eCAT 2026 Annual Fall Meeting

eCAT 2026 Fall Meeting Agenda (Tentative)

Nov 5-6, 2026, hosted by University of North Texas

Location: Denton, TX

Nov. 5, 2026 (Thursday)

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