AGENDA AGENDA
November 11-12, 2025 GTRI Headquarters 250 14 St NW, Atlanta, GA 30332
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Research Collaboration
Forum @ GT
Theme: Generative AI
Georgia Tech
GTRI Headquarters
November 12, 2025
Date: November 12, 2025
Time: 9:00 AM- 5:00 PM
Time Event
8-9 AM Breakfast & Check in
9-9:10 AM
Welcome & Introductions
George White, PhD, Senior Director for Strategic Partnerships, Georgia Institute of Technology
Timothy Lieuwen, PhD, Executive Vice President of Research, Georgia Institute of Technology
9:10-9:15 AM Introduction of Speaker
George White, PhD, Senior Director for Strategic Partnerships, Georgia Institute of Technology
Frances Williams, PhD, Vice President of Research, Clark Atlanta University
Keynote Speaker
9:15-9:45 AM
Irfan Essa, PhD, Inaugural Executive Director of the Interdisciplinary Research Center for Machine Learning, Georgia Institute of Technology
Research Collaboration
Forum @ GT
Theme: Generative AI
Georgia Tech
GTRI Headquarters
November 12, 2025
Date: November 12, 2025
Time: 9:00 AM- 5:00 PM
Time Event
9:45-10 AM Break & Networking
Overview of Conference Format & Launch of HBCU AI Network
10-10:10 AM
10:10-11:10 AM
George White, PhD, Senior Director for Strategic Partnerships, Georgia Institute of Technology
Session #1: Role of AI in IC Design
Introduction of Intro Talk speaker by moderator
Intro Talk: Jeremy Muldavin, PhD, Director Development A&D, Cadence
Panel Session
Moderator: Pat Mead, PhD, Professor & Department
Chair, Norfolk State University
Research Collaboration
Forum @ GT
Theme: Generative AI
Georgia Tech
GTRI Headquarters
November 12, 2025
Date: November 12, 2025
Time: 9:00 AM- 5:00 PM
Time Event
Panelists introduced by moderator: William Chapman, PhD, Research Fellow, Neuromorphic Computing, Sandia National Laboratories
Ron Duncan, Head, Corporate Innovation Programs - Chief Innovation Office, Synopsys
10:10-11:10 AM
11:15-12:15 PM
Asif Khan, PhD, Associate Professor of ECE, Georgia Institute of Technology
Jeremy Muldavin, PhD, Director Development A&D, Cadence
Surya Tatapudi, PhD, Director, HBM Design Engineering, Micron Q&A
Session #2 Sustainability and Infrastructure
Introduction of Intro Talk speaker by moderator
Intro Talk: Jessica Inman, PhD, Chief, Assured Software and Information, Georgia Tech Research Institute
Research Collaboration
Forum @ GT
Theme: Generative AI
Georgia Tech
GTRI Headquarters
November 12, 2025
Date: November 12, 2025
Time: 9:00 AM- 5:00 PM
Time Event
Panel Session
Moderator: Pascal van Hentenryck, PhD, AI4OPT and Tech AI, Georgia Institute of Technology
Panelists introduced by moderator:
Joe Bozeman lll, Asst. Professor, CEE | SPP, PhD, CEM, Georgia Institute of Technology
11:15-12:15 PM
Jessica Inman, Chief, Assured Software and Information, PhD, Georgia Tech Research Institute
Dinadayalane (Dina) Tandabany, PhD, Professor of Chemistry, Clark Atlanta University
Madison Helmstetter, R&D Cybersecurity Engineer, Sandia National Laboratories
David Waltzman, Product Engineering Group Director, Cadence
12:20- 1:10 PM Lunch & Networking
Research Collaboration
Forum @ GT
Theme: Generative AI
Georgia Tech
GTRI Headquarters
November 12, 2025
Date: November 12, 2025
Time: 9:00 AM- 5:00 PM
Time Event
Session #3 Health & Wellness
Introduction of Intro Talk speaker by moderator
Intro Talk: James Fisher, MD, Doctor, Health Wise Internal Medicine
Panel Session
Moderator: May Wang, PhD, Professor of BME, ECE, and CSE, Georgia Institute of Technology
Panelists introduced by moderator:
Ghassan AlRegib, PhD, John and Marilu McCarty
1:10 – 2:10 PM
Chair Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology
Jon Duke, MD, Director, Center for Health
Analytics and Informatics, Georgia Tech
Research Institute
James Fisher, MD, Doctor of Internal Medicine, Health Wise Internal Medicine
Muhammed Idris, PhD, Assistant Professor, Morehouse School of Medicine
James Washington, MD, Project Director AIMAHEAD, Morehouse School of Medicine
Research Collaboration
Forum @ GT
Theme: Generative AI
Georgia Tech
GTRI Headquarters
November 12, 2025
Date: November 12, 2025
Time: 9:00 AM- 5:00 PM
Time Event
Session #4 Energy
Introduction of Intro Talk speaker by moderator
Intro Talk: Thushara Gunda, PhD, Principal Member of Technical Staff, Sandia National Laboratories
Panel Session
Moderator: Scott McWhorter, PhD, Lead, Federal Opportunities and Strategy, Georgia Institute of Technology
Panelists introducted by moderator:
2:15- 3:15 PM
Luke Gosink, PhD, Senior Scientist and Technical Group Lead, Savannah River National Laboratory
Thushara Gunda, PhD, Principal Member of Technical Staff, National Laboratories
Comas Haynes, PhD, Faculty/Principal Research
Engineer, Georgia Tech Research Institute
