Conference Schedule

Day 01

19th November 2025

08.00 AM

Registration

08.30 AM

Inauguration and Introduction of ICTer 2025

09.10 AM

Keynote: Daniel Johansson

Cambio Healthcare

AI and CyberSecurity – A Double-Edged Sword

10.00 AM

Welcome Cultural Event

10.05 AM

Address by the Platinum Partner

Saumi Kariyawasam

Cambio Software

10.30 AM

Tea Break

11.00 AM - 12.20 PM

Technical Session 01 - AI Assisted Diagnostics & Medical Imaging

11.00 AM

A Hybrid Adaptive Segmentation Pipeline with NURBS Surface Reconstruction for 3D Liver Tumor Modeling

Y. S. Windsor – University of Sri Jayewardenepura

11.15 AM

An Explainable Deep Learning Framework for Gallbladder Disease Classification on Ultrasound Images

B. K. Giridharini – Informatics institute of technology Sri Lanka

11.30 AM

Integrating U-Net Segmentation and TabNet Transfer Learning for Automated Melanoma Detection

H. Y. Weeraddana -Rajarata University of Sri Lanka

11.45 AM

Early Detection and Severity Assessment of Dysgraphia in Sinhala-Speaking Children Using a Multi-Modal Machine Learning Approach

S. Weraduwa – University of Kelaniya

12.00 PM

Machine Learning-Based System to Predict Mental Illness Using Blood Biomarkers and Demographic Factors

N. Vithanage – OUSL

12.20 PM

Lunch Break

01.20 PM

Industry Talk

Mr. Buddika Prasanna Edhireweera

Softlogic Information Technologies

01.40 PM - 02.45 PM

Industry Track

01.40 PM

Towards Responsible and Compliant AI Systems in SaaS: Transformation to Secure AI System (X-Venture)

A. I. Vidanage – X-venture

02.00 PM

ParkEase: Enterprise Grade ANPR based Access Control System. (Sri Lanka Telecom PLC)

R. Rajasegar – Sri Lanka Telecom PLC

02.20 PM

Unified Governance for Data, AI, and API in the Era of Industry 5.0 and Beyond. (X-Venture)

G. T. S. Sathindra – X-Venture

02.45 PM - 03.50 PM

Technical Session 02 - Environment and Sustainability

02.45 PM

A Real Time Decision Support System for Selected Commercial Seaweed Species in Sri Lanka: Species Identification, Quality Assessment, and an Ontology Driven Knowledge Database

Y.Milani – Uva Wellassa University of Sri Lanka

03.00 PM

Identifying Three-Band Hyperspectral Composites That Outperform RGB for Floating Plastic Detection

W. A .S Harith- University of Kelaniya

03.15 PM

Integrated Machine Learning and Ontology-Based Approach for Sustainable Weed Management in Paddy Fields

K. W. H. M. I. M.Herath – Uva Wellassa University

03.30 PM

Advanced Modeling of Inflation Dynamics in Sri Lanka: A Comparative Analysis of Statistical, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Hybrid Forecasting Approaches

H. N. Kudagama- University of Colombo School of Computing

03.50 PM

Tea Break

04.05 PM - 04.20 PM

Poster Session 01

04.05 PM

Deep tRF-Net: A Deep Learning Approach for Multi-Class Cancer Classification using tRNA Derived Fragments (tRF) Expression Patterns

M. M. Chathuranga – University of Ruhuna

04.08 PM

OWN-Layer Grad-CAM and PIPPC: An Occlusion-Weighted Multi-Layer Approach and a Faithfulness Metric for XAI in Medical

S. Senaratne – University of Colombo

04.11 PM

MMAD: Multi-model Adversarial Defense for Medical Images

S. Gnanapiragasam – Informatics Institute of Technology

04.14 PM

An interpretable machine learning model to predict drug addiction among children in Sri Lanka

A. N. D. S. Manathunga – University of Peradeniya

04.17 PM

PoPStat–COVID19: Leveraging Population Pyramids to Quantify Demographic Vulnerability to COVID-19

W. M. B. S. K. Wijenayake – University of Peradeniya

04.20 PM

Q & A - Poster Session 1

04.30 PM

Day one concluding ...

