Texas Digital Twin Symposium

Overview

The Texas Digital Twin Symposium brings together researchers, students, and industry partners from across Texas to advance the growing digital twin research ecosystem, with a strong focus on data science–enabled methods and real-world applications. The event is designed to spark new cross-disciplinary collaborations spanning engineering, statistics, computer science, and applied mathematics. Through technical sessions, posters, and breakout discussions, participants explore emerging challenges and opportunities in digital twin technologies and highlight innovative student work. This event will be held in the Joe C. Richardson Petroleum Engineering Building in Room 910.

Presenters

• Satish Bukkapatnam, Texas A&M Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering
• Ian Fialho, Executive Senior Director, Boeing
• Michael Grieves, Executive Director, Digital Twin Institute
• Omar Ghattas, Director, University of Texas Oden Institute | Real-time Bayesian inversion for large-scale wave propagation problems, with applications to a digital twin for tsunami early warning
• Dev Niyogi, Professor, University of Texas at Austin
• Lisha White, Mechanical Engineer, NIST | From Perception to Purpose: Integrating Additive Manufacturing Digital Twins within Agentic Workflows for Industrialization
• Ruda Zhang, Assistant Professor, University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering | Calibrated uncertainty for AI twins: An inference-time stochastic attention approach

Schedule

TIME	SESSION
8:30 – 9:00 a.m. (30 min)	Check-in & Breakfast (donuts & coffee)
9:00 – 9:10 a.m. (10 min)	Welcome by Henry Fadamiro, Associate Vice President for Research, Strategic Initiatives, Office of the Vice President for Research Division of Research
9:10 – 10:10 a.m. (60 min)	Plenary Talk 1 — Michael Grieves, Executive Director, Digital Twin Institute
10:10 – 10:25 a.m. (15 min)	Break
10:25 – 10:55 a.m. (30 min)	Presentation 1 — Dev Niyogi, Professor, University of Texas at Austin
10:55 – 11:25 a.m. (30 min)	Presentation 2 — Lisha White, Mechanical Engineer, NIST
11:25 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. (95 min)	Poster Session (Room 507) & Lunch
1:00 – 2:00 p.m. (60 min)	Plenary Talk 2 — Omar Ghattas, Director, University of Texas Oden Institute
2:00 – 2:15 p.m. (15 min)	Break
2:15 – 2:45 p.m. (30 min)	Presentation 3 — Ian Fialho, Executive Senior Director, Boeing
2:45 – 3:15 p.m. (30 min)	Presentation 4 — Ruda Zhang, Assistant Professor, University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering
3:15 – 3:45 p.m. (30 min)	Presentation 5 — Satish Bukkapatnam, Texas A&M Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering
3:45 – 4:00 p.m. (15 min)	Break
4:00 – 4:25 p.m. (25 min)	Breakout Session A
4:25 – 4:35 p.m. (10 min)	Break
4:35 – 5:00 p.m. (25 min)	Breakout Session B

Poster Session

We welcome posters that highlight innovations for digital twin systems with a data science component, including theory, methods, and applications.

Poster Abstract Deadline: March 30

Registration

The symposium is open to all students, researchers, and faculty at Texas A&M University. There is a limit of 80 participants. Once we reach capacity, new registrations will be added to the waiting list. If you cannot attend in person, please contact TAMIDS@tamu.edu so we can notify waitlisted attendees.

Registration Deadline: April 8

Committee

• Rui Tuo [Conference Chair], Associate Professor, Industrial & Systems Engineering
• Douglas Allaire, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
• Ashrant Aryal, Assistant Professor, Construction Science
• Raktim Bhattacharya, Professor, Aerospace Engineering
• Drew Casey, Associate Director, Texas A&M Institute of Data Science
• Rudy Geelen, Assistant Professor, Aerospace Engineering
• Eduardo Gildin, Associate Department Head of Graduate Studies, Petroleum Engineering
• Jian Tao, Assistant Professor, Visual Computing & Computational Media

If you have any questions about this event, please contact TAMIDS@tamu.edu.

Supported by

• Texas A&M Institute of Data Science
• Texas A&M Energy Institute