WF-PST 26: 2026 IEEE WORLD FORUM ON PUBLIC SAFETY TECHNOLOGY
PROGRAM

Days: Tuesday, September 22nd Wednesday, September 23rd Thursday, September 24th

Tuesday, September 22nd

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13:30-15:00 Session 1A

Sensing and Testing for Public Safety

13:30
A Biomechanically Grounded Simulation Framework for Foot-Mounted Inertial Sensors (abstract)
13:45
A Province-Scale Federated IoT Testbed for Hydro-Meteorological Knowledge (abstract)
14:00
The Technical Development of the z-Axis Testbed for Public Safety (abstract)
14:15
Empirical Evaluation of Cross-Carrier MCPTT & OTT MCX Interoperability in High-Density Environments (abstract)
14:30
A Hybrid Geospatial Analytics Framework for Public Safety Using IoT Data and LLM-Assisted Decision Support (abstract)
13:30-15:00 Session 1B

AI and ML Technology for Public Safety

13:30
A Vendor-Neutral Reference Architecture for AI-Enabled Public Safety Command and Control Centers: Lessons from Smart City Deployments (abstract)
13:45
AI-Assisted Multimodal Gas Detection Using Thermal Images and MQ Sensor Fusion (abstract)
14:00
INSIGHT: Indoor Scene Intelligence from Geometric-Semantic Hierarchy Transfer for Public Safety (abstract)
14:15
Multi-Layer Public Safety Assurance for AI-Enabled Radiotherapy: Monte Carlo Validation of the RADAR Risk-Governance Framework (abstract)
14:30
MATE-911: Multimodal AI-powered Training Environment for Next-Generation 911 Dispatcher Preparedness (abstract)
14:45
Adaptive MCS for 5G NR Sidelink (abstract)
15:30-17:00 Session 2A

Transportation and Navigation Technologies for Public Safety

15:30
Safe Autonomous Decision-Making Under GNSS Spoofing via Causal Reality Anchoring (abstract)
15:45
Safety and Sustainability in Intelligent Transportation Systems: An IoT/AI Approach (abstract)
16:00
ERAV-Q: An Emergency-Responsive Autonomous Vehicle Framework Integrating Real-Time Detection, LLM-Based Gesture Recognition, and Quantum-Assisted Priority Routing (abstract)
16:15
Resilient Control Loops in Autonomous Vehicles Under Adversarial Jamming via Spectral Perception and Network-Layer Failover (abstract)
16:30
Spatio-Temporal Hybrid GNSS Resilience Model for Multipath, Blockage, Spoofing, and Jamming (abstract)
16:45
Multimodal BEV Representation and Spatial Temporal Alignment for O RAN Oriented 5G-V2X Perception (abstract)
15:30-17:00 Session 2B

Edge and Cloud Computing, Digital Twin, and IoT for Public Safety

15:30
Digital Twin – Enabled Performance Assessment of Electrical Busways Power Systems (abstract)
15:45
AI Driven Digital Twin for Real Time Emergency Response Coordination (abstract)
16:00
A Multi-Agent Digital Twin Framework for Real-Time Public Safety Optimization Using Artificial Intelligence and Federated Learning (abstract)
16:15
Building-to-Everything (B2X): An Edge-Based Smart Building Framework for Urban Traffic Coordination and Public Safety (abstract)
16:30
Pre-Deployment Detection of Security Misconfigurations in Azure Bicep Infrastructure-as-Code for Public Safety Cloud Systems (abstract)
16:45
TwinGuard: Digital Twin based Threat Simulation in Hospital Employee Pre-Onboarding for Public Safety (abstract)
Wednesday, September 23rd

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08:15-09:45 Session 3A

Rescue and Recovery Solutions

08:15
JulienPFA: Real-Time Audio-Native AI Assistance for Psychological First Aid in Disaster Response (abstract)
08:30
Resilience Nodes: A Pre-Positioned Mesh MAN with LEO Backhaul for Disaster-Resilient Public-Safety Communications (abstract)
08:45
Bridging the Knowledge Gap - A Knowledge Management Framework for Emergency Management Preparedness and Response (abstract)
09:00
Energy Intelligence for Public Safety Operations: FAMIUM Wattlify for Emergency Operations Centers and Field Displays (abstract)
09:15
HARP-Trust: Hierarchical and Resilient Provenance-Trust in Cooperative Drone–Vehicle Disaster Response Systems (abstract)
08:15-09:45 Session 3B

