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Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Core Universities AI Workshop

October 9-10, 2024 | Park Alumni Center, NC State University

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Wednesday, October 9 Program

8:00 - 3:00 pmRegistration
8:00 - 8:45 amBreakfast
8:45 - 9:10 amOpening RemarksShaun S. Gleason, Director, Science-Security Initiative Integration, Lab Director's S&T Office, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
9:15 - 10:00 amKeynote
Unsupervised Learning Methods for Dual-Domain Geo-Clustering in Public Health Applications		Mansoor Haider, Professor, Dept. of Mathematics, NC State University

Session Chair: Jill Sexton, University Libraries, NC State University
10:00 - 10:30 amCoffee Break
10:30 - 11:45 am Talk Session 1Session Chair: Alexandros Kapravelos, Department of Computer Science, NC State University
10:30 - 10:55 amAI for CryptanalysisEmily Wenger, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University
10:55 - 11:20 amStructures and Vulnerabilities of the Representation Space of TransformersXiuwen Liu, Professor of Computer Science, Florida State University
11:20 - 11:45 amNeuromorphic Computing for Real-World ApplicationsCatherine (Katie) Schuman, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Tennessee
11:45 am - 1:15 pmLunch
1:15 - 2:15 pmPanel
Industrial Perspectives		Panelists
2:15 - 3:00 pmKeynote
Exploiting Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Advancing Earth System Prediction		Forrest M. Hoffman, Distinguished Computational Earth System Scientist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Session Chair: Alyson Wilson, Office of Research and Innovation, NC State University
3:00 - 4:00 pmCoffee Break + Poster Session
4:00 - 4:50 pmTalk Session 2Session Chair: Feiyi Wang, Analytics and AI Methods at Scale Group, ORNL
4:00 - 4:25 pmTopological Graph Contrastive LearningYulia Gel, Professor, Department of Statistics, Virginia Tech
4:25 - 4:50 pmAre AI Machines Good for HPC?Richard Vuduc, Professor, School of Computational Science and Engineering, Georgia Tech
4:50 - 5:00 pmClosing RemarksRamki Kannan, Group Leader - Discrete Algorithms, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; and Alyson Wilson, Interim Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation, NC State University
5:00 - 5:45 p.m.Reception
5:45 pmDinner

Thursday, October 10 Program

8:00 am - NoonRegistration
8:00 - 8:45 amBreakfast
8:45 - 9:00 amOpening Remarks
9:00 - 9:45 amKeynote

From Vascular Digital Twins to Predictive AI: Shifting Healthcare from Reactive to Proactive Monitoring and Intervention		Amanda Randles, Alfred Winborne and Victoria Stover Mordecai Associate Professor of Biomedical Sciences, Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University

Session Chair: Tom Potok, Data and AI Systems Section, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
9:45 - 10:15 amCoffee Break
10:15 - 11:55 am Talk Session 3Session Chair: Rick Archibald, Data Analysis and Machine Learning Group, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
10:15 - 10:40 amFrom Promise to Vulnerability: Navigating Privacy, Attacks, and Defenses in Federated LearningChau-Wai Wong, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, NC State
10:40 - 11:05 amTechnology as Both a Threat and a Promise for Regulating Social Media PlatformsWendy K. Tam, Professor, Political Science, Computer Science, Law, and Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University
11:05 - 11:30 amLarge Foundation Model Development and Adaptation for Metamaterial DesignDawei Zhou, Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department, Virginia Tech; Director, Virginia Tech Learning on Graphs (VLOG) Lab
11:30 - 11:55 amThe Future of Artificial IntelligenceRobert Patton, Group Lead for the Learning Systems Group, Data and AI Systems Section, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
11:55 - 1:00 pmLunch
1:00 - 2:00 pmPanel
Secure, Trustworthy, Energy Efficient AI for Science: How Do We Get There?		Panelists
2:00 - 2:50 pmTalk Session 4Session Chair: Chau-Wai Wong, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, NC State University
2:00 - 2:25 pmTensors in Combinatorial Optimization and Error Control DecodingNikos Sidiropoulos, Louis T. Rader Professor, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Virginia
2:25 - 2:50 pmA Paradigm Shift in Quantum Machine LearningPrasanna Date, Research Scientist, Computer Science and Mathematics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
2:50 - 3:15 pmClosing RemarksRamki Kannan, Group Leader - Discrete Algorithms, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Tom Potok, Section Head - Data and AI Systems Section, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; and Alyson Wilson, Interim Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation, NC State
3:15 - 4:00 pmCoffee