AI4SE & SE4AI Workshop 2025

Location: Grand Ballroom

Speakers:

• Mr. Daniel Hettema, Director, Digital Engineering Modeling and Simulation, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering
• Dr. Paul Kaminski, Chair of the SERC Advisory Board and Former Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology
• Dr. John Lach, Interim Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, The George Washington University

Location: Grand Ballroom

Speaker:

• Dr. Matthew Kuan Johnson, Chief of Responsible AI, Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office

Location: Grand Ballroom

Location: Grand Ballroom

Moderator:

• Dr. Dinesh Verma, Executive Director, Systems Engineering Research Center

Speakers:

• Ms. Irene Helley, Vice President, Applied AI, Lockheed Martin
• Dr. Dimitrios Lymberopoulos, Head of Machine Learning, Palantir
• Mr. Jay Meil, Vice President of AI and Chief Data Scientist, SAIC

Location: Room #307

Presenters:

• 11:30 am | Ms. Carol Pomales, MITRE
  Measuring AIES Trustworthiness
• 11:50 am | Ms. Elena Charnetzki, MITRE
  T&E of AI Enabled System Case Study – Intelligence Analysis with RA-LLM
• 12:10 pm | Dr. Samantha Finkelstein, Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute
  Discourse Analysis as a Diagnostic Lens into Dialogue Systems: LLM Evaluation Considerations Across Four Functionality Dimensions

Location: Room #308

Presenters:

• 11:30 am | Mr. Tom McDermott, Systems Engineering Research Center
  Generative AI, Visualization, and the Future of Managing Megaprojects
• 11:50 am | Dr. Heidi Davidz, ManTech
  Elevating Digital Engineering Competency: An AI-Driven Metadata Analysis of Workforce Gaps and Systemic Failure Patterns in Systems Engineering
• 12:10 pm | Ms. Erin Smith Crabb, Leidos
  Axiom Me a Question! The Effectiveness of Visual Language Models in the Generation of Descriptive Statements for Systems Diagrams

Presenters:

• 11:30 am | Dr. Brad Dennis, Valkyrie Enterprises
  Managing Complexity for LLM Software Co-Pilots Through Abstraction-Aware Context Modeling
• 11:50 am | Dr. Ting Liao, Stevens Institute of Technology
  Shaping Trust Through System Design: Human Perceptions of AI in Design Ideation
• 12:10 pm | Mr. Yonas Ayalew, North Carolina A&T University
  Risk-Informed Flight Scenario Planning and AI-Enhanced Decision Support in Aviation Domains (Note: this presentation is rescheduled from the SE4AI: System Design Processes that Support AI Across the Lifecycle session on September 18)

Location: Grand Ballroom

Speaker:

• Mr. Edward Bauer, Director of the Systems Engineering Directorate, U.S. Army DEVCOM Armaments Center

Location: Grand Ballroom

Presenter:

• Mr. Sebastian Völkl, Dalus
  Practical Approaches to AI-Driven Model Generation in SysMLv2 Environments

Location: Room #307

Presenters:

• 2:10 pm | Dr. Erin Lanus, Virginia Tech National Security Institute
  Tailorable Risk-Informed AI Test and Evaluation Strategy
• 2:30 pm | Dr. Mikel Petty, The University of Alabama in Huntsville
  Two Quantitative Methods for Measuring and Comparing the Performance of Binary Classifiers
• 2:50 pm | Mr. Aditya Singh, The George Washington University
  A New Test & Evaluation Regime for Human-AI Systems
• 3:10 pm | Mr. Jon Vigil, OptTek Systems
  Stress Testing Safety-Critical Learning Enabled Systems with Optimization and Adaptive Sampling

Location: Room #308

Presenters:

• 2:10 pm | Ms. Melissa Bradshaw, Lockheed Martin
  A Lockheed Martin Case Study in Accelerating Systems Engineering with Generative AI
• 2:30 pm | Mr. Yinchien Huang, Purdue University
  Onto-Graph: AI-Driven Framework for Ontology-Guided Clustering and Hierarchical Structuring in System-of-Systems Engineering
• 2:50 pm | Mr. Bryce Huffman, The George Washington University
  Information Synthesis Workflows with Large Language Models: A Review of Current Practices, Opportunities, and Challenges in Literature Review Tasks
• 3:10 pm | Mr. Zaid Kbah, The George Washington University
  Leveraging Large Language Models for Logistics Information Extraction: A Case Study on Two International Disasters

Presenters:

• 2:10 pm | Dr. Dan O’Leary and Dr. Allison Ledford, Auburn University
  AI- Enhanced DEMA: Transforming Implicit System Knowledge into Intelligent, Compliant, and Documented Processes
• 2:30 pm | Mr. Avi Harel, Ergolight
  Operation Design in the Fifth Industrial Revolution
• 2:50 pm | Mr. Charles Collard and Dr. Mark Blackburn, Systems Engineering Research Center
  Automated Knowledge Base Generation from Technical Documents Using Open-Source Large Language Models and Retrieval-Augmented Generation
• 3:10 pm | Mr. Jayaprakash Kambhampaty, Georgia Institute of Technology
  Generating Simulation Metadata with Large Language Models

Location: Grand Ballroom

Presenter:

• Mr. Sebastian Völkl, Dalus
  Practical Approaches to AI-Driven Model Generation in SysMLv2 Environments

Location: Room #307

Presenters:

• 4:05 pm | Mr. Phillip DiBona, Lockheed Martin
  A Systems Approach for Governable & Sustainable AI
• 4:25 pm | Mr. Bing Mak, Stevens Institute of Technology
  Enhanced AI Decision Process for A-eVTOL System
• 4:45 pm | Mr. Steven Senczyszyn, Michigan Technological University
  Reinforcement Learning Qualification Process (RLQP): A Framework for Evaluating Safety and Robustness in Reinforcement Learning
• 5:05 pm | Dr. Lance Sherry, George Mason University
  Opportunities and Challenges in Integrating System Safety Models into SysML

Location: Room #308

Presenters:

• 4:05 pm | Dr. Barclay Brown, Collins Aerospace
  Open Local AI: An Open-Source Generative AI Approach for Sensitive Information
• 4:25 pm | Mr. Hart Traveller, SysGit
  Agile Engineering Enabled by Agentic Co-Modelers
• 4:45 pm | Dr. Chris Helmerich, Celedon Solutions
  Davinci: Transforming Systems Engineering Through Agentic AI Beyond Traditional LLMs
• 5:05 pm | Ms. Nicole Manno, ManTech
  A Modular Agent-Based Architecture for Digital Engineering (Note: this presentation is rescheduled from the SE4AI: System Design Processes that Support AI Across the Lifecycle session on September 18)

Presenters:

• 4:05 pm | Dr. Akond Rahman, Auburn University
  Mis-classification Testing in Open Source Supervised Learning Projects
• 4:25 pm | Dr. Elizabeth Mezzacappa, U.S. Army DEVCOM Armaments Center
  Appropriate Levels of Human Judgement for Autonomy
• 4:45 pm | Mr. Donghyun Ko, North Carolina State University
  Learning Complex Degradation Signal Manifolds for Accurate RUL Prediction via Conditional Diffusion Models
• 5:05 pm | Mr. Matthew Harris, SAIF Autonomy
  Safe Experimentation with LLM-Controlled UAVs

Location: Greenwall in the Science and Engineering Hall

Location: Grand Ballroom

Speaker:

• Dr. Zoe Szajnfarber, SERC Chief Scientist and Research Council Chair; Professor and Director of Strategic Initiatives, GW Engineering

Location: Grand Ballroom

Speaker:

• Dr. Morgan Dwyer, Head of Policy Operations, OpenAI

Location: Room #307

Presenters:

• 10:50 am | Mr. Sami Saliba, Virginia Tech
  Trusted Artificial Intelligence Challenge for Systems Engineering Results and Insights
• 11:10 am | Dr. Nidhal Bouaynaya, Rowan University
  Dynamic Risk-Fusion Framework for Human-AI Collaborative Aerial Threat Prioritization
• 11:30 am | Ms. Jessica Lee, Arizona State University
  Validating a Contextual Trust Assessment Instrument for AI-Enabled Systems Using the MASTOPIA Testbed
• 11:50 am | Mr. Wilmer Maldonado, U.S. Army DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory
  Retrieval Augmented Generation for Operations Order Evaluation

Location: Room #308

Presenters:

