COEIT Research Day 2025 — Agenda


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COEIT Research Day: Parallel Session Program Organized by Room
Friday, April 11, 2025
9am – 3pm

COEIT Research Day 2025 Agenda

UC Ballroom Lounge

9:30 – 10:45am | Research Talks: Physical Systems

  • A Multi-Objective Topology Optimization for Object Classification at the Speed of Light — Sumya Hamid Oishe and Ergun Simsek
  • Data-driven Fuzzy Control for Time Optimal Aggressive Trajectory Tracking — August Phelps, Juan Augusto Paredes Salazar and Ankit Goel
  • Assessment of Invariance-Embedded Machine Learning Models for Sub-Grid Scale Stress in Meso-Scale Hurricane Boundary Layer Flows — Md Badrul Hasan, Meilin Yu and Tim Oates

11am – 12pm | Panel Discussion with Government Partners
Panelists affiliated with state and federal government organizations will share their experiences of collaboration across academia and government, followed by Q&A.

Panelists

  • Nishant Shah — Senior Advisor for Responsible AI, State of MD
  • Eric Wachsman — Director, Maryland Energy Innovation Institute
  • Bhanu Sood — Deputy Center Chief Technologist, NASA Goddard
  • Weimin Zhou — Research Physicist, Army Research Laboratory

UC Ballroom

12 – 3pm | Poster Session and Refreshments
The poster session will feature 90 posters representing all four academic departments and many of the research centers within COEIT.

UC 310

9:30 – 10:15 am | Panel Discussion: COEIT Interdisciplinary Proposals
Recipients of 2024 COEIT Interdisciplinary Proposal Awards will share their experiences and reflect on being engaged in interdisciplinary collaboration, followed by Q&A.

Panelists

  • Sanorita Dey (CSEE)
  • Molly Mollica (ME)
  • Tyler R. Josephson (CBEE)
  • Foad Hamidi (IS)

10:15am – 12:30pm | Research Talks: COEIT Interdisciplinary Proposals

  • Cellular Force Generation on Extracellular Matrix Mimetic Surfaces — Luis Pinzon-Herrera, Shayan Manuchehrfar, Kwesi Halm, Roaa Hadi, Jorge Almodovar and Molly Y. Mollica
  • Leveraging large language models (LLMs) to Create Personalized Augmentative and Alternative Communication Systems (AACs) — Foad Hamidi and Lara Martin
  • Sources of Nonlinearity in Phase Noise of MUTC Photodetectors at Comb-Line Frequencies — Ishraq Md Anjum, Ergun Simsek, Seyed Ehsan Jamali Mahabadi, Thomas F. Carruthers and Curtis R. Menyuk
  • An Interpretable and Generalizable Neuro-Symbolic Framework for Accurate Quantitative Precipitation Estimation — Mostafa Cham, Olivia Zhang, Haotong Jing, Weikang Qian, Yixin Wen and Jianwu Wang

1:00 – 2:30pm | Research Talks: Education

  • COIL Method: Multidisciplinary Global Engineering Capstone Class Impact: Faculty and Student Insights Across Four Countries — Jamie Gurganus, Yashin Brijmohan, Lani McGuire and Michael M. Malschützky
  • Does Generative AI Help or Hurt Student Writing in Engineering Labs? — Gautom Das
  • Increasing Visual Literacy With Collaborative Foraging, Annotation, Curation, and Critique — Rebecca Marie Williams, Afrin Unnisa Syed and Krishna Vamsi Kurumaddali
  • Intelligent Coaching of Data Storytelling in the era of AI — Karen Chen and Jennifer Posada

UC 312

9:30 – 11:30am | Research Talks: AI Foundations and Applications

  • Cognitive Vision: Concepts, Contexts, and Semantics — Tejas Gokhale
  • Collaborative Sensing and Task Execution for Distributed Autonomous Systems — Anuradha Ravi and Nirmalya Roy
  • Do LLMs Adhere to Label Definitions? — Seyedali Mohammadi, Bhaskara Hanuma Vedula, Hemank Lamba, Edward Raff, Ponnurangam Kumaraguru, Francis Ferraro and Manas Gaur
  • Multimodal Reasoning About Human Intentions — Kasra Darvish, Aidan Newell, An May, Ruchen Wen, Cynthia Matuszek and Francis Ferraro
  • Exploring the Impact of ChatGPT on Computational Learning: Insights from Early-Stage Information Systems Students in an Introductory Programming Course — Omobolanle Niyi Owoeye, Srushti Rajesh Dharmale, Uzma Hasan, Patricia Ordóñez and Edward Dillon

11:30am – 12:30pm | Panel Discussion on Industry Collaboration
Representatives from AstraZeneca, Constellation, and Lockheed Martin will discuss opportunities for researchers to build relationships with industry partners, followed by Q&A.

Panelists

  • Mark Benesch (AstraZeneca)
  • Richard Coaxum (Constellation)
  • Richard Wright (Lockheed Martin)

1:00 – 2:30pm | Research Talks: Security and Privacy

  • Analyzing Cybersecurity Risks in the Digital Health Ecosystem with Patients with Complex Care Needs — Zainab Balogun, Melissa Carraway, Jainam Basra and Tera Reynolds
  • Strengthening Workforce Education: Excellence in Programming Securely (SWEEPS) — Ida Ngambeki, Deborah Kariuki, Matt Bishop and Jun Dai
  • Optimal Resource Allocation in Distributed Systems for Cybersecurity — Aryya Gangopadhyay and Neil Kpamegan
  • Privacy Scoring in Recommender Systems — Jiajie He, Yuechun Gu and Keke Chen

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