Conference Schedule

Day 01

04th November 2026

08.00 AM

Registration

08.20 AM

Inauguration Ceremony - ICTer 2026

08.40 AM

Welcome address by the Conference Chair

08.45 AM

Address by the UCSC Director

08.50 AM

Address by the Chief Guest

09.00 AM - 9.10 AM

Welcome Cultural Event

09.10 AM - 10.30 AM

Panel Discussion: Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Socio-Economic Future: Challenges and Opportunities

Dr.Ruvan Weerasinghe

Dr. Romesh Ranawana

Prof. Subha Fernando

Mr. Dharshana Jayawardena

Mr. Nuwan Senaratne

10.30 AM - 11.00 AM

Tea Break

11.00 AM - 12.00 PM

Oral Presentations Session 1 - Healthcare & Human-Centred Computing

11.00 AM

NeuLogic-PCOS: A Neuro-Symbolic AI Approach for Explainable PCOS Detection from 2D Ovarian Ultrasound Images

N.B.C. Amaya Jayarathna De Silva – IIT

11.15 AM

Evaluating NAO Gestures for Child-Robot Interaction: A Formative Framework Toward Speech Delay Screening

J. M. Chan Sri Manukalpa – SLIIT

11.30 AM

NeuroAgent: A Brain-to-Device Communication Framework Integrating c-VEP EEG Decoding with Agentic AI for Desktop Task Execution

V.A.Himeshana – IIT

11.45 PM

Cloud-Based Distributed Data Processing: Scalable Data-Partitioning Techniques for Healthcare Data

V.D.Wickramarachchi – University of Jaffna

12.00 PM - 12.10 PM

Certification Ceremony

12.10 PM - 12.30 PM

Title Sponsor Message: Mastercard

Ms. Mahesha Amarasuriya

12.30 PM - 01.30 PM

Lunch Break

01.30 PM - 02.15 PM

Keynote: Dr. René E. D. Ferdinands

University of Sydney

Engineering the Future of Spin Bowling: Biomechanics, Smart Ball Analytics and 21st- Century Coaching

02.15 PM - 02.35 PM

Poster Presentations Session - 1: Computer Vision & Graphics

02.15 PM

Text2NeRF: Multi-Aspect Knowledge Distillation in Diffusion-Guided NeRFs for Text-Driven 3D
Synthesis

M Thisarani Anandi Wickramasinghe – NSBM

02.20 PM

Deployment-Aware Optimization of Real-Time Neural Rendering Under Fixed Runtime Constraints

B.H.S.T Fernando – University of Kelaniya

02.25 PM

CloneVerify: Quality-Aware Conditional Enhancement for Fine-Grained Sri Lankan Tea Clone Identification

W.L.A.S.C.B. Weerasuriya – IIT

02.30 PM

Small Object Detection Enhancement in Real-Time Detection Transformer (RT-DETR) for UAV Imagery

J.M. Sasanka Madhura Bandara – IIT

02.35 PM

Certification Ceremony

02.45 PM - 03.15 PM

Poster Presentations Session - 2: Intelligent Sensing, IoT & Adaptive Learning

02.45 PM

Towards Non-Visual Olfactory Sensing: An Intelligent Electronic Nose for Detecting Sri Lankan
Elephants (Elephas maximus maximus)

W.M Akila Tharinda Wanninayake – The Open University of Sri Lanka

02.50 PM

Development of an Intelligent and Secure Smart Home Automation Using Home Assistant and IoT Devices

P Rumesh Rajasegar – Research and Development Engineer, Sri Lanka Telecom PLC

02.55 PM

Quantum-Aware Adversarial Defense for IoT Intrusion Detection Systems Using Explainable AI

P. Supun Shaminda – University of Ruhuna

03.00 PM

SmartFedProx: Personal Finance Modelling Using Federated Learning to Address Data Heterogeneity

V A Dinuka J Perera – IIT

03.05 PM

A Hybrid Concept Drift-Aware Streaming Learning for Real-Time IT Project Risk Prediction

W.K.C.Priyanjalee Bandara – Sabaragamuwa University

03.10 PM

Certification Ceremony

03:15 PM – 03:45 PM

Tea Break

03.45 PM - 04.00 PM

Industry Talk - Commercial Bank

04:00 PM – 05:00 PM

Industry Track Presentations

04.00 PM

Quantum Risk Assessment Framework for Harvest Now, Decrypt Later (HNDL) Attacks in Banking Sector

K V R Kurukulasooriya – TechCERT

04.15 PM

An AI-Enabled Digital Learning Passport with Skill Gap Detection and Industry-Integrated Recruitment Interface: A Design Science Approach

