Detailed Program

Monday, September 22 (Location: imec and KU Leuven’s Computer Science Department)

• • 08:45 – 10:00 Opening & EWSN Community Event Talk

    • Education & IoT (Prof. Liesbet Van der Perre, KU Leuven)

  • 10:00 – 10:30  Coffee break

  • 10:30 – 12:30  Workshops & Tutorials (multiple-track)

  • 12:30 – 13:30  Lunch break

  • 13:30 – 15:00  Workshops & Tutorials (multiple-track)

  • 15:00 – 15:20  Coffee break

  • 15:20 – 16:50  Workshops & Tutorials (multiple-track)

  • 17:00 – 17:45  Visit to imec's clean room

  18:30 – 19:30  Reception Drinks (Leuven's Botanical Garden)

Tuesday, September 23 (Location: Faculty Club)

• • 09:00 – 10:10  Opening & Keynote 1

    • Expeditions in Low-Power Sensing: Past, Present, and Future (Prof. Prabal Dutta, UC Berkeley)

  • 10:10 – 10:40   Coffee break

  • 10:40 – 12:00  Technical Session 1 – Sensing (chair: TBD)

    • 3D Hand Pose Tracking with mmWave Radar
      Cheng Jiang, Yihe Yan (University of New South Wales); Yanxiang Wang (UNSW Data61-CSIRO); Chun Tung Chou, Wen Hu (University of New South Wales)

    • mmCounter: Static People Counting in Dense Indoor Scenarios using mmWave Radar
      Tarik Reza Toha, Shao-Jung (Louie) Lu, Shahriar Nirjon (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

    • PULSE: Power Usage Monitoring Leveraging Sensing of Electromagnetic Field
      Rahul Sidramappa Hoskeri, Xiaoyi Lu, Hua Huang (University of California Merced)

    • (Journal Track) Territorial Acoustic Species Estimation using Acoustic Sensor Networks
      Leonhard Brueggemann, Daniel Otten (University Osnabrück); Frederik Sachser (Austrian Research Centre for Forests); Nils Aschenbruck (University Osnabrück)

  • 12:00 – 12:20  Rising Star Talk

  • 12:20 – 13:30  Lunch

  • 13:30 – 14:50  Technical Session 2 – Best Paper Award Candidates (chair: TBD)

    • mmDefender: A mmWave System for On-Body Localization of Concealed Threats in Moving Persons
      Shao-Jung (Louie) Lu, Mahathir Monjur (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill); Sirajum Munir (Bosch Research and Technology Center); Shahriar Nirjon (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

    • Fault Tolerance in Space with Heterogeneous Hardware: Experiences from a 68-day CubeSat Deployment in LEO
      Ahmed El Yaacoub (Uppsala University); Thiemo Voigt (Uppsala University, RISE); Philipp Ruemmer (University of Regensburg); Luca Mottola (Uppsala University, Politecnico di Milano, RISE)

    • BandS-SPI: Person with Balloon and Smartphone Estimating their Lung Function
      Fimin Kateu, Emmanuel Chaput, Gentian Jakllari (University of Toulouse)

    • System-wide Batch Peripheral Scheduling in Multi-tenant Embedded Systems
      Marshall Clyburn (University of Virginia); Victor Cionca (Munster Technological University); Brad Campbell (University of Virginia)

  • 14:50 – 15:10  Coffee break

  • 15:10 – 15:20  1-minute Posters & Demos Pitches

  • 15:20 – 16:30  Demos & Posters

  18:00 – 21:00 Gala Dinner (also at Faculty Club)

Wednesday, September 24 (location: imec)

• • 09:00 – 10:00  Technical Session 3 – Energy-Aware Systems and Scheduling (chair: TBD)

    • Gambler: Adaptive Sampling Under Energy Budgets
      Vasco Xu, Tejas Kannan, Henry Hoffmann (University of Chicago)

    • LOCUS – Localization with Channel Uncertainty and Sporadic Energy
      Subrata Biswas, Mohammad Nur Hossain Khan, Violet Colwell, Jack Adiletta, Bashima Islam (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)

    • Dynamic Priority Queue-based Scheduling Algorithm for TSN-CAN Gateways
      Wenhao Li, Min Li, Hao Sun, Dong Qin, Wufei Wu (Nanchang University)

