Day 1: Thursday, October 16, 2025
Location: Purdue Memoral Union (PMU) East & West Faculty Lounge [Rooms 240 & 250]
| 7:30 – 8:30 am | Registration and breakfast |
| 8:30 – 8:45 am | Welcome Address |
| 8:45 – 9:00 am | NSF EDSE Program Director: Harrison Kim |
| 9:00 – 10:00 am |
Framing the AI-EDSE Workshop - Engineering Design: Faez Ahmed - Systems Engineering: Zoe Szajnfarber |
| 10:00 – 10:15 am | Coffee break |
| 10:15 – 11:15 am |
Perspectives Panel 1: New AI for EDSE Mark Fuge and Burak Kara |
| 11:15 am – 12:30 pm |
Breakout 1: Creating AI for EDSE Breakout themes: 1. New methods of representation of design, physics-informed evaluation, and design optimization [Room 256] 2. New deep learning methods, such as Generative AI [Room 258] 3. Designers' view on requirements for new AI to support design [Room 260] |
| 12:30 – 2:00 pm |
Lunch with Lightning Talks: - Ferdous Alam - Wei (Wayne) Chen - Francis Ogoke - Liwei Wang - Saketh Sridhara |
| 2:00 – 2:45pm |
Perspectives Panel 2: Critical questions in AI-EDSE - Perspectives from research literature - Carolyn Conner Seepersad (Editor-In-Chief, JMD) - Yan Wang (Editor-in-Chief, JCISE) |
| 2:45 - 4:15 pm |
Breakout 2: Using AI for EDSE Research Breakout themes: 1. Design research methods using AI [Room 256] 2. Supporting humans in design using AI [Room 258] 3. Design automation using AI [Room 260] |
| 4:15 – 5:00pm | Report out from Breakouts 1 & 2 |
| 5:00 - 6:30pm | Poster Session & Cocktail reception [PMU North & South Ballroom] |
| 6:30 – 8:00pm | Buffet Dinner [PMU North & South Ballroom] |
Day 2: Friday, October 17, 2025
| 8:00 – 8:30 am | Breakfast with networking |
| 8:30am - 9:30am | Keynote talk by Sanjay Sarma: "Learning: Machine and Human" |
| 9:30 – 10:30 am |
Perspectives Panel 3: Critical questions in AI-EDSE - Perspectives from applied research. - Laura Freeman - Ali Raz |
| 10:30 - 10:45 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:45 am – 12:00 pm |
Breakout: Synthesis of takeaways -- What are the pressing research issues for the next five years? Breakout Themes: 1. Create AI for EDSE [Room 256] 2. Use AI for EDSE [Room 258] 3. AI and learning [Room 260] |
| 12:00 am – 1:30pm |
Lunch with Lightning Talks: - Leah Chong - Maha Haji - Ting Liao - Anastasia Kouvaras Ostrowski - Taylan Topcu |
| 1:30 – 2:00 pm | Closing, Next Steps, and Adjourn |
| 2:00 – 4:00 pm [Optional] | Informal Mentorship opportunities (funding opportunities, NSF CAREER, journal papers, etc.) |