2026 IEEE World Congress on SERVICES
(SERVICES 2026)

13-18 July 2026, Sydney, Australia

Part of the 2026 IEEE World Congress on SERVICES
July 13-18
Sydney, Australia

WISC Symposium - Program

WISC-SYM-S1
09:00 – 10:10
Room: 214
Session Chair: Manar Abu Talib, University of Sharjah
  • TCSVC WISC Award Acceptance Speech
    Interactive Keynote: How to build Relationships that will accelerate your success
    Shelmina Babai Abji, Founder and CEO of ShowYourWorth.ai, Former IBM VP

 

WISC-SYM-S2
10:40 – 11:50
Room: 214
Session Chair: Lorraine Herger, Retiree and Former Director of AI Infrastructure, IBM Research, T.J. Watson Research Center

Student Scholarship Announcement

  • Presentation of Scholarships
  • Scholarship Winners – Brief Introductions

Graduate Student Forum

Introduction to the IEEE NSW and Award Presentations – Wei Zhang

Student Presentations

  • Building an AI Research Path as an Engineering Student
    Kadid Selssabil
    Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Informatique, ESI, Algeria

  • Electricity Cost Minimization for Workflows Scheduling in Geo-distributed Data Centers
    He Zhang
    Adelaide University, Australia

  • Ontology-Driven Agentic System for Automating Security Compliance in Medical Cyber-Physical WBANs
    Zeliatu Ahmed
    University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA

  • NLP and Large Language Models
    Fatma-Zohra Rezkellah
    University of Zurich (UZH), Switzerland

 

WISC-SYM-S3
11:50 – 13:00
Room: 214
Session Chair: Wei Zhang, Adelaide University

  • WISC Advisory Committee Announcement
  • Keynote title: AI for Cyber and Cyber for AI 
    Bhavani Thuraisingham, The University of Texas at Dallas

 

WISC-SYM-S4
14:00 – 15:10
Room: 214
Session Chair: Jordan Sullivan, IBM Research, T.J. Watson Research Center

  • Interactive Panel Discussion: Agentic AI: New Trends and Its Impact on the WISC Community
    Moderator:
    Jordan Sullivan, IBM Research, T.J. Watson Research Center
    Panelists:
    Bhavani Thuraisingham, The University of Texas at Dallas
    Rong Chang, IBM Research, T.J. Watson Research Center
    Michael Sheng, Macquarie University
    Xiaofei XU, Harbin Institute of Technology