Agenda

 

All times listed in Pacific Zone

Note: Starting and ending times of the sessions may be adjusted to accomdate different speakers and topics

Tuesday, May 5, 2026 8:30 AM - 5 PM - Tutorial Day
Location: SDSC Auditorium
8:30 - 9:00 AM Check-In and Light Breakfast
Location: San Diego Supercomputer Center Auditorium
9:00 - 10:30 AM

NRP and Kubernetes for Education and Research

Mahidhar Tatineni, UCSD/SDSC

Mohammad Firas Sada, UCSD/SDSC

Daniel Diaz, UCSD/SDSC
10:30 - 11:00 AM Break
11:00 - 12:00 PM

National Data Platform Education Hub on NRP

Mohammad Firas Sada, UCSD/SDSC

Pedro Ramonetti, UCSD/SDSC

Katie O'Laughlin, UCSD/SDSC
12:00 - 1:00 PM

Lunch
Location: San Diego Supercomputer Center Auditorium
 

Parallel A

Location: SDSC Auditorium, EB210-212

Parallel B

Location: SDSC Room 279
1:00 - 2:00 PM

Using AI and LLM Inference on NRP (Jupyter AI, Agents, RAG)

Mohammad Firas Sada, UCSD/SDSC

Tutorial on Drone Usage and loT

John Graham, UCSD/SDSC
2:00 - 3:00 PM

Setting Up Custom JupyterHubs for Classroom and Research

Mohammad Firas Sada, UCSD/SDSC

Daniel Diaz, UCSD/SDSC

Tutorial Using ICICLE Digital Agriculture Pipeline

Hari Subramoni, Ohio State University
3:00 – 3:30 PM Break
3:30 - 5:00 PM

DoE American Science Cloud Experiments with NRP

Justas Balcas, Esnet

Xi Yang, Esnet

AgTech for the Curriculum Discussion

Frank Wuerthwein, UCSD/SDSC

Wednesday, May 6, 2026
Location: Qualcomm Institute (QI) Auditorium
8:00 - 9:00 AM Check-In and Breakfast
Location: QI Courtyard
Introductory Session - Master of Ceremony: Kendra Ard, California State University
9:00 - 9:15 AM

Welcome

Rajesh Gupta, Dean of Halıcıoğlu School of Data Science and Computing, UCSD
9:15 - 10:00 AM

NSF

Katie Antypas, NSF
10:00 - 10:30 AM

USDA

Christopher Alvares, USDA
10:30 - 11:00 AM Break
11:00 - 11:40 AM

The State of NRP

Frank Wuerthwein, Director of San Diego Supercomputer Center, UCSD
11:40 - 12:15 PM

ASPIRE Math Tutor

Sesh Murthy, UCSD

Portia Restuccia, Vocareum
12:15 - 1:30 PM

Lunch
Location: QI Courtyard
AI in Education - Master of Ceremony: Eric Van Dusen, UC Berkeley
1:30 - 1:35 PM

Ciena

Akbar Kara
1:35 – 1:50 PM

NRP and the CSUs: Case Studies and Lessons Learned Supporting Teaching and Learning

Kyle Krick, SDSU

Dung Vu, CSU San Bernardino

Dhusdee Chandswang, CSU Fullerton
1:50 – 2:10 PM

Use of Digital Assets in Undergraduate Education at UCSD

Sam Lau, UCSD
2:10 – 3:00 PM

Panel on Education on NRP

Robert Malouf, SDSU

Valeria Barra, SDSU

Martin Kim, CSU San Bernardino

Rosanna Overholser, Cal Poly Humboldt

Rakesh Mahto, CSU Fullerton

Kyle Krick, SDSU
3:00 – 3:30 PM Break
AI for Agriculture- Master of Ceremony: Noely Gonzalez-Maldonado, USDA-ARS
3:30 – 3:50 PM

AI in Agriculture

Ryan Dinubilo, F3 Innovate
3:50 – 4:10 PM

AI Institute

Hari Subramoni, Ohio State University
4:10 – 4:30 PM Agricultural Mobile Robots for Automated Field Data Collection and Analysis
Konstantin Karydis, UC Riverside
4:30 – 5:00 PM

Panel Discussion

Ryan Dinubilo, F3 Innovate
Hari Subramoni, Ohio State University
Konstantin Karydis, UC Riverside
5:00 - 6:30 PM

Reception
Location: Qi Courtyard

Thursday, May 7, 2026
Location: Qualcomm Institute (QI) Auditorium
8:00 - 9:00 AM Breakfast
Location: QI Courtyard
AI for Agriculture- Master of Ceremony: Melissa Floca, UC San Diego
9:00 - 9:45 AM

Keynote

Baskar Ganapathysubramanian, Iowa State
9:45 - 10:10 AM

Iron Horse Vineyards Test Bed

John Graham, UCSD/SDSC

Tom Defanti, UCSD/SDSC
10:10 - 10:30 AM

CALFIRE Smoke and Fire Modeling for Prescribed Fire in Napa

Leticia Lee, UCSD/SDSC

Ilkay Altintas, UCSD/SDSC
10:30 – 11:00 AM Break
11:00 AM – 11:40 AM

NAFSI Data Hub

Kate Trout, University of Missouri-Columbia
11:40 AM – 12:00 PM

Successes and Challenges in Bringing data8 to the Community Colleges

Sean Michael Morris, UC Berkeley
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Lunch

Location: QI Courtyard

AI Inference Infrastructure and Services- Master of Ceremony: Mohammad Firas Sada, UCSD
1:30 - 2:00 PM

AI Inference and Infrastructure

Mohammad Firas Sada, UCSD/SDSC
2:00 - 2:30 PM

NDP as an AI Engine

Ilkay Altintas, UCSD/SDSC
2:30 - 3:00 PM

Network Services in the Context of the American Science Cloud
Chin Guok, ESnet/LBNL
3:00 - 3:30 PM Break

Closing Session- Master of Ceremony: Frank Wuerthwein, UC San Diego
3:30 - 4:00 PM

Whirlwind Tour of Science on NRP

Larry Smarr, UCSD
4:00 - 4:30 PM

Climate on NRP

Duncan Watson-Parris, UCSD
4:30 - 5:00 PM AI for Health 
Frank Lee, IBM
Frank Wuerthwein, Director of San Diego Supercomputer Center, UCSD
5:00 PM Adjourn