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NIT Warangal, India

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FACEIT-2026

Conference Schedule

Friday, 10th July 2026

Time Event Details
09:00 AM - 09:45 AM Registration
09:45 AM - 10:45 AM
  • Inauguration
  • Guest of Honour: Prof. Bidyadhar Subudhi, Director, NIT Warangal, India
  • Chief Guest: TBA
  • Special Guest: TBA
  • Chairman: Prof. Rashmi Ranjan Rout, HoD, Department of CSE, NIT Warangal, India
  • Organizing Secretaries: Prof. Manoj Kumar Patra, Prof. Sanjaya Kumar Panda, Prof. Manjubala Bisi
  • Venue: First Floor, E&ICT Seminar Hall, Department of CSE, NIT Warangal
10:45 AM - 11:00 AM Tea Break
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM
  • Keynote Talk #1: Prof. Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia
  • Title: TBA
  • Venue: E&ICT Seminar Room
  • Session Chair: Prof. Balaprakasa Rao Killi, NIT Warangal, India
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM
  • Keynote Talk #2: Prof. Bhawani Sankar Panda, IIT Delhi, India
  • Title: TBA
  • Venue: E&ICT Seminar Room
  • Session Chair: Prof. Sangharatna Godboley, NIT Warangal, India
01:00 PM - 03:00 PM Lunch Break
03:00 PM - 03:45 PM
  • Keynote Talk #3: Prof. Bibhudatta Sahoo, NIT Rourkela, India
  • Title: TBA
  • Venue: E&ICT Seminar Room
  • Session Chair: Prof. Manjubala Bisi, NIT Warangal, India
04:15 PM - 06:00 PM
  • Technical Session #1: AI for Vision, Healthcare, Biometrics and Multimedia Analysis (Paper IDs: 41, 101, 135, 140, 252, 320, 441)
  • Venue: Lab-1
  • Session Chairs: Prof. Jitendra Kumar Rout, NIT Raipur, India and Prof. Manjubala Bisi, NIT Warangal, India
04:15 PM - 06:00 PM
  • Technical Session #2: Intelligent Networks, Software Engineering, NLP & Secure AI Systems (Paper IDs: 168, 262, 322, 323, 393, 458)
  • Venue: Lab-2
  • Session Chairs: Prof. XXX and Prof. Sangharatna Godboley, NIT Warangal, India
04:15 PM - 06:00 PM
  • Technical Session #3: Graph Learning, Optimization & Intelligent Forecasting (Paper IDs: 6, 28, 314, 333, 347, 362, 420)
  • Venue: Online
  • Session Chairs: Prof. Devashree Tripathy, IIT Bhubaneswar, India and Prof. Balaprakasa Rao Killi, NIT Warangal, India
04:15 PM - 06:00 PM
  • Technical Session #4: Healthcare AI, Biomedical Systems and Clinical Analytics (Paper IDs: 79, 179, 195, 229, 302, 386)
  • Venue: Online
  • Session Chairs: Prof. Deepak Ranjan Nayak, MNIT Jaipur, India and Prof. Shiva Darshan SL, NIT Warangal, India
07:00 PM - 10:00 PM
  • Banquet Dinner
  • Venue: TBA

Saturday, 11th July 2026

Time Event Details
10:00 AM - 10:45 AM
  • Keynote Talk #4: Prof. Santosh Biswas, IIT Bhilai
  • Title: TBA
  • Venue: E&ICT Seminar Room
  • Session Chair: Prof. Nidhi Sonkar, NIT Warangal, India
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM
  • Keynote Talk #5: Prof. Satchidananda Dehuri, FM University, India
  • Title: TBA
  • Venue: E&ICT Seminar Room
  • Session Chair: Prof. Venkateswara Rao Kagita, NIT Warangal, India
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM
  • Keynote Talk #6: Prof. Ashok Kumar Turuk, NIT Rourkela, India
  • Title: TBA
  • Venue: E&ICT Seminar Room
  • Session Chair: Prof. Shiva Darshan SL, NIT Warangal, India
01:00 PM - 03:00 PM Lunch Break
03:00 PM - 03:45 PM
  • Keynote Talk #7: Prof. Siba Kumar Udgata, University of Hyderabad, India
  • Title: TBA
  • Venue: E&ICT Seminar Room
  • Session Chair: Prof. Sanjaya Kumar Panda, NIT Warangal, India
04:15 PM - 06:00 PM
  • Technical Session #5: NLP, Social Computing and Responsible AI (Paper IDs: 109, 117, 136, 143, 392, 436)
  • Venue: Online
  • Session Chairs: Prof. Munesh Singh, NIT Delhi, India and Prof. Manoj Kumar Patra, NIT Warangal, India
04:15 PM - 06:00 PM
  • Technical Session #6: Networks, IoT, Security and Distributed Systems (Paper IDs: 118, 178, 181, 184, 346, 388)
  • Venue: Online
  • Session Chairs: Prof. Priyanka Panigrahi, IIT Dhanbad, India and Prof. Sanjaya Kumar Panda, NIT Warangal, India
04:15 PM - 06:00 PM
  • Technical Session #7: Vision, Surveillance and Federated Intelligent Systems (Paper IDs: 69, 99, 224, 303, 438, 445)
  • Venue: Online
  • Session Chairs: Prof. Santosh Kumar Behera, NIT Calicut, India and Prof. Venkateswara Rao Kagita, NIT Warangal, India
06:00 PM - 06:30 PM
FACEIT-2026

