2024 NSF HDR Ecosystem Conference Harvesting the Data Revolution

from Monday, September 9, 2024 (9:00 AM) to Thursday, September 12, 2024 (10:00 PM)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Illinois Conference Center)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Sep 9, 2024
Sep 10, 2024
Sep 11, 2024
Sep 12, 2024
AM
9:00 AM Welcome and Introduction - Mark Neubauer (Univ. Illinois at Urbana Champaign (US))   (Herritage Hall)
9:15 AM Welcome from the Dean of the College of Engineering - Rashid Bashir (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)   (Herritage Hall)
9:30 AM NSF Welcome and HDR Overview - Amy Walton (National Science Foundation)   (Herritage Hall)
10:00 AM --- Coffee Break ---
10:30 AM
HDR Institute Overview, Activities and Accomplishments (until 11:45 AM) (Herritage Hall)
10:30 AM A3D3 - Shih-Chieh Hsu (University of Washington Seattle (US))   (Herritage Hall)
10:45 AM ID4 - Eric Toberer (Colorado School of Mines)   (Herritage Hall)
11:00 AM Imageomics - Tanya Berger-Wolf (The Ohio State University)   (Herritage Hall)
11:15 AM iHARP - Vandana Janeja (UMBC)   (Herritage Hall)
11:30 AM I-GUIDE - Anand Padmanabhan (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)   (Herritage Hall)
11:45 AM NSF Panel   (Herritage Hall)
9:00 AM
AI & Data Infrastructure (until 10:15 AM) (Herritage Hall)
9:00 AM NSF OAC and the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) Pilot - Katerina Antypas (National Science Foundation)   (Herritage Hall)
9:45 AM Frontier AI for Science Security and Technology (FASST) initiative - Franck Cappello (Argonne National Laboratory)   (Herritage Hall)
10:15 AM --- Coffee Break ---
10:45 AM Knowledge Transfer in AI Workload Acceleration: from Academia to Industry - Deming Chen (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)   (Herritage Hall)
11:00 AM
Panel: The Role of AI, Computing and Data Infrastructure in Community Engagement - Anand Padmanabhan (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) (until 11:45 AM) (Herritage Hall)
11:45 AM
Machine Learning Challenges (until 12:30 PM) (Herritage Hall)
11:45 AM Machine Learning Challenges Overview - Philip Coleman Harris (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))   (Herritage Hall)
12:00 PM Detecting Novel Astrophysical Phenomena with Gravitational Waves (A3D3) - Philip Coleman Harris (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))   (Herritage Hall)
12:10 PM Detecting Anomalous Climate Phenomena (iHARP) - Subhankar Ghosh (University of Minnesota)   (Herritage Hall)
12:20 PM Anomaly Detection: Hybrid Butterflies (Imageomics) - Elizabeth Campolongo (The Ohio State University)   (Herritage Hall)
9:00 AM Breakout session summary   (Chancellor Ballroom)
10:00 AM --- Coffee Break ---
10:30 AM White Paper Planning - Mark Stephen Neubauer (Univ. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Mark Neubauer (Univ. Illinois at Urbana Champaign (US))   (Chancellor Ballroom)
11:00 AM Conference Summary - Philip Coleman Harris (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))   (Chancellor Ballroom)
11:20 AM 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 AM --- Grab Boxed Lunches ---
PM
2:00 PM Registration   (Atrium)
6:00 PM Welcome Reception   (Chancellor Ballroom)
12:30 PM --- Working Lunch: Networking ---
2:00 PM 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)
3:00 PM
Unconference "Elevator" Pitches (until 3:30 PM) (Herritage Hall)
3:30 PM --- Coffee Break ---
4:00 PM
Transdisciplinary Research - Sharad Sharma (University of North Texas) (until 5:00 PM) (Excellence)
4:00 PM
Transdisciplinary Research - Jianwu Wang (University of Maryland, Baltimore County) Zhijian Liu (University of California San Diego) (until 5:00 PM) (Loyalty)
4:00 PM
Transdisciplinary Research - Jiawei Han (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Pan Li (Georgia Tech) (until 5:00 PM) (Alma Mater)
4:00 PM
Transdisciplinary Research - Peter Darch (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Savannah Thais (until 5:00 PM) (Lincoln)
4:00 PM
Unconference Determined (until 5:00 PM) (Herritage Hall)
5:00 PM
Lightning Talks for Posters (until 5:30 PM) (Herritage Hall)
5:30 PM
Poster Session (until 6:35 PM) (Herritage Hall)
5:35 PM Imageomics: FAIR ML Products for Biological Knowledge Discovery - Elizabeth Campolongo   (Herritage Hall)
5:36 PM Incorporating phenotypic similarity into trait description embeddings​ - Soumyashree Kar   (Herritage Hall)
5:37 PM Latent Space Phenotyping for Measuring Complex Evolutionary Traits - Caleb Charpentier   (Herritage Hall)
5:38 PM Hierarchical Conditioning of Diffusion Models Using Tree-of-Life for Studying Species Evolution - Mridul Khurana   (Herritage Hall)
5:39 PM What Do You See in Common? Learning Hierarchical Prototypes over Tree-of-Life to Discover Evolutionary Traits - Harish Babu Manogaran   (Herritage Hall)
