In-Space Physical AI Workshop Agenda

Welcome!

You can find our workshop schedule below. Registration is now open! More details are forthcoming, so check back often.

Monday, November 4, 2024

Registration + Tea/Coffee (8 - 8:45 AM)

Continues through the sessions until lunch.

Welcome and Introduction (8:45 - 9:AM)

Speaker:

Reginald DesRoches, President, Rice University

Lead: Sanjoy Paul

Inaugural Address/Keynote (9 - 9:30 AM)

Speaker:

Nicholas Skytland, Chief Technologist, NASA Johnson Space Center

What’s new, what changed from last year: Advances in AI Technologies: LLM, Multimodal, Agents (9:30 - 10:45 AM)

Panel Moderator:

Sanjoy Paul - Rice University

Panelists:

D. Marshall Porterfield, Professor of Biological Engineering & Space Biophysics, Purdue University
Martin Garcia, Strategist | Trusted Advisor | Innovator | Transformer
David Alexander, Director, Rice Space Institute
Anshumali Shrivastava, Rice University

Industry session 1: Startups / Commercial Vendors/ Sponsors Presentations/Demos (10:45 - 12 PM)

Lead: Sanjoy Paul - Rice University
Co-lead: Phillip Callen, Axiom

Speakers:

Adam Askarian, CEO and Co-founder - Aktus.ai
Andy Corriveau, Global Lead, Cyber & Quantum Security - Axiom Space
Anton Galvas, Co-Founder & CEO, AiKYNETIX
Martin Heyne, Head of Strategy, Intuitive Machines
James Holley, Novium Co-Founder

Poster Session and Lunch (12 - 1:30 PM)

Lead: Sanjoy Paul - Rice University
Co-lead: Phillip Callen, Axiom

Poster Presenters:

1. Novium, James Holley
2. Aktus, Adam Askarian
3. AiKYNETIX, Anton Galvas
4. RETHi CPT Shirley Dyke
5. Purdue research Lawrence Buja
6. Rice Robotics Research, Kaiyu Hang student

Topic 1: Scientific Exploration and Discovery in Space powered by AI (1:30 - 3 PM)

Lead: D. Marshall Porterfield, PhD., Professor, Purdue University

Panelists/Speakers:

Joseph Guarnierri, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Dorit Donoviel, Executive Director, NASA-Funded TranslationalResearch Institute for Space Health at Baylor College of Medicine
Richard Barker, Blue Marble
Som Dutta, USU
Robert J. Reynolds, (JSC-SK311) KBR Wyle Services, LLC.
Kristin Fabre, NASA HRP

Scene setter (15 mins)

Topic 2: Autonomous Maintenance and Exploration in unstructured, unknown environments enabled by Robots (3 - 4:30 PM)

Lead: Ran Dai, Associate Professor at Purdue University
Co-lead: Shaoshuai Mou, Purdue University, Shreyas Sundaram, Purdue University and Kaiyu Hang, Rice University

Speakers/Panelists:

Takashi Tanaka, Assistant Professor at The University of Texas at Austin
Shaoshuai Mou, Associate Professor at Purdue University
Adam Askarian, CEO and Co-founder - Aktus.ai
Shaun Azimi - Space Robotics and Mobility Technical Leader at NASA JSC
Kaiyu Hang, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Rice University

Moderator:

Shaoshuai Mou, Associate Professor at Purdue University

Scene setter (15 mins)

Topic 3: Autonomous Control and Decision Making in deep space by human crew supported by AI (4:30 - 6 PM)

Lead: Vaibhav Unhelkar, Rice University
Co-lead: Shirley Dyke, Purdue University and Julia Badger, NASA

Scene setter (15 mins)

Speakers:

Jeremy Frank, NASA Ames, Artificial Intelligence: Powering Human Exploration to the Moon and Mars
Shirley Dyke, Purdue University, Title: A Cyberphysical Testbed for Human-Centered, Autonomous Resilient Space Habitats (HARSH)
Dave Hollaway, NASA, Title: Autonomy in Human Spaceflight: Cooperative Intent and Human Supervisory Control
Vaibhav Unhelkar, Rice University, Title: Human-Centered Explainable AI: Enabling Humans to Predict AI Decisions

WELCOME NIGHT at the ION (6:30-8:30 PM)

Tuesday, November 5, 2024

Tea/Coffee (8 - 8:45 AM)

Continues through the sessions until lunch.

Fireside Chat (8:45 - 9:30 AM)

Montgomery Goforth, Assistant Director of Engineering, NASA Johnson Space Center
Norman Roy Garza, Jr., Executive Director of the Texas Space Commission

Converging Partnerships for PAI in Space Medical Operations/Habitation and Space Research (9:30 - 10:30 AM)

Lead: D. Marshall Porterfield, PhD., Professor, Purdue University

Panelists/Speakers:

Meagan Murphy Crawford, Co-founder and Managing Partner, SpaceFund
Colin Kruse, Postdoctoral Researcher, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Dorit Donoviel, Executive Director, NASA-Funded TranslationalResearch Institute for Space Health at Baylor College of Medicine
Kris Lehnhardt,MD, Element Scientist for Exploration Medical Capability at the NASA Human Research Program
Bart Womack

Topic 4: Autonomous Management of the Health of spacecraft and of astronauts supported by AI (10:30 AM - 12 PM)

Lead: Julia Badger, NASA
Co-lead: Shirley Dyke, Purdue University

Scene setter (15 mins)

Breakouts:

Alonso Vera, NASA AMES Research Center
David Kortenkamp, Chief Technology Officer (CTO) TRACLabs and Pride Automation Inc.
Scott C. Wenger, Chief CX3/EVA OPerations Research, NASA/Johnson Space Center

Lunch and Industry session 2: Poster Presenters (12 - 1:30 PM)

Lead: Sanjoy Paul - Rice University
Co-lead: Phillip Callen, Axiom

Poster Presenters:

1. Novium, James Holley
2. Aktus, Adam Askarian
3. AiKYNETIX, Anton Galvas
4. RETHi CPT Shirley Dyke
5. Purdue research Lawrence Buja
6. Rice Robotics Research, Kaiyu Hang student

Topic 5: How do we know AI is doing the right thing? (1:30 - 3 PM)

Lead: Julia Badger, NASA
Co-lead: Shirley Dyke, Purdue University

Scene setter (15 mins)

Panelists/Speakers:

Moshe Vardi, Professor of Compter Science at Rice University
Gautam Biswas, Professor of Computer Science and Computer Engineering
Kristin Yvonne Rozier, Iowa State

Wrap up and Vote of Thanks (3:00 - 3:15 PM)

Optional Session 6 - Concrete Collaborative Projects: (3:15 - 4:15PM)