Monday, Jun 22, 2026

9:30 – 10:30 Talk 

10:30 – 11:00 Student presentations 

11:00 – 11:15 Coffee break

11:15 – 13:00 Student presentations

13:00 – 14:00 Mentoring lunch

 

Tuesday, Jun 23, 2026

15:30 – 16:00 1-minute madness

16:00 – 18:00 Poster presentations

 

Instructions for attendees

PhD Forum participants will need to prepare:

• An A0-sized poster
• A single slide for the 1-minute madness
• A slide to present their poster during the PhD Forum

Please send the 1-minute madness slide to the organizers by June 15th.

A printed version of the poster should be brought to the conference. 

Monday’s student presentations are 10 minutes + 5 minutes for Q&A. The presentation should be at most 3 slides, and represent the content of the poster.

 

Accepted Contributions

 

▸  Towards a Lightweight Foundation Model for Smart-Home Sensor Data

Michele Fiori (University of Milan, Italy)

▸  Learning Adaptive Adversarial Attacks for Medical AI via Reinforcement Learning

Manuel Fabiano (University of Messina, Italy)

▸  Zero-Shot Cross-Domain Forecasting of Load and Thermal Dynamics in Residential Setting

Jainam J. Dhruva (University of Kentucky, USA)

▸  From Incremental Learning to Federated Distillation: Continual and Privacy-Preserving Intelligence at the Edge

Ilenia Ficili (University of Messina, Italy)

▸  Trust and Trustworthiness-Aware Congestion Reduction of Drivers of Ground Vehicles with Dynamic, Heterogeneous Autonomy

Doris E M Brown (Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA)

▸  Toward FPGA Virtualization on the Compute Continuum

Vincenzo Alessio Bucaria (University of Messina, Italy)

▸  Deployable Microtransit Routing: Embedding Operational Constraints in the Pickup and Delivery Problem with Time Windows

Agrima Khanna (Vanderbilt University, USA)

▸  Talk to Your Agent: LLM-Based Trajectory Grounding and Behavioral Correction in RL

Gaetano Pio Pispisa (University of Messina, Italy)

▸  BioDevOps: Toward a Formal Framework for Continuous Deployment in Safety-Critical Medical Devices

Fabio Orazio Mirto (University of Messina, Italy)