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 SmartCloud 2026
SC 1: 05/09/2026, 15:10 – 16:10, Room A
- Ghazal Abdollahi, Hamid Asadi and Robert Ricci, WarmFlex: Coordinated Stabilization of Cold-Start Frequency and Idle Containers in Serverless Platforms.
- Hitesh Chugani, Verifiable and Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning for Cloud–Edge Big Data with Robust Trust-Aware Aggregation.
- Md Anisur Rahman Chowdhury and Kefei Wang, Towards a Serverless Intelligent Firewall: Integrating Cross-Cloud Adaptation, AI-Driven Security, and Zero-Trust Architectures.
- Karina Nihalani, Aravind Nanneboina, Jonathan Fong and Ming-Hwa Wang, Taxonomy-Guided Serverless Cold-Start Reduction in AWS Lambda: Packaging, Budget-Aware Warming, and Predictive Control.
SC 2: 05/09/2026, 16:10 – 17:10, Room A
- Sheikh Tareq Ahmed, Josemaria Chukwuemeka Osuorah and Annamalai Annamalai, Compressed Lineage for Lakehouse DAGs: Row-Group Provenance with Bipartite Factoring and Path Hashing.
- Stenio de Lima Ferreira, Durable Execution for AI Agents: A Design Pattern for Fault-Tolerant Agent Loops.
- Jayapragash Dakshnamurthy, The Hidden Cost of AI Systems: Latency, Retries, and Cascading Failures in Production.
- Saqib Khan, Workload-Aware Compute Governance for Smart Cloud Data Warehouses.
SC 3: 05/10/2026, 13:00 – 14:00, Room B
- Chaitanya Kulkarni, Chandrashekhar Medicherla and Bharadwaj Vulugundam, Zero Trust Packet Routing for Cloud Databases-Architecture Patterns and Security.
- Praveen Nainarbalasubramanian, Orchestrator Armor: Empirical Assessment and Unified Monitoring of Cluster Security Posture.
- Praveen Nainarbalasubramanian, TOCTOU-Resistant Kernel Sentinel: Hybrid Event-Driven Surveillance for Memory-Resident Threat Artifacts.
- Hanlin Wang, Jing Yu, Keke Gai and Lei Xu, Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Augmented by Social Emotional Memory via Dynamic Relational Integration with Cloud Security Implications.
- Zhihan Liu, Wenxing Wang, Sergey M. Avdoshin, Yevgeni Koucheryavy, Naixue Xiong and Wei Li, MDC-Net: A Multi-scale Decomposition Network for Stock Index Forecasting
