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Keynote Speaker
Monday, May 20, 2019
8:30 AM


Siddharth Suryanarayanan
Lisa and Desi Rhoden Endowed Chair
Associate Professor
ECE Department
Colorado State University


 

Resource aggregation in the Smart Grid
 

In this keynote address, we will discuss the aggregation of end user resources like common appliances, solar photovoltaic installations, energy storage, and electric vehicles for demand response. Topics include the need for aggregation, some historical perspectives, incentives and transformations, and emerging challenges.

 

Keynote Speaker
Monday, May 20, 2019
12:00 PM


Dr. James J. Wu
NASA Glenn Research Center


 
Dr. James J. Wu is a research scientist/engineer at NASA Glenn Research Center. He earned his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Wu possesses more than twenty years of industrial and government R&D experience on battery, energy storage material and technology development. Dr. Wu is currently working on the development of advanced energy storage materials and design for safe and high capacity next-generation battery technology. Dr. Wu was an anode team leader in the development of Si as advanced anode material for high energy and ultra-high energy Li-ion battery technology development under NASA Advanced Space Power System project, and a lead researcher in development of safe electrolytes to enable Li-metal safely cycling for beyond Li-ion battery technology for NASA Advanced Energy Storage Systems. Dr. Wu is a recipient of numerous NASA Center Innovative Fund awards. He has 8 patents/disclosures, more than 20 research papers and 1 book chapter. He is currently editing a book on battery materials. He delivered more than 20 presentations/seminars at government battery and safety workshops, national/international meetings and conferences, as well as universities (among which 12 were invited).

Challenges and Opportunities of Safe and High Capacity Next-Generation Batteries Technology Development for NASA Future Missions
 
 

Keynote Speaker
Monday, May 20, 2019
6:00 PM


Shannon Mutschelknaus
Display Design Engineer
Daktronics Inc.


 
Shannon Mutschelknaus is a display design engineer with more than 16 years of experience at Daktronics Inc. He has multiple patents of LED lighting systems. Products that he's been a part of are showcased throughout the world at such renowned locales as Times Square New York, Macau China or sailing the seas on cruise ships. He has 5+ years experience focusing on electronics cooling design and measurement utilizing CFD tools and thermal testing systems. He has 6+ years experience designing LED display module components utilizing FEA & ray tracing tools. He has 5 years experience with the failure analysis and benchmarking performance and reliability of LEDs and LED display systems in his current role leading a team of techs and engineers testing and evaluating LED display products.
 
When he's not designing the next greatest display, you can find him running his small acreage with his wife and two children while experimenting with agricultural innovations. He is the proud recipient of a recent USDA SARE Research Grant FNC19-1185 for development & prototyping of a High-Efficiency Year-Round Tropical Greenhouse in South Dakota!

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Keynote Speaker
Tuesday, May 21, 2019
8:30 AM


Prof. Hojjat Adeli
Distinguished Member, ASCE
Fellow, IEEE, AIMBE, AAAS,
and American Neurological Association
Academy Professor
The Ohio State University


 
Hojjat Adeli received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1976 at the age of 26. He is currently an Academy Professor at The Ohio State University where he held the Abba G. Lichtenstein Professorship for ten years. He has authored 610 research and scientific publications in various fields of computer science, engineering, applied mathematics, and medicine, including 16 ground-breaking high-technology books such as Automated EEG-based Diagnosis of Neurological Disorders - Inventing the Future of Neurology (CRC Press, 2010), and holds a United States patent. He is the recipient of 59 awards and honors including Honorary Doctorates and membership in 4 European academies. In 1998 he received the Distinguished Scholar Award, The Ohio State University's highest research award "in recognition of extraordinary accomplishment in research and scholarship". In 2007 he received the Peter L. and Clara M. Scott Award for Excellence in Engineering and Charles E. MacQuigg Outstanding Teaching Award from OSU. In 2010, he was profiled as an Engineering Legend in the ASCE journal of Leadership and Management in Engineering. He has served on the editorial board of 143 journals and presented 112 Keynote/ Plenary Lectures at conferences held in 44 different countries. He has held Honorary/Distinguished Professorship at half a dozen Asian and European Universities. He is a Distinguished Member of ASCE, and a Fellow of AAAS, IEEE, AIMBE, and American Neurological Association. He is a Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher in two categories of Computer Science and Engineering.

Machine Learning – a Key Ubiquitous Technology in the 21st Century
 
 

