Parallel Sessions

Parallel Session: Oral Presentation 1

10:20 AM – 11:40 AM

Session: Advanced Functional Materials and Computational Mechanics

Location: SP0019 / SP0015

The session was chaired by Pieter Desnerck, with poster presentations judged by Nusrat and Andreas Chrysanthou.

The invited talk was delivered by Anand Sreeram, who presented "Developments in Biobased Road Construction Materials at the Nottingham Transportation Engineering Centre (NTEC)".

Time	Title	Presenters
10.20 – 10.40	Post-fire analysis of aluminium alloys 6082-T6, 6005A-T6 and 7020-T6: Experimental tests and material modelling	Nibaldo Navarro-Castro
10.40 – 10.55	Experimental Investigation of PCM-Enhanced Heat Sinks for Passive Electronics Cooling	Austin Migua Njagi
10.55 – 11.10	Effects of Airflow Incidence on Propeller Thrust Across Varying Freestream Velocities	Beatriz Ribeiro
11.10 – 11.25	Generative Shape Design of Sound-Absorbing Structures	Vivek T. Ramamoorthy

Parallel Session: Oral Presentation 2

10:20 AM – 11:40 AM

Session: Intelligent Systems for Vision, Learning, and Data-Driven Decision Making

Location: SP0011

The session was chaired by Nada Yousef, with presentations judged by Mahmoud Eltaweel and Mudassir Hussain.

The invited talk was delivered by Nikhil Vasdev, who presented "How AI-led Robotic Surgical Research at UH is Transforming Urological Care."

Time	Title	Presenters
10.20 – 10.40	Machine-Learning-Based Damage Detection in a Small-Scale Wind Turbine Blade Using Data-Driven Features	María E. Quiroz
10.40 – 10.55	Multimodal Biometric Authentication	Ojikutu Damilola
10.55 – 11.10	TempFAS: Video-Level Face Anti-Spoofing Using CNN-LSTM Temporal Modelling	Dr. Lily Meng
11.10 – 11.25	Class Imbalance Correction in Deep Learning for Telecom Customer Churn Prediction: A Comparative Study of ANN and TabNet	Okechi Onuoha

Parallel Session: Oral Presentation 3

10:20 AM – 11:40 AM

Session: Sensing the Invisible: Airborne Particles and Bio-Detection Technologies

Location: SP1004

The session was chaired by Loic Couldron, with presentations judged by Etelka Chung and Lanka Weerasiri.

The invited talk was delivered by Nikolay Dimov, who presented "Mapping Metadata from the Isolation of Extracellular Vesicles from Urine Samples Using PCA and Pressure Readings from a Mesofluidic Tangential Flow Filtration Device."

Time	Title	Presenters
10.20 – 10.40	Low-Flowrate Collection and Quantification of Airborne Human DNA in an Occupied Meeting Room	Muhammad Sohaib Ikram
10.40 – 10.55	Respirable Fibre Detection from Light Scattering Patterns	Rob Lewis
10.55 – 11.10	Characterisation of the aerosol transport evolution in a bioaerosol chamber using low-cost sensors	Milad Heidari-Koochi
11.10 – 11.25	Performance evaluation of bioaerosol samplers on capturing fungal spores in a controlled environment	Shamil Rafeeq

Parallel Session: Oral Presentation 4

10:20 AM – 11:40 AM

Session: Modelling the Universe: Astrophysics, Simulations, and Observational Systems

Location: SP1006

The session was chaired by Sophie Koudmani, with presentations judged by Krupa Kuruvila and Ragesh Thelakkadan Puthiyaveettil.

The invited talks were delivered by Dr Lily Whitler and Dr Will Coulton, who presented "New Eyes on the Sky: Insights into the Early Universe from the James Webb Space Telescope" and "Glimpses into the Universe’s Youth: A Search for New Information on the Primordial Universe."

Time	Title	Presenters
10.20 – 10.40	From stardust to us: Predicting planet habitability in the Universe from computational simulations of galaxy chemical evolution	Rob Yates
10.40 – 10.55	Enhancing Dynamic Range of an sCMOS Astronomical Camera through Row-Readout Sequencing	Supriyo Ghosh
10.55 – 11.10	Modelling Extreme Nitrogen Emitting Galaxies from Cosmic Dawn to the Present	Alessandro Angrilli Muglia

Parallel Session: Oral Presentation 5

10:20 AM – 11:40 AM

Session: Interactive Intelligent Systems: Robotics, XR, and Adaptive Control

Location: SP3004

The session was chaired by Salvatore Livatino, with presentations judged by Javed Khan and Anna Ojinnaka.

The invited talk was delivered by Caroline Whyatt.

Time	Title	Presenters
10.20 – 10.40	Attention-Based Soft Supervisory for Controlling Multiple System	Klinsmann Agye
10.40 – 10.55	Manipulating Perceived Agency in Human-Robot Interaction: A Dialogue and Behaviour Design Framework for Pepper and Fetch Robots	Ali Fallahi
10.55 – 11.10	Data Driven Virtual Reality Tensile Testing Laboratory Development	Eugen Guritanu
11.10 – 11.25	Bold Hearts: Developing new generations of humanoid robot	Bente Riegler

Parallel Session: Oral Presentation 6

10:20 AM – 11:40 AM

Session: Resilient Infrastructure: Materials, Modelling, and Decision Systems

Location: SP3006

The session was chaired by Asal Pournaghshband, with presentations judged by Antonis Kanellopoulos and Mike Otieno.

The invited talk was delivered by Antonis Kanellopoulos, who presented "Global Mineral Waste Streams and their Upcycling Potential."

Time	Title	Presenters
10.20 – 10.40	Reactivity of Calcined CDW Fines and Mine Tailings in Blended Cements through Integrated Experimental and Modelling Approaches	Bernasconi D
10.40 – 10.55	Non-Destructive Evaluation of Bond Integrity in Adhesively Bonded Joints in Composite Structures Using Acousto-Ultrasonic	I. Onwochei
10.55 – 11.10	Debonding-on-demand for structural silicone joints in façade applications	Sajjad Karimi
11.10 – 11.25	Optimising Green Building Design Using BREEAM and Artificial Intelligence Modelling (BREE-AIM)	Farzad Piadeh

Parallel Session: Oral Presentation 7

10:20 AM – 11:40 AM

Session: Applied Science and Industrial Innovation

Location: SP4004

The session was chaired by Denis Smith, with presentations judged by Ricky Linforth and Anju Viswanath.

The invited talk was delivered by Mel Disher, who presented "Introduction to Particle Sizing Techniques."

Time	Presenter	Company
10.20 – 10.40	Andy Bonney	RS Pro
10.40 – 10.55	Clement Eliott	Shimidzu
10.55 – 11.10	Evident Scientific	Jane Bratherton