Schedule

February 12-13, 2018

Day 1: Rooms E2020 - E2030

  • 7:00 AM - 8:30 AM: Registration and Breakfast
  • 8:30 AM - 9:00 AM: Welcome and Overview from NSF

Anthony Kuh: Program Director, Electrical, Communications, and Cyber Systems Division

Dawn Tilbury: Assistant Director, Engineering Directorate

James Kurose: Assistant Director, Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) Directorate

Filbert Bartoli: Division Director, Electrical, Communications, and Cyber Systems Division

Radhakishan Baheti: Program Director, Electrical, Communications, and Cyber Systems Division

Le Xie: Associate Professor, Texas A&M University

  • 9:00 AM - 9:50 AM: Keynote 1

Mathukumalli Vidyasagar [slides]

IIT Hyderabad and University of Texas at Dallas

Machine Learning and Dynamical Systems Theory: Different Views of the Same Problems

  • 9:50 AM - 10:10 AM: Coffee Break
  • 10:10 AM - 11:00 AM: Keynote 2

Eric Xing

Carnegie Mellon University

On System and Algorithm co-design and Automatic Machine Learning

  • 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM: Panel 1: Algorithms
    • Moderator: P. R. Kumar, Texas A&M University [slides]
    • Nitesh Chawla, University of Notre Dame
    • Ramesh Johari, Stanford University [slides]
    • Jay Kuo, University of Southern California [slides]
    • Hava Siegelmann, University of Massachusetts at Amherst and DARPA
    • Jean Walrand, University of California, Berkeley [slides]
    • Scribe: Srinivas Shakkottai, Texas A&M University
  • 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM: Lunch break (boxed lunch)
  • 1:30 PM - 2:20 PM: Keynote 3

Munther Dahleh [slides]

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Learning for control: The role of model approximation

  • 2:20 PM - 3:50 PM: Panel 2: Approaches
    • Moderator: Pramod Khargonekar, University of California at Irvine [slides]
    • Chid Apte, IBM Research
    • Tamer Basar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign [slides]
    • Frank Lewis, The University of Texas at Arlington [slides]
    • Steven Low, Caltech
    • Warren Powell, Princeton University [slides]
    • Scribe: Aranya Chakrabortty, North Carolina State University
  • 3:50 AM - 4:10 PM: Coffee Break
  • 4:10 PM - 5:10 PM: Lighting talks
  • 5:10 PM - 6:30 PM: Reception/Poster Session

Day 2: Rooms E2020 - E2030

  • 7:30 AM - 9:00 AM: Registration and Breakfast
  • 9:00 AM - 9:10 AM: Welcome and Recap
  • 9:10 AM - 10:00 AM: Keynote 4

Hani S. Mahmassani [slides]

Northwestern University

Autonomous vehicles and connected mobility: Predictive models for real-time operation


  • 10:00 AM - 10:15 AM: Coffee Break
  • 10:15 AM - 11:45 AM: Panel 3: What is Big Data?
    • Moderator: Al Hero, University of Michigan [slides]
    • Osama Elkady, Incorta Inc.
    • Vipin Kumar, University of Minnesota
    • Jennie Si, Arizona State University [slides]
    • Tom Overbye, Texas A&M University
    • Venugopal Veeravalli, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign [slides]
    • Scribe: Zhi Tian, George Mason University
  • 11:45 AM - 12:00 PM: Pick up boxed lunch
  • 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM: Summary and Next Steps