• 10:50 am | Dr. Donald Koban, United States Military Academy
  Maximizing the Usability of Publicly Available Information Through Improved USPI Filtering
• 11:10 am | Mr. Henock Legesse, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
  AI-Enhanced Requirements Traceability Using MBSE and Large Language Models for Complex Systems
• 11:30 am | Dr. Jitesh Panchal, Purdue University
  Guiding Large Language Models Through the Engineering Design Process Using Domain-Specific Knowledge Bases
• 11:50 am | Mr. Zak Ouzzif, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
  Leveraging AI to Manage Technical Debt During Test and Evaluation in Aerospace Systems Engineering

Presenters:

• 10:50 am | Ms. Lydia Zeleke, North Carolina A&T University
  A Data-Driven Framework for Trustworthy Situational Awareness Application in DAA Systems
• 11:10 am | Dr. Shi Feng, The George Washington University
  Self-Preference Undermines LM Evaluation
• 11:30 am | Dr. Thomas Serban von Davier, Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute
  Operationalizing Tool Selection with an MLOps Tool Evaluation Rubric

Location: Grand Ballroom

Moderator:

• Dr. Bryan Mesmer, The University of Alabama in Huntsville

Speakers:

• Dr. Matt Gaston, Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute
• Dr. Harrison Hyung Min Kim, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
• Mr. Eric Mortin, U.S. Army DEVCOM Analysis Center

Location: Grand Ballroom

Presenter:

• Dr. Deri Draper-Amason, Old Dominion University Center for Mission Engineering
  Operationalizing Mission Engineering with AI: Leveraging the IDMP User Story Framework for Digital Decision Superiority

Location: Room #307

Presenters:

• 2:25 pm | Mr. Bryant Baldwin, University of South Alabama
  An Adaptive Guidance Tool for Enhanced Education in Systems Engineering
• 2:45 pm | Dr. Peter Denno, National Institute of Standards and Technology
  Design Choices for Human/AI Teaming on Complex and Long-running Endeavors
• 3:05 pm | Ms. Laura Otero Hernandez, The George Washington University
  Ship of Theseus Methodology for Creating Living Engineered Systems

Location: Room #308

Presenters:

• 2:25 pm | Dr. Carlo Lipizzi, Stevens Institute of Technology
  LLM-Augmented Pipelines for Validated System Model Creation: Extracting and Structuring Complex System Representations from Text
• 2:45 pm | Dr. Kristen Jaskie, Prime Solutions Group
  Agentic AI for Lifecycle Traceability: A Digital Thread Architecture for Adaptive, Context-Aware Systems Engineering
• 3:05 pm | Dr. Julian Togelius, New York University
  Autonomous Agents for Complex Simulations: A Compute-Efficient Imitation Learning Approach

Presenters:

• 2:25 pm | Mr. David Hetherington, System Strategy
  Using LLMs to Accelerate text-based SysML Model Requirements Gap Analysis
• 2:45 pm | Dr. Liang Zhang, Drexel University
  AI in Systems Engineering Education: A Review of Curricula and Training Programs in the U.S.
• 3:05 pm | Mr. Stephen Hilton, The George Washington University
  The Impact of Subject Matter Background on Generative AI Use and Perception

Location: Grand Ballroom

Presenter:

• Dr. Deri Draper-Amason, Old Dominion University Center for Mission Engineering
  Operationalizing Mission Engineering with AI: Leveraging the IDMP User Story Framework for Digital Decision Superiority

Location: Room #307

Presenters:

• 3:50 pm | Dr. Tyler Cody, Virginia Tech and Dr. Peter Beling, University of Virginia
  A Mission-centric Resilience Lifecycle and Test Framework for AI-enabled Systems of Systems

Location: Room #308

Presenters:

• 3:50 pm | Dr. Michael Pennock, MITRE
  AI-Enabled Mission Engineering
• 4:10 pm | Dr. Paul Wach, Virginia Tech
  Advancing Systems Engineering through a Mathematically-Rigorous Co-Pilot: From GPS Systems to Satellite Constellation Revectoring

Presenters:

• 3:50 pm | Dr. Nate Crews, Caltech Center for Technology & Management Education
  Ethical Issues and Behavior Strategies in Implementing AI-Enabled Digital Twins for Complex Military Systems
• 4:10 pm | Mr. Yvan Christophe, U.S. Army DEVCOM Armaments Center
  Leveraging AI Agents for Adaptive, Data-Driven Requirements in Army Systems
• 4:30 pm | Dr. Paul Wach, Virginia Tech
  GenGroves: A Bridge Between Systems Engineers and Domain Experts