2024 NSF HDR Ecosystem Conference Harvesting the Data Revolution

from Monday 9 September 2024 (09:00) to Thursday 12 September 2024 (22:00)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Illinois Conference Center)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
9 Sept 2024
10 Sept 2024
11 Sept 2024
12 Sept 2024
AM
09:00 Welcome and Introduction - Mark Neubauer (Univ. Illinois at Urbana Champaign (US))   (Herritage Hall)
09:15 Welcome from the Dean of the College of Engineering - Rashid Bashir (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)   (Herritage Hall)
09:30 NSF Welcome and HDR Overview - Amy Walton (National Science Foundation)   (Herritage Hall)
10:00 --- Coffee Break ---
10:30
HDR Institute Overview, Activities and Accomplishments (until 11:45) (Herritage Hall)
10:30 A3D3 - Shih-Chieh Hsu (University of Washington Seattle (US))   (Herritage Hall)
10:45 ID4 - Eric Toberer (Colorado School of Mines)   (Herritage Hall)
11:00 Imageomics - Tanya Berger-Wolf (The Ohio State University)   (Herritage Hall)
11:15 iHARP - Vandana Janeja (UMBC)   (Herritage Hall)
11:30 I-GUIDE - Anand Padmanabhan (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)   (Herritage Hall)
11:45 NSF Panel   (Herritage Hall)
09:00
AI & Data Infrastructure (until 10:15) (Herritage Hall)
09:00 NSF OAC and the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) Pilot - Katerina Antypas (National Science Foundation)   (Herritage Hall)
09:45 Frontier AI for Science Security and Technology (FASST) initiative - Franck Cappello (Argonne National Laboratory)   (Herritage Hall)
10:15 --- Coffee Break ---
10:45 Knowledge Transfer in AI Workload Acceleration: from Academia to Industry - Deming Chen (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)   (Herritage Hall)
11:00
Panel: The Role of AI, Computing and Data Infrastructure in Community Engagement - Anand Padmanabhan (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) (until 11:45) (Herritage Hall)
11:45
Machine Learning Challenges (until 12:30) (Herritage Hall)
11:45 Machine Learning Challenges Overview - Philip Coleman Harris (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))   (Herritage Hall)
12:00 Detecting Novel Astrophysical Phenomena with Gravitational Waves (A3D3) - Philip Coleman Harris (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))   (Herritage Hall)
12:10 Detecting Anomalous Climate Phenomena (iHARP) - Subhankar Ghosh (University of Minnesota)   (Herritage Hall)
12:20 Anomaly Detection: Hybrid Butterflies (Imageomics) - Elizabeth Campolongo (The Ohio State University)   (Herritage Hall)
09:00 Breakout session summary   (Chancellor Ballroom)
10:00 --- Coffee Break ---
10:30 White Paper Planning - Mark Stephen Neubauer (Univ. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Mark Neubauer (Univ. Illinois at Urbana Champaign (US))   (Chancellor Ballroom)
11:00 Conference Summary - Philip Coleman Harris (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))   (Chancellor Ballroom)
11:20 Closeout & Advertisement of 4th HDR Ecosystem Conference - Diane Boghrat (The Ohio State University) Mark Neubauer (Univ. Illinois at Urbana Champaign (US))   (Chancellor Ballroom)
11:40 --- Grab Boxed Lunches ---
PM
14:00 Registration   (Atrium)
18:00 Welcome Reception   (Chancellor Ballroom)
12:30 --- Working Lunch: Networking ---
14:00 Keynote talk: Knowledge-Guided Machine Learning: A New Framework for Accelerating Scientific Discovery and Addressing Global Environmental Challenges - Vipin Kumar (University of Minnesota)   (Herritage Hall)
15:00
Unconference "Elevator" Pitches (until 15:30) (Herritage Hall)
15:30 --- Coffee Break ---
16:00
Transdisciplinary Research - Sharad Sharma (University of North Texas) (until 17:00) (Excellence)
16:00
Transdisciplinary Research - Jianwu Wang (University of Maryland, Baltimore County) Zhijian Liu (University of California San Diego) (until 17:00) (Loyalty)
16:00
Transdisciplinary Research - Jiawei Han (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Pan Li (Georgia Tech) (until 17:00) (Alma Mater)
16:00
Transdisciplinary Research - Peter Darch (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Savannah Thais (until 17:00) (Lincoln)
16:00
Unconference Determined (until 17:00) (Herritage Hall)
17:00
Lightning Talks for Posters (until 17:30) (Herritage Hall)
17:30
Poster Session (until 18:35) (Herritage Hall)
17:35 Imageomics: FAIR ML Products for Biological Knowledge Discovery - Elizabeth Campolongo   (Herritage Hall)
17:36 Incorporating phenotypic similarity into trait description embeddings​ - Soumyashree Kar   (Herritage Hall)
17:37 Latent Space Phenotyping for Measuring Complex Evolutionary Traits - Caleb Charpentier   (Herritage Hall)
17:38 Hierarchical Conditioning of Diffusion Models Using Tree-of-Life for Studying Species Evolution - Mridul Khurana   (Herritage Hall)
17:39 What Do You See in Common? Learning Hierarchical Prototypes over Tree-of-Life to Discover Evolutionary Traits - Harish Babu Manogaran   (Herritage Hall)
