Wednesday, December 9, 2009
8:00 - 8:30 Breakfast and Registration
8:30 - 8:55 Opening
Fred Roberts, Rutgers
Michael Pazzani, Rutgers
Joe Kielman, DHS
Matt Clark, DHS
8:55 - 9:45 Overview of CCICADA Research Plans
Eduard Hovy (USC) and Dan Roth (UIUC)
9:45 - 10:05 Break
10:05 - 11:35 Selected CCICADA Research Projects
8 selected CCICADA researchers, 10 minutes each
Theme: Overview of ongoing and new CCICADA research
THEME 1. Projects on Collecting and Building Knowledge from Data
Ed Hovy (USC): Extracting and summarizing information from text for multimedia
geospatial information seeking tasks
Jiawei Han (UIUC): Data mining and data warehousing
THEME 2. Projects on Enriching Knowledge using Inference
Dan Roth (UIUC): Learning inferences and textual entailments
Hans Chalupsky (USC): Applying inference to find knowledge gaps and inconsistencies
THEME 3. Projects on Applying and Sharing Knowledge
Rebecca Wright (Rutgers): privacy of data
Graham Cormode (AT&T): Trustworthiness of online documents and data sources
THEME 4. Projects Developing Foundations for Homeland Security Tools and Applications
Paul Kantor (Rutgers): Sequential inspection methods
(with applications to container inspection,
email/website testing, etc.)
Nina Fefferman (Rutgers): Exploiting Games: Virtual worlds
11:35 - 11:55 Poster advertising session
1 minute per poster presenter
grad students and postdocs
12:00 - 1:15 Extended lunch and poster session
Poster session during lunch and before/during late afternoon reception
1:15 - 2:00 VACCINE Research Overview and Links with CCICADA
David Ebert, Purdue (VACCINE research)
David Ebert, Bill Pottenger; Ed Hovy: Joint CCICADA-VACCINE Projects that are planned
Discussion of other possible joint projects in the future
Theme: Overview of VACCINE research and plans for and potential for work with CCICADA
2:00 - 3:15 Panel: Work at DHS CoEs and with CCICADA
Chair: Eduard Hovy
Michael Bruno (Maritime, Island, and Port Security)
Neville Clarke (FAZD)
Nina Fefferman (Rutgers), Abdul-Aziz Yakubu
(Howard), Asamoah Nkwanta (Morgan State)
(joint CCICADA-FAZD Project) (presented by Yakubu)
Stephen Hora (CREATE)
Fred Roberts (Rutgers) (joint CCICADA-CREATE Project)
Kathie Smarick (START)
Bill Pottenger (Rutgers) (joint CCICADA-VACCINE-START project)
Rick Luettich (DIEM)
Chris Kozub (Transportation Security Center)
Theme: Work at CoEs and links to CCICADA, now and in the future
3:15 - 3:35 Break
3:35 - 4:15 Overview of CCICADA and VACCINE Education Plans
Midge Cozzens (Rutgers) and Nancy Komlanc (UIUC)
Marti Burns (Purdue)
Theme: Work at both halves of CCI plus links now and in the future
4:15 - 4:35 Technology Transfer
Bill Pottenger (Rutgers)
4:35 - 5:15 Panel: Research Response: Comments and Discussion about Joint and Future Projects
Chair: Dan Roth
Advisory Committee members, David Ebert, Ed Hovy, Fred Roberts, Dan Roth
5:15 - 5:20 Closing
Joe Kielman, DHS
Fred Roberts, Rutgers
5:20 - 6:20 Reception
Posters, continued
6:30 - 9:00 Banquet
Integrating and Summarizing Web Pages, Structured Information, and Maps for Strategic Analysis on Multiple Media Congxing Cai, University of Southern California Detection of Nuclear Materials in Shipment to U.S Xueying Chen, Rutgers University Design and Deployment of a Mobile Sensor Network for the Surveillance of Nuclear Materials in Metropolitan Areas Jerry Cheng, Rutgers University Recognizing, Tracking and Deduplicating events in News Quang Do, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Finding and Describing Objects in Broad Domains Ali Farhadi, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Higher Order Learning Cibin George, Rutgers University Dynamic Networks, Social Complexity, and Disease Risks Brad Greening, Rutgers University Advancing Visual Analytics Evaluation through Competitions Georges Grinstein, University of Massachusetts Decision Making Using High Dimensional Observational Data Lauren Hannah, Princeton University Preposition Sense Disambiguation Using Linguistically Motivated Features Dirk Hovy, University of Southern California Simulating the Diffusion of Warnings Cindy Hui, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute A Practical Differentially Private Random Decision Tree Classifier Geetha Jagannathan, Rutgers University Confidence-Based Techniques for Rapid and Robust Topic Identification of Conversational Telephone Speech Scott Kulp, Rutgers University Schrodinger's Cat and Epidemiological Modeling: Human behavior and the estimation of etiological parameters from reported outbreaks Nianpeng Li, Howard University Topic Models for Integrating and Analyzing Opinions in Blog Articles Yue Lu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Emerging Epidemics in Virtual Worlds Eric Lofgren, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill A Report on RNA Secondary Structure Prediction of the HIV-1 Molecule Using a Lattice Walk Approach: Are There National Security Implications? Helene Nguewou, Morgan State University An Optimal Learning Approach to Finding an Outbreak of a Disease Warren Scott, Princeton University Lexical entailment for Privacy Protection in Medical Records Eric Slone, Texas Southern University iTopicModel: Information Network-Integrated Topic Modeling Yizhou Sun, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign DAPA-V10: Discovery and Analysis of Patterns and Anomalies in Volatile Time-Evolving Networks Brian Thompson, Rutgers University Predicting Spatio-Temporal Risks from Insecticide Resistance and Vector-borne Disease Threats Karen Wylie, Rutgers University
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