
(2013-2016) and as the President of the IEEE CIS (2018-2019).

He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India, Indian National Academy of

Engineering, Indian National Science Academy, International Fuzzy Systems Association (IFSA),
The World Academy of Sciences, and a Fellow of the IEEE, USA. (www.isical.ac.in/~nikhil)
Talk Title:

Can We Make Neural Networks (a little more) parsimonious, trustworthy, comprehensible, and
biologically plausible?

Abstract:

We are in the era of Artificial Intelligence (AI). For some tasks AI systems are found to beat even
human beings. Consequently the expectation from AI is increasing at an exponential rate! In many
AI systems, neural networks, in particular deep neural networks, play key roles. In my view, most
of these systems are not comprehensible. Often such systems are designed giving too much
importance on data and without paying adequate attention on the brain science or biological
plausibility. For critical applications, transparency and explainability are very important attributes
for any decision making system. In my view, an intelligent system should enjoy at least the
following: simplicity, transparency, explainability, trustworthiness, and the biological plausibility
(if that makes sense). Ideally, we should strive for realizing all these attributes in any intelligent
system, but this is not an easy task. So I follow an easier path to describe how these attributes may
be realized separately. I shall illustrate some of our initiatives to address some of these issues.

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K7

Bozenna Pasik-Duncan, Ph.D.; D.Sc.

Professor of Mathematics and Engineering,
IEEE Life Fellow, IFAC Fellow and AWM Fellow
University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, USA
Past Chair of IEEE WIE

Short Bio:

Bozenna Pasik-Duncan received her Ph.D. and D.Sc. from Mathematics Department of Warsaw
School of Economics (SGH) in 1978 and 1986, respectively. She is currently Professor of
Mathematics, Chancellor’s Club Teaching Professor, Courtesy Professor of EECS and AE, and
Investigator at ITTC at University of Kansas (KU). Her current research interests are primarily in
stochastic adaptive control, data analysis and stochastic modeling with applications to finance,
insurance, medicine, and telecommunications. Her other interests include STEM and control
education. She has been actively involved in IEEE CSS, SSIT, AACC and IFAC in a number of
capacities. She is Immediate Past Global Chair of IEEE WIE and co-Founder of CSS Women in
Control, Past Chair of AACC, IFAC and CSS TCs on Control Education, Immediate Past IFAC
TB Member- Liaison to Education and IFAC Task Force on Diversity and Inclusion. She is IEEE
CSS Past Vice President and member of IEEE SSIT BOG. She is Founder and Coordinator of KU
Mathematics Outreach Program since 1992. She is recipient of numerous awards in research,
teaching and service. She received IEEE Third Millennium Medal, IEEE CSS Distinguished
Member Award and IFAC Outstanding Service Award. She is IEEE Life Fellow, IFAC Fellow,
AWM Fellow, Member of KU Women’s Hall of Fame and IEEE -HKN.

Talk Title:

Interdisciplinary research addressing new challenges: The central role of stochastic systems and
control.
Abstract:

In 2017, the US National Science Foundation (NSF) announced 10 Big Ideas for Future
Investment. These research ideas, such as “Harnessing the Data Revolution”, or the “Future of
Work at the Human-Technology Frontier”, all require expertise from multiple disciplines to come
together to address specific problems that are important in our society. Indeed, one of the ideas,
“Growing Convergence Research” is explicitly about expanding our ability to conduct
interdisciplinary research. “The goal was to motivate dynamic, fundamental, interdisciplinary
research building on a theme that science is strongest when science works together” said Dawn
Tilbury, head of the NSF Directorate of Engineering in the opening of her talk during the plenary
of the National Academy of Sciences 2020 Symposium. Certainly, with advances in computing
and sensor development, stochastic systems and control education will most certainly play a
central role in much of that interdisciplinary research

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Bikash Pal, Ph.D

Fellow of IEEE
Vice President, IEEE PES Publications (2019-date)

Short Bio:

