Conference Programme | Sunway University

Time	Programme / Activity	Venue
8.30 – 9.00 am	Registration	Q-Lecture Theatre 360°
OPENING CEREMONY
9.00 – 9.15 am	Opening Ceremony	Q-Lecture Theatre 360°
9.15 – 9.45 am	Welcoming Remarks By Professor Sibrandes Poppema (President, Sunway University)	Q-Lecture Theatre 360°
9.45 – 10.30 am	Opening Plenary Address How Can Global Partnerships Turn Urban Challenges into Innovation and Impact (Professor Kirk Semple, Lancaster University & Prof. Ir. Rosdiadee Nordin, Sunway University)	Q-Lecture Theatre 360°
10.30 – 10.35 am	Montage	Q-Lecture Theatre 360°
10.35 – 10.45 am	Official Group Photo	Q-Lecture Theatre 360°
10.45 – 11.15 am	Morning Break	Common Walkway, Level 2
11.15 am – 12.15 pm	Forum: Designing Cities for People and Planet: The Next Frontier of Urban Innovation	Q-Lecture Theatre 360°
12.15 – 12.30 pm	Short Campus Tour	—
12.30 – 2.00 pm	Lunch Break	Thinker Space, FET Building
2.00 – 3.30 pm	PARALLEL SESSION 1	Thinker Space / NX-4-4
3.30 – 3.45 pm	Coffee & Networking Break	—
3.45 – 5.00 pm	PARALLEL SESSION 2	Thinker Space / NX-4-4 / VR4

Time	Programme / Activity	Venue
9.00 – 10.00 am	Interactive Simulation Future Cities Roundtable — role-play mega-project decision-making	NX-3-6
10.00 – 10.15 am	Networking Break	Thinker Space, FET Building
10.15 am – 12.30 pm	PARALLEL SESSION 3	Thinker Space / NX-4-4 / VR1
12.30 – 14.30 pm	Lunch Break	—
14.30 – 15.15 pm	Tutorial (T1): TRUST2: Building Explainable AI for Human-Occupied Spaces (Shiels.ai)	NX-4-4
14.30 – 15.15 pm	Tutorial (T2): OpenClaw: Building Agentic AI Workflows for Urban Innovation (Open Claw)	NX-4-5
15.15 – 15.30 pm	Coffee / Networking Break	—
15.30 – 17.00 pm	Cont. Tutorial (T1): TRUST2: Building Explainable AI for Human-Occupied Spaces (Shiels.ai)	NX-4-4
15.30 – 17.00 pm	Cont. Tutorial (T2): OpenClaw: Building Agentic AI Workflows for Urban Innovation (Open Claw)	NX-4-5
17.00 – 18.30 pm	Informal Networking, Free & Easy	—
18.30 – 21.30 pm	Welcome Reception & Networking Dinner (Theme: Black & Gold)	—

Time	Programme / Activity	Venue
9.00 – 10.00 am	PARALLEL SESSION 4	Thinker Space / NX-4-4
9.00 – 10.00 am	Collaborative Workshop: Sunway & Lancaster (Co-Design Sprint) Warm-up (speed dating) Group formation Co-design sprint	—
10.00 – 10.15 am	Coffee & Networking Break	—
10.15 – 11.15 am	(cont.) Co-design sprint Lightning presentations Reflection & way forward	—
10.15 – 11.15 am	PARALLEL SESSION 5	Thinker Space / NX-4-4
11.15 am – 12.00 pm	Closing Remarks & Best Paper Award Announcement	Thinker Space, FET Building
12.00 – 2.00 pm	Networking Lunch (END OF CONFERENCE)	—

Section 07: Session Breakdown

Venue: THINKER SPACE (Chair: TBA)

