08:00 - 09:00 Registration + Breakfast
09:00 - 09:30 Welcome from NSF + Organizers
Michael Littman, Division Director, Division of Information and Intelligent Systems (CISE/IIS)
Anthony Maciejewski, Division Director, Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems, (ENG/ECCS)
Anthony Kuh, Program Director, Division of Electrical, Communications & Cyber Systems (ENG/ECCS)
Workshop organizers
09:30 - 10:15 Keynote 1: Vincent Poor (Princeton) [Chair Mingyi Hong]
Title: Integrated Sensing and Communications: Some Recent Advances
Abstract: Communications and radar are two major consumers of radio spectrum. Integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) is an approach to mitigating this bandwidth consumption by integrating communications and sensing functions in the same waveform. ISAC is expected to be an important aspect of next-generation communication systems, with applications ranging from environmental monitoring to human-computer interaction. This talk will present some recent ideas in ISAC, including approaches to waveform design and channel modeling, and some connections between ISAC and AI.
10:15 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 12:00 Panel 1: Advances in sensing systems [Moderator: Josh Smith, Scribe: Vikram Iyer]
Kristen M. Donnell (Missouri S&T), "Advances in Frequency Selective Surface-Based Sensing"
Shengxi Huang (Rice), "High multiplexity sensing assisted by interpretable machine learning"
Swarun Kumar (CMU), “Pushing the Limits of a Single-Chip Radar”
Vaishnavi Ranganathan (Microsoft), "Resource constrained low power sensing"
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
13:00 - 14:30 Panel 2: Advances in sensing applications [Moderator: Qi Li, Scribe: Ruijie Zeng]
Zak Kassas (Ohio State), "I Hear, Therefore I Know Where I am: Cognitive Sensing and Navigation with Unknown Terrestrial and Extraterrestrial Signals of Opportunity"
Chen Feng (NYU), "CoPerception: Multi-Agent Collaborative Perception for Autonomous Vehicles"
James Krogmeier (Purdue), “The OATS/IoT4Ag Avena Project: Rethinking Connectivity for Ag Sensing Applications”
Qi Li (Cornell), "Understanding the Urban Atmospheric Boundary Layer: the role of data, model, and some challenges"
Zerina Kapetanovic (Stanford), “Cosmic Backscatter: New ways to communicate via Modulated Noise”
14:30 - 14:45 Break
14:45 - 15:45 Lightning talk (15 talks) [Chair: Peng Wei]
Elahe Soltanaghai; 2. Kristen M. Donnell; 3. Reza Ehsani; 4. Xiao Fu; 5. Baoran Han; 6. Kejun Huang;
7. Dinesh Jayaraman; 8. Katia Lamer; 9. Chung Hyuk Park; 10. Yanning Shen; 11. Jivko Sinapov;
12. Joshua R. Smith; 13. Pramod K. Varshney; 14. Zhuoran Yang; 15. John F. Reid
15:45 - 16:00 Break
16:00 -- 17:00 Lightning talk (15 talks) [Chair: Peng Wei]
Laura Balzano; 2. Dennice F. Gayme; 3. Jarvis Haupt; 4. Shahana Ibrahim; 5. Vikram Iyer; 6. Colleen Josephson;
7. Piya Pal; 8. Ju Sun; 9. Tyler N. Tallman; 10. Meng Wang; 11. Amanda Watson; 12. Yao Xie;
13. Heng Yang; 14. Ting Zhu; 15. Alanson Sample
17:00 - 17:15 Break + Poster Session Setup
17:15 - 18:00 Poster Session 1 + Refreshments [Chair: Mingyi Hong]
Laura Balzano; 2. Feng Chen; 3 Xiao Fu; 4. Alfredo Garcia; 5. Boran Han;
6. Chinmay Hegde; 7. Ibrahim, Shahana; 8. Vikram Iyer; 9. Dinesh Jayaraman; 10 Shengxi Huang;
11. Carmen Gomes; 12. Dennice Gayme; 13. Ruijie Zeng; 14. Zak Kassas; 15. Michael Wakin; 16. Yanning Shen
16. Meng Wang; 17. Heng Yang
18:15 - 19:00 Poster Session 2 + Refreshments [Chair: Mingyi Hong]
Prashant Khanduri; 2. James Krogmeier; 3. Colleen Josephson; 4. Jana Kosecka; 5. Swarun Kumar;
6. Piya Pal; 7. Yao Xie; 8. Kejun Huang; 9. Amanda Watson; 10. Jivko Sinapov;
11. Ju Sun; 12. Nikolaos Sidiropoulos; 13. Anna Scaglione; 14 Vincent Poor; 15 Alanson Sample;
16. Katia Lamer; 17. John Reid
08:00 - 09:00 Breakfast + short summary from day 1
09:00 - 09:45 Keynote 2: Lama Nachman (Intel) [Chair Josh Smith]
Title : The sensing evolution: adaptive, multi-modal and interpretable
Abstract: In this talk, I will explore sensing system convergence, and delve into the intricacies of adaptive sensing, multi-modality and physically situated assistive systems. The discussion will span various applications, offering insights into how these technologies could enable different applications in manufacturing, education, healthcare and assistive computing. Additionally, we'll touch on the privacy implications of sensing modalities and meeting users’ expectations. This talk aims to provide a perspective on the convergence between sensing, analytics, applications, and decision-making and their tangible impact.
09:45 - 11:15 Panel 3 Advances in sensing analytics [Moderators: Piya Pal and Xiao Fu]
Nikos Sidiropoulos (U. Virginia), “Teasing out shared latent variables from sensing data”
Jarvis Haupt (U. Minnesota), "Future Sensing Systems: Challenges and Opportunities"
Anna Scaglione (Cornell Tech)
Alfredo Garcia (Texas A&M), “Complexity Tradeoffs between Sensing and Control”
Yao Xie (Georgia Tech), “Online change-point detection and prediction with uncertainty quantification using multi-modal time-series"
11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:30 Breakouts (in parallel)
Integration of Novel Sensing Systems and Applications [Moderator: Josh Smith and Alanson Sample, Scribe: Peng Wei]
Integration of Data Science, AI and Emerging Sensing Applications [Moderator: Tony Kuh, Scribe: Mike Wakin]
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch + Breakout outcomes
13:30 - 14:00 Breakout outcomes+ discussion + closing