INDUSTRIAL ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FORUM

James Clark Hall, Wednesday, December 04, 2024

7:00 AM Registration, Breakfast & Networking

8:00 AM HOST WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION

• Samuel Graham

  Dean, A. James Clark School of Engineering and Nariman Farvardin Professor

• Harry Dankowicz

  Professor and Chair, Mechanical Engineering Department

8:20 AM TRENDS OF AI AND INDUSTRIAL AI AND PRODUCTIVITY TRANSFORMATION IN 2030-2040

• Jay Lee

  Director, Industrial AI Center, Clark Distinguished Professor

  Mechanical Engineering

8:50 AM GOVERNMENT PERSPECTIVES ON AI

Representatives from both state and federal government as well as policy institution will share their perspectives, challenges, opportunities initiatives, and progress in AI.

Moderator: Prof. Jay Lee, UMD.

• Cory Philips, ARPA-E

• Kevin Johnstun, Dept. of Education

• PJ Maykish, Special Competitive Studies Project

• Benjamin McGlaughlin, Dept. of Commerce, State of Maryland

• Elham Tabassi, NIST’s Trustworthy and Responsible AI program.

9:40 AM GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES ON AI DEVELOPMENT AND POLICY

• Kiva Allgood & Kyle Winters, World Economic Forum (WEF)

• Hubert Han, Singapore AI Initiative, Embassy of the Republic of Singapore in Washington DC

• Raimund Klein, INCIT

• Laura Darby, UN

10:30 AM BREAK

10:40 AM INDUSTRY PERSPECTIVES ON INDUSTRIAL AI

Industrial leaders will speak about their unmet needs and major challenges in applying AI to real-world applications.

Moderator: Prof. Jay Lee, UMD.

• Russ Waddell, MTConnct for Future AI Manufacturing Platform, AMT

• Tim Shinbara, BlueForge Alliance

• Emilee Liu, Bright Machines

• Chandrasekar Venkatraman, Hitachi USA

• Dan Nagy, MTDG

• Umesh Arasu, o9 Solutions

• Cynthia Hutchison, Stacey Weismiller, US Center for Advanced Manufacturing

• Igor Nazareth, EMBRAPII (Brazil)

• Serra Tuzcuoglu, Cosmodot

• Helen Wang, EcoGen Capital Partners and AI Alliance

• Dominik Rohrmus, Siemens (Video)

• Amir Kashani, Stanley Black & Decker (Online)

12:40 PM LUNCH AND NETWORKING

2:00 PM INDUSTRIAL AI RESEARCH AND PARTNERSHIP HIGHLIGHTS

Research presentation from Industrial AI Center and UMD faculty.

Moderator: Prof. Jay Lee, UMD.

• Metaverse and Digital Twin Modeling and Simulation, Prof. Miao Yu and Prof. Bala Balachandran

• Dr. Pradeep Kundu, KU Leuven

• Prof. Carlos Eduardo Pereira, “Competence Center on Digital Agriculture - AI applications”, UFRGS and SENAI-RS, Brazil

• NTU Singapore Industrial AI Center, Prof. Man Pun Wan, Prof. Tuan Tran and Prof. Mir Feroskhan, NTU Singapore

• Dr. Huey Yuen Ng, SIMTech AI in Manufacturing, Singapore

• Sebastian Wicklein, Fraunhofer USA

• Peter Schrader, Fraunhofer IPA

• Ashley Gasque, IOP Publishing, Special Presentation on New

  Journal Machine Learning: Engineering (Online)

3:45 PM BREAK

4:00 PM SELECTED UMD RESEARCH AND PROJECT PRESENTATION

Presentations from University of Maryland Research Institutes and Centers on AI-Related Research: 

• Prof. Peter Chung, Dept. of Mechanical Eng

• Dr. Reza Ghanadan, UMD AI in College of Engineering

• Prof. Michael Pack, Center for Advanced Transportation Technology Laboratory (CATT)