Technical Sessions

Session #1: AI for Vision, Healthcare, Biometrics and Multimedia Analysis

Venue: E&ICT Seminar Hall

Session Chair(s): Prof. Jitendra Kumar Rout, NIT Raipur, India and Prof. Manjubala Bisi, NIT Warangal, India

Paper IDs: 41, 101, 135, 140, 252, 320, 441

Time Event Details
04:15 PM - 04:30 PM Paper ID: 41
Title: A Comparative Study of Lightweight and Deep Pre-trained CNNs for Cricket Shot Classification
Authors: Arvind Kumar, Dabbara Prashanth, Kota Prasanth Sai, and Mahesh Chandra
Affiliation: Max Planck Inst. for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands and GITAM Bengaluru
04:30 PM - 04:45 PM Paper ID: 101
Title: Pathology-Adaptive Multi-View Attention for Unified Brain Imaging Analysis
Authors: Vishal Vetcha and Hyma Janapana
Affiliation: GITAM University, Visakhapatnam, India
04:45 PM - 05:00 PM Paper ID: 135
Title: Benchmarking Deep Learning Models for Surgical Instrument Detection
Authors: Yoganand S, Prithiv A, Danvanth SC, Vijay SB, Sanjith Muralikrishnan, Padmavathi S, Dilip Gahankari, and Raghesh Krishnan K
Affiliation: Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore, India
05:00 PM - 05:15 PM Paper ID: 140
Title: A Unified Synthetic Data Augmentation Framework using CTGAN and SMOTE for Alzheimer’s Disease Prediction
Authors: Monalisa Sahu, Monalisa Jena, and Ranjan Kumar Behera
Affiliation: Fakir Mohan University, Balasore and IIIT Ranchi
05:15 PM - 05:30 PM Paper ID: 252
Title: Lightweight Multimodal Biometric Authentication Using Deep Iris and Voice
Authors: I HHNTV Prasad, Mulagala Sandhya, Devashish Vishwajeet Dubal, and Shaik jamal vali
Affiliation: National Institute of Technology Warangal, Telangana, India
05:30 PM - 05:45 PM Paper ID: 320
Title: Audio Deepfake Detection Using CNN-BiLSTM Hybrid Architecture for Enhanced Temporal Modeling
Authors: Parsha Sumanya, Mulagala Sandhya, Balaprakasa Rao Killi, and Pritam Kumar Raul
Affiliation: National Institute of Technology Warangal, Telangana, India
05:45 PM - 06:00 PM Paper ID: 441
Title: Continual Learning with FLANN for Resilient Plant Disease Classification
Authors: Tapaswini Panigrahi, Barsa Priyadarshani Behera and Monalisa Jena
Affiliation: Fakir Mohan University, Balasore, India.

