BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:US/Eastern BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20260308T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251213T023305Z UID:F8BD74F6-1E7A-49CA-86A5-BFAA9A88582B DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20251212T115500 DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20251212T150000 DESCRIPTION:The 2025-Fall IEEE Metropolitan AI Applications Symposium (IEEE METAI-2025-Fall) will be held online (Zoom) on Friday\, December 12\, 202 5\, from 12:00 pm until 2:30 pm. The symposium consists of one keynote pre sentation and several invited presentations\, covering various topics in A I methods\, systems\, and applications.\n\nThis symposium is organized in collaboration with Canadian-American Research Forum on AI Technologies.\n\ nOrganizers:\n\nIEEE North Jersey Engineering in Medicine and Biology Chap ter (EMB)\n\nIEEE North Jersey Communications Chapter (COM)\n\nIEEE North Jersey Computer Chapter (C)\n\nIEEE North Jersey Section\n\nCanadian-Ameri can Research Forum on AI Technologies\n\nRegistration Required:\nhttps://e vents.vtools.ieee.org/m/515741\n\nJoin Zoom Meeting: Meeting ID: <506 875 4099> https://zoom.us/j/5068754099\n\n2025-Fall IEEE Metropolitan AI Appli cations Symposium (METAI-2025-Fall)\n\nSymposium Program\n\n12:00PM: Welco me Messages\nProf. Yu-Dong Yao (Stevens)\n\n12:01PM-12:30PM: Keynote Prese ntation: Prof. Hao Wang\, Stevens Institute of Technology\, "Accelerating Mixture of Experts-Based Large Language Model (LLM) Serving"\, Keynote Pre sentation at 2025-Fall IEEE Metropolitan AI Applications Symposium (IEEE M ETAI-2025-Fall)\, December 12\, 2025.\n\nSession Chair: Prof. Elisa Kallio niemi (NJIT)\n\n12:30PM-12:45PM: Garrett Modery (Montclair)\, "Development and Evaluation of a Deep Q-Network-Based Robot Learning Paradigm in Real- World Human-Robot Collaborative Tasks"\, Presentation at 2025-Fall IEEE Me tropolitan AI Applications Symposium (IEEE METAI-2025-Fall)\, December 12\ , 2025.\n\n12:45PM-1:00PM: Emilio Herrera (Montclair)\, "Learning-Finding- Giving: A Natural Vision-Speech-Based Approach for Robots to Assist Humans in Human-Robot Collaborative Contexts"\, Presentation at 2025-Fall IEEE M etropolitan AI Applications Symposium (IEEE METAI-2025-Fall)\, December 12 \, 2025.\n\n1:00PM-1:15PM: Mohammad Rostami (Rowan)\, "DiSC-AMC: Token- an d Parameter-Efficient Discretized Statistics In-Context Automatic Modulati on Classification"\, Presentation at 2025-Fall IEEE Metropolitan AI Applic ations Symposium (IEEE METAI-2025-Fall)\, December 12\, 2025.\n\n1:15PM-1: 30PM: Zexin Liu (Stevens)\, "Exploiting Graph Neural Networks for Power Sy stem Operation"\, Presentation at 2025-Fall IEEE Metropolitan AI Applicati ons Symposium (IEEE METAI-2025-Fall)\, December 12\, 2025.\n\n1:30PM-1:45P M: Negar Namdar (NJIT)\, "Speech-Based Automatic Pain Rating with AI"\, Pr esentation at 2025-Fall IEEE Metropolitan AI Applications Symposium (IEEE METAI-2025-Fall)\, December 12\, 2025.\n\n1:45PM-2:00PM: Ishbat Mahmud (St evens)\, "Evaluating the Robustness and Accuracy of CNN Models for Deepfak e Audio Detection under Acoustic Corruptions"\, Presentation at 2025-Fall IEEE Metropolitan AI Applications Symposium (IEEE METAI-2025-Fall)\, Decem ber 12\, 2025.