ESE Research Day 2026

The UbiSensing & AI Lab participated in the 2026 ESE Research Days at the University of Calgary, where researchers across the Department of Electrical and Software Engineering presented their latest work through power pitches and poster sessions.

Members of our lab contributed to both the power pitch and poster sessions. Yasaman Honarparvar and Nader Khoshroo presented during Power Pitch Session 1, and Faraneh Falah presented a poster during the Poster Session.

Power Pitch Session 1

Yasaman Honarparvar — Open Agricultural Intelligence

Yasaman presented “Open Agricultural Intelligence: A Farmer-Centered Platform for Data Access, Sharing, and Insight,” focusing on ontology-grounded Geo-LLM multi-agent systems for natural language interaction with agricultural intelligence and spatio-temporal data systems.

This work connects to our lab’s broader vision for trusted, farmer-centered agricultural AI, including the OpenAgSense project. The power pitch slides are embedded below; you can download them if your browser does not support inline viewing.

Download Open Agricultural Intelligence – ESE Research Day 2026 (PDF)

Nader Khoshroo — Real-Time Drought Intelligence for Alberta

Nader presented “Toward Real-Time Drought Intelligence: A Multi-Agent AI Framework for Alberta,” focusing on agentic AI approaches for drought monitoring and environmental intelligence.

The pitch aligns with OpenAgSense’s drought-prediction component, which integrates satellite observations, weather stations, and IoT sensors into regionally tuned models for Alberta.

Poster Session

Faraneh Falah — MAMAI

Faraneh presented the poster “MAMAI: Integration of Agentic AI and Federated Learning for Privacy-Preserving Postpartum Well-being Monitoring,” which explored the integration of federated learning and agentic AI for healthcare monitoring applications.

For more on this research direction, see our MAMAI project page.

Beyond the Sessions

The event also included funding panels, research strategy discussions, and mini retreats on teaching and research innovation, bringing together students, faculty, and industry representatives from across the department.

We were glad to take part and to see so much of ESE’s research on display in one place.