eCAT 2025 Annual Fall Meeting

Conference Venue

Lux Hotel & Conference Center, an Ascend Collection Hotel, Address: 2468 NY-414, Waterloo, NY 13165

Meeting Agenda (Tentative)

Oct. 29, 2025 (Wednesday)

7:45 - 8:30 am Registration, breakfast, and networking

8:30 - 9:00 am Opening remarks

Dr. Michelle Crimi Dean of the Graduate School and Interim VP for Research & Tech. Transfer

Kathryn Snorrason Vice President and Deputy Chief Mobility Officer

                                  Michigan Office of Future Mobility and Electrification (OFME)

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

10:00 - 10:30 am NSF IUCRC program (Dr. Hang Liu, Program Director, NSF/CNS)

10:30 - 10:45 am Break

11:00 - 12:00 pm eCAT Ongoing Project Update (Part I)

1. Off-road Motion Planning for Autonomous Mobile Robots - UD

2. Device-Level Security for Grid-Tied Inverters - Clarkson

3. Characterizing and Optimizing Autonomous Driving Workloads on Vehicular Edge - UNT

4. Power semiconductor embedded PCB design and packaging - WSU

5. Planar Magnetic Components and Applications for EV Power Converters - WSU

12:00 - 1:30 pm Lunch & Posters

1:30 - 3:00 pm eCAT Ongoing Project Update (Part II)

6. Electricity Price Forecast for Electricity Market with High Penetration of Renewables and EVs - WSU

7. Ad-hoc Route Navigation for Autonomous Vehicles - Clarkson

8. Computational Autonomous Vehicle Storage (AVS) - UD

9. Pedestrian Safety Enhancement Through Human Activity Recognition and V2X Communications - UNT

10. Dynamic Scheduling of Mobile Chargers for Electric Vehicles - UH

11. Conditional Diffusion Model for Generating Synthetic Power System Insulator Images with Defect Annotation

3:00 - 3:30 pm Introduction and update to the center bylaws

3:30 - 3:45 pm Break

3:45 - 4:45 pm IAB and eCAT leadership meeting

Discussions on the ongoing projects

IAB feedback

4:45 - 05:30 pm Posters

5:30 - 7:00 pm                                                           Dinner

Oct. 30, 2025 (Thursday)

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) (10min per proposal)

1. AutoRecall: An autonomous vehicle data recording and analysis system

2. Data Analytics and Learning for High Dimensional and Multi Modal Data

3. MicrogrdX Converters for Home and Mobility Applications

4. Ad-hoc Route Navigation for Autonomous Vehicles - Phase II

5. Dynamic Scheduling of Mobile Chargers for Electric Vehicles - Continuation

10:15 - 10:30 am Break

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

6. MHz Isolated Power Supply for Gate Drivers Using a Quarter & Half Turn Planar Transformer

7. High-Speed Zero-Knowledge Proof Acceleration for Secure Automotive Systems

8. Early Warning of Battery Safety Status for Advanced Mobility

9. 48V-1V kW Level Power Supplies for GPUs and Mobility Applications

10. Enhancing Real-time Inference Performance for Time-Critical Software-Defined Vehicles

11. Exploiting Wide Bandgap Dynamics with Parallel SoC-Based Control for Ultra-Fast Transient Response in Power Converters

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