PhD Forum Program

⚠️ NOTE: These sessions of the PhD Forum are reserved to the PhD Forum Students and Mentors

Room 40 (Main area building A, first floor)

09:00-10:00
Intro & Talk

Effective Research Presentations: Principles and Practice
Prof. Simone Silvestri

Abstract: In this talk we provide a comprehensive guide to prepare different types of research presentations, including papers, theses, and short 1-min teasers. We discuss typical structures, provide practical examples, cover common mistakes, and provide effective presentation techniques.

10:00-10:30
PhD Forum Student Talks 1

Tiny-ish ML for Big Impact: How to Utilise EdgeAI in Software-Defined Vehicles
Benjamin Kämä

Human-in-the-Loop Automotive Sensing for Human-Aware Software-Defined Vehicles
Prabhash Rathnayake

Wearable-Enabled Screening of RBD Through HRV-Based Machine Learning
Umberto Mosca

10:30 – 11:00
Coffee Break
11:00-12:30
PhD Forum Student Talks 2

NDIR Optical E-Nose for Contactless Diabetes Monitoring and Diagnosis: An integrated HW-AI Framework
Gabriele Salvatore Giarrusso

Non-Invasive Driver Monitoring: A contactless rPPG Approach using NIR Camera
Federico Digiacomo

Speaker Verification Under Intra-speaker Variability
Magdalena Gołębiowska

Lightweight Models and Representations for Efficient and Robust Video Copy Detection
Katarzyna Fojcik

Earables at Work: Multimodal Sensing for Stress, Safety and Silent Collaboration
Egemen Işgüder

The Role of Transformers and Positional Encoding in Detecting Cyclic Patterns from Wearables Data
Melika Mirzaseyedi

Rethinking Energy Harvesters as Sensors: A new Paradigm for Continuous Motion Tracking
Yasien Ghalwash

Efficient and Privacy-Preserving Large Language Model Inference at the Edge
Vilhelm Toivonen

12:30 – 14:00

PhD Forum Mentoring Lunch

15:45 – 16:15

Teaser Madness

Chairs: Simone Silvestri (University of Kentucky, USA), Kristina Yordanova (University of Greifswald,
Germany)

PhD Poster and Demo Madness

16:15 – 19:00

Session: Welcome Reception + PhD Posters and Demos

PhD Posters:

Tiny-ish ML for Big Impact: How to Utilise EdgeAI in Software-Defined Vehicles 
 
Benjamin Kämä (University of Oulu, Finland)
 
Human-in-the-Loop Automotive Sensing for Human-Aware Software-Defined Vehicles 
 
Prabhash Rathnayake (University of Oulu, Finland)
 
Non-Invasive Driver Monitoring: A contactless rPPG Approach using NIR Camera 
 
Federico Digiacomo (Polytechnic Institute of Turin, Italy)
 
Speaker Verification Under Intra-speaker Variability 
 
Magdalena Gołębiowska (Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland)
 
Lightweight Models and Representations for Efficient and Robust Video Copy Detection 
 
Katarzyna Fojcik (Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland)
 
Wearable-Enabled Screening of RBD Through HRV-Based Machine Learning 
 
Umberto Mosca (Polytechnic Institute of Turin, Italy)
 
NDIR Optical E-Nose for Contactless Diabetes Monitoring and Diagnosis: An integrated HW-AI Framework 
 
Gabriele Salvatore Giarrusso (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)
 
Earables at Work: Multimodal Sensing for Stress, Safety and Silent Collaboration 
 
Egemen Işgüder (University of Twente, The Netherlands)
 
The Role of Transformers and Positional Encoding in Detecting Cyclic Patterns from Wearables Data 
 
Melika Mirzaseyedi (Concordia University, Canada)
 
Rethinking Energy Harvesters as Sensors: A new Paradigm for Continuous Motion Tracking 
 
Yasien Ghalwash (Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Australia)
 
Efficient and Privacy-Preserving Large Language Model Inference at the Edge 
 
Vilhelm Toivonen (Helsinki University, Finland)