Center for Accelerated Real Time Analytics (CARTA)
Industrial Advisory Board (IAB) Meeting

University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
North Carolina State University (NCSU)
Rutgers University – Newark
Rutgers University – New Brunswick
Tel Aviv University (TAU)

November 13-15, 2019

Hosted by Rutgers University, New Brunswick at the Rutgers Continuing Education Center at Atrium, 300 Atrium Dr.  Somerset, NJ 08873.

Agenda

Wednesday, November 13, 2019

6:00 – 8:00 pm – Reception & Icebreaker at Rutgers Continuing Education Center, Suite 101

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Thursday, November 14, 2019

Rutgers Continuing Education Center, Suite 101

7:30 – 8:00 am – Registration & Breakfast

8:00 – 8:10 am – Welcoming Remarks

• Greetings & logistics – Dr. Dimitris Metaxas, Director, CARTA/Rutgers-New Brunswick
• Welcome – Prof. Thu Nguyen, Dean of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Rutgers-New Brunswick

8:10 – 8:25 am – NSF Overview

• Dr. Ann C. Von Lehmen, Program Director, NSF Industry-University Cooperative Research Centers Program

8:25 – 8:40 am  Center Status

• Dr. Yelena Yesha, CARTA Director

8:40 – 8:45 am – The LIFE Process

• Dr. Craig Scott

8:45 – 9:45 am  – Status Reports & New Proposals:  Rutgers, Newark

• Site Overview: Dr. Vijay Alturi
• Progress Report:  Composition of Distributed Workflow Applications in the Cloud and Edge Computing Environment, Dr. Basit Shafiq
• Progress Report:  Automatic Classification and Summarization of Multi Source News Sources, Dr. Soon Chun
• Progress Report:  Identifying Privacy Risks in Social Media, Dr. Soon Chun
• New Proposal:  Guided Hypothesis Exploration of Diseases Using Graph Mining, Dr. Jaideep Vaidya

9:45 – 10:15 am – Break & Posters

10:15 – 11:15 – Status Reports & New Proposals: NC State

• Site Overview:  Dr. Rada Chirkova
• Progress Report: Real-time Cyber Knowledge Platform for Web Threats, Dr. Alexandros Kapravelos
• New Proposal:  Real-time Monitoring the Evolution of the Web, Dr. Alexandros Kapravelos
• Progress Report: Near Real-time Analytics on Embedded Edge Computing Devices, Dr. Raju Vatsavai
• Progress Report: Creating a comprehensive climate dataset for realtime analytics with applications to seasonal hurricane prediction, Dr. Lian Xie
• New Proposal:  A demonstration of real-time analytics in seasonal hurricane prediction, Dr. Lian Xie
• New Proposal:  A Framework for Self-Sovereignty and Controlled Analytics via Blockchain, Dr. Alessandra Scafuro

11:15 am – 12:15 pm – Status Reports & New Proposals: UMBC

• Site Overview:  Dr. Karuna Joshi
• Progress Report: Automatic Legal Document Analytics and Blockchain Smart Contracts, Dr. Karuna Joshi
• Progress Report: Large Scale Streaming Graph Algorithms and Tensor Decomposition for Heterogeneous computer architectures, Dr. Milton Halem
• Progress Report: Deep learning models for network intrusion detection, Dr. Aryya Gangopadhyay
• Progress Report: Supply Chain Transparency and Security, Dr. Sisi Duan
• New Proposal: Accelerating Radiative Transfer for the MPAS model on IBM Power 9, Dr. Milton Halem and Dr. Phuong Nguyen
• New Proposal: Hybrid Feature Extraction for High Resolution Images , Dr. Milton Halem and Dr. Jennifer Sleeman

12:15  – 1:45 pm – Lunch & Posters

• Guest speaker:  Dr. Dongfang Liu, Machine learning in immunological synapse research

1:45 – 2:45 pm – Status Reports & New Proposals: Rutgers, New Brunswick

• Site Overview:  Dr. Dimitris Metaxas
• Progress Report: Collaborative Multi-agent Learning for MR Knee Articular Cartilage Segmentation, Dr. Dimitris Metaxas
• Progress Report: Histopathology Image Analysis based on Deep Learning, Dr. Dimitris Metaxas
• Progress Report: Advanced Analytics beyond Cell Lineage from Time-Lapsed Recording, Dr. Dimitris Metaxas
• Progress Report: Cardiac Analytics: Dyssynchrony and CRT Outcomes, Dr. Dimitris Metaxas
• Progress Report:  Interpretable and Explainable Machine Learning and AI, Dr. Dimitris Metaxas
• New Proposal:  Sharpen Focus: Learning with Attention Separability and Consistency, Dr. Dimitris Metaxas
• New Proposal:  Prediction of Liver Fibrosis Score, Progression and Clinical Deterioration using Multi-Modality Data, Dr. Dimitris Metaxas

2:45 – 3:00 pm – Break

3:00 – 3:45 pm – Completion of Required NSF Surveys (IAB Reps and Faculty)

3:45 – 5:00 pm – Member Forum

• Beth Richards, IAB Chair

5:00 – 6:30 pm – Posters & Social Time

6:30 – 8:30 pm – Meeting Banquet & Keynote

• Keynote speaker:  Dr. Victor Lobanov, Vice President, Informatics Solution Development at Covance

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Friday, November 15, 2019

Rutgers Continuing Education Center, Suite 101

8:00 – 8:30 am – Executive breakfast

8:30 – 9:15 am – LIFE Feedback Discussion

• Dr. Craig Scott

9:15 – 9:45 am – Technology Breakthroughs (IAB Members only)

• Dr. Craig Scott

9:45 – 10:05 am

• Center Program Manager’s Report, Dr. David Wright
• Center Recruiting & Management Report, Dr. Yelena Yesha

10:05 – 10:15 am – Break

10:15 – 11:30 am – Closed Board Meeting (IAB Members only)

• Airing of any IAB questions or concerns
• Final proposal evaluations and funding decisions
• New site proposal:  University of Miami, Dr. Mitsunori Ogihara
• New site proposal:  University of Central Florida, Dr. Yan Solihin

11:30 am – 12:00 pm

• Center business discussion
• Director’s Interim Report: Budget, Initiatives
• NSF Program Managers Response
• Summary and closing remarks

12:00 pm – Adjourn meeting with Box Lunch