eCAT 2026 Annual Spring Meeting

eCAT 2025 Spring Meeting Agenda (Tentative)

May 7-8, 2026, Detroit, MI

May 7, 2026 (Thursday)

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

8:30 - 9:00 am           Opening remarks 

    Dr. Leela Arava,    Associate Dean for Research, College of Engineering, Wayne State University

  Tony Geara,             National Lead for Intelligent Cities, Mobility Innovation, and Emerging Technologies, HDR

  Former Deputy Chief Officer, The Office of Mobility Innovation (OMI), City of Detroit

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

 State of the Center

 Vision and value proposition including a brief description of Thrust Areas Capabilities of academic sites

10:00 - 10:30 am         NSF IUCRC program (Dr. Hang Liu, Program Director,  NSF/CNS)

10:30 - 10:45 am         Break

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

      1. AutoRecall: An Autonomous Vehicle Data Recording and Analysis System

2. Data Analytics and Learning for High Dimensional and Multi Modal Data

      3. Ad-hoc Route Navigation for Autonomous Vehicles - Phase II

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

12:00 - 1:30 pm            Lunch & Posters

1:30 - 2:00 pm             eCAT Ongoing Project Update (Part II)

    5. Dynamic Scheduling of Mobile Chargers for Electric Vehicles

         6. Conditional Diffusion Model for Generating Synthetic Power System Insulator Images with Defect Annotation

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

2:30 - 2:45 pm             Break

2:45 - 3:45 pm                 IAB and eCAT leadership meeting

                                               Discussions on the ongoing projects

                                           IAB feedback

3:45 - 5:00 pm                   Posters

May 8, 2026 (Friday)

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.   AI/LLM-Assisted White-Box Combinatorial Testing

2.   Side-Channel Fingerprinting to Detect Hardware/Software Anomalies and Counterfeits in Automotive Systems

3.   AI-Enabled Digital Twin for Connected and Autonomous Manufacturing Systems

4.   pDAL: Protected Data Access Layer for Vehicles

5.   Edge Brain: Cognitive Runtime Learning on Edge for Ground Robots

10:15 - 10:30 am     Break

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

(10min per proposal)

6.   Task-Aware Data Compression with Detection-Critical Learning

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

8.   Efficient Perception-to-Decision for Reliable AI Agents in Autonomous Vehicles

9.   Efficient Multimodal Learning from Incomplete Data for Detecting High Risk Behaviors

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

Online Participation

Topic: 2026 eCAT Spring Meeting

Time: May 7-8, 2026 08:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

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