Time	Presentation Title	ID	Presenter	Track
2.10 – 2.25 pm	A modular electrochemical sensor platform for urban health and environmental monitoring	P-30	Stijn F. L. Mertens	Healthy
2.25 – 2.40 pm	Reinforcement Learning–Enabled Dengue Digital Twins for Adaptive Preventive Planning under Climatic and Urban Uncertainty	P-48	Dr. Alok Singh Chauhan	Healthy
2.40 – 2.55 pm	Automated Detection and Severity Assessment of Lumbar Spine Pathology using deep learning: A Health Technology Approach...	P-55	Shashi Bhushan	Healthy
2.55 – 3.10 pm	Housing Affordability, Urban Resilience and Inclusive Growth: Evidence from Mumbai, India	P-58	Sourav Mohanty	Resilient
3.10 – 3.25 pm	Challenges of AI-Based Urban Vegetation Monitoring Under Wind-Induced Dynamics: Evidence from Urban Hedges...	P-51	Ramsha Shahid	Digital

Venue: NX BUILDING - NX-4-4 (Chair: TBA)

Time	Presentation Title	ID	Presenter	Track
2.10 – 2.25 pm	Toward Antenna-Based Hardware Trust Anchors for Wirelessly Connected Future Cities	P-47	Cheryl Phun Tse Ying	Digital
2.25 – 2.40 pm	Incorporating Machine Learning Techniques to Predict Risk Assessment in Project Timeline Management	P-21	Yawar Abbas Bangash	Digital
2.40 – 2.55 pm	The Multitouch Interactive Surface as a Civic Mind: Intergenerational Planetary Health Literacy in a Living Lab	P-83	Arkendu Sen	Healthy
2.55 – 3.10 pm	Transformer-Based Semantic Segmentation for Road Surface Damage Detection and Severity Assessment	P-54	Imad Gohar	Digital
3.10 – 3.25 pm	Interpretable Satellite-Based Poverty Mapping for Resilience Planning in Sabah Using Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks	P-53	Veronica S. Jamilat	Resilient

Venue: THINKER SPACE (Chair: TBA)

Time	Presentation Title	ID	Presenter	Track
3.40 – 3.55 pm	Toward AI-Driven UAV-Based Smart Parking in Future Cities: A Layered Integration Framework...	P-59	Mahran Ghanem	Digital
3.55 – 4.10 pm	AI-driven Malaria Species Classification for Early Diagnosis and Public Health Surveillance	P-74	Dhevisha Sukumarran	Healthy
4.10 – 4.25 pm	A Static Histopathology-Derived Tumor Microenvironment Twin State for NSCLC Survival Risk Estimation	P-82	Mohammad Badal Ahmmed	Healthy
4.25 – 4.40 pm	Sustaining Locally Led Adaptation in a Fire-Prone Agrarian Landscape: Community Preparedness in West Kalimantan...	P-24	Fransiskus Xaverius Esensiator De Lane	Resilient
4.40 – 4.55 pm	Beyond Commerce: Augmented Reality and the Possibilities of Cultural Learning in Future Urban Spaces	P-56	Maslisa Zainuddin & Delas Santano	Digital

Venue: NX BUILDING - NX-4-4 (Chair: TBA)

Time	Presentation Title	ID	Presenter	Track
3.40 – 3.55 pm	RehabMotion-Interactive Injury Recovery Web Application for Knee and Ankle Rehabilitation	P-76	Yun Xin Teoh	Healthy
3.55 – 4.10 pm	Comparative Evaluation of GAN-LSTM Frameworks for Synthetic Data-Driven Renewable Energy Forecasting...	P-63	Syafiq Ashraf Ahmad Khalid	Digital
4.10 – 4.25 pm	Health technologies for vulnerable urban workforces: A scoping review of AI-assisted nursing handover	P-45	Lee Sin Yee	Healthy
4.25 – 4.40 pm	FedShield: A Federated CNN for Industrial IoT Cyber Attack Detection in Smart Cities	P-65	Yawar Abbas Bangash	Digital

Venue: VR4 (VIRTUAL ROOM 4) (Chair: TBA)

