Background

The NSF workshop will be hosted in Alexandria, Virginia, on December 7-8 2023. This workshop will bring together stakeholders with domain expertise in sensing systems as well as experts in system- theoretic areas such as signal processing, optimization, machine learning, and control theory, so that they can interact and address a number of present and future challenges in smart sensing and analytics. Overall, this workshop strives to leverage the natural synergy between different sensing technologies, their applications, and methodologies developed in analytical areas to accelerate the development in next-generation sensing technologies and systems.

Organizing Committee

• Mingyi Hong, Associate Professor, University of Minnesota 

• Alison Gray, Assistant Professor, University of Washington 

• Cherie Kagan, Professor, University of Pennsylvania 

• Qi Li, Assistant Professor, Cornell University 

• Joshua Smith, Professor, University of Washington 

• Peng Wei, Associate Professor, George Washington University

Program Format

The workshop program will include keynote talks, panel discussion sessions with short talks, breakout sessions, and a poster session. 

Keynote Talks 

Keynote talks will be scheduled over both days of the workshop, and they will be delivered by world-renowned researchers and stakeholders from academia, industry, and governmental agencies.

Panel Sessions

These are anticipated to be around 1.5 hours in duration, with 4-5 talks and Q&A. We hope to strike the right mix between methodological and application-oriented panel topics. At the time of this writing, the following panels are anticipated:

Panel session on advances for sensing systems 

Panel session on advances for sensing applications

Panel session on advances for analytical methodologies for sensing applications

Lightning talks

The participants will have the opportunities to highlight their work in a 3-min short  talk session, to pitch for their works.

Breakout Sessions

The breakout sessions will be organized on the second day of the workshop. They will include a 2 hour discussion coupled with a 1.5 hour period reserved for report-back from scribes and discussion leads. The broad theme of the breakout session will be to seek answers to questions posed on the first day of the workshop and also to facilitate brainstorming between participants. The overarching theme will be sensing+, i.e., coupling sensing system research with a related interdependent infrastructure / enabling methodology. Some examples we wish to highlight of potential discussion areas include: 

• • Integration of Novel Sensing Systems and Applications 

  • Integration of Data Science, AI and Emerging Sensing Applications

Poster Session

At the end of day 1, a poster session will be organized to provide all interested participants the opportunity to present their work and spur discussion. 

Event Zoom Link

https://nsf.zoomgov.com/j/1613713486?pwd=YU94QVNuR3hmNmxLejZkeVNweG1tdz09