Speaking / Talks · workshops · lectures

Ideas taught in public.

I speak and teach about trustworthy AI, agent security, Model Context Protocol systems, semantic data, energy-efficient machine learning, and human-centered AI-assisted development.

Upcoming keynote · October 8

The Power of No: Building Agents That Refuse, Pause, and Prove

AiSalon Miami · Mana Tech Loft

Program-listed keynote

Safety and Security Considerations in Large Language Models for Low Resource Languages

WVLL 2026 · International Winter Conference on Vision, Language & Learning

2026 engagements

Conference talks and workshops.

Scheduled and delivered sessions verified against conference, organizer, or scheduling records.

The Power of No: Building Agents That Refuse, Pause, and Prove

A scheduled AiSalon Miami keynote on Pollard and governing AI agents before they act. The event runs 6–9 p.m. ET at Mana Tech Loft 10, 21 SE 1st Ave, Miami; the individual keynote time has not been published.

Transistor-Level Energy Analysis of Signal Processing Algorithms: Beyond Operation Counting

The accepted IEEE MLSP 2026 paper is scheduled for the 1–3 p.m. ET poster session in Atlanta, applying TOML’s physics-grounded energy model to 37 signal-processing algorithms.

Bringing the Heat: Supercharging Your ML Pipelines with HuggingFace

Delivered to a standing-room-only audience at DeepStation AI Demo Night, Miami Dade College’s Wolfson Campus. A live workflow took a model through LoRA fine-tuning, ONNX INT8 optimization, evaluation, and release gates. Slides, measured results, and a runnable Colab exercise are available.

CBOR-LD Ex demonstration · 5th Miami Hardware Meetup

Demonstrated compact linked-data messages carrying trust and compliance annotations for constrained IoT devices at The DOCK in Miami.

The Human in the Loop: How TDD Keeps You in the Driver’s Seat of AI-Assisted Development

A 90-minute CAST 2026 session on using test-driven development to keep human judgment explicit in AI-assisted software work.

Chronofy: A Temporal-Logical Decay Architecture

Presented in the IEEE IRI 2026 Retrieval-Augmented Generation & Knowledge Graphs session in Seattle, covering temporal validity and stale-evidence controls for RAG.

Epistemic Edge: Subjective Logic Guardrails for LLM-Driven IoT Actuation

Presented at IEEE IRI 2026 in Seattle, introducing uncertainty-aware guardrails for LLM-driven IoT actuation.

Making AI Honesty Machine-Readable

A hands-on GDG Central Florida workshop using JSON-LD Ex to represent confidence, uncertainty, provenance, and compliance in AI systems.

MCP-Edge: Extending the Model Context Protocol to Constrained IoT Devices

An IEEE Cloud Summit presentation in Washington, DC on adapting MCP across constrained endpoints, gateways, and full clients.

Securing MCP workflows for Agentic AI

An AgentCon Miami main-track talk and interactive defense lab on MCP, agent, and AI-pipeline attack surfaces.

XAI Evaluation: How to Know If Your Model’s Explanations Are Trustworthy

A Tampa Devs session on testing explanation quality and avoiding unsupported claims about model behavior.

FLAIRS-39 author sessions

Four scheduled paper and poster sessions in Marco Island, including oral presentations on JSON-LD Ex and wearable neck-posture classification.

XRAG: Time-Aware Retrieval for Stale Evidence

A DeepStation AI Demo Day presentation on temporal decay and validity-aware retrieval.

JSON-LD Is Great (and Here’s How We’re Improving It): Building jsonld-ex

An Orlando Code Camp session on extending linked data with AI confidence, provenance, temporal scope, and security metadata.

An Exploration into Explainable AI with Explainiverse

A DeepStation Fort Lauderdale session on practical explainability and the boundaries of XAI claims.

MCP Development Best Practices

A DeepStation session on building reliable Model Context Protocol services, with practical patterns and examples.

2025 engagements

Masterclasses and lectures.

Public instruction across agentic AI, fine-tuning, model evaluation, and custom GPTs.

Neural Nets & Fine-Tuning AI Masterclass

A hands-on technical masterclass at The DOCK in Miami covering neural networks and model fine-tuning.

Vibe Code with v0 and OpenAI GPT Prompts

A Vibe Days session at The LAB Miami on rapid interface building and prompt-driven development.

JUL-AI Masterclass

A Miami masterclass on generative-engine optimization, MCP-driven keyword analysis, and evaluation workflows.

How to Use LLM Techniques: RAG, Guardrails and MoE

A DeepStation and GPTechday workshop in Miami on retrieval, safety controls, and mixture-of-experts techniques.

Build Your Own ChatGPT: Tips & Tricks for Custom GPTs

OpenAI Academy lists Muntaser Syed as a speaker for this online workshop, presented by DeepStation and co-presented with Grant Kurz.

The Future of AI: AGI and Beyond the Hype

A South Florida AI Summit session at The LAB Miami on separating credible AGI trajectories from marketing claims.

Earlier appearances

Podcast and research presentations.

Earlier talks, program listings, and accepted presentations spanning robotics, UAVs, cybersecurity, and the hacker community.

Muntaser Jems Syed · MLH Top 50 Hacker

A 55-minute guest interview on The Hackathon Podcast.

Voice Controlled Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

A South Florida GIS Expo presentation in West Palm Beach with Gamal Bohouta and Veton Z. Këpuska.

Voice controlled autonomous system for hazard detection and rescue operations

Accepted poster for NAECON 2018, with Muntaser Syed registered as presenting author. Proceedings publication is not established.

Cooperation Protocols for Ad-Hoc Robot Teams Composition in Labyrinth Exploration

A FLAIRS-31 poster presentation in Melbourne, Florida.

Models and Framework for Supporting Humanoid Robot Planning & Exploration

A Florida Conference on Recent Advances in Robotics presentation at UCF.

Current Cybersecurity Threats: Analysis and Solutions From A Human Factors Perspective

Accepted abstract by Muntaser Syed and Mohammad Algarni, listed in AHFE 2016’s Human Factors in Cybersecurity session. The program listing does not establish a published full paper or confirm delivery.

Teaching archive

Additional public materials.

Labs, workshop curricula, and session pages that remain useful beyond a single event.

HUGGING FACE · SEPTEMBER 2026

Bringing the Heat

Slides, a complete Colab exercise, measured results, and an attendee handout for fine-tuning, optimizing, evaluating, and releasing a model.

MCP · 3 HOURS

Advanced MCP Server Patterns

A one-hour lecture and two-hour hands-on workshop covering gateways, production architecture, and advanced MCP implementations.

AGENT SECURITY

Agentic Defense Lab

An interactive lab on MCP, autonomous-agent, and AI-pipeline attack surfaces with defensive patterns.

MATERIAL RECORD · NOV 7, 2025

Agentic AI lecture

Notebooks and code samples labeled for an ACM lecture on agent architectures and practical implementation patterns; no public organizer page was located.

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Current abstracts and session formats for trustworthy AI, MCP security, JSON-LD Ex, XAI evaluation, and human-centered development.

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For conference sessions, workshops, guest lectures, or technical panels, email me with the audience, format, and proposed date.

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