Industry Day 2024 | Penn State University

Oct 9th -10th

 

Note to attendees: Please fill out the registration form and reserve your hotel room; we have reserved a block of rooms at the Graduate hotel at a discounted rate: Graduate Hotel Reservation (reservation deadline: Sept 9th).

 

Preliminary Agenda

 

Tuesday, Oct 8th

6:30pm – 8:00pm Reception (Nittany Lion Inn Ballroom AB)

 

Wed, Oct 9th

HUB-Robeson Center 233B

8:00am – 9:00am

Breakfast and registration
9:00am – 9:20am

Welcome 

Andrew Read, Penn State’s senior vice president for research

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Penn State College of Engineering Associate Dean for Innovation

Chita Das, Penn State Department of CSE Chair

Gary Tan and Guohong Cao, CoDirectors, INSR

9:20am – 10:20am

Keynote: ARL wireless communications networking

Dr. Robert Ulman, Program Manager, Army Research Office

10:30am – 11:30am

Keynote: Cybersecurity Research at the US Army Research Laboratory

Mr. Jerry Clarke, Program Manager, Army Research Lab

11:40am – 12:20am

Overview of INSR Research

Gary Tan and Guohong Cao, CoDirectors, INSR

Westgate Atrium (area outside of the Cybertorium)
12:30pm – 3:30pm

Lunch and poster sessions (chair: Ting He)

List of poster titles; Download poster files

 

Westgate W375
3:45 pm – 4:00pm

Overview of Penn State EECS

Thomas La Porta, Director, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

4:00pm – 4:45pm

Institute discussion

Gary Tan and Guohong Cao, INSR CoDirectors

5:30pm Dinner (The Tavern)

 

Thursday, Oct 10th

HUB-Robeson Center 233B
8:00am – 9:00am Continental breakfast
9:00am – 12:00pm

Faculty research talks

Shagufta Mehnaz, Prof. CSE, Privacy and Security in ML: A Priority, not an Afterthought

Syed Rafiul Hussain, Prof. CSE, Security by Design for Complex Networks and Systems

Bin Li, Prof. EE, Verified Probabilistic Cognitive Reasoning for Tactical Mixed Reality Systems

Ting He, Prof. CSE. Topology Inference: Fundamental Limitations and New Opportunities

Arslan Khan, Prof. CSE, Securing Embedded Systems: Retrospective Insights and Future Directions

Minghui Zhu, Prof. EE, Reinforcement learning for cybersecurity and control theory for cyber-physical security

12:00pm Boxed Lunch