\n\nConclusion Remark: Prof. Elisa Kallioniemi (NJIT)\n\nOrg anizing Committee\n\nProf. Yu-Dong Yao\, Stevens Institute of Technology\n \nProf. Elisa Kallioniemi\, NJIT\n\nProf. Huaxia Wang\, Rowan University\n \nProf. Weitian Wang\, Montclair State University\n\nProf. Hong Zhao\, FDU \n\nProf. Wei-Ping Zhu\, Concordia University\, Montreal\n\nVirtual: https ://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/515741 LOCATION:Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/515741 ORGANIZER:yyao@ieee.org SEQUENCE:59 SUMMARY:2025-Fall IEEE Metropolitan AI Applications Symposium (METAI) [Frid ay December 12th 2025 @12:00PM Zoom 506 875 4099] URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/515741 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><p align="justify">The <span style="color: rg b(230\, 126\, 35)\;"><strong>2025-Fall IEEE Metropolitan AI Applications S ymposium </strong></span><strong><span style="color: rgb(230\, 126\, 35)\; ">(IEEE METAI-2025-Fall)</span> </strong>will be held online (Zoom) on <sp an style="color: rgb(230\, 126\, 35)\;"><strong>Friday\, December 12\, 202 5</strong></span>\, from <span style="color: rgb(230\, 126\, 35)\;"><stron g>12:00 pm until 2:30 pm</strong></span>. The symposium consists of one ke ynote presentation and several invited presentations\, covering various to pics in AI methods\, systems\, and applications.</p>\n<p>This symposium is organized in collaboration with&nbsp\;<span style="color: rgb(230\, 126\, 35)\;"><strong>Canadian-American Research Forum on AI Technologies</stron g></span>.</p>\n<p><strong>Organizers:</strong></p>\n<p>IEEE North Jersey Engineering in Medicine and Biology Chapter (EMB)</p>\n<p>IEEE North Jerse y Communications Chapter (COM)</p>\n<p>IEEE North Jersey Computer Chapter (C)</p>\n<p>IEEE North Jersey Section</p>\n<p>Canadian-American Research F orum on AI Technologies</p>\n<p>&nbsp\;</p>\n<p style="line-height: 1\;" a lign="justify"><span style="font-size: 12pt\;"><strong>Registration Requir ed:</strong></span><br><span style="font-size: 12pt\;"><strong><a href="ht tps://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/515741" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http s://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/515741</a></strong></span></p>\n<p style="lin e-height: 1\;"><span style="font-size: 12pt\;"><strong>Join Zoom Meeting: Meeting ID: &lt\;506 875 4099&gt\; <a href="https://zoom.us/j/5068754099" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://zoom.us/j/5068754099</a></strong></ span></p>\n<p style="line-height: 1\;">&nbsp\;</p>\n<p style="line-height: 1.5\;"><span style="font-size: 18pt\;"><strong><span style="color: rgb(96 \, 9\, 9)\;">2025-Fall IEEE Metropolitan AI Applications Symposium (METAI- 2025-Fall)</span></strong></span></p>\n<p style="line-height: 1.5\;"><span style="font-size: 12pt\; color: rgb(230\, 126\, 35)\;"><strong>Symposium Program</strong></span></p>\n<p style="line-height: 1.5\;"><span style="fo nt-size: 12pt\;"><strong><span style="background-color: rgb(255\, 255\, 25 5)\;"><span style="color: rgb(35\, 111\, 161)\; background-color: rgb(255\ , 255\, 255)\;">12:00PM: &nbsp\; </span><span style="color: rgb(35\, 111\, 161)\; background-color: rgb(255\, 255\, 255)\;">Welcome Messages</span>< /span></strong></span><br><span style="font-size: 12pt\;"><strong><span st yle="color: rgb(35\, 111\, 161)\; background-color: rgb(255\, 255\, 255)\; ">Prof. Yu-Dong Yao (Stevens)</span></strong></span></p>\n<h3><span style= "font-size: 12pt\;"><strong><span style="color: rgb(132\, 63\, 161)\; back ground-color: rgb(255\, 255\, 255)\;">12:01PM-12:30PM:&nbsp\; &nbsp\;Keyno te Presentation:&nbsp\; &nbsp\;Prof. Hao Wang\, Stevens Institute of Techn ology\, "<span data-olk-copy-source="MessageBody">Accelerating Mixture of Experts-Based Large Language Model (LLM) Serving</span>"\, </span></strong ></span><span style="font-size: 12pt\; color: rgb(132\, 63\, 161)\;"><stro ng><span style="background-color: rgb(255\, 255\, 255)\;">Keynote Presenta tion at 2025-Fall IEEE Metropolitan AI Applications Symposium (IEEE METAI- 2025-Fall)\, December 12\, 2025.