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A3D3 Executive Board meeting

Shih-Chieh Hsu (UW)

Philip Harris (MIT)

Jan 27 2023

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https://indico.cern.ch/event/1233014/

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News in 2023

  • Deliverables
    • Please post your works in https://a3d3.ai/publications.html [src]
  • Positions
    • 2023 Postbac Research Fellows AJO: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/22854
    • Program operation specialist:
      • Post-award/supplement grant processing, administration of annual report, event coordination
      • minimal requirement:1 year fiscal managenet experiences
  • Outreach & Education
    • CUWiP 2023 Jan 20 - 22 (15 institutions) with multiple A3D3 represe

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Funding status

  • Sub-award financial Contact
    • Please help to verify the contact list is up-to-date [gsheet]
  • Thanks for Andrew making progresses over the holiday break.
    • Year 2 funding + Supplement
      • Completion: CalTech, UCSD
      • Sub-award institute Sponsor Office review: Duke,
      • In-progress: UIUC, UMN, UWisc, MIT, Purdue, UW
      • New application: Georgia Tech
    • Carry over
      • UW OSP confirmed that it’s possible to make it automatically.
      • Proposal: let’s setup automatic carryover to reduce administration process
  • Proposal of sub-award management for Year 3
    • We still need to review and process new sub-award funding annually.
    • Proposal: adjust sub-award budget once per year
    • Baseline budget 135K/year/PI + known research scientist/engineer based on A3D3 budget
    • Adjustment per year
      • Budget reduction: Too much carryover from previous years. You prefer to contribute it to the institute for common usagel.
      • Budget increase: extra costs not originally planned in the proposal: Postbac, special local events.

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Website

  • Rising to higher priority in our to-do list.
    • We need to think about development beyond A3D3 to include HDR Ecosystem.
  • A3D3 website https://a3d3.ai/
  • NSF HDR Community page http://nsfhdr.org/
    • HDR Postbac
    • HDR ML Challenge
    • HDR activity initiative and collaborator matching

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Top Priority and upcoming events in 2023

  • Revise A3D3 management plan (top priority)
    • Explicit mandate of each activity group
    • Cross-institution and cross-disciplinary activities
    • Trainee activities (postdoc, student, postbac)
    • 2nd draft due Jan 30 (Mon)
  • Upcoming events:
    • Accelerating Physics with ML@MIT Jan 28th 2023
    • A3D3 Executive Board Feb 24th 2023
    • NSF Site visit in Seattle 2023
      • Date to be agreed with program manager (proposal: the week of July 4th or July 10th)
    • 2nd HDR PI meeting (summer, autumn) 2023 by ID4 Institute

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EAB members

  • Accepted

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  • To be confirmed/proposed
    • MMA: Patrick Brady (UWM) - follow-up by Erik
      • Stuart B. Anderson (LIGO/Caltech)
    • Neuros: Marlene Cohen (Pitt)
      • Bin Yu (Berkeley) - follow-up by Eli
    • Core Data Science: Michael Mahoney (Berkeley)
      • Carla P. Gomes (Cornell) - follow-up by Pan
      • Philip S. Yu (UIC)
      • Jure Leskovec (Stanford)
    • HPC: Shaown Brown (Hewlett Packard Enterprise)

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Backup

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Deliverables

Papers/Proceedings

  • HAC: BEVFusion (submitted to NeurIPS 2022), GSAT (accepted by ICML’22)
  • HEP: GNN PU removal (2203.15823, submitted to EPJC), MLPF CMS (2203.00330, ACAT 2021)
  • Targeted system: qonnx (submitted to HiPEAC AccML 2022), TinyML (submitted to MLSys 2022).

Software/Infrastructure

  • HAC: TorchSparse v2.0, SPVCNN++ (for WOD Challenge 2022)
  • MMA: DeepClean, nmma
  • Targeted System: ScaleHLS, PyLog

Applications

  • CMS Level-1 btagging
  • RNN jet tagging (paper to be submitted)

Talks

  • APS CMS ECAL

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Equity & Career�J. Duarte

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External Advisory Board

M. Bolt (AMD/Xilinx)

P. Brady (SCIMMA)�S. Brown (PSC)

M. Cohen (CNBC)

M. Taheri (MCP)

A. Tapper (ICL)

M. Mahoney (Data Science)

P. Mabee (HDR ecosystem)

PI/co-PIs

NeuroAI Integration:�E. Shlizerman

Coordination

HAC : P. Li

HEP : M. Liu �MMA : M. Coughlin (co-PI)

Neuro : A. Orsborn

Management

Director : S.-C. Hsu (PI)

Deputy : P. Harris (co-PI)

Project Manager: to be hired

Executive Board

Steering Board

HAC: S. Han

HEP: M. Neubauer (co-PI)

MMA: K. Scholberg (co-PI) Neuro: M. Makin

External: N. Tran, A. Villar� S. Vries

Heterogeneous : B. Riedel

Targeted System : J. Duarte

Engagement : M. Neubauer

Education : M. Graham

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External Communication

Website

  • Starting website:�https://a3d3.ai/
  • Contract to House of Giants through MIT

Mailing lists

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Inter-institute Communication

  • Institute SLACK channel
    • FastML Server
  • Institute Meetings
    • Agenda:
    • Kicked-off meeting Nov 2021
    • Bi-Weekly
      • FastML Co-processor (heterogeneous)
      • FastML HLS4ML (target system)
      • HAC
    • Monthly
      • Neuroscience
      • Executive Board