5:40 PM BioCLIP: A Vision Foundation Model for the Tree of Life - Sam Stevens   (Herritage Hall)
5:41 PM Education and Outreach in Imageomics: Engaging Communities to Advance Science - Diane Boghrat   (Herritage Hall)
5:42 PM Using Deep Learning to Quantify Phenotypic Similarities in Mimic Butterfly Species using Human, Bird, and Butterfly Acuities - Michelle Ramirez   (Herritage Hall)
5:43 PM Dynamic Network Classification - Namrata Banerji   (Herritage Hall)
5:44 PM Tulane Center for Community-Engaged Artificial Intelligence - Aron Culotta   (Herritage Hall)
5:45 PM Understanding of impact of training size on animal re-identification - Ekaterina Nepovinnykh   (Herritage Hall)
5:46 PM Practical Leadership for Team Science: Experiences from the Imageomics Institute - Diane Boghrat   (Herritage Hall)
5:47 PM VLM4Bio: A Benchmark Dataset to Evaluate Pretrained Vision-Language Models for Trait Discovery from Biological Images - Anuj Karpatne   (Herritage Hall)
5:48 PM What Do You See in Common? Learning Hierarchical Prototypes over Tree-of-Life to Discover Evolutionary Traits - Anuj Karpatne   (Herritage Hall)
5:49 PM National Data Mine Network - Mark Daniel Ward   (Herritage Hall)
5:50 PM Fish-Vista: A Multi-Purpose Dataset for Understanding & Identification of Traits from Images - Kazi Sajeed Mehrab   (Herritage Hall)
5:51 PM Low-cost Efficient Wireless Intelligent Sensors (LEWIS) for Engineering Education: Native American Knowledge for Data Science Education - Fernando Moreu   (Herritage Hall)
5:52 PM Facilitating Knowledge Sharing and Discovery: Search Functionality and API Design for the I-GUIDE - Yunfan Kang   (Herritage Hall)
5:53 PM CLV: A Novel Framework for Enhanced Anomaly Detection and Attribution in Multivariate Time Series Data - Tolulope Ale   (Herritage Hall)
5:54 PM Battling Misinformation through Interdisciplinary Collaboration - Zahra Khanjani   (Herritage Hall)
5:55 PM CMAD: Advancing Understanding of Anomalous Melt Events over the Antarctic Sea Ice - Maloy Kumar Devnath   (Herritage Hall)
5:56 PM HDR DSC: The Metropolitan Chicago Data-science Corps (MCDC) - Lizhen Shi   (Herritage Hall)
5:57 PM Neural Network Efficiency Evaluation on the AMD Versal AI Engine - Yilin Shen   (Herritage Hall)
5:58 PM BaboonLand Dataset: Tracking Primates in the Wild and Automating Behaviour Recognition from Drone Videos - Maksim Kholiavchenko   (Herritage Hall)
5:59 PM Assessing Annotation AccAssessing Accuracy in Ice Sheets Using Quantitative Metrics - Bayu Tama   (Herritage Hall)
6:00 PM Genotype to Phenotype Mapping via Deep Learning - David Carlyn   (Herritage Hall)
6:01 PM Variance Analysis of Brightness Temperature using High-resolution DYAMOND simulations and CRTM in Digital Twin Systems - Chhaya Kulkarni   (Herritage Hall)
6:02 PM Predicting Sea ice extent over Antarctica using Patch CNN - Sai Vikas Amaraneni   (Herritage Hall)
6:03 PM 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)
6:04 PM Physics-Informed Sea Ice Thickness Prediction - Akila Sampath   (Herritage Hall)
6:05 PM Probabilistic Prediction of Material Stability: Integrating Convex Hulls into Active Learning - Andrew Novick   (Herritage Hall)
6:06 PM Cyberinfrastructure for Scientific Data Preservation and Image Similarity Search - Joshua Agar   (Herritage Hall)
7:30 PM Public Lecture: Making AI Safe, Effective, and Trustworthy - Suresh Venkatasubramanian   (0027/1025 Auditorium)
12:30 PM --- Lunch ---
12:30 PM Pre-tenure faculty & postdoc mentoring lunch   (Humanities)
2:00 PM Communicating Science: Effective Delivery To Any Audience - Sara Metwalli (Argonne National Laboratory)   (Herritage Hall)
2:30 PM Promoting Educational and Outreach Activities throughout the HDR Institutes via a Centralized Repository - Alex Pak (Colorado School of Mines)   (Herritage Hall)
2:40 PM
Panel: Workforce Development and Education from Data Science Corps - Eric Sokol (National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON), Battelle) (until 3:30 PM) (Herritage Hall)
3:30 PM --- Coffee Break ---
4:00 PM
AI & Data Infrastructure (until 5:00 PM) (Lincoln)
4:00 PM
HDR Student-Focused Programming - Diane Boghrat (The Ohio State University) (until 5:00 PM) (Herritage Hall)
4:00 PM
Machine Learning Challenges - Philip Coleman Harris (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US)) (until 5:00 PM) (Alma Mater)
4:00 PM
Unconference Determined (until 5:00 PM) (Excellence)
4:00 PM
Workforce Development - Josephine Namayanja (UMBC) (until 5:00 PM) (Loyalty)
5:00 PM
National Petascale Computing Facility Tour (until 6:00 PM) ()
6:00 PM
Conference Banquet (until 8:00 PM) (Herritage Hall)
12:10 PM
Report Writing (until 5:10 PM) (Alma Mater)
12:10 PM
Report Writing (until 5:10 PM) (Lincoln)
12:10 PM
Report Writing (until 5:10 PM) (Loyalty)
12:10 PM
Report Writing (until 5:10 PM) (Excellence)
1:00 PM
National Petascale Computing Facility Tour (until 2:00 PM) ()