COEIT Research Day 2025 – Agenda

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

UC Ballroom 

9:00 – 9:20 am | Opening Remarks

Dr. Anupam Joshi, COEIT and CSEE and Dr. Vandana Janeja, COEIT and IS

12 – 3pm | Poster Session and Refreshments 

The poster session will feature 84 posters representing all four academic departments and many of the research centers within COEIT. 

The session will be broken up in the following way:

12 to 1pm: All presenters stay with their poster.

1 to 2pm: Odd numbered posters present; even numbers may view other posters.

2 to 3pm: Even numbered posters present; odd numbers may view other posters.

UC Ballroom Lounge

9:30 – 11:00am | Physical Systems

Session Chair: Ergun Simsek, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering

Abstracts

• 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

11:00am – 12:00pm | 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.

Moderator: Vandana Janeja, COEIT and IS

Panelists

• Nishant Shah — Senior Advisor for Responsible AI, State of MD
• Eric Wachsman — Director, Maryland Energy Innovation Institute
• Weimin Zhou — Research Physicist, Army Research Laboratory

1:00 – 2:30pm | Security and Privacy

Session Chair: Mohammad Samarah, Information Systems

Abstracts

• Analyzing Cybersecurity Risks in the Digital Health Ecosystem with Patients with Complex Care Needs
  Zainab Balogun, Melissa Carraway, Jainam Basra and Tera Reynolds

• 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

• Strengthening Workforce Education: Excellence in Programming Securely (SWEEPS)
  Ida Ngambeki, Deborah Kariuki, Matt Bishop and Jun Dai

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.

Moderator: Zhiyuan Chen, Information Systems

Panelists

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

10:15am – 12:30pm | Interdisciplinarity in Research

Session Chair : Ruey-Hung Chen, Mechanical Engineering 

Abstracts

• Invited Talk: Advancing Career Growth with the American Chemical Society
  Joerg Schlatterer — Director of the Office of Research Grants, American Chemical Society

• 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 | Education

Session Chair: Mariajose Castellanos, Chemical, Biochemical and Environmental Engineering

Abstracts

• 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

• 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

UC 312

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

Session Chair: Tim Finin, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering 

Abstracts

• 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 – Industry and Innovation

Representatives from industry and innovation partners will discuss opportunities for researchers to build relationships with industry and jump start research, followed by Q&A.

Moderator: Anupam Joshi, COEIT and CSEE

Panelists

• Mark Benesch — Capital Portfolio Director, AstraZeneca
• Richard Coaxum — Manager, Corporate Strategy, Constellation
• Mark Nelson — Director, Amazon Web Services

1:00pm – 2:30pm | Invited Talks

Session Chair: Upal Ghosh, CBEE

• Chaitan Baru — Technology, Innovation and Partnerships Directorate, NSF (Virtual)
• Mahmooda Sultana — NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

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