Michael H.G. Hoffmann, PhD, H. Bruce McEver
Professor in Engineering and the Liberal Arts, Georgia Institute of Technology
Eric A. Mintz, PhD, Professor of Chemistry, Clark Atlanta University
Research Collaboration
Forum @ GT
Theme: Generative AI
Georgia Tech
GTRI Headquarters
November 12, 2025
Date: November 12, 2025
Time: 9:00 AM- 5:00 PM
Time Event
3:15-3:30 PM Break
3:30- 4:15 PM Concurrent Breakout Session for all topics
4:20-4:50 PM Report out session from Breakouts
4:50-5:00 PM Closeout Session & Next Steps for Seed Grant Submission
5:10 PM Adjourn
Research Collaboration Forum Speaker & Panelist Bios
In order of presentation
Welcome to the Georgia Institute of Technology
Tim Lieuwen, PhD Executive Vice Presidesnt for Reserach
Georgia Institute of Technology
Dr. Tim Lieuwen is a Regents Professor and the Executive Vice President for Research at Georgia Tech, where he provides overall leadership for its research, economic development, compliance, and commercialization units. He is also founder and CTO of TurbineLogic, an energy industry analytics firm. He is an international authority on clean energy and propulsion, and his work has contributed to numerous commercialized innovations in the energy and aerospace sectors. He has authored 4 books and over 500 other publications. Dr. Lieuwen serves on boards of three DOE national labs, EPRI, and is a DOE Secretary appointee to the National Petroleum Counsel. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
Keynote Speaker
Irfan Essa, PhD
Inaugural Executive Director of the Interdisciplinary Research Center for Machine Learning
Georgia Institute of Technology
Irfan Essa is a Distinguished Professor in the School of Interactive Computing (iC) and a Senior Associate Dean in the College of Computing (CoC), at the Georgia Institute of Technology (GA Tech), in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. He is serving as the Inaugural Executive Director of the new Interdisciplinary Research Center for Machine Learning at Georgia Tech (ML@GT). He also serves as a Senior Staff Research Scientist at Google Inc Professor Essa works in the areas of Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Computer Graphics, Computational Perception, Robotics, Computer Animation, and Social Computing, with potential impact on Autonomous Systems, Video Analysis, and Production (e.g., Computational Photography & Video, Image-based Modeling and Rendering, etc.) Human Computer Interaction, Artificial Intelligence, Computational Behavioral/Social Sciences, and Computational Journalism research.
He has published over 200 scholarly articles in leading journals and conference venues on these topics and several of his papers have also won best paper awards. He has been awarded the NSF CAREER and was elected to the grade of IEEE Fellow. He has held extended research consulting positions with Disney Research and Google Research and also was an Adjunct Faculty Member at Carnegie Mellon’s Robotics Institute He joined GA Tech Faculty in 1996 after his earning his MS (1990), Ph.D. (1994), and holding research faculty position at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Media Lab) [1988-1996].
George White, PhD
Sr. Director of Strategic
Partnerships
Dr. White, Senior Director of Strategic Partnerships at Georgia Tech, drives cross-sector research collaborations with a special focus on HBCUs/MSIs. As a serial entrepreneur and 30-year microelectronics veteran, he co-leads initiatives in AI, quantum, and more. He’s raised $22M in start-up capital, holds 30 patents, 100+ publications, and helped secure over $700M in awards.
Georgia Institute of Technology
Dr. Muldavin graduated from the University of Michigan in 1995 with a BSE Engineering Physics and in 2000 with a PhD in Electrical Engineering Electromagnetics. He spent 19 years total at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, with 4 years assigned to Office of Secretary of Defense as the Director of Microelectronics. He spent 4 years at GlobalFoundries as a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff, and recently joined Cadence Design Systems Inc, as a Director of Development A&D.
Jeremy Muldavin, PhD
Director Development A&D Cadence Design Systems
Pat Mead, PhD Professor and Chair, Engineering, Education Director, The SCENE @ NSU
Norfolk State University
With 30+ years across industry (Kodak, HP, GM), public policy (National Academy of Engineering), and academia, Patricia F. Mead has led engineering education and workforce initiatives. At NAE, she helped publish The Engineer of 2020 and launch CASEE. An ABET evaluator and longtime FIRST Robotics volunteer, she now chairs Engineering at NSU and leads SCENE and supports PEAQs.