&nbsp\;</span></strong></span></h3>\n<h3>< span style="font-size: 12pt\;"><span style="color: rgb(35\, 111\, 161)\;"> <strong><span style="background-color: rgb(255\, 255\, 255)\;">Session Cha ir: Prof. Elisa Kallioniemi&nbsp\; (NJIT)</span></strong></span></span></h 3>\n<h3><span style="font-size: 12pt\;"><strong><span style="color: rgb(22 \, 145\, 121)\; background-color: rgb(255\, 255\, 255)\;">12:30PM-12:45PM: &nbsp\; <span data-olk-copy-source="MessageBody">Garrett Modery (Montclai r)\, "Development and Evaluation of a Deep Q-Network-Based Robot Learning Paradigm in Real-World Human-Robot Collaborative Tasks"</span>\, Presentat ion at 2025-Fall IEEE Metropolitan AI Applications Symposium (IEEE METAI-2 025-Fall)\, December 12\, 2025.&nbsp\;</span></strong></span></h3>\n<h3><s pan style="font-size: 12pt\;"><strong><span style="color: rgb(22\, 145\, 1 21)\; background-color: rgb(255\, 255\, 255)\;">12:45PM-1:00PM:&nbsp\; &nb sp\;<span data-olk-copy-source="MessageBody">Emilio Herrera (Montclair)\, "Learning-Finding-Giving: A Natural Vision-Speech-Based Approach for Robot s to Assist Humans in Human-Robot Collaborative Contexts</span>"\, Present ation at 2025-Fall IEEE Metropolitan AI Applications Symposium<span style= "font-size: 12pt\;"> (IEEE METAI-2025-Fall)\, December 12\, 2025.</span></ span></strong></span></h3>\n<h3><span style="font-size: 12pt\;"><strong><s pan style="color: rgb(22\, 145\, 121)\; background-color: rgb(255\, 255\, 255)\;">1:00PM-1:15PM: &nbsp\; </span></strong><strong><span style="color: rgb(22\, 145\, 121)\; background-color: rgb(255\, 255\, 255)\;">Mohammad Rostami (Rowan)\, "<span data-olk-copy-source="MessageBody">DiSC-AMC: Toke n- and Parameter-Efficient Discretized Statistics In-Context Auto<span sty le="font-size: 12pt\;">matic Modulation Classification</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt\;">"\, Presentation at 2025-Fall IEEE Metropolitan AI Applications Symposium (IEEE METAI-2025-Fall)\, December 12\, 2025.</sp an></span></strong></span></h3>\n<h3><span style="font-size: 12pt\;"><stro ng><span style="color: rgb(22\, 145\, 121)\; background-color: rgb(255\, 2 55\, 255)\;">1:15PM-1:30PM:&nbsp\; &nbsp\;Zexin Liu (Stevens)\, "Exploitin g Graph Neural Networks for Power System Operation"\, Presentation at 2025 -Fall IEEE Metropolitan AI Applications Symposium (IEEE METAI-2025-Fall)\, December 12\, 2025.</span></strong></span></h3>\n<h3><span style="font-si ze: 12pt\;"><strong><span style="color: rgb(22\, 145\, 121)\; background-c olor: rgb(255\, 255\, 255)\;">1:30PM-1:45PM:&nbsp\; &nbsp\;Negar Namdar (N JIT)\, "Speech-Based Automatic Pain Rating with AI"\, Presentation at 2025 -Fall IEEE Metropolitan AI Applications Symposium (IEEE METAI-2025-Fall)\, December 12\, 2025.</span></strong></span></h3>\n<h3><span style="font-si ze: 12pt\;"><strong><span style="color: rgb(22\, 145\, 121)\; background-c olor: rgb(255\, 255\, 255)\;">1:45PM-2:00PM:&nbsp\; &nbsp\;Ishbat Mahmud ( Stevens)\, "Evaluating the Robustness and Accuracy of CNN Models for Deepf ake Audio Detection under Acoustic Corruptions"\, Presentation at 2025-Fal l IEEE Metropolitan AI Applications Symposium (IEEE METAI-2025-Fall)\, Dec ember 12\, 2025.</span></strong></span></h3>\n<h3><span style="font-size: 12pt\;"><strong><span style="color: rgb(35\, 111\, 161)\; background-color : rgb(255\, 255\, 255)\;"><span style="font-size: 12pt\;">Conclusion Rema< /span>rk: Prof. Elisa Kallioniemi (NJIT)</span></strong></span></h3>\n<p a lign="justify">&nbsp\;</p>\n<p align="justify"><span style="color: rgb(186 \, 55\, 42)\;"><strong>Organizing Committee</strong></span></p>\n<p align= "justify">Prof. Yu-Dong Yao\, Stevens Institute of Technology</p>\n<p alig n="justify">Prof. Elisa Kallioniemi\, NJIT</p>\n<p align="justify">Prof. H uaxia Wang\, Rowan University</p>\n<p align="justify">Prof. Weitian Wang\, Montclair State University</p>\n<p align="justify">Prof. Hong Zhao\, FDU< /p>\n<p align="justify">Prof. Wei-Ping Zhu\, Concordia University\, Montre al</p>\n<p align="justify">&nbsp\;</p> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR