CARTA Workshop + Industry Advisory Board Annual Meeting
1/7+8/2025 | Newman Alumni Center, University of Miami
»If you have not done so already—whether attending in person or virtually—please take a moment to REGISTER for the Day 1 Workshop, Day 2 Meeting, or for Both Days. ZOOM LINKS will be included in your registration confirmation email.
Day 1 Workshop
A workshop will be held the day before the annual meeting on Tuesday, January 7, 2025, 9:00 AM – 5:30 PM EST (Dinner follows until 7:00). This workshop will be dedicated to trusted AI and cybersecurity and co-sponsored by Google, MedStar, the US Department of Homeland Security, the University of Miami Frost Institute for Data Science and Computing, and the University of Miami College of Arts and Sciences.
Day 2 Meeting
The Spring 2025 CARTA Industry Advisory Board (IAB) annual meeting will be held on Wednesday, January 8, 2025, 9:00 AM – 4:15 PM EST (Reception follows until 6:30). The meeting is hosted by the NSF University of Miami CARTA site co-directors, Drs. Mitsu Ogihara and Yelena Yesha. Attendance is by invitation only.
If you plan to travel to Miami, please check out our recommendations on WHERE TO STAY (and PUBLIC TRANSPORATION info) and PLACES TO EAT (on and off campus).
Thank you for your support and participation!
Mitsunori Ogihara + Yelena Yesha | Stephen Dennis
NSF University of Miami CARTA site Co-Directors | Professor Prof. Practice
Complimentary Parking
Please use this link to register your vehicle for complimentary parking in any of the grey lots marked on the map below: https://www.offstreet.io/location/SVMCNHTN
Jan 7 WORKSHOP | Enter the Code: 0107 - Parking valid 8:00 AM - 8:00 PM
Jan 8 MEETING | Enter Code: 0108 - Parking valid 8:00 AM - 9:00 PM
Parking valid in Gray Zones only. PLEASE NOTE: Vehicles must be parked head-in.
The closest lots to the Newman Alumni Center (6200 San Amaro Drive, Coral Gables, FL 33146) are 601, 701, 711, 714, or 716.
ZOOM LINKS will be emailed with your registration confirmation.
1/7 WORKSHOP AGENDA (subject to change)
Digital Twins and Cyber-Physical Security for National Critical Infrastructure
NSF Center for Advanced Real-Time Analytics Workshop
Department of Homeland Security—Science and Technology Directorate,
Google, MedStar, and the University of Miami
“Exploring the translation of digital twins research to
the protection of critical infrastructure resilience”
January 7, 2025 | UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI, Newman Alumni Center,
Multipurpose Room ABC, 6200 San Amaro Drive, Coral Gables, FL 33146
8:30 AM Registration + Continental Breakfast
9:00 AM Welcome + Opening Remarks | Caleb Scotti Everett, Sr. Associate Dean, University of Miami College of Arts and Sciences
9:15 AM Keynote Presentation: "Public Good in Private Records" | Bill Reid, Google Cloud
10:00 AM PANEL 1 National Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity Risks, Opportunities, and Challenges | MODERATOR: Venkatesh Venkataramanan, Senior Researcher; Energy Security, Resilience, and Integration; National Renewable Energy Lab
PANELISTS:
-Clifton Black | Southern Company
-Jim Cooper | American Water Works Association
-Nawar Shara | MedStar
10:45 AM PANEL 2 Frontiers for Digital Twins in Critical Infrastructure Resilience | MODERATOR: Bill Reid, Google Cloud
PANELISTS:
-Matthew Nielson | GE Vernova
-Venkatesh Venkataramanan | National Renewable Energy Lab
-Dimitris Metaxas, NSF CARTA Director | Rutgers University
-Dongyan Xu | Purdue University
11:30 AM Break + Lunch Pick-up
11:45 AM Federal Research, Technology, and Policy Challenges for Digital Twins—LIGHTNING TALKS
-Sean Warnick | The CIMBA Vision for Unlocking the Digital Twin Marketplace
-Charles Broomfield | Architecting the Critical Infrastructure Model Building Application (CIMBA)
-Alex Stankovic | Introduction to the Power Sector as a CIMBA Application
-Anthony Zalev | DEMO
-Andrew Hong | DEMO
-Mark Transtrum | Parameter Estimation at Scale: Challenges and Solutions
1:45 PM Break
2:00 PM Parallel Breakout Sessions
- Validating Digital Twin Models | ROOM: Multipurpose A
Moderator: Alex Stankovic
Scribe: Yusen Wu
Critical Issues Related to Validation Requirements (Research Infrastructure, Data Requirements, Use Cases, Test Ranges, Mission Metrics)
- Scaling Digital Twin Models | ROOM: Multipurpose B
Moderator: Mark Transtrum
Scribe: Kareem Diab
Research Issues Related to the Building of Complex Models at Scale (Uncertainty Quantization, Machine Learning Models, Understanding Risk, Open Questions, Mathematical Problems, Computational Issues)
- Composable Digital Twin Models and the Marketplace | ROOM: Multipurpose C
Moderator: Charles Broomfield
Scribe: Jerry Bonnell
Technical Challenges and Business Issues Related to the Development of a Productive and Economically Viable Digital Twins Marketplace (Component Model Libraries, Sharing Models, Composable Platforms, Digital Twin Services, Economic Incentives, APIs)
- Digital Twin Technology and Cyber-Physical Security in Mental Health: Risks, Ethical Considerations, and Bias | ROOM: Toll Library
Moderators: Joe Frascella, Max Orezzoli, and Rose Yesha
Scribe: Phuong Nguyen
Healthcare and medical applications will benefit from advances in digital twin technologies. This session will offer medical and healthcare professionals a unique chance to characterize strategic opportunities to identify innovation across a spectrum of disciplines.
