June 18

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1. Registration / Meet and Greet

   8:00AM - 9:30AM MT

   Start the day by connecting with fellow summit-goers over coffee and conversation as we gear up for an inspiring day of events.
   

2. Opening Remarks

   9:30AM - 10:00AM MT

   Listen to representatives of the University Leadership & the State Legislature talk about their hopes for AI here in Utah.

3. AI in Sensing, Seeing and Securing the World

   Moderated By Varun Shankar
   

   10:00AM - 10:55AM MT

   Weilu Gao, ECE,  Machine learning with optics
   Ziad Al-Halah, CS, Multimodal Embodied AI
   Guanhong Tao, CS, Towards Safe and Secure Large Language Models

4. Next-Gen AI: From Supervision to Autonomy

   Moderated By  Tucker Hermans
   

   11:00AM - 11:55AM MT

   Jacob Hochhalter, ME,  Reducing Training Costs with Derivative Informed Data from Hypercomplex Automatic Differentiation
   Daniel Brown, CS, Toward Robust, Interactive, and Human-Aligned AI Systems
   Vivek Srikumar, CS, Human language technology: Can we do better than bigger?

5. Lunch / Poster Session / Networking

   12:00PM - 1:00PM MT

6. The Nexus of Health, Humans, and Machines

   Moderated By Laura Hallock
   

   1:00PM - 2:30PM MT

   Tolga Tasdizen, ECE, Towards interpretable AI models in radiology
   Neda Netagh, ECE, Toward less artificial intelligence
   Alan Kuntz, CS, Autonomous Surgical Robots that Learn from Human Surgeons
   Amir Arzani, ME,  Scientific machine learning: From no data to large data
   Ashley Dalrymple, BME,  Reinforcement Learning for Predicting Walking-Related Events

7. Break / Poster Session / Networking

   2:30PM - 3:15PM MT

8. “Bridging” AI and Infrastructure

   Moderated By Cathy Liu
   

   3:15PM - 4:10PM MT

   Ryan Johnson, CVEEN, High-Resolution Snow Mapping with Machine Learning: Pioneering Products to Enhance Season-to-Season Water Supply Forecasting
   Masood Parvania, ECE,  AI for Autonomous Power Grid Operation
   Chenxi (Dylan) Liu, CVEEN,  Leveraging AI for intelligent transportation systems
   Taylor Sparks, MSE,  The materials of tomorrow, today

9. Awards & Closing Remarks

   4:15PM - 4:30PM MT