Bikash Pal is a Professor of Power Systems at Imperial College London (ICL). He is research
active in power system stability, control, and estimation. Currently is leading a six university UK-
China research consortium on Resilient Operation of Sustainable Energy Systems (ROSES) as part
of EPSRC-NSFC Programme on Sustainable Energy Supply. He led UK-China research
consortium project on Power network stability with grid scale storage (2014-2017): He also led an
eight- university UK-India research consortium project (2013-2017) on smart grid stability and
control. His research is conducted in strategic partnership with ABB, GE Grid Solutions, UK, and
National Grid, UK. UK Power Networks. GE commissioned sequel of projects with him to analyse
and solve wind farm HVDC grid interaction problems (2013-2019). Prof Pal was the chief
technical consultant for a panel of experts appointed by the UNFCCC CDM (United Nations
Framework Convention on Climate Change Clean Development Mechanism). He has offered
trainings in Chile, Qatar, UAE, Malaysia and India in power system protections, stability and
control topics. He has developed and validated a prize winning 68-bus power system model, which
now forms a part of IEEE Benchmark Systems as a standard for researchers to validate their
innovations in stability analysis and control design. He was the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE
Transactions on Sustainable Energy (2012-2017) and Editor-in-Chief of IET Generation,
Transmission and Distribution (2005-2012). He is Vice President, PES Publications (2019-). In
2016, his research team won the President’s outstanding research team award at Imperial College
London (ICL). He is Fellow of IEEE for his contribution to power system stability and control. He
is an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer in Power distribution system estimation and control. He was).
He has published about 100 papers in IEEE Transactions and IET journals and authored four books
in power system modelling, dynamics, estimations and control. Two of his papers in power system
stability and control topics have received annual best journal paper award. He was Otto Monstead
Professor at Denmark Technical University (DTU) (2019) and Mercator Professor sponsored by
German Research Foundation (DFG) at University of Duisburg-Essen in 2011. He worked as
faculty at IIT Kanpur, India. He holds a Visiting Professorship at Tsinghua University, China.
Talk Title:

Dynamic Estimation and Control of Power System

Abstract

Electrical generation, transmission and distribution systems all over the world have entered a
period of significant renewal and technological change and upgrade. There have been phenomenal
changes/deployments in technology of generation driven by the worldwide emphasis on energy
from wind and solar as a sustainable solution to our energy need. Model based control design
strategy is not as effective now in system operation. Faster estimation of system dynamics, phasor
estimation, point of wave estimation are now very useful for time critical monitoring and control
of a real-world power networks. The interconnected AC system becoming lighter and lighter
because of replacement of centralised synchronous plants with non-synchronous ones. Fast
frequency response provision is very vital for keeping the lights on. This is the most credible
challenge in smart transmission grid operation today. The reports from some of the recent power
grid failures have exposed the inadequacy of control and protection of the network. This talk will
highlight the importance of dynamic estimation and control of power networks for their stable
operation. It will discuss both centralised and decentralised options. The speaker will share his
research experience in this topic. Future research challenges and opportunities will be highlighted.

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Tomy Sebastian, Ph.D
Fellow of IEEE
President , IEEE Industry Applications Society (2017-2018)

Short Bio:
Tomy Sebastian received the B.Sc. (Eng.) degree from Regional Engineering College Calicut
(presently National Institute of Technology, Calicut), India, the M.S. degree from Indian Institute
of Technology Madras, MA.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Toronto, Canada. He
worked with R & D Center of KELTRON, Trivandrum, Black and Decker Corporation, Baltimore,
USA, Delphi Saginaw Steering Systems and Nexteer Automotive in Saginaw, Michigan. Currently
he is the Director of Motor Drive Systems at Halla Mechatronics in Bay City, Michigan, USA.

Dr. Sebastian has done extensive research in the area of permanent magnet motor design, control
issues and applications in steering systems. In 2003 he was elected as a Fellow of IEEE. He is the
recipient of the 2019 IEEE Nikola Tesla award. He was the General Chair for the First IEEE
Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (IEEE ECCE 2009) held in San Jose, CA. During
2017-2018 he served as the President of the IEEE Industry Applications Society.

Talk Title:

Mechatronics Developments in Automobiles

Abstract

Proliferation of Mechatronics systems in automobiles are accelerating at a faster rate due to

environmental considerations and in improving driver comfort, convenience and safety. Last few
decades have witnessed significant increase in electrical content in terms of both hardware and
software controls. We also have seen the introduction of electric vehicles by most traditional
OEMs and by several new players. The Electric Vehicle penetration has an impact on the power
system in terms of charging infrastructure. The talk will focus on some of the challenges and
opportunities for the engineering community in dealing with this growth.

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K10

Anna Scaglione, Ph.D

Fellow of IEEE, IEEE Signal Processing Society DL

Short Bio

Anna Scaglione (M.Sc.’95, Ph.D. ’99) is currently a professor in electrical and computer
engineering at Arizona State University. She was Professor of Electrical Engineering previously
at the at UC Davis (2010-2014), Associate Professor at UCD 2008-2010 and at Cornell (2006-
2008), and Assistant Professor at Cornell (2001-2006) and at the University of New Mexico (2000-
2001).

Her expertise is in the broad area of statistical signal processing for communication, electric power
systems and networks. Her current research focuses on studying and enabling decentralized
learning and signal processing in networks of sensors.

