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Schedule
2026
Friday, May 1st
12:00 PM

An evaluation of biologically-inspired SLAM models against traditional models

Colby Mullins, University of South Florida
Asadbek Nematov, University of South Florida
Ross Volenec, University of South Florida
Chance Hamilton, University of South Florida
Alfredo Weitzenfeld, University of South Florida

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

12:00 PM

Autonomous Indoor Mapping and Navigation Using ROS2-Based SLAM on a Jetson-Powered Mobile Robot

Daniel Schagen, University of South Florida
Mark Halim, University of South Florida
Chance Hamilton, University of South Florida
Alfredo Weitzenfeld, University of South Florida

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

12:00 PM

Beyond Folded Proteins: Assessing the Limits of AI Structure Prediction for Intrinsically Disordered Complexes

Juan Velasquez, University of South Florida
Faith Robinson, University of South Florida
Sebastien Ghent, University of South Florida
Taseef Rahman, University of South Florida

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

12:00 PM

Domain Randomization for Robot Navigation

John Hightower, University of South Florida
Danae Ferguson, University of South Florida
Brendon Johnson, University of South Florida
Alfredo Weitzenfeld, University of South Florida

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

12:00 PM

HaCKSEE: Security Platform for All

Jamie Giarratana, University of South Florida
Mohamed Eltonamly, University of South Florida
Ben Gipalo, University of South Florida
Robert Karam, University of South Florida

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

12:00 PM

Hand Gesture Control for a Di2erential Drive Robot

Seyoung Kan, University of South Florida
Laray Lopez, University of South Florida
Zachary Hinnen, University of South Florida
Alfredo Weitzenfeld, University of South Florida

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

12:00 PM

Hardware Cluster for Key Security and Education Experiments

Michelle McAveety, University of South Florida
Rylan Pietras, University of South Florida
Ahmed Ghoneim, University of South Florida
Robert Karam, University of South Florida

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

12:00 PM

Investigating the effect of Input Modality on Reasoning in VLMs using Zero-shot evaluation

Rodela Ghosh, University of South Florida
Aviral Gupta, University of South Florida
Ocean Monjur, University of South Florida
Shrestha Datta, University of South Florida
Anshuman Chhabra, University of South Florida

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

12:00 PM

Last-Mile Autonomous Delivery Robot

Lucas Araujo Bianco, University of South Florida
Clement Joseph, University of South Florida
Chance Hamilton, University of South Florida
Alfredo Weitzenfeld, University of South Florida

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

12:00 PM

Microarchitectural Vulnerabilities and Performance Tradeoffs in Shared Scientific Computing

Zyad Abd-Elrahman, University of South Florida
Santosh Pandey, University of South Florida

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

12:00 PM

Misty: An LLM-Driven Recipe Recommender Robot

Alina Pineda, University of South Florida
Stuti Goyal, University of South Florida
Jingjing Li, University of South Florida
Zhao Han, University of South Florida

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

12:00 PM

Modality-Specific Confidence and Uncertainty Metrics for Vision-Language Models

Sahasra Kondapalli, University of South Florida
Poyraz An, University of South Florida
Trung Dong, University of South Florida
Lara Radovanovic, University of South Florida
Xiaomin Lin, University of South Florida

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

12:00 PM

Neurons of Bias: Power-Mediated Compliance and Mitigation in Large Language Models

Anubhav Gupta, University of South Florida
Otavio Rosa, University of South Florida
Mahammed Kamruzzaman, University of South Florida
Gene Kim, University of South Florida

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

12:00 PM

Optimizing Machine Learning Workloads Performance in ML accelerators

Chowdhury Nafiun Nuru, University of South Florida
Santosh Panday, University of South Florida

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

12:00 PM

RISA: Robotic Interface for Sit-to-stand Assistance

Hieu Tran, University of South Florida
Rinat Mynnakhmetov, University of South Florida
Ricardo Frumento SR, University of South Florida
Yu Sun, University of South Florida

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

12:00 PM

STRIDER: Human Re-Identification Using Gait Recognition

Mark Calvelo, University of South Florida
John Pham, University of South Florida
Aleksandre Papunashvili, University of South Florida
Mauricio Pamplona Segundo, University of South Florida

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM