Talks and Service | Ahmed Imteaj

Conference leadership and editorial roles

2027

Program Committee Member

AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2027)

2026

Area Chair

Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2026), Industry Track

2026

Area Chair and Special Session Co-Chair

IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2026)

Special session: Deep Neural Networks and Generative AI for Multi-Agent Smart Vehicle Perception, Learning, Automation, and Optimization

2026

Special Session Co-Chair

25th IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA 2026)

Neurocognitive-Inspired Machine Learning for Adaptive, Robust, and Secure Intelligence

2025

Special Session Chair

24th IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA 2025)

Robustness and Security of Large Language Models (ROSE-LLM 2025), co-organized with Dr. M. Hadi Amini (FIU)

2023

Guest Editor

Journal of Surveillance, Security and Safety

Special issue: Privacy and Security in Federated Learning

Talks and presentations

June 2026

Invited talk

Integrating Modern AI into the Curriculum: LLMs, Multimodal Systems, and Practice

NAIRR Pilot Classroom Expansion Conference, Orlando, Florida

2026

Presentation and demo

ARMOR-HAL: Unified Defense for Adversarial Robustness and Hallucination Mitigation in Large Vision-Language Models

NSF NAIRR Annual Meeting, with a live demo by Md Zarif Hossain

August 2024

Panelist

Let's Talk Research: NSF proposal strategies for early-career faculty

Faculty research development session

2024

Paper presentation

Context-Aware Spatiotemporal Poisoning Attacks on Wearable-Based Activity Recognition

IEEE INFOCOM 2024, Vancouver, Canada

2023

Paper presentation

FedMDP: A Federated Learning Framework to Handle System and Model Heterogeneity

AAAI 2023 Workshop (AI2SE), Washington, DC

Papers presented by the SPEED Lab at conferences (6)

June 2026CVPR 2026, Denver: When Data is Scarce, Learn to Adapt (FAML)
December 2025ICMLA 2025: Three papers
October 2025ICCV 2025, Honolulu: Pose to Protect
December 2024IEEE BigData 2024 and ICMLA 2024: Two papers, presented by Md Zarif Hossain
July 2024ICDCS 2024 Workshop, New Jersey: FLAMINGO, presented by Md Zarif Hossain
July 2023IEEE SMARTCOMP 2023: Poisoning attacks on wearable HAR under differentially private FL

Peer review

Reviewer or program committee member for more than 20 international conferences and more than 15 journals, including:

Conferences

NeurIPS 2026 ICRA 2026 ECCV 2026 CVPR 2026 EMNLP 2026 AAAI 2027Program Committee ICCV ICLR ACL IJCNN ICMLA IEEE BigData