eCAT 2026 Annual Fall Meeting

Conference Venue

Texas Instruments Auditorium (ECSS 2.102), address: 800 W. Campbell Road, Richardson, Texas 75080-3021

eCAT 2026 Fall Meeting Agenda (Tentative)

Nov 4-5, 2026, Co-hosted by University of North Texas and University of Texas at Dallas

Location: Richardson, TX

Nov. 4, 2026 (Wednesday)

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

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

Dr. Paul S. Krueger   Dean, College of Engineering,  University of North Texas

Xxxxx               Senior Executive, Michigan Office of Future Mobility and Electrification

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 (Hang Liu, Program Director,  NSF/CNS)

10:30 - 10:45 am       Break

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

1. AI/LLM-Assisted White-Box Combinatorial Testing – UT-Dallas

2. New Modeling Tools for Emerging EV and Data Center Loads: Challenges and Opportunities for Electricity Markets - WSU

3. Ad-hoc Route Navigation for Autonomous Vehicles - Clarkson

4. AI-Enabled Digital Twin for Connected and Autonomous Manufacturing Systems – UNT

12:00 - 1:30 pm          Lunch & Posters

1:30 - 2:30 pm             eCAT Ongoing Project Update (Part II)

5. pDAL: Protected Data Access Layer for Vehicles – UD

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

7. Data Analytics and Learning for High Dimensional and Multi Modal Data – UNT

8. Dynamic Scheduling of Mobile Chargers for Electric Vehicles - UH

2:30 - 3:00 pm             Introduction and update to the center bylaws

3:00 - 3:30 pm             Break

3:30 - 4:30 pm             IAB and eCAT leadership meeting

                                                     Discussions on the ongoing projects

                                   IAB feedback

4:30 - 5:30 pm             Posters

Nov. 5, 2026 (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.    Proposal #1

2.    Proposal #2

3.    Proposal #3

If each university proposes 2 new proposals, we will have about 6 new projects.

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10:15 - 10:30 am       Berak

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

(10min per proposal)

4.    Proposal #4

5.    Proposal #5

6.    Proposal #6

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11:30 - 12:15 pm   IAB meeting (IAB members only)

                                 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

Recommended Hotel

DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Dallas - Richardson, 1981 North Central Expressway, Richardson, Texas, 75080, USA