Program

Program

Three days of keynotes, TechX talks, roundtable debates, paper and poster sessions, and workshops at Penn State University.

All times are Eastern Time (EST). The program is subject to change.

Keynote Speakers

Keynote

Prof. Uma Shanker Tiwary

Professor of Information Technology

Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad (IIIT-A), India

Chair, IHCI Society

Prof. Tiwary's research sits at the meeting point of human cognition and machine intelligence. Over three decades at IIIT-Allahabad he has worked across image and medical image processing, speech and language processing, and wavelet-based signal analysis, increasingly focused on how machines can read and interpret human emotion. His multimodal fusion framework for emotion recognition from physiological signals, published in NeuroImage, remains among the most cited work in the area, and his group has since released the DENS dataset for EEG-based emotion recognition under naturalistic stimuli. He co-authored Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval (Oxford University Press), and serves as Chair of the IHCI Society.

Research areas

  • Cognitive Computing
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Multimodal Emotion Recognition
  • Image & Medical Image Processing
  • Speech and Language Processing
  • Wavelet Transform

Selected publications

  • Multimodal fusion framework: A multiresolution approach for emotion classification and recognition from physiological signals — NeuroImage 102(1), 2014
  • Emotion recognition using temporally localized emotional events in EEG with naturalistic context: DENS dataset — IEEE Access 11, 2023
  • Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval — Oxford University Press, 2008

Talk title:To be announced

Additional keynote speakers will be announced soon.

Day 1

Friday, October 9, 2026

8:00am – 7:30pm
  • 8:00am – 9:00amRegistration & Continental Breakfast
  • 9:00am – 9:30amOpening Ceremony
  • 9:30am – 10:15amWelcome Keynote · Transitioned from opening ceremony · Speaker 1 — to be announced
  • 10:15am – 11:00amTechX Talk · Transitioned from opening ceremony · Speaker 2 — to be announced
  • 15 min Break & Networking
  • 11:15am – 12:15pmStrategic Roundtable Debates
  • 12:15pm – 1:30pmNetworking Lunch
  • 1:30pm – 3:00pmPresentation of Research Papers & Prototypes · Batch 1
  • 1:30pm – 3:00pmConcurrent Workshops · Optional for those presenting
  • 3:00pm – 4:30pmPoster Presentation · Batch 1
  • Free time until the reception
  • 6:00pm – 7:30pmWelcome Reception
Day 2

Saturday, October 10, 2026

8:00am – 7:30pm
  • 8:00am – 9:00amRegistration & Continental Breakfast
  • 9:00am – 9:30amOpening Ceremony · Done by Prof
  • 9:30am – 10:15amWelcome Keynote · Transitioned from opening ceremony · Speaker 3 — to be announced
  • 10:15am – 11:00amTechX Talk · Transitioned from opening ceremony · Speaker 4 — to be announced
  • 15 min Break & Networking
  • 11:15am – 12:15pmStrategic Roundtable Debates
  • 12:15pm – 1:30pmNetworking Lunch
  • 1:30pm – 3:00pmPresentation of Research Papers & Prototypes · Batch 2
  • 1:30pm – 3:00pmConcurrent Workshops · Optional for those presenting
  • 3:00pm – 4:30pmPoster Presentation · Batch 2
  • Free time until the reception
  • 6:00pm – 7:30pmConference Dinner
Day 3

Sunday, October 11, 2026

8:00am – 1:30pm
  • 8:00am – 9:00amBreakfast
  • 9:00am – 9:30amTechX Talk · Speaker 5 — to be announced
  • 9:30am – 10:00amTechX Talk · Speaker 6 — to be announced
  • 10:00am – 11:00pmInteractive Sessions
  • 11:00am – 11:30amNetworking Break
  • 11:30am – 12:30pmClosing Remarks & Award Ceremony
  • 12:30pm – 1:30pmLunch