Supply Chain AI (Artificial Intelligence): Hype or Must-Have? (1)

Meeting Timeline:

6:00-6:30pm - Registration, Networking, and Make New Friends

6:30-6:45pm - Get Started on Dinner, Announcements and Introductions

6:45-8:00pm - Dr Milos Manic Presentation

8:00-8:15pm - Questions & Answers

About Our Speaker:

Dr. Manic is a Professor with Computer Science Department and Director of Modern Heuristics Research Group at Virginia Commonwealth University. He has over 20 years of academic and industrial experience. His previous positions include tenured positions with University of Idaho, University of Nis, Serbia, director of the Computer Science Program at Idaho Falls, and Fellow of the Brain Korea 21 Program, Seoul 2008, As principal investigator he completed over 30 research grants with the National Science Foundation, Idaho EPSCoR, Department of Energy, Battelle Energy Alliance, Dept. of Air Force, Hewlett-Packard, Fujitsu USA, in areas of data mining and machine learning applied to cyber security, critical infrastructure protection, energy security, and resilient intelligent control.

Dr. Manic is an IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IES) Senior AdCom member, and has just completed 3 terms of serving as an Officer of IEEE IES. He is a founder and past chair of IEEE IES Technical Committee on Resilience and Security in Industry. He is a member of various standing and technical committees and boards of this Society (Technical Committees on Education, Industrial Informatics, Factory Automation, Smart Grids, Standards.

Dr. Manic is an associate editor of the Trans. on Industrial Electronics, Trans. on Industrial Informatics, and Int. Journal of Engineering Education. He regularly serves on number of IEEE conferences yearly in various capacities as a General Co-Chair, Technical Program Chair, Track Chair, and Special Session Chair (IECON, ICELIE, HSI, INDIN, ICIEA, ISIE). Dr. Manic is a General Chair of IEEE IECON 2018 http://www.iecon2018.org/. Dr. Manic has published over 180 refereed articles and holds several U.S. patents.