Paper presentation: 10 min for the presentation , 5 min for the Q & A
Keynote: 40 min presentation , 10 min for the Q & A
Industry presentation: 10 mins for the presentation, 5 min for Demonstration and 5 mins for Q & A

Day 02

20th November 2025

08.00 AM

Registration

08.30 AM - 09.25 AM

Technical Session 03 - Systems, Security & Privacy

08.30 AM

Leveraging Unintentional Electromagnetic Emissions for Radio Tomographic Imaging

W. M. O. E. Wickramasinghe- University of Colombo School of Computing

08.45 AM

Matrix-Based Forecasting and Anomaly Detection Framework for Cloud VM Resource Monitoring

W. G. C. P. B. Wattegama – Institute of Technology University of Moratuwa

09.00 AM

Balancing Privacy and Performance in Federated Learning with Adaptive Differential Privacy and Secure Multi-Party Computation

T. Attygalle – University of Colombo School of Computing

09.25 AM

Keynote: Prof. Kasun De Zoysa

University of Colombo School of Computing

From Bits to Qubits: Building Quantum Readiness in Academia and Industry

10.20 AM

Tea Break

10.40 AM - 12.15 AM

Technical Session 04 - Language, Speech, & Text Processing

10.40 AM

Adaptive Fluency and Pronunciation Assessment for Young English Learners in Sri Lanka

P.G.D.B.D. Peramuna – Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology

10.55 AM

Unified Detection of Generated Speech: Combining Audio Spectrogram and Text Analysis

W.G.A.S Gunathilaka – University of Sri Jayewardenepura

11.10 AM

A Continual Learning Mechanism for Early Brahmi Inscription Translation with Deep Learning

J. Rathnayake – Informatics Institute of Technology

11.25 AM

Creating Digital Estampages of Stone Inscriptions using Multispectral Imaging

M. W. M. B. De Silva – University of Colombo School of Computing

11.40 AM

Authorship Identification of Sinhala Poems Using Machine Learning Techniques

P. R. S. Fernando – University of Sri Jayewardenepura

11.55 AM

Possible Distillation for Abstractive Summarization: Reducing Hallucination in Compact LLMs

V. Abishethvarman- Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka

12.15 PM - 12.45 PM

Poster Session 02

12.15 PM

Dataset Sensitivity and Scalability in RNN-Based V2X Intrusion Detection

N. W. Meegammmana- Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology

12.18 PM

Beyond Charging: How Juice Jacking Enables Data Theft and Device Compromise in Android

N. F. Minha – University of Colombo School of Computing

12.21 PM

Smart Card Vulnerabilities in Sri Lanka: A Security Assessment Across Service Providers

A. M. M. L. Alahakoon – University of Colombo School of Computing

12.24 PM

YOLOv8 for Nondestructive Black Pepper Impurity Detection

E.M.C.H.Ekanayake- University of Colombo School of Computing

12.27 PM

Work Sphere: A Multi-modal Approach to Employee Engagement Detection in Remote Work Environments with Explainable AI

K. Anbuchelvan-Institute of Informatics Technology

12.30 PM

Q & A - Poster Session 02

12.30 PM

Lunch Break

01.40 PM

Keynote: Prof. Thiemo Voigt

Uppsala University, Sweden

Beyond digital backscatter

02.30 PM - 03.20 PM

Technical Session 05 - Music & Acoustic Processing

02.30 PM

Dynamic Music Harmonization via Interactive Machine Learning Methods and Genetic Algorithms

V. M. Lewangama – University of Sri Jayewardenepura

02.45 PM

Genetic Algorithm Based Deep Time Series Similarity Searching Approach for Acoustic Fingerprinting

C. Rathnayake – University of Colombo School of Computing

03.00 PM

Emotion in the Crowd: SLCSED and a MIR-Enhanced Machine Learning Pipeline

S. N. Ariyathilake – University of Moratuwa

03.20 PM

Finale and next year promo video

03.45 PM

Awards Ceremony - Best Paper

04.15 PM

Vote of Thanks and Day 2 Concluding …

04.30 PM

Tea Break

Paper presentation: 10 min for the presentation , 5 min for the Q & A
Keynote: 40 min presentation , 10 min for the Q & A

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