William is a researcher in neuromorphic computing at Sandia National Laboratories, where his work incorporates biological principles such as computation through dynamics and in-memory computing for emerging platforms. He is currently principal investigator of projects which incorporate machine learning based approaches for automated optimization of analog accelerators for artificial intelligence.
William Chapman, PhD Research Fellow, Neuromorphic Computing Sandia National Lab
Ron Duncan
Principal Manager, Chief Innovation Office Synopsys
Ron Duncan is Principal Manager in Synopsys’ Chief Innovation Office, with deep technical and leadership experience across semiconductors. He drives applications in AI, quantum/superconducting, automotive electronics, neuromorphic computing, and silicon photonics, and represents Synopsys at global conferences and government forums. Formerly with Avant!, ISS, and Hewlett-Packard, he also co-leads Synopsys’ Black ERG, VIBE.
Dr. Asif Khan is a semiconductor technologist and memory expert with more than 15 years of experience advancing device and materials innovation. His research focuses on the intersection of materials engineering, nanoelectronics, and artificial intelligence, where he develops next-generation devices for logic, memory, and neuromorphic technologies.
Asif Khan, PhD
Associate Professor of ECE Georgia Institute of Technology
Surya Tatapudi, PhD
Director, HBM Design Engineering
Micron
Surya Tatapudi received his M.S. and Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from Washington State University. He joined the DRAM Design Engineering Group of Micron Technology, Inc. in 2006. He has worked on various DRAM and Emerging memory architectures, including DDR3, DDR4, WIO2, LPDDR4, LPDDR5, HBM3E, where he was responsible for high-speed digital circuits, mixed-signal circuits, Design For Test (DFT) circuits, package, power distribution network, power evaluation & optimization. In his current role, his team is responsible for nextgeneration HBM designs which power cutting edge AI and High-Performance Computing (HPC) applications. Dr. Tatapudi holds 10 approved U.S. patents.
Dr. Jessica Inman is Chief of the Assured Software and Information Division (ASID) and a Senior Research Scientist within the Cybersecurity Laboratory of the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI). Her research focuses on AI Security, Trustworthy AI, and applied AI/ML for Cybersecurity.
Jessica Inman, PhD Chief, Assured Software and Information Georgia Tech Research Institute
Pascal van Hentenryck, PhD
Director, AI4OPT and Tech AI
Georgia Institute of Technology
Pascal Van Hentenryck is the director of the NSF AI Institute for Advances in Optimization (AI4OPT), the director of Tech AI, and the A. Russell Chandler III Chair and Professor at Georgia Tech. His research focuses on AI for Engineering.
Dr. Bozeman originally hails from Dayton, Ohio. His research began in sustainable energy development. After serving as an energy and environmental practitioner for several years, he shifted his research to matters of climate change adaptation/mitigation. Dr. Bozeman's current research focuses on developing equitable solutions for socioecological, urban carbon management, and food-energy-water nexus challenges. His award-winning work has been featured in major media outlets such as Popular Science, the Geographical Magazine, and NPR.
Joe F. Bozeman III, PhD, CEM Asst. Professor, CEE | SPP
Georgia Institute of Technology
Dinadayalane (Dina)
Tandabany, Ph.D
Professor of Chemistry
Clark Atlanta University
Dr. Tandabany Dinadayalane is a full Professor in Department of Chemistry at Clark Atlanta University (CAU), Atlanta. He mentored and advised over sixty (60) undergraduate students and graduate students including Ph.Ds. His research contributions are in carbon-based nanomaterials and other 2D materials. He is currently serving as the Series Editor of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry. He has received numerous awards.
Madison is a cybersecurity engineer at Sandia National Laboratories, specializing in the development of secure critical systems and infrastructure for national security. His expertise encompasses secure software development, the intersection of AI and cybersecurity, and cyber analytics, where he leverages advanced technologies to enhance the resilience of national infrastructure against evolving threats.
Madison Helmstetter R&D Cybersecurity Engineer
Sandia National Lab
David Waltzman is a Product Engineering Group Director at Cadence, leveraging high performance computing approaches to accelerate design workflows. David lives in Atlanta, GA and has a BS in Mechanical Engineering from UCSD, an MS in Mechanical Engineering from UCLA, and an MBA from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
David Waltzman
Product Engineering Group Director
Cadence Design Systems
Dr. Fisher attended Bowman Gray School of Medicine at Wake Forest University. He received the degree of doctor of medicine in 1977. He then completed his internship and residency at Mercy Hospital in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. As a commissioned officer with the United States Public Health Service Corps (USPHSC), Dr. Fisher served as the Chief Medical Officer of a public health center for three years. In 1983, Dr. Fisher moved to Marietta, Georgia where he began his private practice and joined the staff at Wellstar Kennestone Hospital.