• Prof. Katrina Groth, Center for Risk and Reliability (CRR)

• Prof. Michael Pecht, Center for Advanced Life Cycle Engineering (CALCE)

• Prof. Bongtae Han, Laboratory for Optomechanics and Micro/nano Semiconductor/Photonics Systems, Mechanical Engineering

• Prof. Dinesh Manocha, Dept. of Computer Science

5:30 PM POSTER SESSION/EXHIBITS & RECEPTION AND NETWORKING

• Highlights of diversified AI research for industrial systems with posters.

• Exhibits from different companies to showcase AI products and technologies.

INDUSTRIAL ADVISORY BOARD MEETING

(closed-door meeting for Industrial AI Center members, pending members, and invited guests )

Thursday, December 05, 2024

7:00 AM REGISTRATION, BREAKFAST & NETWORKING

8:00 AM INTRODUCTION TO INDUSTRIAL AI CENTER MEMBERSHIP STRATEGY, IMPACTS, AND ROADMAP

Founding Director, Center of Industrial AI Center Professor Jay Lee will provide an overview of Industrial AI Center’s operations including the membership strategy, company project formulation, company training, and growth roadmap to drive impact for its members.

• Jay Lee
  Director, Industrial AI Center, Clark Distinguished Professor
  Mechanical Engineering

8:15 AM NEW MEMBER, PARTNER, AND INVITED PRESENTATION

Representatives from the industry will share their perspectives, challenges, opportunities, initiatives, and progress in Industrial AI. Attendees can expect to hear from platform providers, solutions providers, OEMs, and end-users.

Moderator: Prof. Jay Lee, UMD.

• Ben Laskowski, Analatom

• Leon Chan, Alpha X

• Simon Lee, ASE Group

• Alice Wu, Cosen

• Connie Jiang/Joe Wang, Foxconn Interconnect Technology (FIT)

• Takanobu Minami, Komatsu

• Vincent Chan, LatticeWork

• Paul Robinson, Mazak

• Shaw Sheng, NREL

• Chun Chun, Hsieh, o9 Solutions

• Che-Chieh Chen, PMC

• Gavin Lee, Winbond

• Chee Kheng Lim, Western Digital

• Jill Crisman, UL Research Institute

• Lee Tiedrich, NIST, Duke Univ.

• Ken Ueno, Toshiba Corporation, Japan (Video)

• Frank Lai/Matthias Huber, SuperMicro (Online)

12:00 PM LUNCH BREAK (Lunch Box and Poster Session)

1:00 PM INDUSTRIAL AI CORE RESEARCH PROJECTS

Industrial AI Team will give in-depth presentations about technologies and tools including Industrial Large Knowledge Model, Data Foundry, Non-Traditional Machine Learning Methods

• Non-Traditional Machine Learning
  (Transfer Learning and Domain Adaptation, Topological Data Analytics (TDA), Stream-of-X, Similarity-based Machine Learning, etc.)

• Industrial Large Knowledge Model and Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG).

• Data Quality

• Jae Gyeong Choi, UNIST (new researcher) (Video)

2:30 PM INDUSTRIAL AI TALENT DEVELOPMENT

Moderator: Prof. Jay Lee, UMD.

• EPFL Industrial AI Short Course, Elaine Moran, EPFL (Online)

• Taoyuan Taiwan Industrial AI Training

• Industrial AI Training and Workforce Development Plan in Michigan

• Industrial AI Training: Aero-Engine Datasets, Sarah Wielgosz, Mark Rozzer, Ali Davoodanhosseini

• Industrial AI Training: Semiconductor Manufacturing, Justin Ryan, Nathan Hill, Haoguang Wang

3:30 PM OPEN DISCUSSIONS

Industry members and invited guests will provide feedback about the proposed research areas and discuss the priorities for research and education.

4:00 PM ADJOURN

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