Session #2: Intelligent Networks, Software Engineering, NLP & Secure AI Systems

Venue: E&ICT Seminar Hall

Session Chair(s): Prof. XXX and Prof. Sangharatna Godboley, NIT Warangal, India

Paper IDs: 168, 262, 322, 323, 393, 458

Time Event Details
04:15 PM - 04:30 PM Paper ID: 168
Title: Markov-based Link-quality-aware Routing in Software-Defined Vehicular Networks
Authors: Madhuri Malakar
Affiliation: GITAM(Deemed to be University) Bengaluru, India
04:30 PM - 04:45 PM Paper ID: 262
Title: Automated Detection and Mitigation of Requirement Bad Smells in Software Requirement Specifications
Authors: Fathima A, Indulekha K, and Shweta
Affiliation: National Institute of Technology Calicut, Kerala, India
04:45 PM - 05:00 PM Paper ID: 322
Title: A Unified Framework for fairness aware Bias Detection and Mitigation in Financial Machine Learning
Authors: Amani Thaduri and Sadam Ravichandra
Affiliation: National Institute of Technology Warangal, Telangana, India
05:00 PM - 05:15 PM Paper ID: 323
Title: Heterogeneous Transfer Learning Framework for Semi-Supervised Intrusion Detection Across Network Domains
Authors: Venkata Nagamani Vadlamani, Dara Deepthi, P Radha Krishna, and Sangharatna Godboley
Affiliation: National Institute of Technology Warangal, Telangana, India
05:15 PM - 05:30 PM Paper ID: 393
Title: A Comparative Analysis of Text Vectorization Techniques and Classification Models for News Text Classification
Authors: Dibyajyoti Acharya, Biswajeet Srichandan, Pradipta Kumar Pattanayak, and Sushree Satapathy
Affiliation: Silicon University, Bhubaneswar, India
05:30 PM - 05:45 PM Paper ID: 458
Title: Language-Aware Abuse Detection in Code-Switched Hinglish Text: An Adversarial Normalization Pipeline with Multilingual Transformers
Authors: Binodini Kar, Manoj Kumar Patra, Sanjaya Kumar Panda, and Supriya Satapathy
Affiliation: National Institute of Technology Warangal, Telangana, India and GIET University, Gunupur

Session #3: Graph Learning, Optimization & Intelligent Forecasting

Venue: E&ICT Seminar Hall and Online

Session Chair(s): Prof. Devashree Tripathy, IIT Bhubaneswar, India and Prof. Balaprakasa Rao Killi, NIT Warangal, India

Paper IDs: 6, 28, 314, 333, 347, 362, 420

Time Event Details
04:15 PM - 04:30 PM Paper ID: 6
Title: EvoGNN: Tracking Evolving Communities with Temporal Graph Neural Networks
Authors: Aryan Sharma Gaire, Abhishek Kumar Yadav, Naresh Yadav, and Anisha Kumari
Affiliation: KIIT University, Bhubaneshwar and MNNIT, Allahabad, India
04:30 PM - 04:45 PM Paper ID: 28
Title: Hybrid Meta-Heuristic Particle Swarm Optimization for Energy-Efficient Task Scheduling
Authors: Akanksha Tandon, Kiran Nagre and Anil Saini
Affiliation: MIT World Peace University, Pune and Manipal University, Jaipur
04:45 PM - 05:00 PM Paper ID: 314
Title: Forecasting Cryptocurrency prices using Stacked LSTM with AR-Adam
Authors: Aishwarya Acharya and Himansu Sekhar Behera
Affiliation: Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology, Burla, India
05:00 PM - 05:15 PM Paper ID: 333
Title: Optimized Prediction in Cyber-Physical Smart Agriculture using Information Granulation and PSO-SVM
Authors: Priyanka Kujur and Pritika Kujur
Affiliation: Ravenshaw University, Cuttack, India
05:15 PM - 05:30 PM Paper ID: 347
Title: A Cost-Sensitive and FAR-Constrained Conformal LightGBM Framework for Predictive Maintenance
Authors: Vivek Kumar, Rashmiranjan Nayak, and Umesh Chandra Pati
Affiliation: National Institute of Technology Rourkela, Odisha, India
05:30 PM - 05:45 PM Paper ID: 362
Title: CNSL++: A Community-Aware Source Localization in Complex Networks
Authors: Yalamala Baby Sushma and Vijay Verma
Affiliation: National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra, Haryana, India
05:45 PM - 06:00 PM Paper ID: 420
Title: Efficient Container Placement Using Hippopotamus Optimization Algorithm
Authors: Sapna Kumari, Md. Akram Khan, Bibhudatta Sahoo
Affiliation: BIT Sindri, Jharkhand, India and National Institute of Technology Rourkela, Odisha, India

Session #4: Healthcare AI, Biomedical Systems and Clinical Analytics

Venue: E&ICT Seminar Hall and Online

Session Chair(s): Prof. Deepak Ranjan Nayak, MNIT Jaipur, India and Prof. Shiva Darshan SL, NIT Warangal, India

