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Wednesday, November 17, 2021 to Thursday, November 18, 2021
All Day
The kick-off and strategic planning meeting of the new NSF National AI Institute for Edge Computing Leveraging Next Generation Wireless Networks will be held on November 17-18, 2021 both in person at Duke University in Durham, NC and virtually via the web. The kick-off is open to all registrants. The strategic planning meeting is open only to Athena Institute members and government representatives.
At the kick-off, we will showcase Athena research and proposed efforts in four thrust areas 1) AI-powered networking at the edge, 2) AI-powered computer systems at the edge, 3) Advancing AI for mobile networks, and 4) AI-enabled services and applications. Athena researchers from Duke, MIT, NC A&T, Princeton, University of Michigan, University of Wisconsin, and Yale will be providing both overview and short “spotlight” presentations of their proposed edge-computing research. Athena educational and outreach plans will also be presented. To maximize the impact of NSF-funded Athena research, we are seeking collaborations with both commercial and government interests to foster new AI-enabled edge computing applications. Participate in the kick-off and find out how you can collaborate with us!
The agenda for each day is given below (all times are Eastern Standard Time)
November 17 | STRATEGIC PLANNING MEETING
(Virtual Meeting on Zoom Open to Athena members only)
9:30 Expected Outcomes from the Retreat
10:00 Thrust Area meetings (Breakout rooms on Zoom )
- Networking: Banerjee (Lead), T. Chen, Kim, Krishnaswamy, Maggs, Tassiulas
- Computer Systems: Zhong (Lead), Bhattacharjee, Chakrabarty, Hu, Khandelwal, Reiter, Willis
- AI: Li (Lead), Tarokh, Gong, Farahany, Han, Russakovsky, Y. Chen
- Services and Applications: Pajic (Lead), Gorlatova, Limbrick, Mao, Krolik, Kelly
12:00 Lunch
13:00 Education/Workforce Development, Knowledge Transfer, Broadening Participation meeting
(Daily, Limbrick, Derby, Kelly) in parallel with cross-thrust breakout sessions.
13:00 Cross-thrust Break-out Sessions (two sessions in parallel)
- Banerjee (Co-lead), Li (Co-Lead), Kim, Hu, Khandelwal, Willis, Tarokh, Gong, Mao, Krolik, Tassiulas, Krishnaswamy
- Zhong (Co-lead), Pajic (Co-lead), Bhattacharjee, Chakrabarty, Farahany, Gorlatova, Han, Russakovsky, Reiter, Y. Chen, T. Chen, Maggs
14:00 Outbriefs from Thrust Leaders, EWD, KT, and BP meetings (multiple 10 minute presentations)
15:00 Institute Policy meeting (Chen, Krolik, Daily, Limbrick, Li, Pajic, Banerjee, Zhong)
16:00 Summary outbrief and next steps
16:30 Adjourn
18:30 Dinner Social Event (attending Athena members and guests)
Café Parizade , 2200 W. Main St., Durham NC https://goo.gl/maps/Zt3WeFD2w34WrNu19
November 18 | Institute Kick-off
(Open to all registrants in person and online)
Duke Wilkinson Building Room 017 (Google map location: https://goo.gl/maps/D4L9d48wSojBaf8c6)
(Parking at Bryan Center Garage, Google map location https://goo.gl/maps/WE8AkpYoaZxeM5P89)
9:00 Duke Provost Sally Kornbluth: Welcoming remarks
9:05 Interim Dean of Engineering Jeff Glass: Introductory remarks
9:10 NSF Directors’ Charge
9:40 Stakeholder Introductions (government and corporate attendees)
9:45 Yiran Chen (Duke): Institute Overview, Vision, and Mission (15 min)
10:00 Thrust 1: AI-Powered Networking at the Edge
Suman Banerjee (UW-Madison): Overview of the networking thrust (10 min)
Tingjun Chen (Duke): Reconfigurable and intelligent optical networks for edge computing (10 min)
Wenjun Hu (Yale): Metamorphic Surfaces and NextG Networks – (10 min)
Q&A/Discussion: (10 min)
10:40 Thrust 2: AI-Powered Computer Systems at the Edge
Lin Zhong (Yale): Overview of Computer Systems Thrust (10 min)
Anurag Khandelwal (Yale): In Network Resource Disaggregation for Edge Data Centers (10 min)
Younghyun Kim (UW-Madison): Low-Power Machine Learning and Applications in Precision Agriculture (10 min)
Q&A/Discussion: (10 min)
11:20 Thrust 3: Advancing AI for Mobile Networks
Hai Li, (Duke): Overview of Advancing AI Thrust 3 (5 min)
Vahid Tarokh (Duke): Toward New Measures and Methods for Causal Inference (10 min)
Neil Gong (Duke): Provably Robust Machine Learning for Edge Computing (5 min)
Song Han (MIT): TinyML and Efficient Deep Learning on Edge Devices (5 min)
Olga Russakovsky: (Princeton): Fairness and efficiency at scale (5 min)
Q&A/Discussion: (10 min)
Noon Lunch (at Faculty Commons on the patio in Duke Brodhead Center)
13:00 Thrust 4: AI-powered Services and Applications
Miroslav Pajic (Duke): Overview of AI Services at the Edge (15 min)
Morley Mao (U. Michigan): Examining security implications in AI enhanced network applications.
Maria Gorlatova (Duke): Edge Intelligence for Next-Generation Mobile Augmented Reality
Q&A/Discussion (10 min)
13:40 Education and Outreach
Nita Farahany (Duke): Case-study based Ethics of AI Video Series (10 min)
Shani Daily (Duke) and Daniel Limbrick (NC A&T): Overview (20 min)
Q&A/Discussion (10 min)
Break (10 min)
14:30 Discussion of Collaboration Opportunities (Yiran Chen and stakeholders)
15:15 Adjourn
If you have any questions, please send email to info-athena@duke.edu.
Looking forward to seeing you at Duke or online!
