Thursday, September 19, 2019

Time	Event	Place
8:00 a.m.	Registration and Coffee	Bldg. 5200, 2nd Floor Lobby
8:45 a.m.	Opening Remarks by Tom Potok ORNL	Bldg. 5200, Room TN A & B
9:15 a.m	Keynote: Robinson Pino U. S. Department of Energy	Bldg. 5200, Room TN A & B
10:00 a.m.	Break	Bldg. 5200
ARCHITECTURE
10:15 a.m.	Xipeng Sheng, North Carolina State University (NCSU)Reciprocity of AI and HPC: A Programming System Perspective	Bldg. 5200, Room TN A & B
10:45 a.m.	James Plank, University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK) The TENNLab Exploratory Neuromorphic Computing Framework	Bldg. 5200, Room TN A & B
11:15 a.m.	Catherine Schuman, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Neuromorphic Computing and Neural Hardware: Custom Hardware for AI	Bldg. 5200, Room TN A & B
11:45 a.m.	Working Lunch Top Issues of AI/ML on Architecture, Applications, NLP, Humans, and AI Methods and Panel Discussion	Bldg. 5200, Room TN C
APPLICATIONS
1:00 p.m.	Hairon Qi, University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK)Unsupervised Learning for Hyperspectral Super Resolution	Bldg. 5200, Room TN A & B
1:30 p.m.	Chandan Reddy, Virginia Tech (VT) Question Answering in Healthcare: Challenges and Opportunities	Bldg. 5200, Room TN A & B
2:00 p.m.	Raju Vatsavai, North Carolina State University (NCSU) GeoAI: Geospatial AI for Social Good	Bldg. 5200, Room TN A & B
2:30 p.m.	Break	Bldg. 5200
HUMANS and AI
3:00 p.m.	Jon Doyle, North Carolina State University (NCSU) Reason, Reaction, and Reflection in Deliberation, Action, and Interaction	Bldg. 5200, Room TN A & B
3:30 p.m.	Chris North, Virginia Tech (VT) Interactive AI: How Humans and AI Can Collaborate in Data Analytics	Bldg. 5200, Room TN A & B
4:00 p.m.	Robert Patton, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Mobility in the 21st Century	Bldg. 5200, Room TN A & B

Friday, September 20, 2019

Time	Event	Place
8:00 a.m.	Registration and Coffee	Bldg. 5200, 2nd Floor Lobby
9:00 a.m.	Keynote: Lawrence Carin, Duke University On the understanding of recurrent neural networks	Bldg. 5200, Room TN A & B
10:00 a.m.	Break	Bldg. 5200
METHODS
10:15 a.m.	Anuj Karpatne, Virginia Tech (VT) Theory-guided Data Science: How Can Machine Learning and Physical Knowledge Come Together to Accelerate Scientific Discovery	Bldg. 5200, Room TN A & B
10:45 a.m.	Haesun Park, Georgia Institute of Technology (GATech) Semi-supervised Multi-view Clustering of Hypergraphs	Bldg. 5200, Room TN A & B
11:15 a.m.	Le Song, Georgia Institute of Technology (GATech) Can Graph Neural Networks Help Logic Reasoning	Bldg. 5200, Room TN A & B
11:45 a.m.	Break	Bldg. 5200, Room TN A & B
INFORMATION and NLP
12:00 p.m.	Yangfeng Ji, Virginia Tech (VT) Building Robust and Interpretable Neural Models for Natural Language Understanding	Bldg. 5200, Room TN A & B
1:00 p.m.	Vincente Ordonez-Roman, Virginia Tech (VT) Building Fair and Robust Representations for Vision and Language	Bldg. 5200, Room TN A & B
1:30 p.m.	Guillermo Sapiro, Duke University An Information Theory Approach to Information Obfuscation	Bldg. 5200, Room TN A & B
2:00 p.m.	Vahid Tarokh, Duke University Fisher Inspired Approach to Representation, Modeling, Inference, and Prediction	Bldg. 5200, Room TN A & B
2:30 p.m.	Dave Womble, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) An Overview of the AI Initiative and the AI Strategy at ORNL	Bldg. 5200, Room TN A & B
3:00 p.m.	Closing Remarks by Tom Potok	Bldg. 5200, Room TN A & B
3:30 p.m.	Adjourn