Thank you for your interest in participating in the NSF IUCRC Planning Workshop for the Digital Twin Research, Innovation, and Collaboration Hub (DT-RICH). This workshop will bring together university researchers and industry leaders to collaboratively shape the research agenda for a proposed NSF Industry–University Cooperative Research Center (IUCRC). Your participation will play a critical role in identifying high-impact digital twin research priorities, aligning academic research with industry needs, and fostering a strong, sustainable digital twin innovation ecosystem.
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Location: Virginia Tech Innovation Campus
Room 2110, 3625 Potomac Avenue
Alexandria, VA 22305
(One Metro stop from Reagan National Airport)
| Dr. Daniel Sui | Mengxi Zhang | ||||
| Jack Dangermond | |||||
| Dr. Mengxi Zhang | |||||
| Chaowei Yang | |||||
| 9:35 AM | Dr. Shivakant Mishra, NSF | ||||
| Dr. David Meyer, Seren Smith | |||||
| 10:40 AM | 11:00 AM | 0:20 | DT-RICH-26-1: Center Vision and Planning | Chaowei Yang, Daniel Sui, Mengxi Zhang | |
| 11:00 AM | Mike Little, Ryan Berkheimer, Dr. Shuming Bao | ||||
| Mike Little, Junghwan Kim | |||||
| DT-RICH-26-2: Computing Infrastructure Digital Twin for Real-Time Monitoring, Analytics, Anomaly Detection, and Allocation Optimization | Yahya Masri, Joseph Rogers, C.T. Lu, Alastair Neil, Zifu Wang | ||||
| DT-RICH-26-3: Fusing Spatiotemporal Heterogenous Data to Assess Health Impact by Data Center | Anusha S., Mengxi Zhang, Ruichuan Zhang, Lu Zhang, Seren Smith | ||||
| GMU-26-1: Uncertainty Quanficiation with Water Quality, Flooding, and Agriculture DT |
Donglian Sun, Anusha S. |
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| VT-26-1: Trustworthy and Explainable AI Pipelines for Digital Twin-Enabled Transportation Asset Management |
Junghwan Kim; Wendy Stout |
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DT-RICH-26-4: AI and Physics Informed Simulation for Space Traffic Control |
John F. Shortle, Bradley Denby |
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| Shuming Bao, Nan Ding, Matt Rice | |||||
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GMU-26-2: Integrated Digital and Physical Twins with Model-based Systems Engineering |
Ali K. Raz | ||||
| DT-RICH-26-5: Digital Redundancy for Mission Resilience: Rapid Test and Evaluation of Complex Engineered Systems using Digital Twins | Taylan Topcu | ||||
| VT-26-2: Human-Centered, Adoption-Ready Digital Twins (DT) for Infrastructure and Transportation Decision-Making: A Two-Phase Study of Planning and Operational Contexts | Ruichuan Zhang; Junghwan Kim | ||||
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VT-26-3: Privacy-Preserving, Lightweight Language Models for Healthcare Applications |
Mengxi Zhang; Xuan Wang |
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| VT-26-4: Digital Twins for Healthcare Provider Workload Management and Burnout Prevention | Taylan Topcu | ||||
| 2:10 PM | 2:20 PM | 0:10 | VT-26-5: A Digital Twin Framework for Measuring, Predicting, and Optimizing Service Access | Mengxi Zhang; Junghwan Kim | |
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GMU-26-3: Wildfire DT for Integrating AI and Physical Models to Improve Prediction Accuracy |
Chaowei Yang; Anusha S. |
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| DT-RICH-26-6: Digital Twin-Enabled Multi-Tiered School Bus Fleet Suitability Mapping System | Max Griffiths, Junghwan Kim, Mengxi Zhang, Shanjiang Zhu | ||||
| VT-26-6: Secure Deployment Architecture for AI-Driven Geospatial Digital Twins | Junghwan Kim; Jin-Hee Cho | ||||
| Dixon Wright, Taylan Topcu | |||||
| 3:30 PM | 3:40 PM | 0:10 | GMU-26-4 GuardianPath AI: School Commute Safety | Armita Kar; Shanjiang Zhu | |
| 3:40 PM | 3:50 PM | 0:10 | DT-RICH-26-7: KNIME AI Learning Center | Chaowei Yang; Junghwan Kim; Mengxi Zhang; Lingbo Liu | |
| 3:50 PM | 4:00 PM | 0:10 | DT-RICH-26-8: High School AI Innovation Challenge | Maction Komwa; Mengxi Zhang; Seren Smith | |
| 4:00 PM | 4:10 PM | 0:10 | DT-RICH-26-9: A Systematic Training Approach to Fill the Workforce Gap of Digital Twin Industry | Matt Rice, Seren Smith | |
| David Meyer | |||||
| Mike Little, Ryan Berkheimer, Dr. Shuming Bao | |||||
| Chaowei Yang | |||||
| Dr. Daniel Sui | |||||