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CARTA Fall 2019 IAB Meeting Agenda

Center for Accelerated Real Time Analytics (CARTA)
Industrial Advisory Board (IAB) Meeting

University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
North Carolina State University (NCSU)
Rutgers University – Newark
Rutgers University – New Brunswick
Tel Aviv University (TAU)

November 13-15, 2019

Hosted by Rutgers University, New Brunswick at the Rutgers Continuing Education Center at Atrium, 300 Atrium Dr.  Somerset, NJ 08873.

Agenda

Wednesday, November 13, 2019

6:00 – 8:00 pm – Reception & Icebreaker at Rutgers Continuing Education Center, Suite 101

Thursday, November 14, 2019

Rutgers Continuing Education Center, Suite 101

7:30 – 8:00 am – Registration & Breakfast

8:00 – 8:10 am – Welcoming Remarks

  • Greetings & logistics – Dr. Dimitris Metaxas, Director, CARTA/Rutgers-New Brunswick
  • Welcome – Prof. Thu Nguyen, Dean of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Rutgers-New Brunswick

8:10 – 8:25 am – NSF Overview

  • Dr. Ann C. Von Lehmen, Program Director, NSF Industry-University Cooperative Research Centers Program

8:25 – 8:40 am  Center Status

  • Dr. Yelena Yesha, CARTA Director

8:40 – 8:45 am – The LIFE Process

  • Dr. Craig Scott

8:45 – 9:45 am  – Status Reports & New Proposals:  Rutgers, Newark

  • Site Overview: Dr. Vijay Alturi
  • Progress Report:  Composition of Distributed Workflow Applications in the Cloud and Edge Computing Environment, Dr. Basit Shafiq
  • Progress Report:  Automatic Classification and Summarization of Multi Source News Sources, Dr. Soon Chun
  • Progress Report:  Identifying Privacy Risks in Social Media, Dr. Soon Chun
  • New Proposal:  Guided Hypothesis Exploration of Diseases Using Graph Mining, Dr. Jaideep Vaidya

9:45 – 10:15 am – Break & Posters

10:15 – 11:15 – Status Reports & New Proposals: NC State

  • Site Overview:  Dr. Rada Chirkova
  • Progress Report: Real-time Cyber Knowledge Platform for Web Threats, Dr. Alexandros Kapravelos
  • New Proposal:  Real-time Monitoring the Evolution of the Web, Dr. Alexandros Kapravelos
  • Progress Report: Near Real-time Analytics on Embedded Edge Computing Devices, Dr. Raju Vatsavai
  • Progress Report: Creating a comprehensive climate dataset for realtime analytics with applications to seasonal hurricane prediction, Dr. Lian Xie
  • New Proposal:  A demonstration of real-time analytics in seasonal hurricane prediction, Dr. Lian Xie
  • New Proposal:  A Framework for Self-Sovereignty and Controlled Analytics via Blockchain, Dr. Alessandra Scafuro

11:15 am – 12:15 pm – Status Reports & New Proposals: UMBC

  • Site Overview:  Dr. Karuna Joshi
  • Progress Report: Automatic Legal Document Analytics and Blockchain Smart Contracts, Dr. Karuna Joshi
  • Progress Report: Large Scale Streaming Graph Algorithms and Tensor Decomposition for Heterogeneous computer architectures, Dr. Milton Halem
  • Progress Report: Deep learning models for network intrusion detection, Dr. Aryya Gangopadhyay
  • Progress Report: Supply Chain Transparency and Security, Dr. Sisi Duan
  • New Proposal: Accelerating Radiative Transfer for the MPAS model on IBM Power 9, Dr. Milton Halem and Dr. Phuong Nguyen
  • New Proposal: Hybrid Feature Extraction for High Resolution Images , Dr. Milton Halem and Dr. Jennifer Sleeman

12:15  – 1:45 pm – Lunch & Posters

  • Guest speaker:  Dr. Dongfang Liu, Machine learning in immunological synapse research

1:45 – 2:45 pm – Status Reports & New Proposals: Rutgers, New Brunswick

  • Site Overview:  Dr. Dimitris Metaxas
  • Progress Report: Collaborative Multi-agent Learning for MR Knee Articular Cartilage Segmentation, Dr. Dimitris Metaxas
  • Progress Report: Histopathology Image Analysis based on Deep Learning, Dr. Dimitris Metaxas
  • Progress Report: Advanced Analytics beyond Cell Lineage from Time-Lapsed Recording, Dr. Dimitris Metaxas
  • Progress Report: Cardiac Analytics: Dyssynchrony and CRT Outcomes, Dr. Dimitris Metaxas
  • Progress Report:  Interpretable and Explainable Machine Learning and AI, Dr. Dimitris Metaxas
  • New Proposal:  Sharpen Focus: Learning with Attention Separability and Consistency, Dr. Dimitris Metaxas
  • New Proposal:  Prediction of Liver Fibrosis Score, Progression and Clinical Deterioration using Multi-Modality Data, Dr. Dimitris Metaxas

2:45 – 3:00 pm – Break

3:00 – 3:45 pm – Completion of Required NSF Surveys (IAB Reps and Faculty)

3:45 – 5:00 pm – Member Forum

  • Beth Richards, IAB Chair

5:00 – 6:30 pm – Posters & Social Time

6:30 – 8:30 pm – Meeting Banquet & Keynote

  • Keynote speaker:  Dr. Victor Lobanov, Vice President, Informatics Solution Development at Covance

Friday, November 15, 2019

Rutgers Continuing Education Center, Suite 101

8:00 – 8:30 am – Executive breakfast

8:30 – 9:15 am – LIFE Feedback Discussion

  • Dr. Craig Scott

9:15 – 9:45 am – Technology Breakthroughs (IAB Members only)

  • Dr. Craig Scott

9:45 – 10:05 am

  • Center Program Manager’s Report, Dr. David Wright
  • Center Recruiting & Management Report, Dr. Yelena Yesha

10:05 – 10:15 am – Break

10:15 – 11:30 am – Closed Board Meeting (IAB Members only)

  • Airing of any IAB questions or concerns
  • Final proposal evaluations and funding decisions
  • New site proposal:  University of Miami, Dr. Mitsunori Ogihara
  • New site proposal:  University of Central Florida, Dr. Yan Solihin

11:30 am – 12:00 pm

  • Center business discussion
  • Director’s Interim Report: Budget, Initiatives
  • NSF Program Managers Response
  • Summary and closing remarks

12:00 pm – Adjourn meeting with Box Lunch