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AI4SE & SE4AI Workshop 2022
Wednesday, September 21, 2022 - Thursday, September 22, 2022
Participation limited to U.S. citizens only.
Sponsored & organized by U.S. Army DEVCOM Armaments Center (AC) Systems Engineering Directorate and the Systems Engineering Research Center (SERC)
The 2022 AI4SE & SE4AI Workshop was held on September 21-22 as a hybrid event at Stevens Institute of Technology, in Hoboken, NJ. Participation was limited to U.S. citizens only.
OBJECTIVE
The objective of this hybrid workshop is to bring together key stakeholders and thought leaders to identify shared interests and generate relevant research ideas aligned with DEVCOM AC and SERC priorities to advance the application of AI4SE and SE4AI.
TOPICS OF INTEREST:
- Application of AI on SE and SE on AI projects
- Digital Engineering and Methods in Support of AI
- Automation & Human-Machine Teaming
- Advances in Explainable AI
- Cognitive Assistants and Decision Aiding Tools
- Workforce Development for AI4SE & SE4AI
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Mr. R. Chris DeLuca - Director, Specialty Engineering OUSD(R&E)/ED(SE&A)
Mr. DeLuca has over 38 years of experience in the Department of Defense (DoD) as a U.S. Army Colonel (R) and DoD GS-15/NH-IV Civilian, Level III qualified in Program Management, Systems Engineering and Test and Evaluation. His current assignment includes the following Specialty Engineering disciplines: Reliability & Maintainability; Manufacturing & Quality; Human Systems Integration; System Safety; and, Value Engineering.
As a U.S. Army commissioned officer, he was in combat arms and acquisition, holding multiple command, leadership and staff positions including unit command, Army Program Acquisition Management Charters for Major (MDAP) and Non-Major (including rapid equipping and provisioning) Defense Acquisition Programs, and served on the Army Staff.
As a DoD Civilian, Mr. DeLuca served as a Deputy Program Manager for a Major Automated Information System (MAIS)/Defense Business System (DBS) and directed systems engineering and developmental test and evaluation analysis teams at OSD for Space, Land Warfare and C4ISR MDAPs, MAIS and DBS programs. Mr. DeLuca recently was the USD(R&E) Member of the Secretary of Defense Electromagnetic Spectrum Operations Cross Functional Team before his current assignment as Director, Specialty Engineering.
KEYNOTE
R. Chris DeLuca, Director, Specialty Engineering, Systems Engineering and Architecture
Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (OUSD(R&E))
PANEL: Workforce Development
Moderator: Dr. Jason Cook , US Army DEVCOM Armaments Center
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Dr. Rosa Heckle, MITRE Corporation
Dr. Zoe Szajnfarber, George Washington University
Jaime Hernández-Cordero, DoD
Rhonda Maus, DAU
Understanding Datasets: Seeing the Unseen through Graph Automations
Mr. Ray Lukas & Mr. Jim Lockett, MITRE Corporation
Semi-Automated Development of Textual Requirements: Combined Natural Language Processing and Multi-Domain Semantic Approach
Dr. Mark Austin, University of Maryland, College Park
Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous and Novel Behavior in OneSAF: Potential for New TTPs, Technology Evaluation, and Requirement Definitions
Dr. Eric Kelly, Quansight
Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Engineering to Extract Models From Text
Dr. Carlo Lipizzi, Stevens Institute of Technology
The Design of Swarm Experiments: A Systems Engineering Approach to Swarm Research
Ms. Melissa Jablonski, U.S. Army DEVCOM Armaments Center
Bayesian Methods for T&E of Learning Based Systems
Mr. Paul Wach, Virginia Tech
NeuralSat: A Constraint Solver for Deep Neural Network Verification
Dr. ThanhVu Nguyen, George Mason University
Test and Evaluation of AI Systems with Explainable AI and Counterfactuals
Dr. Ali Raz, George Mason University
Dr. William Miller, Stevens Institute of Technology
How Wrong is Wrong? Richer Characterization of AI Classification Error for Real-World Applications
Ms. Justine-Louise Manning, George Washington University
A Framework for Certification of Continuous Learning Systems (CAI – Certification of Continuously Learning Artificial Intelligence)
Mr. Ari Goodman & Mr. Ryan O’Shea
NAVAIR
PANEL: Government Visions and Needs
Moderator: Dr. Ralph C. Tillinghast, U.S. Army DEVCOM Armaments Center
Mr. R. Chris DeLuca, Director, Specialty Engineering, OUSD(R&E)/ED(SE&A)
Ms. Carol Pomales, MITRE Corporation | DOWNLOAD PRESENTATION
Dr. Raj Iyengar, US Nuclear Regulatory Commission | DOWNLOAD PRESENTATION
Data Requirements and the Green School Bus Problem
Dr. Barclay Brown, Collins Aerospace
Digital Assistance for Systems Requirement Discovery and Analysis Using Machine Learning Natural Language Processing Algorithm
Dr. Nipa Phojanamongkolkij & Mr. Braxton VanGundy
NASA Langley Research Center
Tactical Ammunition Management Micro Services (TAMMS): Human-Machine Teaming by Cognitive Intelligent Agents Providing Sustainment Decision Support
Mr. Steven Vaccaro, U.S. Army DEVCOM Armaments Center
Computer Vision Based Machine Learning for Deck Operations
Mr. Ari Goodman & Mr. Ryan O’Shea
NAVAIR
Towards the Use of Deep Learning Neural Networks for System Validation Testing of Tightly Coupled Complex Systems
Dr. Lance Sherry, George Mason University
Uniting Hierarchical Planning and Model-Based Systems Engineering to Automate Failure Recovery Planning
Mr. Tyler Smith, Adventium Labs
Enabling SE for AI with Test and Evaluation Harnesses for Learning Systems
Dr. Tyler Cody, Virginia Tech