IEEE SM 2026 – Conference Agenda

9:00

10:00

(Africa/Cairo)

R1: Registration starts 9 am
Room: Alamein International University (AIU)

10:00

10:25

(Africa/Cairo)

S0: Conference Opening Session
Room: Alamein International University (AIU)
Chair: Khalid Elgazzar (Ontario Tech University, Canada)

10:30

11:00

(Africa/Cairo)

S1: Opening Keynote Speaker: Professor Dr. Abdallah Shami
Intelligent Network Infrastructure for Smart Mobility in Smart Cities
Room: Alamein International University (AIU)

11:00

12:30

(Africa/Cairo)

TS1: Technical Session #1: Physical Session
Room: Alamein International University (AIU)
Chair: Mustafa ElNainay (Alamein International University, Egypt & Alexandria University, Egypt)
11:00 LLM-Guided Reinforcement Learning for Service Orchestration Under Demand Shifts
Hani Sami (Ontario Tech University, Canada); Ahmad Hammoud (Concordia University, Canada); Azzam Mourad (Lebanese American University, Lebanon); Hadi Otrok and Jamal Bentahar (Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates & Concordia University, Canada)
11:20 Natural Language-Driven Agent Framework for Urban Mobility Simulation and Policy Evaluation
Eunjoo Jung (Gachon University, Korea (South)); Sukhjit Singh Sehra (Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada); Jiho Yeo (Gachon University, Korea (South))
11:40 A Modular Neuro-Symbolic Framework for Ethical Path Planning in Autonomous Vehicles
Manar Hatem Almansy Mohamed and Nourhan Ehab (German University in Cairo, Egypt); Amr Elmougy (The American University in Cairo, Egypt)
12:00 Cyber-Attack Impact Assessment on Drone-Based Urban Traffic Monitoring
Ahmad Salman (James Madison University, USA); Alma Oracevic (University of Bristol, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
12:20 Enhancing Autonomous Transportation Systems Safety: Integrating AI and Cybersecurity for near-Real-Time Anomaly Detection
John Rosario Cruz, Allie OKeeffe, Christopher Hubbard, Nathan Sprague and Samy S. El-Tawab (James Madison University, USA)
Physical

12:30

2:00

(Africa/Cairo)

Break-Day#1: Tour inside AIU University and Lunch break
Room: Alamein International University (AIU)

2:00

3:30

(Africa/Cairo)

