2021 EU-US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium

At-a-Glance

The 2020 EU-US Frontiers of Engineering symposium will be held November 15-17, 2021 at either Nokia Bell Labs in Murray Hill, New Jersey or the National Academies' Beckman Center in Irvine, California, depending on Bell Labs' reopening status. Sixty of the most promising early career engineers from the US and EU will meet for an intensive 2-1/2 day symposium to discuss cutting-edge developments in four areas: Advances in Deep Learning for ICT Problems, Applications and Uses of Graphene, Modernizing the Electrical Grid, and Technologies for the Detection and Treatment of Dementia. The event facilitates international and cross-disciplinary research collaboration, promotes the transfer of new techniques and approaches across disparate engineering fields, and encourages the creation of a transatlantic network of world-class engineers.

The symposium will be hosted in partnership with the European Council of Academies of Applied Sciences, Technologies, and Engineering. The Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA) is serving as the administrator and organizer for the European side of the event.

The National Academy of Engineering would like to express its gratitude to The Grainger Foundation and the National Science Foundation for their support of the 2021 EU-US FOE Symposium.

More information will be posted as it develops.

LIST OF SESSIONS
(Working titles listed. Order of sessions TBD.)

Symposium co-chairs: Vahid Tarokh, Duke University, and Pontus Johnson, Royal Institute of Technology

MACHINE LEARNING FOR EMERGING NETWORKS  
Session co-chairs:  Shirin Jalali, Nokia Bell Labs, and Sofie Pollin, KU Leuven

End-to-end Learning for the Physical Layer
Jakob Hoydis, Nokia

AI for Sharing Resources
Mariya Zheleva, University at Albany, SUNY

Distributed AI
Salman Avestimehr, University of Southern California

Emerging Networks for Autonomous Driving and Cyber-physical Systems
Sinem Coleri, Koc University

APPLICATIONS AND USES OF GRAPHENE
Session co-chairs:  Roman Caudillo, Intel Corporation, and Amaia Zurutuza, Graphenea

Graphene Biosensors and a Vision for an Internet of Biology (IoB)
Brett Goldsmith, Cardea Bio Inc.

Graphene Synthesis for Supercapacitors and Electrochemical Applications
Veronica A. Strong, Intel Corporation

Electronic and Photonic Applications of Graphene
Frank Koppens, Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO)

Synthesis of 2D Materials
Camilla Coletti, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia

IMPROVING THE RELIABILITY AND RESILIENCY OF ELECTRIC POWER GRIDS
Session co-chairs: Damien Ernst, University of Liege, and Daniel Molzahn, Georgia Institute of Technology

Managing Uncertainties in Electric Grids with High Penetrations of Renewable Generation using Stochastic Optimization
Line Roald, University of Wisconsin–Madison

Applications of Advanced Computational Tools in Power System Operations at RTE
Manuel Ruiz, RTE (French transmission system operator)

Mitigating the Impacts of Extreme Events on Electric Power Grids using Nonlinear Programming
Carleton Coffrin, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Applications of Machine Learning to Power System Reliability and Resiliency
Spyros Chatzivasileiadis, Technical University of Denmark

TECHNOLOGIES FOR THE DETECTION AND TREATMENT OF DEMENTIA
Session co-chairs: Nir Grossman, Imperial College London, and Laura Segatori, Rice University

Stimulation Treatment for Alzheimer’s Disease
Annabelle Singer, Georgia Institute of Technology

Technology Integrated Health Management for Dementia
Payam Barnaghi, University of Surrey

Wearable Health and Ubiquitous Technology
Nick Van Helleputte, IMEC, Belgium
OR
Circuit-level Techniques in Preclinical Studies of Alzheimer’s Disease
Marc Aurel Busche, UK Dementia Research Institute

Upcoming
Details
November
15
2021
to
November
17
2021
July 20, 2021 AT 06:56 AM
Irvine, California