Important Notice: This year the IEEE BigDataSecurity/HPSC/IDS/SmartCloud will be a hybrid conference, due to the visa and virus considerations. For all participants, please do notice all the time mentioned in this booklet is based on time zone New York (UTC-4).
Hybrid Conference Plans: The opening session, keynote speech, talks, and awards will be held onsite. We will also broadcast online at real-time in our conference room link (coming soon).
The program schedule of IEEE BigDataSecurity/HPSC/IDS/SmartCloud is as follows:
Friday, May, 8th, 2026 (New York Time)
| 10:00 – 12:00 | Steering Committee Meeting |
| 14:00 – 16:00 | Conference Preparation |
Saturday, May 9th, 2026(New York Time)
| Conference Room | Room A | Room B |
| 8:30 – 9:20 | Conference Registration | |
| 9:20 – 9:30 | Opening | |
| 9:30 – 10:20 | Keynote 1 | |
| 10:20 – 10:30 | Award Ceremony | |
| 10:30 – 10:45 | Coffee Break | |
| 10:45 – 11:35 | Keynote 2 | |
| 11:35 – 12:30 | BDS 1 | HPSC 1 |
| 12:30 – 13:00 | Lunch | |
| 13:00 – 14:00 | BDS 2 | HPSC 2 |
| 14:00 – 14:10 | Coffee Break | |
| 14:10 – 15:10 | BDS 3 | IDS 1 |
| 15:10 – 16:10 | SC 1 | IDS 2 |
| 16:10 – 17:10 | SC 2 | IDS 4 |
| 17:10 – 18:10 | IDS 5 | IDS 6 |
| 18:30 – 20:30 | Banquet | |
Sunday, May 10th, 2026 (New York Time)
| Conference Room | Room A | Room B |
| 9:00 – 10:00 | Industrial Talk | |
| 10:00 – 10:55 | BDS 4 | HPSC 3 |
| 10:55 – 11:05 | Break | |
| 11:05 – 12:00 | BDS 5 | IDS 3 |
| 12:00 – 13:00 | Lunch | |
| 13:00 – 14:00 | HPSC 4 | SC 3 |
| 14:00 – 14:30 | Break | |
| 14:30 – 15:30 | BDS 6 | HPSC 5 |
| 15:30 – 16:30 | BDS 7 | |
IEEE IDS 2026
IDS 1: 05/09/2026, 14:10 – 15:10, Room B
- Yasser Bin Salamah, Informatics-Driven Adaptive Platoon Management via Model-Free Optimization.
- Bibek Neupane, Cyril Ku and Kiho Lim, A Modular and Model-Agnostic LLM Framework for PHP Webshell Detection.
- Rafael Silva and Luiz Duarte, Securing LLM Software Supply Chains: A Layered Lifecycle Framework with Hybrid Post-Quantum Artifact Signing.
- Youcef Djenouri and Fabio Andrade, Toward Intelligent Data and Security in Maritime Environments: A Vision for Multimodal Foundation Models.
IDS 2: 05/09/2026, 15:10 – 16:10, Room B
- Dewi Afrianti and Ajib Setyo Arifin, A Cost-Aware Multi-Cloud Orchestration and Techno-Economic Optimization Model for Emerging Market Telecommunications Networks.
- Shikha Pandey, Explanation-Guided Evasion Attacks: Evaluating the Robustness of Machine Learning Models.
- Hawra Alsafi, Fuad Shamieh, Mohamed Abusharkh, Justin Ashbaugh and Adam Everaert, Adaptive Image Cloaking Using Fine-Detail Regions to Prevent Style Mimicry.
- Marcos Moura, Luciano Lima, Fabio Andrade, Carlos Pfeiffer, Youcef Djenouri, Gautam Srivastava and Álvaro Gutiérrez, Vessel Classification in Maritime Security Using Fractional Factorial Design and ANOVA.
IDS 3: 05/10/2026, 11:05 – 12:00, Room B
- Joshua Andle, Jovon Craig, Theodore Nowak and Salimeh Yasaei Sekeh, A Theoretical Perspective on Subnetwork Contributions to Adversarial Robustness.
- Vivek Venkatesan, Pranoy Saha, Siva Prasad Nandi, Tejas Pravinbhai Patel, Viswanathan Ranganathan, and Rohit Nimmala, Explanation-Bound Alerts for Incident Detection in Large-Scale Cloud Data Systems.
- Sureshkumar Karuppuchamy, Evolving a Multi-Owner, Large-Scale Composite Entity: Lessons from Migrating a Live Marketplace Data Store.
- Derya Sözen Esen, Privacy by Design vs. Engineering Rules in AI Regulation: A Comparative Framework for Auditable Implementation.
IDS 4 Special Track: 05/09/2026, 16:10 – 17:10, Room B
- Zoe Chen, Tianlei Zhu and Andrew Zhang, An Empirical Evaluation of Hallucinations of Agentic FinSearch.
- Claire Zhong, Junshuo Liu and Andrew Zhang, Numerical Accuracy of Agentic FinSearch: An Empirical Evaluation.
- Yue Pan and Xiao-Yang Liu, SmartACT: Smart Contract Compliance Framework for Financial LLMs and Agents.
IDS 5 Special Track: 05/09/2026, 17:10 – 18:10, Room A
- Yagiz Ihlamur, When Career Data Runs Out: Structured Feature Engineering and Signal Limits for Founder Success Prediction.
- Satish Chandra and Balakrishna G, OpenClaw-FinAgent: A Modular Framework for Reliable Financial Agent Systems and Agentic Trading.
- Jingyu Huang, Sitong Zhu, James Tang and Xiao-Yang Liu, FinGPT-VC: Financial Large Language Models for Founder Success Prediction in Venture Capital.
IDS 6 Special Track: 05/09/2026, 17:10 – 18:10, Room B
- Bright Jiwueze and Cihan Varol, A Comparative Study of Intrusion Detection Performance on CIC-IDS-2017 and BCCC-CIC-IDS-2017.
- Gianna Zhang and Yunzhe Chen, Classification of Tex10-Deficient Spermatogenesis Using Deep Learning.
- Artemis Stefanidou, Elena Politi, Christos Chronis and George Dimitrakopoulos, A Knowledge Distillation Framework for Edge-Aware Optimization of Intelligent Data.