TS2: Technical Session #2: Virtual Papers Day#1
Room: Zoom Link  |  Chair: Ismail Arai (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)
2:00 Vehicle-as-Code: Enabling Reproducible Automation and Toolchain Interoperability in Software-Defined Vehicles
Dirk Slama (Ferdinand-Steinbeis-Institut, Germany); Svante Wellershoff (Kaizenics, Germany); Jens F Lachenmaier (Ferdinand-Steinbeis-Institut, Germany)
2:20 Structured Knowledge for Complex Domains: A Generative AI Pipeline for Software-Defined Vehicle Application Development
Xiangwei Cheng, Ioanna Karagianni, Dominik Morar and Dirk Slama (Ferdinand-Steinbeis-Institut, Germany)
2:40 STAD-NET: Spatio-Temporal Attention Dual Neural Network for Forcasting and Imputation of Carbon Traffic Emissions
Meryem Batoul Karim (Ecole nationale Supérieure d'Informatique, Algeria); Leila Hamdad (Ecole Supérieur d'Informatique, Algeria); Imine Youcef (Univ Polytechnique Hauts-De-France LAMIH CNRS, France); Hamza Ouarnoughi (Canadian University Dubai, United Arab Emirates & INSA Hauts-de-France, France); Smail Niar (INSA Hauts-De-France, France & Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France and INSA Hauts-de-france, France); Abdelghani Bekrar (University Polytechnic Hauts-de-France, France)
3:00 Governance-Aware AI-Assisted Developer Productivity Evaluation in Hybrid Work Environments
Mai Magdy (American University in Cairo (AUC), Egypt); Noha Elfiky (Saint Mary's College of California, USA); Safwat Hamad (Saint Mary's College, USA); Ahmed Gad (Chief Executive Officer of Bloompath Company, USA)
3:20 MS-BiViL: A Tiny Multi-Scale Vision-LSTM Variant for Matured Vision at the IoV Edge
Abdelrhman Walid Morsy Muhammad (Capital University, Egypt); Bassem Mahmoud Mokhtar (United Arab Emirates University, United Arab Emirates & Alexandria University, Egypt)
3:40 Design and Evaluation of an ML-Driven Technique for UAV Threat Detection
Abdullah Almekhyal (Kuwait University, Kuwait); Ahmed Jlidi (University of Kuwait, Kuwait & Kuwait University, Kuwait); Noura Aljeri (Kuwait University, Kuwait & University of Ottawa, Canada)
Virtual
TS3: Technical Session #3: Virtual Papers Day#1
Room: Teams — Meeting ID: 078 153 968 325 383 — Passcode: 6qo7SD3W  |  Chair: Alaa Khamis (King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, KSA & IRC for Smart Mobility and Logistics, KSA)
2:00 Automatic Freeway Bottleneck Identification and Visualization Using Image Processing Techniques
Hao Chen (Virginia Tech Tranportation Institute, USA); Hesham Rakha (Virginia Tech, USA)
2:20 Towards Context-Aware Autonomous Driving in Degraded Urban Environments Using LaneNet
Maher Al Islam and Amr El-Wakeel (West Virginia University, USA)
2:40 Developing an Integrated Machine Learning and Digital Twin Model for Predicting Traffic Signal Phasing and Timing Information
Seifeldeen Eteifa (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA); Hesham Rakha (Virginia Tech, USA)
3:00 MambaVEC: A Multi-Agent DRL Framework with Mamba for Efficient Long-Term Vehicular Edge Computing Task Offloading
Amr Zaki (School of Computing, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada); Sara A. Elsayed (Queen's University, Canada); Khalid Elgazzar (Ontario Tech University, Canada & Khalid, Canada); Hossam S. Hassanein (Queen's University, Canada); Sherif Moussa (Canadian University of Dubai, United Arab Emirates)
3:20 X-Band UAV-Enabled Integrated Sensing and Communications for Vehicular Networks
Remon Polus (Polytechnique Montréal, Canada); Soumaya Cherkaoui (Polytechnique Montreal, Canada)
3:40 Managing Frequent Two-Level Inter-Cluster Transitions in VANETs
Fatima Zahra Rabahi (ALTEN SA, France & Alten, France); Anthony Ringeissen (Din & ALTEN, France)
Virtual

3:30

5:50

(Africa/Cairo)