Time	Presentation Title	ID	Presenter	Track
3.45 – 4.00 pm	A Patterned City: Making Urban Ecologies Legible Through Qualitative Approaches to Environmental Sensing	P-10	Rupert Griffiths	Digital
4.00 – 4.15 pm	A Physics-Informed Digital Twin Framework for Smart Urban Water Distribution Monitoring Using IoT Data	P-86	Zaharadeen Karami Lawal	Digital
4.15 – 4.30 pm	Integrating Attention Mechanisms and Explainable AI for Improved Lung X-ray Classification	P-33	Hamza Ali	Healthy
4.30 – 4.45 pm	AwalUstaad: Enhancing Primary Education Engagement Through a Gamified Adaptive Learning Experience	P-46	Muhammad Qasim	Digital

Venue: THINKER SPACE (Chair: TBA)

Time	Presentation Title	ID	Presenter	Track
10.20 – 10.35 am	Benchmarking-Based Land Use Design and Initial Cost Estimation for Nusantara Sustainable Smart City	P-61	Siti Rahma Utami	Sustainable
10.35 – 10.50 am	Urban Edge to City Resilience: Lightweight Quorum Consensus for Intrusion Detection in Smart Cities	P-13	Muhammad Mukhtar	Resilient
10.50 – 11.05 am	Change-Based CNN-LSTM-MLP Forecasting of Urban PM2.5 at 24-Hour and 48-Hour Horizons for Healthy Cities...	P-52	M Arsalan Mujaddadi	Healthy
11.05 – 11.20 am	A Low-Cost IoT System for Indoor Environmental Monitoring: Preliminary Results for the Wearable Avoidance...	P-16	Faris Syahmi Samidi	Digital
11.20 – 11.35 am	HelmetWatch: A Human-in-the-Loop Computer Vision and OCR Framework for Auditable Motorcycle Helmet Violation Reporting	P-49	Saef Allah Khaled Younes Dreed	Digital
11.35 – 11.50 am	HARMONY: Human-Trusted AI and Resilient Multimodal Orchestration to Enhance Real-Time Object Detection	P-66	Rahma Santhi Zinaida	Resilient
11.50 – 12.05 pm	Hybrid-ETCS: An Ensemble Transformer with Contextual SHAP for Multi-Disease Clinical Prediction...	P-32	Sathishkumar Veerappampalayam & Javid Iqbal	Healthy
12.05 – 12.20 pm	From Smart Cities to ProSocial AI Index. Using The ProSocial AI Index for Hybrid Future Urban	P-37	Cornelia C Walther	Sustainable

Venue: NX BUILDING - NX-4-4 (Chair: TBA)

Time	Presentation Title	ID	Presenter	Track
10.20 – 10.35 am	AI-Driven Urban Transformation for Smart, Sustainable, and Resilient ASEAN Cities: From Living Lab to Regional Impact	P-72	Devi Willieam Anggara	Sustainable
10.35 – 10.50 am	Coastal Community Readiness Toward Net-Zero Healthcare Services: Evidence from Biluhu, Gorontalo	P-14	Wulan I R Sari	Healthy
10.50 – 11.05 am	Route-Aware Multimodal Data Alignment for Crowdsensed Road-Health Monitoring	P-91	Hadyan Hafizh	Digital
11.05 – 11.20 am	Adolescent Smoking Initiation Trends and 2026 Projection in Calabar, Nigeria...	P-17	Adeola Alebiosu	Healthy
11.20 – 11.35 am	Cloud-Based Remote Monitoring for Urban Farming	P-67	Zong Lin Goo (alt. Dr Moi Tin Chew)	Digital
11.35 – 11.50 am	Satellite-Derived Urban Thermal Retention Susceptibility Mapping for the Sunway City Digital Twin	P-77	Hayana Dullah	Digital
11.50 – 12.05 pm	Machine-Learning Venue Attractiveness Scoring for Digital Cities: A Foot-Traffic-Based Retail Intelligence Layer...	P-57	Abdikarim Mohamed Ibrahim	Digital
12.05 – 12.20 pm	Biosynthesis of Selenium Nanoparticles Using Native Microalgal Extracts for Green Nanotechnology Applications	P-90	Vimal Angela Thiviyanathan	Sustainable