  • 10:00 – 10:40  Technical Session 4 – Internet of Things (chair: TBD)

    • NESFuzzer: Stateful Fuzz Testing of IoT Network Stacks
      Nicolas Tsiftes (RISE Research Institutes of Sweden and Digital Futures); Thiemo Voigt (RISE Research Institutes of Sweden and Uppsala University)

    • (Journal Track) TOAD: Profiling and Evaluating 3D Printed IoT Rapid Prototype Designs
      Farooq Ayob Dar, Mayowa Olapade, Abdul-Rasheed Ottun, Zhigang Yin (University of Tartu); Mohan Liyanage (Fachhochschule Dortmund); Ulrich Norbisrath (University of Tartu); Marko Redata (University of Madeira); Francisco Airton Silva (Federal University of Piauí); Xiang Su (University of Helsinki); Janick Edinger (University of Hamburg); Petteri Nurmi (University of Helsinki); Huber Flores (University of Tartu)

  • 10:40 – 11:10  Coffee break

  • 11:10 – 12:20  Technical Session 5 – Work in Progress & Emerging Applications (chair: TBD)

    • Navigator: A Microcontroller-based Assistive Smartglass for Guided Indoor Navigation (WiP)
      Saket Nerurkar, Vyomesh Bhatt, Surjya Ghosh, Sougata Sen (BITS Pilani Goa Campus)

    • Scattering Algorithm for Continuous Sensing in Battery-Free Networks (WiP)
      Johannes Göpfert (Hamburg University of Technology); Sayedsepehr Mosavat (University of Duisburg-Essen, Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences); Matteo Zella (Niederrhein University of Applied Science); Bernd-Christian Renner (Hamburg University of Technology)

    • Utility-Aware Transmission of Sensor Data on Energy-Harvesting IoT Gateways (WiP)
      Pierre-Louis Sixdenier, Stefan Wildermann (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg); Jebacyril Arockiaraj (University of Southern California); Jürgen Teich (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)

    • Non-Line-of-Sight Optical Wireless Communication using Neuromorphic Cameras
      Abbaas Alif Mohamed Nishar, Alireza Marefat, Ashwin Ashok (Georgia State University)

  • 12:20 – 13:30  Lunch

  • 13:30 – 14:30  Keynote 2

    • Enabling AI at the Extreme Edge (Prof. Marian Verhelst, KU Leuven)

  • 14:30 – 14:50  Coffee break

  • 14:50 – 15:50  Technical Session 6 – Embedded Artificial Intelligence (chair: TBD)

    • TinyKubeML: Orchestrating TinyML Models on Far-Edge Clusters
      João Oliveira, Fernando Rego, Filipe Sousa (Fraunhofer AICOS); Luis Almeida (CISTER / FEUP - University of Porto)

    • TinyML as a Service on Multi-Tenant Microcontrollers
      Bastien BUIL (Cnam / Orange); Chrystel Gaber (Orange); Samia Bouzefrane (Cnam); Emmanuel Baccelli (Inria)

    • PEARL: Power- and Energy-Aware Multicore Intermittent Computing
      Khakim Akhunov (Imec); Eren Yildiz (Georgia Institute of Technology); Kasim Sinan Yildirim (University of Trento); Khakim Akhunov (University of Trento)

  • 15:50 – 16:10  Coffee break

  • 16:10 – 17:00  Guided Demo Tour (co-organized with imec)

    • Embedded AI for Audio Applications (NXP Semiconductors)

    • Edge Intelligence in Practice: Applications of Condition Monitoring in Smart Industries (VersaSense & Forcebit)

    • More demos to be announced soon

  • 17:00 – 18:10  Industry Perspectives (co-organized with imec)

    • Enabling AI on Edge Devices: Insights from Audio Applications
      Bruno Defraene, R&D Engineer, Machine Learning and Signal Processing, NXP Semiconductors 

    • A Tutorial on the State-of-the-Art in (Batteryless) Wireless Sensor Networking (with Matter)
      Brecht Van Cauwenberghe, Software engineer, Qorvo

  • 18:00 – 18:10  EWSN'25 Closing & Remarks

       18.10 – 19.30 Networking Reception (optional; co-organized with imec)