TS4: Technical Session #4: Virtual Papers Day#1
Room: Zoom Link  |  Chair: Tamer Nadeem (Virginia Commonwealth University, USA)
3:30 A Framework for Modeling Malicious Cyber Attacks on Transportation Systems: Dynamic Routing Application Spoofing Case Study
Mohamed Magdy Gharib Farag (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (VT), USA); Hesham Rakha (Virginia Tech, USA)
3:50 Investigating the Applicability of Machine Learning to the Development of Safety Performance Functions
Mohamed Magdy Gharib Farag (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (VT), USA); Hesham Rakha (Virginia Tech, USA); Michael Fontaine (Virginia Department of Transportation, USA)
4:10 Adversarial Robustness Analysis of Cloud-Assisted Autonomous Driving Systems
Maher Al Islam and Amr El-Wakeel (West Virginia University, USA)
4:30 Real-Time Analysis of YOLOv12 and RT-DETR for Object Detection in Autonomous Driving
David O Babalola, Rukesh Prajapati and Amr El-Wakeel (West Virginia University, USA)
4:50 Building Trust on the Move: A Cryptographic Framework for Secure Data Exchange in Intelligent Vehicular Networks
Susan Zehra and Stephan Olariu (Old Dominion University, USA); Samy S. El-Tawab (James Madison University, USA)
5:10 Dynamic Placement of Mobile RSUs for Auction-Based Task Offloading in Urban Vehicular Clouds: A Smart Mobility Framework
Syed R Rizvi and Stephan Olariu (Old Dominion University, USA); Samy S. El-Tawab (James Madison University, USA)
5:30 URGE: Urgency-Aware Energy-Efficient UAV Mobility via Hybrid Deep Reinforcement Learning
Mohamed Kamel, Nourchene Bargaoui and Tamer Nadeem (Virginia Commonwealth University, USA)
Virtual
TS5: Technical Session #5: Virtual Papers Day#1
Room: ??????  |  Chair: Sanaa Alwidian (OntarioTech University, Canada)
3:30 Minimizing Network-Wide Traffic Delays for Priority Vehicles Using I2I Communication
Babangida Zachariah and Amr Mohamed (Ontario Tech University, Canada); Khalid Elgazzar (Ontario Tech University, Canada & Khalid, Canada); Sanaa Alwidian (OntarioTech University, Canada); Sherif Moussa (Canadian University of Dubai, United Arab Emirates)
3:50 Optimizing Intersection Management: A Hybrid Centralized-Decentralized Approach for Autonomous Vehicle Coordination
Ammar Elmoghazy (Ontario Tech University, Canada); Amr Mohamed (University of Georgia, USA); Khalid Elgazzar (Ontario Tech University, Canada & Khalid, Canada); Sanaa Alwidian (OntarioTech University, Canada); Sherif Moussa (Canadian University of Dubai, United Arab Emirates)
4:10 UAV Extreme Edge Computing for Real Time AI Inference: A Distributed Processing Approach
MHD Saria Allahham (Queen's University, Canada); Nizar Zorba (Qatar University, Qatar); Hossam S. Hassanein (Queen's University, Canada)
4:30 A Human-Centric Multimodal Framework for Continuous and Interpretable Driver Fatigue Quantification in Autonomous Vehicles
Sultanul Kabir (Ontario Tech University, Canada); Sanaa Alwidian (OntarioTech University, Canada)
4:50 RL-Loop: Reinforcement Learning-DrivenReal-Time 5G Slice Control for Connected and Autonomous Mobility Services
Lara Tarkh (University of Western Ontario, Canada); Ali Chouman (Western University, Canada); Hanan Lutfiyya and Abdallah Shami (The University of Western Ontario, Canada)
5:10 Design and Evaluation of a Hybrid Quantum-Classical IMU Integration for Robust Land-Vehicle Navigation
Ahmed Mohamed Salman (Queen's University, Canada & Ain Shams University, Egypt); Eslam Mounier and Malek Karaim (Queen's University, Canada); Haidy Elghamrawy (Royal Military College of Canada, Canada & Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, Egypt); Aboelmagd Noureldin (Royal Military College of Canada, Canada)
5:30 A Convex-Aware Heuristic-Based Adaptive Traversal Algorithm for Efficient Grid Coverage
Sifatul Mostafi (Ontario Tech University, Canada); Khalid Elgazzar (Ontario Tech University, Canada & Khalid, Canada); Sherif Moussa (Canadian University of Dubai, United Arab Emirates)
Virtual

9:00

10:30

(Africa/Cairo)