Venue: VR1 (VIRTUAL ROOM 1) (Chair: TBA)

Time	Presentation Title	ID	Presenter	Track
10.20 – 10.35 am	A Transparent, Regulator-Grounded Re-Ranking Layer for Health-Aware Skincare Recommendation in Urban Marketplaces	P-60	Komal Masroor	Healthy
10.35 – 10.50 am	Kolmogorov–Arnold Networks for Data-Scarce Viscosity Prediction in Injection-Molded Plastic Gears	P-78	Prince Nana Boakye	Digital
10.50 – 11.05 am	Digital Marketplaces for Gig Economy: Building Sustainable Careers for Creative Communities	P-79	Amina Syarfina Abu Bakar	Digital
11.05 – 11.20 am	Benchmarking GBDT Inference Across Cloud Platforms for Sustainable Urban Services	P-43	Muhammad Ahmad Zia	Sustainable
11.20 – 11.35 am	Hybrid ConvNeXt-ViT Architecture for Automated Multi-Classification of Kidney Lesions in CT Imaging	P-22	Syed Ibad Hasnain	Healthy
11.35 – 11.50 am	From Living Labs to Systemic Transition: Scaling Community-Driven Circular Waste Systems in Bandung City...	P-20	Ratna Lindawati Lubis	Sustainable
11.50 – 12.05 pm	BikeGraphNet: A Spatio-Temporal Graph Neural Network for Station-Level Bike-Sharing Demand Forecasting...	P-69	Sathishkumar V E	Digital

Venue: THINKER SPACE (Chair: TBA)

Time	Presentation Title	ID	Presenter	Track
9.05 – 9.20 am	Edge AI / TinyML for Smart and Sustainable Cities: A Bibliometric Review	P-41	Juan Du	Digital
9.20 – 9.35 am	CBAM-Enhanced Deep Learning for Hepatocellular Carcinoma and Hemangioma Classification from B-mode Liver ultrasound...	P-64	Rabia Asad	Healthy
9.35 – 9.50 am	Submarine Cable Landing Concentration as an Urban Resilience Variable: A Descriptive Concentration Typology...	P-25	Hardesh Singh	Resilient

Venue: NX BUILDING - NX-4-4 (Chair: TBA)

Time	Presentation Title	ID	Presenter	Track
9.05 – 9.20 am	The Nexus between Urbanization, Green Cover and Surface Heat: The Case of Planetary Health Challenges in Selangor, Malaysia	P-12	Sharareh Pourebrahim	Sustainable
9.20 – 9.35 am	When a Building Starts ‘Learning’: How IoT-Enabled BEMS Turns Data into Net Zero Performance at Sunway University Annex	P-85	Dalila Alias	Digital

Venue: THINKER SPACE (Chair: TBA)

Time	Presentation Title	ID	Presenter	Track
10.20 – 10.35 am	SLIC-DenseViT: Superpixel-Guided DenseNet-Enhanced Vision Transformer for Diabetic Retinopathy Classification	P-89	Claymond Lim Wei Xiang	Healthy
10.35 – 10.50 am	Reimagining Urban Resilience: Transitioning from Capitalist Economies to Social Business Societies	P-2	Stephen T. Homer	Resilient
10.50 – 11.05 am	Smartphone-Based International Roughness Index Prediction Using Deep Learning: A Validated Framework...	P-92	Hadyan Hafizh	Digital

Venue: NX BUILDING - NX-4-4 (Chair: TBA)

Time	Presentation Title	ID	Presenter	Track
10.20 – 10.35 am	Edge AI / TinyML for Smart and Sustainable Cities: A Bibliometric Review	P-84	Joel Nayagam	Digital
10.35 – 10.50 am	Preliminary Evaluation of Marine-Hybrid Architectures for High-Density AI Data Centers: Thermodynamic, Ecological...	P-88	Faris Syahmi Samidi	Sustainable