3:30 PM Break | Report Formulation
4:00 PM Breakout Group Reports
500 PM Closing Speaker | David Corman, NSF
5:30 PM Dinner
7:00 PM Adjourn
1/8 MEETING AGENDA (subject to change)
January 8, 2025 | UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI, Newman Alumni Center,
Multipurpose Room ABC, 6200 San Amaro Drive, Coral Gables, FL 33146
8:30 AM Registration+ Continental Breakfast
9:00 AM Opening Remarks | Mitsu Ogihara + Yelena Yesha, UM CARTA Co-Directors
9:10 AM Welcome Remarks | Nicholas Tsinoremas, Founding Director, Institute for Data Science and Computing; and Vice Provost for Research Computing and Data, University of Miami
9:15 AM NSF Director Remarks | Ann von Lehman, NSF CNS & IUCRC Program Director
9:30 AM CARTA Phase II Overview | Dimitris Metaxas, Director, NSF CARTA
10:00 AM Brief Site Updates | Rutgers University; University of Maryland, Baltimore County; University of Miami; Arizona State University; and Tel Aviv University
10:30 AM Break
11:00 AM Collaborative Project Reports | CARTA Site Directors
11:30 AM International Collaborations | Mira Marcus, Tel Aviv University
11:50 AM Lunch Pick-up
12:00 PM Lunch + Keynote "Safeguarding Devices: Protecting Children Online" | Travis Heneveld, International Centre for Missing & Expolited Children
1:00 PM Project Proposals + Voting | CARTA Site Directors
Ongoing Collaborative Projects and Proposals
- Digital Twins, Cyber-physical Vulnerabilities, and Adversarial Attacks | Stephen Dennis and Yelena Yesha (UM)—DHS
- Collaborative Project Digital Twins, Cyber-Physical Vulnerabilities, and Adversarial Attacks: CARTA/UMBC Public Safety | Milt Halem and Yaacov Yesha (UMBC)—DHS
Individual Proposals
- Rutgers University | Dimitris Metaxas
- 5D Cardiac Digital AI Clone to Improve Diagnosis and Assessment of Cardiac Disease
- Dynamic Digital AI Clone for Coupled Dynamical Systems to Improve Collision Prediction
- Human Explainable AI by Injecting Domain Knowledge into Deep Learning Methods: Applications to Cancer Diagnosis
- University of Miami
- Evaluating HOPPR Foundation Models for Medical Imagaing | Phuong Nguyen
- Considerations in the Design of Nanomagnetic Two-Quibit Quantum Gates to Enable Highly Scalable Room Temperature Quantum Computer Chips for Small- and Large-Machine Learning Applications | Sakhrat Khizroev
- Evaluation of Foundation AI Models for Healthcare Applications | Yusen Wu
- Safeguarding Devices: Protecting Children Online | Yelena Yesha—International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children
- University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
- LLM Integrated Knowledge Graph for Multi-Modal Disaster Data | Karuna Joshi
- RISC-V Hardware Architecture Customizations and Evaluation Platforms | Ryan Robucci and Mohamed Younis
- Optimizing Knowledge Graph Reasoning for Accelerated High Performance Computing Environments | Anupam Joshi and Tim Finin
- Arizona State University | Ming Zhao
- Accelerating Large Machine-Learning Models with Memory Disaggregation
- Accelerating Data-Intensive Computing with Storage Funcations
2:45 PM International Collaborations | Martin Hoffman, University of Bonn
3:05 PM Break
3:15 PM Industry Panel | MODERATOR: Alex Phounsavath
PANELISTS: Google, MedStar, HOPPR, DHS, SenseTime
4:15 PM Zoom Session Ends
4:15-5:00 PM Closed Executive Session (Executive Conference Room)
4:15-6:30 PM Networking Reception
6:30 PM Adjourn
