Agenda: CAGE Planning Workshop

May 25-26, 2022

Pfahl Executive Education Building, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

Wednesday, May 25

7:30 – Registration and Breakfast Networking

  • Pfahl 2nd Floor Foyer

8:15 – Welcome Remarks

  • Andre Francis Palmer, PhD., Associate Dean for Research, College of Engineering, The Ohio State University
  • Dorota A. Grejner-Brzezinska, Ph.D., NAE, Vice President for Knowledge Enterprise, The Ohio State University
  • Scott Osborne, PhD., the Vice President of Economic and Corporate Engagement, The Ohio State University

8:30 – Vision, Capabilities, and Value Proposition of the Center (including Q&A)

  • Charles Toth, Ph.D., Executive Director, The Ohio State University
  • Vasit Sagan, Ph.D., Site Director, Saint Louis University
  • Ayman Habib, Ph.D., Site Director, Purdue University
  • Alper Yilmaz, Ph.D., Industry Liaison
  • Elizabeth Newton, Ph.D., Program Manager

9:30 – NSF IUCRC Presentation (including Q&A)

  • Barbara Ransom, Ph.D., NSF IUCRC Program Director

10:15 – Break

10:30 – Project Proposal Presentations I

Brief introduction to using the Airtable online tool

  • Collaborative Navigation to Support Navigation in GPS/GNSS-denied Environments
  • Image-based SLAM with a global reference 3D model
  • Improving Autonomous Vehicle Navigation in Temporarily Changed Drivable Areas with Remote Sensing and Crowdsourcing Vehicle Trajectories
  • Standardized Framework for Characterization, Processing, and Quality Control of Image/LiDAR Point Clouds from UAS Platforms
  • Adversarially-Trained Intrusion Detection Systems for Secure and Private Geospatial Data Collection and Analytics

12:30 – Lunch

  • Pfahl 2nd Floor Foyer

1:30 – Project Proposal Presentations II

  • Mobile Infrastructure Inspection Agents
  • A Convolution Neural Network Twin for Voxel-based Scene Models
  • A Learning-Based Design and Optimization Framework for Plant Disease Spatio-Temporal Data Acquisition and Processing
  • SeedAI: Seed Composition Estimation from in-season Standing Crops
  • High Resolution Inventory System for Forest Inventory

3:30 – Break

3:45 – Industry Workshop

Discussion of projects & company needs NOT addressed in the above Project Presentations

  • Breakout sessions
  • Summary

4:45 – Review of evening and Day 2 Activities

  • Voting exercise
  • Summary

5:00 – Technical Forum and Networking Reception

  • Poster session

6:00 – Adjourn for the day

6:30 – Dinner

Blackwell Ballroom A

Thursday, May 26

7:30 – Breakfast and Networking

8:00 – Project Feedback Review and Discussion

  • PI facilitated – All participants

9:30 – Center Response to Feedback from Industry Workshop

10:15 – Break

10:30 – NSF Closed Session with Industry

  • Barbara Ransom, Ph.D., NSF Program Director

11:15 – Next Steps, Action Items, & Closing Remarks

11:45 – Adjourn

12:00 – Box Lunch 

Downloadable CAGE Agenda