James Fisher, MD Doctor of Medicine Healthwise Internal Medicine
May Dongmei Wang, PhD
May Dongmei Wang, PhD, is a leader in biomedical big data and AI-driven health informatics: Coulter Distinguished Faculty Fellow, professor, and Director of Georgia Tech’s Biomedical Big Data Initiative. She has 270+ publications, 280+ invited talks, and sustained NIH/NSF funding. She chairs IEEE EMBS BHI, leads ACM SIGBio, and serves on major journals and NIH/NSF panels.
Professor of BME, ECE and CSE
Georgia Institute of Technology
Prof. AlRegib is the John and Marilu McCarty Chair Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the GT. His research group work on robust and interpretable machine learning algorithms, uncertainty and trust, multi-modal learning, and human in the loop algorithms. The group has demonstrated their work on a wide range of applications such as Autonomous Systems, Medical Imaging, healthcare, and Subsurface Imaging. He has authored and co-authored more than 300 articles and U.S. patents. He won the College of Engineering Outstanding Teacher (Midcareer and Senior). He created the vision and co-founded Georgia Tech’s AI Makerspace.
Ghassan AlRegib
John and Marilu McCarty Chair Professor Georgia Institute of Technology
Jon Duke, MD Director, Center for Health Analytics and Informatics, Georgia Tech
Research Institute
Dr. Jon Duke is Director of the Center for Health Analytics and Informatics at the Georgia Tech Research Institute. His research focuses on artificial intelligence and interoperability tools for analyzing complex health data, with applications spanning clinical care, research, safety, cost transparency, and public health.
Dr. Idris is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Medicine and Public Health Education at Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM), where he also serves as Associate Director of the Clinical Research Center (CRC) leading digital transformation initiatives across the institution and co-leads the Biomedical Informatics Unit.
Muhammed Y. Idris, PhD Assistant Professor, Morehouse School of Medicine
James Washington, MD
Project Director AIM-AHEAD
Morehouse School of Medicine
Dr. James Washington is the data science ethicist and Project Director for AIM-AHEAD initiative to build AI/ML capacity at minority serving institutions and to develop a pipeline of underrepresented minority scientists in AI/ML and Staff Scientist for Morehouse School of Medicine’s Cardiovascular Research Institute.
Dr. Gunda's research focuses on data-driven decision making in complex systems, including water resources, energy, and security domains. Leveraging insights from multiple disciplines is a key distinguishing feature of her work, often combining techniques from data sciences, modeling and simulation, stakeholder engagement, open-source software development, and domain-specific practices.
Thushara Gunda, PhD Principal Member of Technical Staff
Sandia National Labs
Scott McWhorter
Lead, Federal Opportunities and Strategy
Georgia Institute of Technology
Scott McWhorter is a 2023 Distinguished External Fellow. Scott co-leads the concept development, visioning, partnership, and preliminary capture activities for Georgia Tech on the Department of Commerce Tech Hubs (“Hubs”) and expands Georgia Tech’s hydrogen activities and stature.
Dr. Luke Gosink is an accomplished technology leader and innovator with deep expertise in artificial intelligence, data-driven strategy, and emerging technologies. With a career spanning leadership roles in AI product development, applied machine learning, and digital transformation, he has successfully bridged the gap between advanced research and real-world implementation.
Luke Gosink, PhD Senior Scientist and Technical Group Lead
Savannah River National Lab
Comas Haynes, PhD
Faculty
Georgia Tech Research Institute
Comas Haynes is in the Georgia Tech Research Institute. He is also in the DoE Industrial Technology Innovation Advisory Committee. Finally, he leads the Hydrogen Initiative within Georgia Tech’s Strategic Energy Institute and a DoE-funded Industrial Training and Assessment Center. He investigates advanced energy systems improvement, inclusive of thermal management.
H. Bruce McEver Professor in Engineering and the Liberal Arts, Professor for Philosophy in the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School of Public Policy at Georgia Tech, CoDirector of the Ethics, Technology, and Human Interaction Center, and Assistant Director for Responsible AI in the National AI Institute for Adult Learning and Online Education.
Michael H.G. Hoffmann, PhD
H. Bruce McEver Professor in Engineering and the Liberal Arts Georgia Institute of Technology
Dr. Eric A. Mintz is a professor of Chemistry at Clark Atlanta University. His research focuses on polymer and materials chemistry and the conversion of biomass to materials and fuels. He has over 120 publications and 7 patents and has partnered with large and small businesses to conduct joint R&D.
Eric A. Mintz, PhD Professor of Chemistry
Clark Atlanta University
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