Location: MicaPlex Incubator Conference Room, 1511 Aviation Center Pkwy, Daytona Beach, FL 32114

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Day 1: (ETZ) - on March 19, Tuesday

7:30 a.m. Participant Registration and Picking Name Tags.
7:30-8:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast and Networking Time
8:30-8:45 a.m. Welcome Remarks(Vice President for Research at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Dr. Jeremy V. Ernst)
8:45-9:30 a.m. Vision, Capabilities, and Value Proposition of the Center 
  • 8:45 am -9:00 am ERAU Center Director, Drs Hong Liu,
  • 9:00 am - 9:15 am UMBC Site Director, Dr. Houbing Song
  • 9:15- 9:30 am NMSU Site Director, Dr. Liang Sun.
9:30-10:30 a.m. NSF IUCRC Presentation (IUCRC Program Director, Dr. Mohan Kumar, Introduced by Dr. Ernst)
10:30-10:45 a.m. BREAK
10:45-Noon Project Proposal Presentations 10 minutes presentation and leave 5 minutes for discussion.
  • 10:45 am -11:00 am, H. Song, L Sun, H Liu, R. Mankbadi, D Truong, A Abdelghany, and Y. Liu, “ASDA Consortium Vision and Mission. “
  • 11:00 am -11:15 am, -Dr. Taewoo Nam (Toyota Research Institute) and Dr. Liang Sun (NMSU) “Data-Driven Autonomy for High Altitude Aerial Planform”
  • 11:15 am -11:30 am, Dr. Huiping Cao (NMSU), “Machine Learning Approaches to Improve Data Efficiency”
  • 11:30 am – 11:45 am, Dr. Fengyu Wang (NMSU), “Highly decarbonized power system infrastructure planning considering aviation electrification”
  • 11:45 am – 12:00 pm, Dr. Yan Tang, Dr. Colleen Walsh-Conklin, and Dr. Amber Paul, ASDA Workforce Development from K10-PhD Program.
Feedback forms for each project must be filled out (electronic and paper) prior to the start of the next presentation. 
Noon-1 p.m. Cater Lunch and Tour the MicaPlex Industrial Collaboration Research Park.
1–1:15 p.m. Welcome Remarks and Introduce Speaker Robert S. Katz (Dr. Peter M. Hoffmann, Dean of College of Arts & Science). 
1:15–1:45 p.m.  Engineering Entrepreneurial Ecosystems of Emerging Enterprises for Innovation Acceleration, Robert S. Katz.
1:45-2:45 p.m.

 

 Project Proposal Presentations
  • 1:45 p.m. - 2 p.m., ERAU Industrial Liaison Office Dan Diessner, “ Industry-University Partnership for Creating the Optimal Next Generation of Aerospace Professionals.”
  • 2-2:15 p.m. - Dr. Manas Gaur: “Towards Consistent, Explainable, and Safe Neuro Symbolic Models for Critical Applications.”
  • 2:15-2:30 p.m., Dr. Houbing Song “Big Data Analytics: Enable the Move from Spatiotemporal Data to Safe, Secure and Trustworthy Aviation”.
  • 2:30 p.m.-2:45 p.m., Dr. Yongxing Liu “Trustworthy-AI for Aviation and Transportation Systems. “
2:45-3 p.m. BREAK
3-4 p.m. Industry Workshop (Panel discussion of projects & company needs that have NOT been addressed in the above Project Presentations)
4-4:15 p.m. Review of evening and Day 2 activities and remind the delegates to vote the video project presentations (Dr. Hong Liu).
4:15-6 p.m. Videos (Posted on ASDA Website) and Poster Session for unpresented projects, and Networking. (Participants vote for their favorite projects)
Cater Food and Beverage are prepared.
Poster ad Videos: 
  • Dr. Jianhua Liu and Andrew H, Schneide, “SaL (Speech and Language) – AI Lab to Recognize Air Traffic Communications.”
  • Dr. Siwei Fan, “Space Object Identification and Characterization.”
  • Dr. Burak Cankaya: “XAI and Operations Research in Aerospace Industry.”
  • Dr. Tianyu Yang: “Exploiting Big Data for Robust Privacy with Preserved Utility.”
  • Dr. Amber Paul: “Personalized Approach for Aerospace and Terrestrial Medicine.”
  • Dr. Sirani Perera, “Reduced-complexity Orbital Propagator with Minimum Data.”
  • Dr. Dahai Liu and Dr. Jing Yu Pan, “Aviation Sustainable Development: A data-driven approach.”
  • Dr. Linfeng Jin, “Big Data Analytics in Aviation Maintenance.”
  • Shital Pandey and Alisa Tiselska, Dumindu Samaraweera and Hong Liu, “Minutes not Days: Building the Future Aviation Data.”

Day 2: Scheduled on March 20, Wednesday

7:30-8:30 a.m. Arrival and Breakfast
8:30-4:45 am Welcome Remarks and Introduce Dr. Andy Aldrin (Dr. Alan J. Stolzer, Dean of College of Aviation).
8:45-9:15 a.m. Future Space Exploration, AI, and Big Data, (Dr. Andy Aldrin) 
9:15-10:15 a.m. Project Feedback Review and Discussion (Facilitators: Dr. Andy Aldrin & Dr. H Liu – Academic Participants Listen to the Inputs from Industrial Leaders)
10:15-10:30 a.m. BREAK
10:30-11:30 a.m. Center and Site Response to Feedback from Industry Workshop.(Panel led by the PI and Co-PIs of the ERAU Center and Two Sites of NMSU & UMBC)
11:30-Noon NSF Closed Session with Industry (NSF Assigned Planning Grant Advisor: Dr. Robin Greubel)
Noon-12:30 p.m.  Next Steps, Action Items & Closing Remarks
(Center and Site Directors Drs. Hong Liu, Houbing Song, and Liang Sun)
12:30 a.m. ADJOURN (Box lunches)
1:30 p.m.–3:30 p.m. Optional Campus and ERAU Facility Tour and Participant Initiated Meetings (Dr. Hong Liu)