ISI Research Day 2020
At ISI, we don't just excel at creating new solutions in information technology - we also excel at creating new traditions.
January 2020 marked the inaugural ISI Research Day, an event for celebrating the cutting-edge research and innovation that takes place at ISI. Scientists from all research groups at ISI presented their research through interactive talks, poster sessions, and a panel featuring leading scientists from various fields.
With almost 300 staff and faculty from across the country attending the event, ISI Research Day provided an invaluable opportunity for ISIers to meet and mingle with fellow colleagues. Along with learning about each other’s research, ISIers were also recognized for their achievements through awards and research grants.
From fascinating presentations to a closing reception to remember, ISI Research Day 2020 was jam-packed with great science and great people. The first of many, ISI Research Day 2020 served as an exciting example of the new traditions at ISI that we're all looking forward to uphold.
Morning Session
Introduction
Craig KnoblockKeston Executive Director, Information Sciences Institute; Research Professor of Computer Science and Spatial Sciences
Keynote
Ewa DeelmanResearch Professor; Research Director, Scientific Computational TechnologiesThe Pegasus Workflow Management System: Evolution and Impact
Talks
Lifu ChangDirector of The MOSIS ServiceDesign For Yield at Advanced Semiconductor Processes
Jeremy LiuGraduate Research AssistantDynamic Topology Reconfiguration of Boltzmann Machines on Quantum Annealers
Jelena MirkovicResearch Associate ProfessorModeling Student Learning on Network Testbeds
Break / Poster Session
Lunch
Afternoon Session
Talks
Wes HardakerSenior Computer ScientistGlobal Analysis of Weak Signals for Enterprise Event Detection
Fred MorstatterResearch Assistant Professor of Computer ScienceExploring Fairness and Bias in Machine Learning
James BlytheResearch LeadComputational Game Theory and ML for Maritime Interdiction
Jon HabifSenior Computer ScientistQuantum Information Technology Development: from information theory, to the laboratory, to applications
Break / Poster Session
Panel: Future Developments in Research
Yolanda GilResearch Professor; Research Director, Knowledge Technologies
Ajey JacobDirector of Advanced Electronic
Stephen SchwabResearch Director
Keston Award Talks
David BarnhartResearch Professor & Director, Space Technology and SystemsSatbotics Control: Connecting Biologically Inspired Spacecraft Together
Mayank KejriwalResearch Assistant Professor of Industrial and Systems EngineeringFighting Child Sex Trafficking with Artificial Intelligence
Awards
2019 Institute Achievement Award
Wael Abd-AlmageedFor outstanding academic achievements and research leadership that established his group as a leader in bioinformatics, face recognition, and visual misinformation detection and characterization
James Whalen and John Damoulakis For outstanding work in developing and executing a strategic plan to bring MOSIS back to the center stage of the semiconductor industry
Keston Research Awards
Iacopo Masi and Wael Abd-Almageed Fighting Misinformation: An Internet System for Detecting Fake Face Videos
Pedro Szekely (ISI), Amie E. Hwang (CSP), Dennis Deapen (CSP), Andrea Sipin (CSP), and Diana Moke (CHLA) Mining Cancer Registry Data to Improve Long Term Effects of Pediatric Cancer Treatment
ISI Research Award
Jonathan May Universal Translators for Asylum Seekers at the Border
Andrew Rittenbach, Priyatam Chiliki, and Dev Shenoy Automating Programmability of Hybrid Digital-Analog Hardware for Stochastic Cell Simulation in Biological Systems
Joel Mathew and Ulf Hermjakob Advancing No-Resource Languages
Reception
Photo Gallery