Dr. Scaglione was elected an IEEE fellow in 2011. She served as Associate Editor for the IEEE
Transactions on Wireless Communications and on Signal Processing, as EiC of the IEEE Signal
Processing letters. She was member of the Signal Processing Society Board of Governors from
2011 to 2014. She received the 2000 IEEE Signal Processing Transactions Best Paper Award and
more recently was honored for the 2013, IEEE Donald G. Fink Prize Paper Award for the best
review paper in that year in the IEEE publications, her work with her student earned 2013 IEEE
Signal Processing Society Young Author Best Paper Award (Lin Li). She Is Distinguished
Lecturer for the Signal Processing Society, for the years 2019-2020.

Talk Title:

Distributed learning and signal processing algorithms

Abstract

Artificial intelligence (AI) today is about developing the capability of a single node to make an
inference or to respond to its surroundings with the appropriate action. Inevitably, autonomous
systems will evolve to operate in cooperation, as intelligent swarms. This talk will introduce peer
to peer algorithms for distributed computation and inference.

We will start from the Average Consensus (AC) primitive, its convergence properties over
deterministic and random networks and then introduce the Distributed Sub-Gradient (DSG) and
the Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) methods. The applications of these
algorithms to distributed computation tasks such as hypothesis testing, linear regression, least
square approximations, principal component analysis and dictionary learning will be highlighted
throughout the talk.

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Frede Blaabjerg, Ph.D

Fellow of IEEE
President , IEEE Power Electronics Society (19-20)

Brief Bio:

Frede Blaabjerg (S’86–M’88–SM’97–F’03) was with ABB-Scandia, Randers, Denmark, from

1987 to 1988. From 1988 to 1992, he got the PhD degree in Electrical Engineering at Aalborg
University in 1995. He became an Assistant Professor in 1992, an Associate Professor in 1996,
and a Full Professor of power electronics and drives in 1998. From 2017 he became a Villum
Investigator. He is honoris causa at University Politehnica Timisoara (UPT), Romania and
Tallinn Technical University (TTU) in Estonia.

His current research interests include power electronics and its applications such as in wind
turbines, PV systems, reliability, harmonics and adjustable speed drives. He has published more
than 600 journal papers in the fields of power electronics and its applications. He is the co-author
of four monographs and editor of ten books in power electronics and its applications.

He has received 32 IEEE Prize Paper Awards, the IEEE PELS Distinguished Service Award in
2009, the EPE-PEMC Council Award in 2010, the IEEE William E. Newell Power Electronics
Award 2014, the Villum Kann Rasmussen Research Award 2014, the Global Energy Prize in 2019
and the 2020 IEEE Edison Medal. He was the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON
POWER ELECTRONICS from 2006 to 2012. He has been Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE
Power Electronics Society from 2005 to 2007 and for the IEEE Industry Applications Society from
2010 to 2011 as well as 2017 to 2018. In 2019-2020 he serves a President of IEEE Power
Electronics Society. He is Vice-President of the Danish Academy of Technical Sciences too. He
is nominated in 2014-2019 by Thomson Reuters to be between the most 250 cited researchers in
Engineering in the world.
Talk Title

Power electronics — the key technology for grid integration

Abstract

The energy paradigms in many countries (e.g., Germany and Denmark) have experienced a
significant change from fossil-based resources to clean renewables (e.g., wind turbines and
photovoltaics) in the past few decades. The scenario of highly penetrated renewables is going to
be further enhanced– Denmark expects to be 100 percent fossil-free by 2050.

Consequently, it is required that the production, distribution and use of the energy should be as
technologically efficient as possible and incentives to save energy at the end-user should also be
strengthened. In order to realize the transition smoothly and effectively, energy conversion
systems, currently based on power electronics technology, will again play an essential role in this
energy paradigm shift. Using highly efficient power electronics in power generation, power
transmission/distribution and end-user application, together with advanced control solutions, can
pave the way for renewable energies.

In light of this, some of the most emerging renewable energies — , e.g., wind energy and
photovoltaic, which by means of power electronics are changing character as a major part in the
electricity generation —, are explored in this paper. Issues like technology development,
implementation, power converter technologies, control of the systems, and synchronization are
addressed. Special focuses are paid on the future trends in power electronics for those systems like
how to lower the cost of energy and to develop emerging power devices and better reliability tool.