Communication, Networking, and Interoperability for Public Safety

08:15
5G for Mission-Critical Communications: Technology Components and Demonstrators (abstract)
08:30
Toward Intelligent and Resilient Public Safety Communications: A Comprehensive Review of FirstNet, 5G, AI, and Emerging Technologies (abstract)
08:45
Practical Zero-Trust for Mission-Critical Robotic Fleets via Hardware Attestation and Packet Timing Watermarking (abstract)
09:00
Predictive Preemptive Backhaul Borrowing for Public-Safety Traffic Prioritization in 5G IAB Networks (abstract)
09:15
Reliability-Aware AP Clustering for Disaster-Resilient Cell-Free Massive MIMO (abstract)
09:30
The Weakest Link in Public Safety: Evaluating Web PKI Resilience in E-Government (abstract)
15:30-17:00 Session 4A

Security, Privacy, Trust and Resilience for Public Safety (1)

15:30
Split Learning Based Multi-Label Intrusion Detection for UAV Communication Networks (abstract)
15:45
YellowLine AI: An Edge-Native Vision-Language Framework for Privacy-Preserving Behavioural Nudging at the Platform-Train Interface (abstract)
16:00
Cybersecurity Governance for Smart Public Transit Systems: A Hybrid Framework Integrating AI Security and IT Governance (abstract)
16:15
Zero-Trust, AI-Assisted Cyber-Resilience for SCADA-Based Critical Power Systems and Infrastructure (abstract)
16:30
OOBWatch-S3: Surfacing a Zephyr Wi-Fi Cold-Boot Race Family on ESP32-S3 via a Public-Safety Watchdog Deployment (abstract)
15:30-17:00 Session 4B

Health and Wellness for Public Safety

15:30
GuardChain: A Layered Middleware Framework for PII-Aware Guardrails in Healthcare and Financial LLM Agents (abstract)
15:45
TrustBaaD: Trust-Aware Building-as-a-Database for Federated Public-Safety Coordination in Smart Building Clusters (abstract)
16:00
Hidden in Plain Air: Indoor Humidity, Medical Absenteeism, and the Public Safety Case for Continuous Sensing (abstract)
16:15
Chemical Compounds Recommendation Engine Based on Skin Types Using Retrieval-Augmented Generation and Optical Character Recognition (abstract)
16:30
Public-Safety Readiness for AI-Enabled Cancer Care: National Safety-Infrastructure Gaps Across 287 Adaptive Radiotherapy Departments (abstract)
Thursday, September 24th

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08:15-09:45 Session 5A

Security, Privacy, Trust and Resilience for Public Safety (2)

08:15
A Swarm-Level Security Framework for Cooperative Drones and Connected Vehicles (abstract)
08:30
Robustness Limits of Trust-Aware Multi-Agent Fusion Under Coordinated Adversarial Manipulation (abstract)
08:45
Real-Time Physical Threat Detection Using Pose-Guided Optical Flow and Recurrent Classification for Egocentric Vision (abstract)
09:00
Trust-Aware Information Bidding for Autonomous Vehicles: A Belief Rule-Based Approach (abstract)
09:15
Spatially Keyless Covert Communication Under Adversarial Angular Uncertainty (abstract)
09:30
A Unified Multimodal Privacy-Enhancing Framework for Secure Medical Data Processing in Large Language Models (abstract)
08:15-09:45 Session 5B

Emerging Applications for Public Safety

08:15
Explainable Artificial Intelligence for Workforce Decision-Making in Enterprise Systems (abstract)
08:30
Quantum-Enabled Vehicle Routing with Integrated Phased Alert Dispatch for Wildland-Urban Interface Evacuation (abstract)
08:45
AI Powered Damage Segmentation and Severity Estimation for Post Disaster Decision Support (abstract)
09:00
A Weather-Driven Model for Estimating Driving Safety Index (abstract)
09:15
Interference Vectors: A Taxonomy of Structural Interference in Digital Cognitive Environments (abstract)
09:30
Toward Decision-Driven Evaluation Protocol of Predictive Models for Air Traffic Management (abstract)