VD2-Track#1: Virtual Day#2 – Morning Technical Session – Track#1
Room: Teams — Meeting ID: 695 564 322 782 398 — Passcode: ed34UX6m  |  Chair: Ahmed Elsayed (Canadian University Dubai, United Arab Emirates)
9:00 Traffic Control Using Artificial Intelligence for Optimized and Adaptive Traffic Management
Steven Steven, Winanda Hartadi, Gede Atmaja and Aditya Kurniawan (Bina Nusantara University, Indonesia)
9:20 A Theoretical Study on Vibration Analysis of Semi-Active Suspension Systems with MR Dampers
Mahmood Nurul Hossain, Yazeed Shwaikh, Mohammed Lootah, Avent Prakasa Rao and Hamad Khalid Javanbakht (Canadian University Dubai, United Arab Emirates); Salih Rashid Majeed (Canadian University Dubai City Walk, United Arab Emirates); Khaled Goher (Canadian University Dubai, United Arab Emirates)
9:40 Operational eXploration and Inspection DEvice (OXIDE): An Autonomous Smart Mobility Platform for Robotic Corrosion Detection and Infrastructure Inspection
Danica Chloe Reyes, Ezza Mirza, Noor Aboud and Khaled Goher (Canadian University Dubai, United Arab Emirates)
10:00 Safe2Hail: A Forensic-Driven Post-Trip Tracking Framework for Ride-Hailing Safety in Africa
Alvina Rwaichi Minja (Carnegie Mellon University Africa, Rwanda); Jema David Ndibwile (Carnegie Mellon University Africa, Rwanda & N/a, Rwanda); Robert Kirathe Maina and Mahmud Oloyede (Carnegie Mellon University Africa, Rwanda)
10:20 Fusing Cellular Network Data and Tollbooth Counts for Urban Traffic Flow Estimation
Oluwaleke Yusuf and Shaira Tabassum (Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway)
Virtual
VD2-Track#2: Virtual Day#2 – Technical Session – Track#2
Room: Zoom Link#2  |  Chair: Haythem Mohamed El-Messiry (Canadian University Dubai, United Arab Emirates)
9:00 SimCharge: Towards Standardized Evaluation of EV Charging via Mobile Charging Solutions
Zainab Husain and Rabeb Mizouni (Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates); Tarek EL-Fouly (Khalifa University of Science and Technology, United Arab Emirates); Shakti Singh (Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates); Hadi Otrok (Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates & Concordia University, Canada)
9:20 Comparative Study of Fixed and Adaptive Impedance Matching for Piezoelectric Smart-Pavements: Powering Integrated Pathway Illumination on Viscoelastic Surfaces
Ezza Mirza, Noor Aboud, Danica Chloe Reyes and Marwa Khaled (Canadian University Dubai, United Arab Emirates); Salih Rashid Majeed (Canadian University Dubai City Walk, United Arab Emirates)
9:40 Performance Modeling and Orchestration Analysis of Multi-Tier Edge Computing in V2X Environments
Ahmed Abdelmonem Khalifa (Fujairah University, United Arab Emirates & National Telecommunication Institute, Egypt); Bassem Mahmoud Mokhtar (United Arab Emirates University, United Arab Emirates & Alexandria University, Egypt)
10:00 Adaptive Metaheuristic Optimization of Multi-Depot Capacitated Vehicle Routing for Third-Party Logistics
Ahmed Taha Mohammed Ahmed Senan (King Fahad University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia); Zead Saleh (University of Business and Technology (UBT), Saudi Arabia); Ahmad Al-Hanbali (KFUPM, Saudi Arabia); Alaa Khamis (King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia & IRC for Smart Mobility and Logistics, Saudi Arabia)
10:20 Hybrid Optimization Framework for Crowdsourced Last-Mile Delivery
Mohammed Alromema (King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia); Osamah H. Hussein (King Fahad University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia); Ahmad Al-Hanbali (KFUPM, Saudi Arabia); Ahmed Azab (King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia); Alaa Khamis (King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia & IRC for Smart Mobility and Logistics, Saudi Arabia)
10:40 Time, AI Ethics, and the Governance of Smart Mobility
Muhammad A. Z. Mughal (King Fahad University of Petroleum & Minerals, Saudi Arabia)
Virtual

10:30

12:45

(Africa/Cairo)

