Schedule

Friday, November 5th, 2021, EST Time

Organizing Committee

Erik Blasch (USAF) Co-chair, Mihai Boicu (GMU) Co-chair

Nathaniel D. Bastian (USMA), Lashon Booker (MITRE), Michael Garris (MITRE), Mark Greaves (PNNL), Michael Majurski (NIST), Kathy McNeill (DoL), Tien Pham (ARL), Alun Preece (Cardiff University),

Ali Raz (GMU), Peter Santhanam (IBM), Jim Spohrer, Frank Stein, Utpal Mangla (IBM)

9:00 - 9:15

Opening Remarks

Co-chair: Mihai Boicu (GMU)

Invited Talk: Alun Preece

Introduced by: Mihai Boicu

9:15 - 10:05

Coalition Situational Understanding Via Adaptive, Trusted and Resilient Distributed Artificial Intelligence Analytics

Alun Preece (Cardiff)

https://dais-legacy.org/1d04/ and https://dais-legacy.org/1c16/

Session: AI Applications 1 (Agriculture, Health, Intelligence)

Session Chair: Mihai Boicu

10:15 - 10:45

Sai Gurrapu, Feras Batarseh, Pei Wang, Md Nazmul Kabir Sikder, Nitish Gorentala and Gopinath Munisamy

DeepAg: Deep Learning Approach for Measuring the Effects of Outlier Events on Agricultural Production and Policy

Presented by: Sai Gurrapu, Feras Batarseh (VT)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.12062

10:45 - 11:15

Sekou Remy, Aisha Walcott Bryant, Nelson Bore, Charles Wachira and Julian Kuehnert

Overcoming Digital Gravity when using AI in Public Health Decisions

Presented by: Sekou Remy (IBM)

11:15 - 11:45

Gheorghe Tecuci, Dorin Marcu, Louis Kaiser and Mihai Boicu

Shared Model of Sense-making for Human-Machine Collaboration

Presented by: Gheorghe Tecuci (GMU)

Invited Talk: Cyntia Rudin

Introduced by: Frank Stein

12:00 - 12:50

Scoring Systems: At the Extreme of Interpretable Machine Learning

Cyntia Rudin (Duke)

Session: AI Policy (Certification, Transparency)

Session Chair: Mihai Boicu

13:00 - 13:30

Erik Blasch, Zheng Liu and Junchi Bin

Certifiable Artificial Intelligence Through Data Fusion

http://arxiv.org/abs/2111.02001

Presented by: Erik Blasch (AF)

13:30 - 13:45

Andong Li Zhao, Andrew Paley, Rachel Adler, Harper Pack, Sergio Servantez, Alexander Einarsson, Cameron Barrie, Marko Sterbentz and Kristian Hammond

Requirements for Open Political Information: Transparency Beyond Open Data

Presented by: Andong Li Zhao (Northwestern)

Session: AI Applications 2 (Energy, Security, Decision Support)

Session Chair: Frank Stein

14:00 - 14:30

Haoran Li, Zhihao Ma, Yang Weng and Erik Blasch

Powerful Use of AI in the Energy Sector: Fast and Intelligent Forecasting of Power System Events

http://arxiv.org/abs/2111.02026

Presented by: Erik Blasch (AF)

14:30 - 15:00

Luke Richards, Andre Nguyen, Ryan Capps, Steven Forsythe, Cynthia Matuszek and Edward Raff

Adversarial Transfer Attacks With Unknown Data and Class Overlap

https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.11125

Presented by: Luke Richards (BAH)

15:00 - 15:30

Ralph Badinelli

Orchestration of Analytics for Smart Decision Support

Presented by: Ralph Badinelli (VT)

Session: AI in Government

Session Chair: Mihai Boicu

15:45 - 16:15

David Bierbrauer, Will Kritzer, Alexander Chang and Nathaniel Bastian

Cybersecurity Anomaly Detection in Adversarial Environments

https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.06742

Presented by: David Bierbrauer (Westpoint)

16:15 - 16:30

Christos Makridis, Tim Strebel, Rafael Fricks and Gil Alterovitz

Real-time Human-in-the-Loop Decision-making in the Public Sector: Evidence from the Department of Veterans Affairs

Presented by: Christos Makridis (VA)

16:30 - 16:45


Ezekiel Maier

Advancing Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in the U.S. Government Through Improved Public Competitions

Presented by: Ezekiel Maier (BAH)

16:45 - 17:15

Joel Nantais and William Frankenstein

Catalyzing AI-Driven Decision-Making at the Department of State

Presented by: Joel Nantais and William Frankenstein (DoS)


17:15 - 17:30

Ending Remarks

Co-chair: Erik Blasch (AF)