Paper IDs: 79, 179, 195, 229, 302, 386

Time Event Details
04:15 PM - 04:30 PM Paper ID: 79
Title: Computational Investigation of Cerebral Aneurysm Hemodynamics under Varying Physiological Flow Conditions
Authors: Nihal Ravindra Jain and Satyadhan Chickerur
Affiliation: KLE Technological University, Hubballi, India
04:30 PM - 04:45 PM Paper ID: 179
Title: M3-HGMA: A Multi-Modal, Multi-Agent Hierarchical Graph-Mamba Architecture for Explainable and Adaptive Clinical Intelligence
Authors: Somasekhar Gubbala
Affiliation: Metaforge IT Solutions Private Limited, Hyderabad, India
04:45 PM - 05:00 PM Paper ID: 195
Title: DSD-ML: A Dual-Stream based Deep Meta-Learning Framework for Automated Melanoma Detection
Authors: Krrish Badaik, Rajeet Kumar, Pushpendra Kumar Gupta, and Debendra Muduli
Affiliation: C.V. Raman Global University, Bhubaneswar, India
05:00 PM - 05:15 PM Paper ID: 229
Title: Patch-Based Interpretability in Pediatric Pneumonia: An Evaluation of Proto-BagNet
Authors: Pragya Mehra, Prajwal Tiwari, Pratyansh Pathak, and Rajni Jindal
Affiliation: Delhi Technological University, Delhi, India
05:15 PM - 05:30 PM Paper ID: 302
Title: Understanding Noise–Structure Trade-offs in Calcium Imaging Denoising: A Comparative Study of Classical Filters and Spatiotemporal U-Net Models
Authors: Ayush Aditya and Swarnima Singh Gautam
Affiliation: Dr B R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology Jalandhar, Punjab, India
05:30 PM - 05:45 PM Paper ID: 386
Title: A Hybrid Dual-head Transformer-based LSTM Framework for Physiotherapy Exercise Recognition using Kinect Sensors
Authors: Soham Chakraborty, Devansh Johri, Harshit Agarwal, Jayeeta Chakraborty, and Aradhana Behura
Affiliation: Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology, Bhubaneswar, India

Session #5: NLP, Social Computing and Responsible AI

Venue: E&ICT Seminar Hall and Online

Session Chair(s): Prof. Munesh Singh, NIT Delhi, India and Prof. Manoj Kumar Patra, NIT Warangal, India

Paper IDs: 109, 117, 136, 143, 392, 436

Time Event Details
04:15 PM - 04:30 PM Paper ID: 109
Title: A Comparative and Statistical Evaluation of Deep Learning Models for Sentiment Analysis
Authors: Kirti Priyadarshani Sethi, P. Saikirtika, Sweta Panigrahi, Neelamadhab Padhy, Sushant Padhy
Affiliation: GIET University, Gunupur, India
04:30 PM - 04:45 PM Paper ID: 117
Title: Multimodal Sentiment-Enhanced Hybrid Recommender for Books
Authors: Debashish Dash, Chittaranjan Patra, Abhishek Gukhura, and Ashis Kumar Mishra
Affiliation: Odisha University of Technology and Research, Bhubaneswar, India
04:45 PM - 05:00 PM Paper ID: 136
Title: The Asymmetric Pull of Falsehood: A Computational Model of Temporal Narrative Drift in Echo Chambers
Authors: Judith Grace Lazarus, Lekhana Priya Gundapaneni, and Rakesh Sengupta
Affiliation: Krea University, Sri City, India
05:00 PM - 05:15 PM Paper ID: 143
Title: The Algorithmic Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Stereotype Threat in AI Cognitive Diagnostics
Authors: Rakesh Sengupta
Affiliation: Krea University, Sri City, India
05:15 PM - 05:30 PM Paper ID: 392
Title: Agentic Open-Target Stance Detection: Investigating the Role of Linguistic Analysis
Authors: Samineni Bhavani and Hima Bindu Kommanti
Affiliation: National Institute of Technology Andhra Pradesh, India and RGUKT, Andhra Pradesh, India
05:30 PM - 05:45 PM Paper ID: 436
Title: MLESA-Net: Attention-Enhanced Multi-Label Emotion and Sentiment Analysis on Nepali Reddit Corpus
Authors: Nabin Kumar Rouniyar, Bibek Sah, and Nayan Kumar Subhashis Behera
Affiliation: Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology, Bhubaneswar, India

Session #6: Networks, IoT, Security and Distributed Systems

Venue: E&ICT Seminar Hall and Online

Session Chair(s): Prof. Priyanka Panigrahi, IIT Dhanbad, India and Prof. Sanjaya Kumar Panda, NIT Warangal, India