Keynote Speaker
Tuesday, May 21, 2019
12:00 PM


D. Subbaram Naidu, PhD
Life Fellow IEEE
Minnesota Power Jack Rowe Endowed Chair
University of Minnesota Duluth, USA


 
Desineni "Subbaram" Naidu received MTech and PhD (1979) degrees in Electrical Engineering (with specialization in Control Systems Engineering), from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, INDIA. Dr. Naidu taught, visited and/or conducted research at IIT; National Research Council (NRC) Senior Research Associate at Guidance and Control Division at NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, USA (1985-90); Old Domain University, Norfolk, VA, USA (1987-90); as Professor, Associate Dean and Director, School of Engineering at Idaho State University and Measurement and Control Engineering Research Center, Pocatello, Idaho, USA (1990-2014); National Research Council (NRC) Senior Research Associate at Center of Excellence in Advanced Flight Research at United States (US) Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright Patterson Air Force Base (WPAFB), Ohio, USA (1998-99); Visiting Research Fellow at Center of Excellence for Ships and Ocean Structures at Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, NORWAY (2014); Academic Guest at Measurement and Control Laboratory at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, SWITZERLAND (2015); Visiting Professor at Nantong University, Nantong; Jiangsu College of Information Technology, Jiangsu, East China Normal University, Shanghai, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing CHINA (2007,2-09,2011); Visiting Research Professor at the University of Western Australia in Perth, and Center for Industrial and Applied Mathematics at the University of South Australia, Adelaide, AUSTRALIA (2008); Satish Dhawan Endowed Visiting Professor at Indian Inst. of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, INDIA (2017), Nizhny Novgorod and Moscow State University, Moscow, Novosibirsk State Technical University, Novosibirsk (New Siberia), Institute of Control Sciences (ICS), Russian Academy of Sciences RUSSIA (2012,2018).
 
Since August 2014, Professor Naidu has been with University of Minnesota Duluth as Minnesota Power Jack Rowe Endowed Chair and Professor of Electrical Engineering. Professor Naidu received twice the Senior National Research Council (NRC) Associateship award from the US National Academy of Sciences (NAS), and is an elected (1995) (now Life) Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) and an elected (2003) Fellow of the World Innovation Foundation, UK. Professor Naidu’s teaching and research interests are Electrical Engineering (Power and Energy); Control Systems; Optimal Control: Theory and Applications; Biomedical Sciences and Engineering (Prosthetics and Infectious Diseases); Large Scale Systems and Singular Perturbations and Time Scales (SPaTS): Control Theory and Applications; Guidance and Control of Aerospace Systems: Aeroassisted Orbital Transfer for Mars mission and Uninhabited Aerial Vehicles (UAVs); Advanced Control Strategies for Heating, Ventilation, & Air-Conditioning (HVAC); Modeling, Sensing and Control of Gas Metal Arc Welding (GMAW) and has over 200 journal and conference publications including 9 books. He has been on the editorial boards of several journals including the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Mechatronics: The Science of Intelligent Machines, An International Journal, ELSEVIER, and Optimal Control: Applications and Methods (Wiley). More details at http://www.d.umn.edu/~dsnaidu/

Fusion of Hard and Soft Control Strategies
For a Smart Prosthetic/Robotic Hand
 
There are now over 20 million people in the world with missing limbs resulting from combat and non-combat operations and by 2050 there will be 50 million amputees all over the world. The availability of artificial limbs will help these people to lead a better normal life. The overall goal of the research on Prosthetic Hand Technology is to develop a smart prosthetic hand using intelligent strategies for electromyographic (EMG) signal extraction, analysis, identification, kinematic synthesis, and embedded hierarchical real-time systems and control by fusion of soft computing and hard computing techniques. The presentation is based on Professor Naidu''s recent (2016-August-12) TED Talk (http://www.ted.com) on 3-D Printed Prosthetic Hand for the World (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXyy5XN2oY0) and his recent research book published in October 2017 by the IEEE Press - Wiley (Series on Systems Science and Engineering) titled, "Fusion of Hard and Soft Control Strategies for a Robotic Hand". http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1119273595,subjectCd-EE30.html
 

Keynote Speaker
Wednesday, May 22, 2019
8:30 AM


Prof. Madjid Fathi
University of Siegen, Germany


 
Madjid Fathi is a professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Siegen. He is the Chair and Director of the Institute of Knowledge-Based Systems and Knowledge Management. Madjid received his M.Sc. in informatics and PhD in mechanical engineering, both from University of Dortmund. He obtained his Habilitation degree in informatics and automation from the University of Ilmenau. His research interests are focused on knowledge management applications in medicine and engineering, computational intelligence and knowledge discovery from text (KDT). Madjid is the editor of the book series "Integrated Systems: Innovations and Applications" published by Springer. He obtained the cut-e European Innovation Award in 2015.

A Multi-disciplinary Approach in Cancer Cell Treatment – A Future Direction to Utilize Magnetized Nano-Graphen as a Mechanical Therapy
 
In this talk I will present a visionary approach to bridge different research directions on the task to develop a mechanical therapy instead of chemical therapy. In the chemical therapy, current treatment harms regular cells, is highly complex, less effective and the prognosis on a successful treatment is mostly based on affected tissues. A new methodology in cancer therapy for the treatment with chimeric antigen receptor (CAR-T) has been recently presented and successfully approved by the FDA as CAR T-cell immunotherapy. This therapy shows very promising results in strengthening the immune system, for example as a treatment for leukemia, but remains very costly up to now. Mechanical therapy is going into a different direction and is targeting cancer cells through identification of vascular changes. Magnetized nano-graphen is injected into the blood vessels and remains with affected cells because of vascular deformation. For this interdisciplinary research, integrated knowledge plays an important role, so that the combination of approaches from cell biology, nanotechnology, mechanical and biomechanical engineering is possible to develop this new form of therapy.