Program
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING
2017 US Frontiers of Engineering
September 25-27, 2017
Chair: Robert Braun, University of Colorado Boulder
MACHINES THAT TEACH THEMSELVES
Organizer:
Rajan Bhattacharyya, HRL Laboratories
Reinforcement Learning and Learning to Promote Learning
Emma Brunskill, Stanford University
Can Machines Spot Diseases Faster Than Expert Humans?
Suchi Saria, Johns Hopkins University
Humans and Computers Working Together to Measure Machine Learning Interpretability
Jordan Boyd-Graber, University of Maryland
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ENERGY STRATEGIES TO POWER OUR FUTURE
Organizers:
Katherine Dykes, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and Jeremy Munday, University of Maryland
Agile Fractal Systems: Re-Envisioning Power System Architecture
Tim Heidel, National Rural Electric Cooperative Association
Big Data and Analytics for Wind Energy Operations and Maintenance: Opportunities, Trends, and Challenges in the Industrial Internet
Bouchra Bouqata, GE Global Research Center
Across Dimensions and Scales: How Imaging and Machine Learning Will Help Design Tomorrow’s Energy Conversion Devices
Mariana Bertoni, Arizona State University
Wireless Charging of Electric Vehicles
Khurram Afridi, University of Colorado Boulder
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UNRAVELING THE COMPLEXITY OF THE BRAIN
Organizers:
Xue Han, Boston University, and Maryam Shanechi, University of Southern California
Technologies to Interface with the Brain for Recording and Modulation
Ellis Meng, University of Southern California
Brain-Machine Interface Paradigms for Neuroscience and Clinical Translation
Jose Carmena, University of California, Berkeley
The Roles of Machine Learning in Biomedical Science
Konrad Kording, University of Pennsylvania
Efficient Feature Extraction and Classification Methods in Neural Interfaces
Azita Emami, California Institute of Technology
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MEGATALL BUILDINGS AND OTHER FUTURE PLACES OF WORK
Organizers:
Maria Paz Gutierrez, University of California, Berkeley, and Marija Trcka, United Technologies Corp.
The Evolution of Elevators: Physical Human Interface, Digital Interaction, and Megatall Buildings
Stephen Nichols, Otis
Supertall Timber: Functional Natural Materials for High-Rise Structures
Michael Ramage, University of Cambridge
Applications of Insights from Biology and Mathematics to the Design of Material Structures
Jenny Sabin, Cornell University
