Agenda

7:30 AM-9:00 AM Security Check and Registration with Refreshment

Lobby Area by Multipurpose Room (Rooms 2010, 2020, & 2030)

9:00 AM–9:05 AM | NSF Multipurpose Room (Rooms 2010, 2020, & 2030) Welcome & Opening Remarks by PI Meeting organizing team

9:05 AM–9:20 AM | NSF Multipurpose Room (Rooms 2010, 2020, & 2030) Opening Remarks from NSF by Alexis Lewis, Deputy Directorate Head, NSF

9:20 AM–10:30 AM | NSF Multipurpose Room (Rooms 2010, 2020, & 2030) Panel Session I: The Past and Future of the DCSD Program

Moderator: NSF DCSD PD
Panelists: Galip Ulsoy (Distinguished University Professor Emeritus, University of Michigan), George Chiu (Professor, Purdue University), Atul Kelkar (Dean of College of Engineering, Binghamton University), Kon-Well Wang (Distinguished University Professor, University of Michigan)

10:30 – 11:00 AM Break

11:00 AM – 12:00 PM | NSF Multipurpose Room (Rooms 2010, 2020, & 2030) Panel Session II: Emerging research topics at the intersection of AI and classical control

Moderator: Xu Chen (University of Washington)
Speakers: Dawn Tilbury (University of Michigan), Anu Annaswamy (MIT), Xiaobo Tan (Michigan State University), Howie Choset (CMU)

12:00 PM–1:30 PM Poster Session I with Lunch

1:30 – 2:30 PM | NSF Multipurpose Room (Rooms 2010, 2020, & 2030) Lightning Talks I

Moderator: Tarek Elgohary (University of Central Florida)

Collaborative Research: Building a Collaborative Network of Researchers in Mechano-Computation
Vickie Webster-Wood (CMU)

Collaborative Research: Towards Attack-Resilient Vision-Guided Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: An Observability Analysis Approach
Hamidreza Jafarnejadsani (Stevens Institute of Technology)

MCA: Physics-Informed Machine Learning from Acoustic Data
Parisa Shokouhi (Penn State Univ.)

Exploiting Time Dependent Behavior and Structure in Developing Programmable Materials
James Gibert (Purdue Univ.)

2:30 – 3:00 PM Break

3:00 – 4:00 PM | NSF Multipurpose Room (Rooms 2010, 2020, & 2030) Lightning Talks II

Moderator: Tarek Elgohary (University of Central Florida)

Collaborative Research: Leveraging Fluid-Structure Interactions for Efficient Control in Geophysical Flows
Cynthia Sung (Univ. of Penn)

CAREER: Active Learning of Second-Life Battery Systems by Combining Reinforcement Learning Principles and Device Physics
Xinfan Lin (UC Davis)

Mcity 2: An Integrated Automated Testbed for Autonomous Transportation Research
Henry Liu (U Michigan)

Modeling and Control of a Roll-to-Roll Manufacturing Process for Dry Transfer of Two-Dimensional Materials and Printed Electronics
Dongmei Chen (UT Austin)

4:00 – 5:30 PM Mini Workshops

Mini Workshop I | NSF Room 2210 & 2220 (combined)
Aspiring PI workshop: DCSD Grant Preparation
Moderator: Qiang Zhong (Iowa State University)
Speakers: DCSD PDs (NSF), Patrick Musgrave (University of Florida), Ed Habtour (University of Washington)

Mini Workshop II | NSF Room 2190
DCSD Research Efforts towards Revolutionizing Human Safety and Healthcare
Moderator: Hosam Fathy (University of Maryland)
Speakers: Fabio Pasqualetti (University of California, Riverside), Chris Kelley (Florida Polytech University), Sachit Butail (Northern Illinois University), Erfan Nozari, University of California, Riverside, Joline Uichanco (NYU), Subbu Ramakrishnan (University of Dayton)

Mini Workshop III | NSF Room 3450
Enabling the Quantum Revolution
Moderator: Stephanie Stockar (Ohio State University)
Speakers: Pierre Deymier (University of Arizona), M Arif Hasan (Wayne State University), Jr-Shin Li (Washington University), John Bush (MIT)

Mini Workshop IV | NSF Room 3430
Future Robotics at the Intersection of Physical Systems and AI | NSF Room 3430
Moderator: Wenlong Zhang (Arizona State University)
Speakers: Suyi Li (Virginia Tech), Naira Hovakimyan (UIUC), Cynthia Sung (UPenn), Howie Choset (CMU)

Fri

Sep 05

7:30 AM – 8:50 AM | NSF Multipurpose Room (Rooms 2010, 2020, & 2030) Security Check and Registration with Refreshment

8:50 – 9:00 AM | NSF Multipurpose Room (Rooms 2010, 2020, & 2030) Announcements and Sponsor Remarks

9:00 – 10:00 AM Breakout Discussions: Future Vision of DCSD Program

6 Concurrent Breakout discussions.

Group1 – Rooms 2210 & 2220 (Ossama, NSF: Alena Talkachova)
Group2 – Room 2190 ( Stephanie Stockar, NSF: Alexandra Medina-Borja)
Group3 – Room 3450 ( Xu Chen, NSF: Marcello Canova)
Group4 – Room 3430 (Hosam Fathy, NSF: Siddiq Qidwa)
Group5 – Room 2010 (Wenlong Zhang, NSF: Linkan Bian)
Group6 – Room 2020 (Juan Ren, NSF: Yue Wang)

10:00 – 10:30 AM Break

10:30 – 11:30 AM | NSF Multipurpose Room (Rooms 2010, 2020, & 2030) Panel Session III: Renewable Energy Research and National Interests

Moderator: Chris Vermillion (University of Michigan)
Speakers: Bill McShane (DOE), Ossama Abdelkhalik (Iowa State University), Luca Caracoglia (Northeastern University), Yufei Tang (Florida Atlantic University)

11:30 AM – 1:00 PM Poster Session II with Lunch

1:00 – 2:00 PM | NSF Multipurpose Room (Rooms 2010, 2020, & 2030) Lightning Talks III

Moderator: Tarek Elgohary (University of Central Florida)

CAREER: Dynamics of Holographic Acoustic Lenses for Nonlinear Ultrasound Focusing
Shima Shahab (Virginia Tech)

CAREER: Understanding the Exceptional Near-Field Auditory System of the Aye-Aye, One of the Most Unusual Primates in the World
Ehsan Dehghan Niri (Arizona State Univ.)

Floating offshore platform and wave energy converter integration: collaborative platform stabilization and energy conversion; Exploiting the Destabilizing Effect of Damping for Hydrokinetic Energy Harvesting
Wei-Che Tai (Michigan State Univ.)

2:00 – 3:00 PM | NSF Multipurpose Room (Rooms 2010, 2020, & 2030) Panel Session IV: Breakout Discussion Summary and Report

3:00 – 3:30 PM | NSF Multipurpose Room (Rooms 2010, 2020, & 2030) Closing, Networking and Departure