Paper IDs: 118, 178, 181, 184, 346, 388

Time Event Details
04:15 PM - 04:30 PM Paper ID: 118
Title: Event-Driven Agentic AI-Based Cluster Routing for Reliable Safety Communication in VANETs
Authors: Sourav Kumar Bhoi, Kalyan Kumar Jena, and Rajendra Prasad Nayak
Affiliation: Parala Maharaja Engineering College, Berhampur, India and Government College of Engineering, Kalahandi, India
04:30 PM - 04:45 PM Paper ID: 178
Title: SimComment: A Simulation-Guided Hybrid Framework for Efficient Inline Code Comment Smell Detection Using Small and Large Language Models
Authors: Somasekhar Gubbala
Affiliation: Metaforge IT Solutions Private Limited, Hyderabad, India
04:45 PM - 05:00 PM Paper ID: 181
Title: HARMONIC: Hybrid Application-aware, Multiengine, Optimistic-Nondeterministic Integrated Concurrency Control for Web-Scale HTAP Systems
Authors: Ramachandra Reddy
Affiliation: Qualispectrum Private Limited, Hyderabad, India
05:00 PM - 05:15 PM Paper ID: 184
Title: HARD-Graph: A Hierarchical Adaptive Range-Aware Dynamic Graph Framework for Scalable Knowledge and Vector Search Systems
Authors: Ramachandra Reddy
Affiliation: Qualispectrum Private Limited, Hyderabad, India
05:15 PM - 05:30 PM Paper ID: 346
Title: Carbon-Aware Kubernetes Autoscaling using Multi-Objective Optimization for Sustainable Cloud Computing
Authors: Adhikari Bhavishya, Gorantla Samhitha, and Beena B.M
Affiliation: Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Bengaluru, India
05:30 PM - 05:45 PM Paper ID: 388
Title: Key-Generation Latency and Retransmission Failure in Hybrid Post-Quantum TLS 1.3 under Burst Packet Loss on Constrained IoT Devices
Authors: Reman Krishnan and Aruna Malik
Affiliation: Dr. B.R. Ambedkar National Institute of Technology Jalandhar, Punjab, India

Session #7: Vision, Surveillance and Federated Intelligent Systems

Venue: E&ICT Seminar Hall and Online

Session Chair(s): Prof. Santosh Kumar Behera, NIT Calicut, India and Prof. Venkateswara Rao Kagita, NIT Warangal, India

Paper IDs: 69, 99, 224, 303, 438, 445

Time Event Details
04:15 PM - 04:30 PM Paper ID: 69
Title: Blur-Resilient Person Identification Using GAN-Based Image Restoration and Deep Face Embeddings
Authors: Asritha Chunduri, Keerthi Kethineni, and Kalangi Geethika Padma
Affiliation: Siddhartha Academy of Higher Education, Vijayawada, India
04:30 PM - 04:45 PM Paper ID: 99
Title: Resolution Matters More Than Attention: Super-Resolution Preprocessing for Accurate Infrared Tiny Target Detection Using YOLOv8s
Authors: Krunal Dhanraj Randive and J. Satya Sai Kumar
Affiliation: SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai, India
04:45 PM - 05:00 PM Paper ID: 224
Title: Real-Time Intelligent Video Surveillance for Person Detection, Tracking, and Crowd Monitorig
Authors: Peetabas Patro, Aparna Swain, Anupama Sahu, and Priyadarshani Mohanty
Affiliation: VIT University, Vellore, India
05:00 PM - 05:15 PM Paper ID: 303
Title: Discrete vs. Continuous Frontends for Cross-Domain Codec-Based Deepfake Detection: A Systematic Benchmark
Authors: Sameer Ali and Swarnima Singh Gautam
Affiliation: Dr B R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology Jalandhar, Punjab, India
05:15 PM - 05:30 PM Paper ID: 438
Title: Balancing Collaboration and Confidentiality: Dynamic Pricing in Multi-Retailer Ecosystems using Federated Learning
Authors: Sayak Rudra, Arkadeep Bhat, Isha Maity, Anwesha Chandra, Roshni Kumari Shaw, Bidisha Bhabani, Tanaya Das, and Radha Krishna Jana
Affiliation: JIS University, Agarpara, Kolkata
05:30 PM - 05:45 PM Paper ID: 445
Title: An Ensemble of Deep CNNs with Grad-CAM for Thoracic Disease Classification and Localization using NIH Chest X-Ray Dataset
Authors: Muskan Mahato and Tapan Kumar Nayak
Affiliation: BIT Sindri, Jharkhand, India