M.P Rathnayake Mudiyanselage – Knivok Private Limited

04.30 PM

An Edge-Cloud Machine Condition Monitoring System for Industrial Rubber Processing

P Rumesh Rajasegar – Research and Development Engineer, Sri Lanka Telecom PLC

04.45 PM

Certificate Ceremony

05.00 PM

Day one concluding

Day 02

05th November 2026

08.00 AM

Registration

08.30 AM - 09.45 AM

Oral Presentation Session - 2 - Optimization, Learning & Autonomous Systems

08.30 AM

Forecasting Foreign Exchange Reserves Through Crisis and Recovery: Deep Learning Evidence from Sri Lanka

YR Dassanayake – UCSC

08.45 AM

Quantum Mutual Information for Causal Feature Selection: An Empirical Study of Feature Recovery and Treatment Effect Estimation

H.R. Janith Ravindu Rashmika – University of Moratuwa

09.00 AM

Impact of Adopting Features of Recent Nature-Inspired Algorithms on the Behaviour of the Simple Genetic Algorithm

B.A.S.Dilumika – UCSC

09.15 AM

Hybrid Adaptive Coordination in Multi-UAV Swarms for Search and Rescue

P. V. Vithanaarachchi – IIT

09.30 AM - 09.45 PM

Certification Ceremony

09.45 AM - 10.30 AM

Keynote: Mr. Sampath Tilakumara

Director, Software Engineering and Distinguished Engineer, London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG)

Who Gets Left Behind? AI, Work, and the Next Generation of Talent

10.30 AM - 11.00 AM

Tea Break

11.00 AM - 12.30 PM

Oral Presentation Session - 3 Cloud, Distributed Systems & Resource Management

11.00 AM

Application-Aware Dynamic Virtual Machine Placement for Live Migration

S.N. Wickramasinghe – UCSC

11.15 AM

HAQL-PR: A Hybrid Adaptive Q-Learning Page Replacement Algorithm for Efficient Memory Management

Sinthujan R – SLIIT, Jaffna

11.30 AM

Analyzing Organizational Influence on Microservice Communication Affinity and Designing Adaptive Colocation Strategies

S. H. V. Thenuka – UCSC

11.45 AM

D-Track: Eliminating Redundant Fake Dirty Pages in Live Virtual Machine Migration

Samindu R. Cooray – UCSC

12.00 PM

Certification Ceremony

12:10 PM

Title Sponsor Message: Mastercard

12:30 PM – 1:30 PM

Lunch Break

1:30 PM – 2:15 PM

Keynote: Dr. Buddy Liyanage

Senior Visiting Lecturer, University of Colombo School of Computing (UCSC)

The need for responsible, ethical, and trustworthy AI systems and their use in Sri Lanka

2:15 PM – 3:15 PM

Poster Presentations Session 3: Applied Data Analytics and ML

02.15 PM

SinFair: Mitigating Demographic Entity Erasure in Sinhala Abstractive Summarization via Five-Axis Counterfactual Augmentation

A S Wanigasinghe – IIT

02.20 PM

Federated Reasoning: A Privacy-Preserving Medical Question Answering System with Chain-of-Thought Reasoning and Retrieval-Augmented Generation

J.G.Sevindu Imsara – IIT

02.25 PM

Quantifying Metformin Confounding in Machine Learning-Based Metagenomic Glycemic Classification

P.A.R.R. Wijerathne – UCSC

02.30 PM

Attitudinal Predictors of Music Genre Exploration and Abandonment Among Streaming Users: A Survey-Based Multi-method Analysis

W.A.M. Prabuddhi – University of Ruhuna

02.35 PM

Certification Ceremony

02.45 PM - 03.00 PM

Poster Presentations Session 4: Software and Systems

02.45 PM

Enhancing Live VM Migration for Latency-Sensitive Workloads

M.C.A. Maddumage – UCSC

02.50 PM

When the Next Step Is Not One Step: Distribution-Aware Execution Modeling for Concurrent Go Programs

H.K.S.R Hapuarachchi – UCSC

02.55 PM

Certification Ceremony

03:15 PM – 03:45 PM

Tea Break

03.45 PM - 04.30 PM

Oral Presentation Session 4: LLMs, Agentic AI & Trustworthy AI

03.45 PM

Beyond Correctness: Output and Prompt Bloat in LLM-Generated Code

P. P. Ranganath – UCSC

04.00 PM

Reasoning Path Hijacking in Small Language Models: Vulnerability Assessment for Agentic AI Systems

H.R.S.D.Fernando – UCSC

04.15 PM

Knowledge Graph-Based Fact Inclusion Explanation for Abstractive Summarization

W.A.N. Nelki – UCSC

04.30 PM

Certification Ceremony

4:35 PM

Awards Ceremony

04.50 PM

Vote of Thanks

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