2020 industryXchange: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
The 2020 industryXchange has gone virtual!
New dates: December 7–8
The College of Engineering’s industryXchange brings together industry, Penn State faculty, and government agencies to jointly explore collaboration opportunities for research and student engagement. The 2020 industryXchange will have a focus on “Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.”
For more information, please contact Priya Baboo at pzb104@psu.edu.
Agenda
| Time | Session | |
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| 10:00- 10:15 AM |
Welcome Lora Weiss, Senior Vice President for Research, Penn State |
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| 10:15- 11:00 AM |
Keynote: Current State of AI, Shortcomings and Opportunities Andrew Fairbanks, General Manager, IBM North America Delivery |
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| 11:00 AM- 12:15 PM |
Research Spotlight: Multi-Disciplinary Seed Grant Awardees | |
| 1:30- 3:30 PM |
AI Partnership Opportunities in Defense, Security, and Health | |
| 1:30- 2:30 PM |
Panel Discussion: University, Industry, Government Partnerships to Advance AI/ML Moderator: Micah Clark, Research Professor & Senior Scientist for Autonomy, AI, Cognitive Science, Applied Research Laboratory, Penn State Co-moderator: Ron Herardian, Senior Director of Technology, Cloud and Cybersecurity, Altran |
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| 2:30- 3:30 PM |
Meet the Directors (two 30-minute rotational sessions) | |
| Track 1: Air Force Donna Senft, Chief Scientist, Air Force Global Strike Command, Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana |
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| Track 2: Army Research Office Purush Iyer, Network Sciences Division Chief, Army Research Office Jen Becker, Basic and Applied Research Team Lead, Army Research Office |
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| Track 3: Idaho National Lab Andrea Jokisaari, Computational Scientist, Computational Mechanics and Material |
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| Track 4: Idaho National Lab Ahmad Al Rashdan, Ph.D., Senior Research and Development Scientist, Instrumentation, Controls, and Data Science, Nuclear Science and Technology |
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| Track 5: National Science Foundation Georgia-Ann Klutke, Program Director, Operations Engineering, Smart and Connected Health, CMMI |
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| Track 6: Office of Naval Research (ONR) Bob Smith, Director, Department of Navy SBIR/STTR and Special Programs, Office of Naval Research |
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| Track 7: Office of Naval Research (ONR) Michael Qin, Program Officer, Hybrid Complex Warfare – Robotics and Autonomy, Office of Naval Research |
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| 5:00- 7:00 PM |
Graduate Student Networking Reception Sponsored by Altran |
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| Time | Session | |
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| 9:30- 9:45 AM |
Welcome Justin Schwartz, Harold and Inge Marcus Dean of Engineering, Penn State |
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| 9:45- 10:30 AM |
Virtual Fireside Chat: AI for All: Breaking Barriers with Private-Public Partnerships Igor Jablokov, CEO, Pryon Moderator: Justin Schwartz, Harold and Inge Marcus Dean of Engineering, Penn State |
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| 10:45 AM- 12:15 PM |
Breakout: AI in Health Care | |
| 10:45- 11:15 AM |
Industry Reverse Pitch Altran: Bruce Fairley, SVP, US Operations, Tessella, Altran Intel: Prashant Shah, Director of Artificial Intelligence, Health and Life Sciences |
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| 11:15 AM- 12:15 PM |
Faculty Tech Talks | |
| Breakout: AI in Energy | ||
| 10:45- 11:15 AM |
Industry Reverse Pitch Exelon: Eric Schwarz, Strategic Engineer, Nuclear Steam Supply Systems GE: Achalesh Pandey |
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| 11:15 AM- 12:15 PM |
Faculty Tech Talks | |
| 1:30- 3:00 PM |
Breakout: AI in Cybersecurity | |
| 1:30- 2:00 PM |
Industry Reverse Pitch Intel: Richard Curran, Chief Security Officer, Intel’s Global Cloud, Ent & Gov Group Sales IBM: Jiyong Jang, Research Scientist and Manager, Cyber Security Intelligence (CSI) team, Thomas J. Watson Research Center Salesforce: Stephen Pipino, Principal Security Specialist |
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| 2:00- 3:00 PM |
Faculty Tech Talks | |
| Breakout: AI in Manufacturing | ||
| 1:30- 2:00 PM |
Industry Reverse Pitch Exelon: Eric Schwarz, Strategic Engineer, Nuclear Steam Supply Systems Intel: Manas Pathak |
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| 2:00- 3:00 PM |
Faculty Tech Talks | |
| Breakout: AI in Transportation | ||
| 1:30- 2:00 PM |
Industry Reverse Pitch Wabtec: Milan Karunaratne, Digital Applied Innovation & Analytics Leader Bell Flight: Francis Govers, Autonomy Architect, Innovation Group |
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| 2:00- 3:00 PM |
Faculty Tech Talks | |
| 3:15- 4:00 PM |
Keynote: Law, Policy, Engineering and AI Jennifer Hill, Chief Operating Officer & General Counsel, Remedy Analytics, Inc. |
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Graduate Student Networking Reception
Monday, December 7
5:00-7:00 p.m.
The Graduate Student Networking Reception connects master’s and doctoral students in all technical majors with employers. This event is sponsored by Altran, a world leader in innovation and high-tech engineering consulting.
The reception will take place virtually via Brazen Careers. For assistance in using this virtual event platform, check out instructions for students and employers.
Both students and employers must register to participate.
- Graduate Student Registration
- Employer Registration: industryXchange Sessions + Graduate Reception
- Employer Registration: Graduate Reception ONLY
Parallel Breakouts
- AI in Cybersecurity (infrastructure, network, data, endpoint security, and access management)
- AI in Energy (grids, battery technology, electro mobility, maintenance of networks, virtual power plant, energy forecasting, energy efficiency and energy accessibility)
- AI in Health Care (diagnostics, treatment, patient management, and administrative applications)
- AI in Manufacturing (QC, designs, production reuse, and predictive maintenance)
- AI in Transportation (autonomy, safety, traffic management, and mobility)
Government Attendees
Note: List is being updated as attendees register.
Air Force
Donna Senft , Chief Scientist, Air Force Global Strike Command, Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana
Army Research Office
Dave Stepp, Director of Engineering Sciences, Army Research Office
Purush Iyer, Network Sciences Division Chief, Army Research Office
Jen Becker, Basic and Applied Research Team Lead, Army Research Office
Idaho National Lab
Brenden Heidrich, Chief Scientist for the Nuclear Science User Facilities, Idaho National Lab
Ahmad Al Rashdan, Ph.D., Senior Research and Development Scientist, Instrumentation, Controls, and Data Science, Nuclear Science and Technology
Andrea Jokisaari, Computational Scientist, Computational Mechanics and Material
National Science Foundation
Georgia-Ann Klutke, Program Director, Operations Engineering, Smart and Connected Health, CMMI
Office of Naval Research
Bob Smith, Director, Department of Navy SBIR/STTR and Special Programs, Office of Naval Research
Michael Qin, Program Officer, Hybrid Complex Warfare – Robotics and Autonomy, Office of Naval Research
- Virtual Poster Judging
- Agenda
- Graduate Student Networking Reception
- Parallel Breakouts
- Government Attendees
- Virtual Poster Session
- 2020 Multi-Disciplinary Research Seed Grant Awardees
- Virtual networking reception and poster award sponsor:
- Partner:
