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DESCRIPTION:The 14th Annual IEEE North Jersey Advanced Communications Sympo
 sium (NJACS-2026) will be held online (Zoom)\, on Saturday\, September 12\
 , 2026. The symposium consists of several keynote presentations. The sympo
 sium program will cover advanced topics in AI and Communications.\n\nThis 
 symposium is organized in collaboration with Canadian-American-Ghanaian (C
 AG) Research Forum on AI Technologies.\n\nRegistration Required:  https://
 events.vtools.ieee.org/m/556646\n\nConference Zoom Meeting ID:  506 875 40
 99 https://zoom.us/j/5068754099\n\nSymposium Program\n\n10:00AM-10:10AM We
 lcome Remarks\n\nDr. Adriaan van Wijngaarden\, Nokia Bell Labs\n\nAmit Pat
 el\, IEEE North Jersey ComSoc Chapter\n\n10:10AM-10:15AM Opening Remarks -
  Communications\, Sensing\, and AI\n\nProf. Yu-Dong Yao\, Stevens Institut
 e of Technology\n\nSession Chair: Hong Zhao\, IEEE North Jersey Computer C
 hapter\n\n10:15AM-10:45AM The Design Space of AI Agent Systems\n\nRensheng
  Wang\, AT&amp;T Labs\n\n10:45AM-11:15AM Efficient\, Robust\, and Explainable 
 Multimodal Sensing for Civilian and Military Applications\n\nJie Wei\, CCN
 Y\n\n11:15AM-11:45AM Robust Representation Learning for Generalization in 
 Noisy and Data-Constrained Environments​\n\nAtik Faysal\, Quantum Comput
 ing Inc.\n\n11:45AM-12:15PM Confronting the Privacy Leak Epidemic in the M
 achine Learning Era\n\nJiadong Lou\, Rowan University\n\n12:15PM-12:45PM A
 I Effects on Programming\, Teaching and Developing Products\n\nSatrajit Gh
 osh and Dov Kruger\, Rutgers University\n\n12:45PM-12:50PM Closing Remarks
 \n\nDr. Adriaan van Wijngaarden\, Nokia Bell Labs\n\nRegistration\n\nIEEE 
 member	$	00.00\nNon-member	$	00.00\nIEEE Student/Graduate Student/Life Mem
 ber	$	00.00\nNon-IEEE Student/Graduate Student	$	00.00\n\nThis event has l
 imited seating and registration is required. Will close once the event rea
 ches capacity.\n\nThis symposium is being organized by the IEEE North Jers
 ey Section and its Communications\, Computer\, Information Theory and Vehi
 cular Technology Chapters. Technical support is provided by IEEE METSAC.\n
 \nOrganizing Committee\n\nSymposium Chair\n\nAdriaan van Wijngaarden\, Nok
 ia Bell Labs\n\nOrganization Chair\n\nAmit Patel\, IEEE North Jersey ComSo
 c Chapter\n\nProgram Co-Chairs\n\nYu-Dong Yao\, Stevens Institute of Techn
 ology\n\nCherif Chibane\, IEEE North Jersey Aerospace Chapter\n\nHong Zhao
 \, Fairleigh Dickinson University\n\nHuaxia Wang\, Rowan University\n\nWei
 -Ping Zhu\, Concordia University\n\nRegistration Chair\n\nMichael Newell\,
  IEEE North Jersey Section\n\nVirtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/55
 6646
LOCATION:Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/556646
ORGANIZER:yyao@ieee.org
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SUMMARY:IEEE NJACS 2026 - 14th Annual IEEE North Jersey Advanced Communicat
 ions Symposium - Themes: AI and Communications (Zoom)
URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/556646
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 pan style=&quot;color: #e67e23\;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Saturday\, September 12\, 2026&lt;/stron
 g&gt;&lt;/span&gt;. The symposium consists of several keynote presentations. The sy
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  font-family: arial\, helvetica\, sans-serif\;&quot;&gt;Prof. Yu-Dong Yao\, Steven
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  background-color: rgb(251\, 238\, 184)\;&quot;&gt;11:15AM-11:45AM&amp;nbsp\; &amp;nbsp\;&lt;
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