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)

May 29 – 31, 2019

Hosted by NC State University at the Duke Energy hall in the James B. Hunt, Jr. Library, 1070 Partners Way, Raleigh, NC 27606

 

Agenda

Wednesday, May 29, 2019

6:00 – 8:00 pm – Reception & Icebreaker at The StateView Hotel

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Thursday, May 30, 2019

Duke Energy Hall in the James B. Hunt, Jr. Library (2nd floor)

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

8:00 – 8:10 am – Welcoming Remarks

• Dr. Mladen Vouk, Vice Chancellor for Research, NCSU
• Dr. Keith J Bowman, Dean, College of Engineering and Information Technology, UMBC

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, New Brunswick

• Site Overview:  Dr. Dimitris Metaxas
• Proposal:  Interpretable and Explainable Machine Learning and AI, 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

9:45 – 10:15 am – Break & Posters

10:15 – 11:15 – Status Reports & New Proposals:  Rutgers, Newark

• Site Overview:  Dr. Vijay Alturi
• Proposal:  Guided Hypothesis Exploration of Diseases Using Graph Mining, Dr. Jaideep Vaidya
• Proposal:  Detecting and Analyzing Drug Abuse Behaviors in Social Media, Dr. Soon Chun
• Proposal:  Identifying Privacy Risks in Social Media, Dr. Soon Chun
• Progress Report:  Composition of Distributed Workflow Applications in the Cloud and Edge Computing Environment, Dr. Basit Shafiq
• Progress Report:  Comparative Effectiveness of Intravenous Immunoglobulin for Treatment of Neurological Disorders, Dr. Nizar Souayah

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

• Site Overview:  Dr. Rada Chirkova
• Proposal:  Data Access and Governance over a Shared Ledger, Dr. Munindar Singh
• Progress Report:  Real-time Cyber Knowledge Platform for Web Threats, 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

12:15  – 1:45 pm – Lunch & Posters

1:45 – 2:45 pm – Status Reports & New Proposals:  UMBC

• Site Overview:  Dr. Karuna Joshi
• Proposal:  Cache Oblivious Optimal SVD Algorithm on CAPI Accelerator, Dr. Milt Halem
• Proposal:  Deep Quantum Boltzmann Machine, Dr. Jennifer Sleeman
• Proposal:  Deep learning models for network intrusion detection, Dr. Aryya Gangopadhyay
• Progress Report:  Automatic Legal Document Analytics and Blockchain Smart Contracts, Dr. Karuna Joshi
• Progress Report:  Querying Streaming Big Data Using In-Storage Devices, Dr. Milt Halem

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

• Morgan Crafts, IAB Chair

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

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

• Big data, slow algorithms, and the need for fast decisions, Dr. Alexander Tropsha, Associate Dean for Pharmacoinformatics and Data Science, UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy

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Friday, May 31, 2019

James B. Hunt, Jr. Library, Institute for Emerging Issues, Room 4105

8:00 – 9:00 am – Executive breakfast

9:00 – 9:45 am – LIFE Feedback Discussion

• Dr. Craig Scott

9:45 – 10:30 am – Closed Board Meeting (IAB Members only)

• Airing of any IAB questions or concerns
• Final proposal evaluations and funding decisions

10:30 – 11:30 am

• Finalize CARTA By-laws and updates to inter-site Memorandum of Understanding
• Director’s Interim Report: Budget, Initiatives
• Discussion of Director’s Discretionary Fund
• NSF Program Managers Response

11:30 am – 12:30 pm – Summary and closing remarks

12:30 pm – Adjourn meeting with Box Lunch