17:40 BioCLIP: A Vision Foundation Model for the Tree of Life - Sam Stevens   (Herritage Hall)
17:41 Education and Outreach in Imageomics: Engaging Communities to Advance Science - Diane Boghrat   (Herritage Hall)
17:42 Using Deep Learning to Quantify Phenotypic Similarities in Mimic Butterfly Species using Human, Bird, and Butterfly Acuities - Michelle Ramirez   (Herritage Hall)
17:43 Dynamic Network Classification - Namrata Banerji   (Herritage Hall)
17:44 Tulane Center for Community-Engaged Artificial Intelligence - Aron Culotta   (Herritage Hall)
17:45 Understanding of impact of training size on animal re-identification - Ekaterina Nepovinnykh   (Herritage Hall)
17:46 Practical Leadership for Team Science: Experiences from the Imageomics Institute - Diane Boghrat   (Herritage Hall)
17:47 VLM4Bio: A Benchmark Dataset to Evaluate Pretrained Vision-Language Models for Trait Discovery from Biological Images - Anuj Karpatne   (Herritage Hall)
17:48 What Do You See in Common? Learning Hierarchical Prototypes over Tree-of-Life to Discover Evolutionary Traits - Anuj Karpatne   (Herritage Hall)
17:49 National Data Mine Network - Mark Daniel Ward   (Herritage Hall)
17:50 Fish-Vista: A Multi-Purpose Dataset for Understanding & Identification of Traits from Images - Kazi Sajeed Mehrab   (Herritage Hall)
17:51 Low-cost Efficient Wireless Intelligent Sensors (LEWIS) for Engineering Education: Native American Knowledge for Data Science Education - Fernando Moreu   (Herritage Hall)
17:52 Facilitating Knowledge Sharing and Discovery: Search Functionality and API Design for the I-GUIDE - Yunfan Kang   (Herritage Hall)
17:53 CLV: A Novel Framework for Enhanced Anomaly Detection and Attribution in Multivariate Time Series Data - Tolulope Ale   (Herritage Hall)
17:54 Battling Misinformation through Interdisciplinary Collaboration - Zahra Khanjani   (Herritage Hall)
17:55 CMAD: Advancing Understanding of Anomalous Melt Events over the Antarctic Sea Ice - Maloy Kumar Devnath   (Herritage Hall)
17:56 HDR DSC: The Metropolitan Chicago Data-science Corps (MCDC) - Lizhen Shi   (Herritage Hall)
17:57 Neural Network Efficiency Evaluation on the AMD Versal AI Engine - Yilin Shen   (Herritage Hall)
17:58 BaboonLand Dataset: Tracking Primates in the Wild and Automating Behaviour Recognition from Drone Videos - Maksim Kholiavchenko   (Herritage Hall)
17:59 Assessing Annotation AccAssessing Accuracy in Ice Sheets Using Quantitative Metrics - Bayu Tama   (Herritage Hall)
18:00 Genotype to Phenotype Mapping via Deep Learning - David Carlyn   (Herritage Hall)
18:01 Variance Analysis of Brightness Temperature using High-resolution DYAMOND simulations and CRTM in Digital Twin Systems - Chhaya Kulkarni   (Herritage Hall)
18:02 Predicting Sea ice extent over Antarctica using Patch CNN - Sai Vikas Amaraneni   (Herritage Hall)
18:03 HDR DSC: Collaborative Research: Transforming Data Science Education through a Portable and Sustainable Anthropocentric Data Analytics for Community Enrichment (ADACE) Program - Yu Liang   (Herritage Hall)
18:04 Physics-Informed Sea Ice Thickness Prediction - Akila Sampath   (Herritage Hall)
18:05 Probabilistic Prediction of Material Stability: Integrating Convex Hulls into Active Learning - Andrew Novick   (Herritage Hall)
18:06 Cyberinfrastructure for Scientific Data Preservation and Image Similarity Search - Joshua Agar   (Herritage Hall)
19:30 Public Lecture: Making AI Safe, Effective, and Trustworthy - Suresh Venkatasubramanian   (0027/1025 Auditorium)
12:30 --- Lunch ---
12:30 Pre-tenure faculty & postdoc mentoring lunch   (Humanities)
14:00 Communicating Science: Effective Delivery To Any Audience - Sara Metwalli (Argonne National Laboratory)   (Herritage Hall)
14:30 Promoting Educational and Outreach Activities throughout the HDR Institutes via a Centralized Repository - Alex Pak (Colorado School of Mines)   (Herritage Hall)
14:40
Panel: Workforce Development and Education from Data Science Corps - Eric Sokol (National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON), Battelle) (until 15:30) (Herritage Hall)
15:30 --- Coffee Break ---
16:00
AI & Data Infrastructure (until 17:00) (Lincoln)
16:00
HDR Student-Focused Programming - Diane Boghrat (The Ohio State University) (until 17:00) (Herritage Hall)
16:00
Machine Learning Challenges - Philip Coleman Harris (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US)) (until 17:00) (Alma Mater)
16:00
Unconference Determined (until 17:00) (Excellence)
16:00
Workforce Development - Josephine Namayanja (UMBC) (until 17:00) (Loyalty)
17:00
National Petascale Computing Facility Tour (until 18:00) ()
18:00
Conference Banquet (until 20:00) (Herritage Hall)
12:10
Report Writing (until 17:10) (Alma Mater)
12:10
Report Writing (until 17:10) (Lincoln)
12:10
Report Writing (until 17:10) (Loyalty)
12:10
Report Writing (until 17:10) (Excellence)
13:00
National Petascale Computing Facility Tour (until 14:00) ()