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Sudip K. Mazumder, Ph.D

Fellow of IEEE
Editor-in-Chief, Large for IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics (TPEL)

Dr. Mazumder received his Ph.D. degree from Virginia Tech in 2001. He was named a Fellow of
the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2020 for distinguished
contributions to the field of multi-scale control and analysis of power-electronic systems. In 2016,
he was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for
contributions to the analysis and control of power-electronic systems. He served as a PELS
Distinguished Lecturer between 2016-2019 with lectures focusing on novel multi-scale
methodologies for controlling power-electronic systems and networks at wide-/narrow-bandgap
semiconductor device level resulting in plurality of practical applications. He is the current Editor-
in-Chief at Large for IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics (TPEL) and was a Guest-Editor-in-
Chief for TPEL in 2014. He is the Chair for IEEE PEDG 2021. He is a PELS Administrative
Committee Member and Member-at-Large.

He is a Professor and the Director of Laboratory for Energy and Switching-Electronics Systems at
the University of Illinois at Chicago since 2001. He is the President of NextWatt LLC since 2008.
He has ~30 years of professional experience, held R&D and design positions in leading industries,
and served as a Technical Consultant for several industries. His research has yielded 50+ advanced
sponsored-research projects encompassing 35M+ USD, 230+ publications, 12 patents, 11
book/book chapters, and 100+ invited/plenary/keynote presentations.

He is the recipient of University of Illinois at Chicago’s Distinguished Researcher of the Year

Award (2020), Inventor of the Year Award (2014), University Scholar Award – university’s
highest award (2013), IEEE International Future Energy Challenge Award (2005), Office-of-
Naval-Research Young Investigator Award (2005), National-Science-Foundation CAREER
Award (2003), and PELS Transaction-Prize-Paper Award (2002) and highlighted paper (2018) and
IEEE Conference-Paper-Awards (2013, 2007).
Talk Title

New Innovations in Control of Power-Electronic Systems

Abstract

This keynote presentation will begin with an outline on the role of control in traditional power-
electronic systems and networks and how they shape the behavior of such hybrid dynamical
systems. Subsequently, an overview of the traditional power-electronic control, analysis, and
modeling approaches will be provided along with brief discussions on their strengths and
limitations. That leads to the future of controls in power electronics and what should and could be
done beyond traditional power-electronic control that addresses existing, evolving, and future
applications needs spanning nano- to mega-power scales and encompassing wide variation in
temporal and spatial scales? This keynote talk will provide some insights as to how and what
radically-new ideas may need to be synthesized that reach far beyond historical and conventional
power-electronic control needs with applications including but not limited to sustainable-energy
systems.

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Tutorial

Dominique Duncan, Ph.D

Senior Member of IEEE
Assistant professor, University of Southern California (USC) Stevens Neuroimaging and
Informatics Institute in the Laboratory of Neuro Imaging (LONI)

Brief Bio

Dominique Duncan is an assistant professor of Neurology at the USC Stevens Neuroimaging and
Informatics Institute in the Laboratory of Neuro Imaging (LONI). Dr. Duncan’s background spans
mathematics, engineering, and neuroscience. She double majored in Mathematics and Polish
Literature as an undergraduate at the University of Chicago and minored in Computational
Neuroscience. She earned her PhD in Electrical Engineering at Yale University. In her PhD thesis,
she analyzed intracranial EEG data using nonlinear factor analysis to identify pre seizure states of
epilepsy patients. After receiving her PhD, she was a professor of Mathematics at Sichuan
University in Chengdu, China for a summer program for undergraduate students. She then took a
postdoctoral position in Neurology at the Stanford University School of Medicine as well as one
in Mathematics at UC Davis, where she developed an algorithm based on diffusion maps to classify
Alzheimer’s patients using MRI. She has built international, multidisciplinary collaborations and
developed novel analytic tools to analyze multimodal data, including imaging and
electrophysiology. Her interests lie at the intersection of data analysis, signal processing, and
machine learning, particularly in the areas of traumatic brain injury and epilepsy. By creating large-
scale data repositories and linking them with visualization and analytic tools, for both
neuroimaging and electrophysiology data as well as multimodal data of COVID-19 patients, she
aims to encourage collaboration across multiple fields. Dr. Duncan also uses virtual reality to
optimize the process of analyzing neuroimaging data and to improve neuroscience education
among K-12 students.
Talk Title

Neuroinformatics applied to traumatic brain injury, epilepsy, and COVID-19

Abstract

The Laboratory of Neuro Imaging at the University of Southern California has developed a
number of large-scale, multimodal data repositories related to various disorders and diseases, such
as traumatic brain injury, epilepsy, and COVID-19. These data archives include the Data Archive
for the BRAIN Initiative (DABI), the Epilepsy Bioinformatics Study for Antiepileptogenic
Therapy (EpiBioS4Rx), and the COVID-19 Data Archive (COVID-ARC). Furthermore, we have
various analytic tools available to analyze these various types of data to understand these diseases,
encourage collaboration, and expedite research progress. The features of these data archives and
their associated analytic tools will be described.