PVS-Day#2: Poster Virtual Session
Room: Zoom Link#3  |  Chair: Firuz Kamalov (Canadian University Dubai, United Arab Emirates)
10:30 EcoPress: A Mobile Autonomous Robotic Can Compactor System for Smart City Applications
Anthony Ibrahim (Canadian University Dubai & United Arab Emirates, United Arab Emirates); Maya Salahi Alasbahi, Shamma Albalooshi and Hadi Almubarak Altayeb (Canadian University Dubai, United Arab Emirates); Salih Rashid Majeed (Canadian University Dubai City Walk, United Arab Emirates)
10:35 AI-Enabled Sensory Analytics for Neurodivergent-Inclusive Smart Transit and Mobility Hubs
Maha Salman, Shahd Ahmed Abdelfattah and Khalid Salah El-Ayins (Canadian University Dubai, United Arab Emirates)
10:40 Spatiotemporal Analysis of Traffic Incidents in Dubai Using Machine Learning
Hussein Aboueldahab (Canadian University Dubai, United Arab Emirates); Khalid Elgazzar (Ontario Tech University, Canada & Khalid, Canada)
10:45 Crash Hotspot Detection in Dubai Using DBSCAN and Severity Weighting
Maryam Alblooshi and Najma Abdulkarim Nour (Canadian University Dubai, United Arab Emirates); Khalid Elgazzar (Ontario Tech University, Canada & Khalid, Canada)
10:50 Lightweight Machine Learning-Based Intrusion Detection for Vehicle-to-Everything Communications
Roman Bogotyrev (Canadian University Dubai, United Arab Emirates & Smart Mobility, United Arab Emirates); Firuz Kamalov (Canadian University Dubai, United Arab Emirates)
10:55 Automated Traffic Incident Summarisation Using LLMs: A Smart City Perspective
Rajeev Ranjan Pandey (canadian University of Dubai, United Arab Emirates); Khalid Elgazzar (Ontario Tech University, Canada & Khalid, Canada)
11:00 Clustering Dubai Metro Stations by Ridership Patterns and Urban Context
Junaid Aziz (Canadian University Dubai, United Arab Emirates); Khalid Elgazzar (Ontario Tech University, Canada & Khalid, Canada)
11:05 Agent-Based Modular Architecture for Autonomous Driving with Shared Context and Risk-Aware Planning
Merihan Amr (Ontario Tech, Canada); Khalid Elgazzar (Ontario Tech University, Canada & Khalid, Canada); Abdelrahman Elewah (Ontario Tech University, Canada)
11:10 Smart Parking Occupancy Detection Using Computer Vision and Edge AI
Melisa Ndini and Amna Nasser Aljaroodi (Canadian University Dubai, United Arab Emirates); Khalid Elgazzar (Ontario Tech University, Canada & Khalid, Canada)
11:15 Urban Noise Monitoring and Classification Using Machine Learning and Deep Learning
Najma Abdulkarim Nour and Maryam Alblooshi (Canadian University Dubai, United Arab Emirates); Khalid Elgazzar (Ontario Tech University, Canada & Khalid, Canada)
11:20 Safety-Critical Bias: Assessing Demographic Disparities in SAM2 for Autonomous Vehicle Applications
Junaid Aziz and Haythem Mohamed El-Messiry (Canadian University Dubai, United Arab Emirates)
11:25 Incorporating Tool Compatibility into a Realistic Multi-Manned Five-Sided Assembly Line Balancing Model
Ousman Khan, Abdullahi Ahmed Ahmed and Ahmed Azab (King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia)
11:30 Agentic Digital Twins for Urban Traffic Control: A Reasoning-Validation Framework for Autonomous Systems
Anita Gholami and Zahraa Sahib (Canadian University Dubai, United Arab Emirates)
11:35 Collaborative SDN Controllers for IoT Intrusion Detection Using Federated Learning
Charlotte Yeboah (Canadian University Dubai, United Arab Emirates); Hamza Ouarnoughi (Canadian University Dubai, United Arab Emirates & INSA Hauts-de-France, France); Abdulhamid Alsbakhi (Canadian University Dubai, United Arab Emirates)
11:40 NetSentinel: A Mixture-of-Experts IDS for Dynamic Threat Detection in SDN-IoT
Omar T Awad (Canadian University Dubai, United Arab Emirates); Zaid O Rajab, Sr (Canadian University of Dubai, United Arab Emirates); Abdulhamid Alsbakhi (Canadian University Dubai, United Arab Emirates); Hamza Ouarnoughi (Canadian University Dubai, United Arab Emirates & INSA Hauts-de-France, France)
11:45 Lightweight Voice Deepfake Detection for Smart Mobility Using Multi-Feature Ensemble Learning
Mohammad Thabet, Ahmed Sami, Fahad Sadek and Arash Kermani Kolankeh (Canadian University Dubai, United Arab Emirates)
11:50 Passenger Emotion-Centric Requirements Engineering for Autonomous Vehicles
Sanaa Alwidian (OntarioTech University, Canada); Farzaneh Kargozari (Ontario Tech University, Canada)
11:55 Real-Time AR Vision Enhancement System
Mahdi Parvaz, Thejaswini Sunil and Mehak Khurana (Canadian University Dubai, United Arab Emirates)
12:00 OTA Update-Channel Compromise Risk in Smart Mobility: A Testbed Comparing Governance and Cryptographic Controls
Mohammad Thabet, Omar Alraas and Lobna AbuSerrieh (Canadian University Dubai, United Arab Emirates)
Virtual

TBD

(Africa/Cairo)

Day 3 schedule will be announced soon.