eCAT 2025 Annual Spring Meeting

Meeting Agenda (Tentative)

May 7, 2025 (Wednesday)

8:00 - 8:30 am          Registration, breakfast, and networking

8:30 - 9:00 am          Opening remarks (To be confirmed)

                 Dr. Miguel Garcia-Diaz    Vice President for Research, Scholarship and Innovation,  University of Delaware

  Stephanie Johnson    Director, DelDOT

                 Justine Johnson         Michigan Chief Mobility Officer, Senior VP, MEDC (TBC)

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 (Mohan Kumar, Program Director,  NSF/CNS)

10:30 - 10:45 am     Break

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

1. Power semiconductor embedded PCB design and packaging

2. Computational Autonomous Vehicle Storage (AVS)

3. Planar Magnetic Components and Applications for EV Power Converters

4. Device-Level Security for Grid-Tied Inverters

5. Adaptive MPC for Electric Vehicle Powertrains 

12:00 - 1:30 pm    Lunch & Posters

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

6. Assuring the Safety of Autonomous Vehicles Using Combinatorial Design-Based Testing

7. Optimal Scheduling of Edge Devices for Decentralized Data Preprocessing

8. Characterizing and Optimizing Autonomous Driving Workloads on Vehicular Edge

9. Ad-hoc Route Navigation for Autonomous Vehicles

10. Off-road Motion Planning for Autonomous Mobile Robots

11. Electricity Price Forecast for Electricity Market with High Penetration of Renewables and EVs

12. Pedestrian Safety Enhancement Through Human Activity Recognition and V2X Communications

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 pm – 6:00 pm  Posters

May 8, 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.     Conditional Diffusion Model for Generating Synthetic Power System Insulator Images with Defect Annotation

2.     Augmenting Autonomous Driving with Multimodal LLM

3.  Dynamic Scheduling of Mobile Chargers for Electric Vehicles

4.  MHz Isolated Power Supply for Gate Drivers Using a Quarter and Half Turn Planar Transformer

5.  Ethical Security Testing on Autonomous Vehicles

6. Security for the Autonomous Car and Drone Ecosystem Operations

10:15 - 10:30 am   Berak

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

(10min per proposal)

7.     Detroit Rectifier for High Voltage and High Power Electrification Applications

8.  Energy-Model-Aware Trajectory Optimization for Autonomous Heavy Trucks

9.  Adaptive and Uncertainty-Aware Perception System for Autonomous Vehicles

10. Physical Edge Learning for Safety-critical Autonomous Systems

11. Leveraging Local Data and Open Protocols (MCP/A2A) for Trustworthy AI in Critical Domains

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

Conference Venue

Venue Address: FinTech Building, STAR Campus, 591 Collaboration Way, Newark, DE 19713

Parking Information

The nearest parking space to the FinTech Building is at Lot 213. You can locate it on the parking map below. To secure a parking spot, use the Passport App (Zone 16671 in the Passport App). Nearby street parking falls under the Gray Lot category, and payment for these spots can also be made via the Passport App (Zone 16671) or a kiosk.

Nearby Accommodations

In University Hotel

• Hotel Name: Hyatt Place Newark / Main Street
  Hotel Address: 94 E Main St Building 1000, Newark, DE 19711
  TEL: +1 302-266-2000

Walking Distance Hotel

• Hotel Name: Homewood Suites by Hilton Newark-Wilmington South Area
  Hotel Address: 94 E Main St Building 1000, Newark, DE 19711
  TEL: +1 302-453-9700

• Hotel Name: Embassy Suites by Hilton Newark Wilmington South
  Hotel Address: 654 S College Ave, Newark, DE 19713
  TEL: +1 302-368-8000

• Hotel Name: Baymont by Wyndham Newark I-95 at University of Delaware
  Hotel Address: 630 S College Ave, Newark, DE 19713
  TEL: +1 302-453-1700