I2S Student Research Symposium (ISRS)
The I2S Student Organization (ISO) is hosting their annual I2S Student Research Symposium (ISRS). ISRS is an opportunity for both undergraduate and graduate students to share their research and ideas with other students and faculty members. This year we will have both oral and poster presentations. Graduate and undergraduate students from all academic backgrounds are invited to submit abstracts of work they have recently published, are in the process of publishing, or are works-in-progress. As we did in 2025, the 2026 Symposium leaders invite other collegiate research groups from elsewhere in Kansas and Missouri, including the Kansas City metro area, to participate.
2026
I2S Student Research Symposium
September 24-25, 2026
Beren Petroleum Conference Center - Slawson Hall - G192
University of Kansas - Lawrence, Kansas
Watch Videos From the 2025 Student Research Symposium
There will be a limited number of in-person presentations held during the event, which will be judged for prizes by I2S faculty. If you are interested in being selected for a presentation, please submit your abstract here, or click the button below, for consideration (please limit to 200-500 words). We kindly request that the research be within the scope of I2S areas of study. A full list of those areas can be found below. The deadline for submitting abstracts is Wednesday, Sept. 16.
Additional event details, including registration information, will be posted on this page leading up to the event.
Organizer: Amin Mamandipoor
This will be held in-person at the Beren Petroleum Center in Slawson Hall (Slawson G192) on the Lawrence campus.
Thursday, Sept. 24: Symposium Workshops
| TIME | TRACK | PRESENTER |
|---|---|---|
| 8:30am | Breakfast & Registration | |
| 9:00am-11:30am | Computer Architecture and Systems: gem5 Simulator | Amin Mamamandipoor |
| 11:30am-1:30pm | Lunch | |
| 1:30pm-3:30pm | Entrepreneurship in Kansas Entrepreneurial Opportunities for Science and Technology Researchers | Laurie Pieper |
Friday, Sept. 25: Research Symposium
| Time | Track | Presenter | Presentation Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:30am | Breakfast & Registration | ||
| 9:00am | Opening Remarks | ||
| 9:20am | Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning | Daniel Neugent | A Calibrated Equivalence Protocol for Fitted Lenses Under Model Compression |
| 9:40am | Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning | Nyamtulla Shaik | Benchmarking the Benchmarks: Evaluating Automated Safety Benchmarks for Small Language Models |
| 9:40am | Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning | Fairuz Shadmani Shishir | A Deep Learning Framework for Privacy-Preserving ECG Representations |
| 10:00am | Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning | Pardaz Mohammad | Graph-Encoded Reinforcement Learning for Compact Acoustic Biomarkers of Alzheimer's Disease |
| 10:20am | Network Communications | Sravan Reddy | Machine Learning and Measurement-Driven Solutions for Next-Generation Wireless Networks |
| 10:40am | Computer Systems | Amin Mamandipoor | Memory performance attack using Single Bank Hammering |
| 11:00am | Embedded Systems | Farzaneh Barat | Data-Driven and Model-Based Parameter Estimation for Nonlinear Lithium-Ion Battery Systems |
| 11:20am | Poster Setup & Transition | ||
| 12:00pm | Lunch & Poster Presentations | Poster presentations: Yadhunath T.; Aqila Baby; Anzo Sasuke (Ashish) Masoud Ghazikor; Shiraj Kiran Vaidya; Heet Jani; Krishna Chaitanya Reddy Chitta | |
| 1:30pm | Computer Systems | Cole Strickler | Programmable Layouts via On-The-Fly Data Transformation |
| 1:50pm | Computer Systems | Soma Pal | A Multi-Compiler Framework to Improve C Program Performance |
| 2:10pm | Computer Systems | S M Mojahidul Ahsan | An Accurate Circuit-Level Design and Optimization Framework for Analog In-Memory Compute Engines |
| 2:30pm | HPC | Jeevana Pudota | Efficient Tuning of Processor Allocation Strategies Using Bayesian Optimization for Online Scheduling of Moldable Task Graphs |
| 2:50pm | Cybersecurity & Privacy | Liangqin Ren | PhantomSeal: Proactive Identity and Context Defense Against Face-Swapping Deepfakes |
| 3:10pm | |||
| 3:30pm | |||
| 3:50pm | Break | ||
| 4:10pm | Closing Remarks | ||
| 4:30pm | Results Announcement |
ISRS Prizes
Oral presentations:
First place: $500
Second place: $300
Third place: $100
Grads poster presentations:
First place: Headphones
Second place: Earbuds
Undergrads poster presentation:
First place: Headphones
Second place: Earbuds
Areas of research:
- Blockchain
- Computer Systems
- Applied Mathematics
- Ethics & Policy
- Fiber Optics
- Quantum Computing
- Radar Systems
- Computer Architecture
- Embedded Systems
- Cybersecurity & Privacy
- Network Communications
- Programming Languages
- Signal Processing
- RF Systems Engineering
- Photonics & Optoelectronics
- Computational Science & Engineering
- Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning