eCAT 2024 Annual Fall Meeting

eCAT 2024 Fall Meeting Agenda 

Nov. 7-8, 2024, Detroit, MI

Nov. 7, 2024 (Thursday)

8:00 - 8:30 am Registration, breakfast, and networking

8:30 - 9:00 am Opening remarks 

• Dr. M. Ismail Chair, ECE Department, Wayne State University

• Dr. Abolmaali Dean, College of Engineering, Wayne State University

• Dr. Obasi Vice President for Research and Innovation, Wayne State University

• Justine Johnson Michigan Chief Mobility Officer, Senior VP, MEDC

• Tim Slusser Chief of Mobility Innovation, City of Detroit

9:00 - 9:30 am Introduction of IAB members & prospective members

9:30 - 10:00 am Introduction and Update to the eCAT Center

• Mission of the center

• Vision and value proposition including a brief description of Thrust Areas Capabilities of academic sites

• Update of the Center and Sites

10:00 - 10:30 am NSF IUCRC program (Mohan Kumar, Program Director, NSF/CNS)

10:30 - 10:45 am Break

10:45 - 12:00 pm eCAT Ongoing Project Update (Part I)

1. Planar Magnetic Components for EV Power Converters

2. Data Storage Strategy for Autonomous Vehicles

3. Edge Data Analysis for Connected Vehicles

4. Semiconductor Embedded PCB Design

12:00 - 1:30 pm Lunch & Posters

1:30 - 2:45 pm eCAT Ongoing Project Update (Part II)

5. Characterizing and Optimizing Autonomous Driving Workloads on Vehicular Edge

6. Ad-hoc Route Navigation for Autonomous Vehicles

7. Optimal Scheduling of Edge Devices for Decentralized Data Preprocessing

8. Assuring the Safety of Autonomous Vehicles Using Combinatorial Design-Based Testing

9. Advanced Motor Control Algorithms with Multi-Level Converters for Future Electric Vehicle Powertrains

2:45 - 3:15 pm Introduction and update to the center bylaws

3:15 - 3:30 pm Break

3:30 - 4:30 pm IAB and eCAT leadership meeting

• Discussions on the ongoing projects

• IAB feedback

4:30 - 6:00 pm         Posters

Nov. 8, 2024 (Friday)

8:30 - 9:00 am Registration, breakfast, and networking

9:00 - 9:15 am AirTable Introduction

9:15 - 10:15 am Project proposal presentations (Part I)

• Proposal 01: Electricity Price Forecast for Electricity Market with High Penetration of Renewables and EVs 

• Proposal 02: Computational Autonomous Vehicle Storage (AVS)

• Proposal 03: Dynamic Scheduling of Mobile Chargers for EVs

• Proposal 04: Device-Level Security for Grid-Tied Inverters

• Proposal 05: Planar Magnetic Components and Applications for EV Power Converters - Continuation

• Proposal 06: Off-road Motion Planning for Autonomous Mobile Robots

• Proposal 07: Power semiconductor embedded PCB design and packaging - Continuation

10:15 - 10:30 am Break

10:30 - 11:30 am Project proposal presentations (Part II)

• Proposal 08: Regenerative Braking System Design towards School Buses

• Proposal 09: Low-Cost Integrated Electronic Load for DC and AC Applications

• Proposal 10: Efficient Small Language Models for Edge Devices via Task-Aware Sparse Attention

• Proposal 11: Devices and Systems for Characterizing Inductors under High Voltage and High Current 

• Proposal 12: Pedestrian Safety Enhancement Through Human Activity Recognition and V2X Communications 

• Proposal 13: Securing Vision Transformer against Adversarial Attacks 

• Proposal 14: Hybrid Inductors for Current THD Mitigation in EV Inverters 

11:30 - 12:15 pm IAB meeting (IAB members only, Friedman Conference Room)

Discussions on new project proposals

IAB voting for the projects to be funded

12:15 – 12:45 pm Discussions

IAB feedback, report-out, center's research roadmap, etc.

12:45 - 2:30 pm Lunch & Posters

2:30 pm Adjourn

Conference Venue

The eCAT 2024 Annual Fall Meeting will be held at the Auditorium and Friedman Conference Room (5050 Anthony Wayne Dr, Detroit, MI 48202) in the College of Engineering - Wayne State University.

Recommended Hotels

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