International Workshop on Accelerating Synchrotron Science: Bridging Measurement, Analysis, and Data Science — Organized as a Session within the CWRU–TU Joint Symposium (the 12th Annual Data Science in Engineering and Life Sciences Symposium)
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In recent years, driven by the rapid advancement of cutting-edge measurement technologies at next-generation synchrotron facilities such as NanoTerasu, experimental datasets have become increasingly massive and complex. Against this backdrop, the "International Workshop on Accelerating Synchrotron Science: Bridging Measurement, Analysis, and Data Science" was organized to dramatically accelerate scientific discovery in synchrotron science through the seamless integration of measurement, analysis, and data science.
This session was conducted as a special workshop within "The 12th Annual Data Science in Engineering and Life Sciences Symposium," organized as part of the Case Western Reserve University (CWRU)–Tohoku University (TU) Joint Symposium.
Date
Monday, August 3, 2026 – Tuesday, August 4, 2026
Venue
Case Western Reserve University
Thwing Center, Excelsior Ballroom
11111 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, OH 44106
Speakers
Evan Antoniuk (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
Yuichi Aoki (Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization, Tohoku University)
Erika Barcelos (CWRU School of Engineering)
Laura Bruckman (CWRU School of Engineering)
Siwalee Choileck (Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University)
Harry Charalambous (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
Amlan Das (Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source)
Kyle DeVlugt (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
Ryn Gray (Sandia National Laboratory)
Michael Ham (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Dengzhe Hou (Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University)
Nafisa Hussain (Sandia National Laboratory)
Fangzhou Lin (Texas A&M University)
Mitsuyuki Nakao (Unprecedented-scale Data Analytics Center, Tohoku University)
Maiko Nishibori (International Center for Synchrotron Radiation Innovation Smart, Tohoku University)
Adam Perzynski (CWRU School of Medicine)
Hiranmayi Ranganathan (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
Julie Renner (CWRU School of Engineering)
Dan Savage (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Motoki Shiga (Unprecedented-scale Data Analytics Center, Tohoku University)
Andrew Shoffstall (CWRU School of Engineering)
Thomas Summers (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Masashi Tabuchi (CWRU School of Medicine)
Yukio Takahashi (International Center for Synchrotron Radiation Innovation Smart, Tohoku University)
Yuma Tamura (Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University)
Yoshikazu Tanaka (Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University)
Quynh Tran (CWRU School of Engineering)
An Wang (CWRU School of Engineering)
Michael Zielewski (Unprecedented-scale Data Analytics Center, Tohoku University)
Time Schedule
- Monday, August 3, 2026
- 09:30
- Welcome & Opening Remarks
- Roger French (CWRU School of Engineering)
- 10:05 – 10:45
- Kyle DeVlugt (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
- Featured Talk: Digital Twin Framework for Conventional Manufacturing Machine Tools
- Technical Session I-a: Semantic Data Science Tools & Methodologies
- Session Chair: Quynh Tran (CWRU School of Engineering)
- 10:45 – 12:45
- Laura Bruckman (CWRU School of Engineering)
- Semantic Data Management for Manufacturing
- Michael Ham (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
- From Multimodal Scientific Archives to Testable Hypotheses: An Alpha Demonstration of Ontology-Grounded Agentic Discovery
- Erika Barcelos (CWRU School of Engineering)
- MDS-Onto in Practice: Ontology-Driven KGs for Degradation Science, Uncertainty Quantification and Photovoltaics
- Ryn Gray (Sandia National Laboratory)
- Graph-Based Metrics for Evaluating Ontologies Across Domains
- Nafisa Hussain (Sandia National Laboratory)
- Transforming Historical Engineering Records into Materials Compatibility Knowledge: Multimodal Document Intelligence for Automated Ontology Construction
- 12:45 – 14:15
- Lunch & Poster Session
- Technical Session I-b: Semantic Data Science Tools & Methodologies
- Session Chair: Quynh Tran (CWRU School of Engineering)
- 14:15 – 15:45
- Michael Zielewski (Unprecedented-scale Data Analytics Center, Tohoku University)
- An Overview of Current Research at Yamada Lab
- Fangzhou Lin (Texas A&M University)
- Unifying Disparate Tasks under Partial Supervision via Invertible Flow Networks
- An Wang (CWRU School of Engineering)
- When the Network Is Split Between Us - Learning from connected data that no single institution holds
- Yuma Tamura (Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University)
- Introduction to Reconfiguration Problems: Transitioning Solutions While Maintaining Feasibility
- Technical Session II: Materials & Molecular Discovery
- Session Chair: Prof. Erika Barcelos, CWRU School of Engineering
- 15:45 – 17:15
- Thomas Summers (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
- Autonomous Discovery for Data-scarce Regimes with Agentic AI and High-throughput Computing
- Quynh Tran (CWRU School of Engineering)
- Semantic Materials Science on Large Scale Molecular Data for Representation Learning in EM Discovery
- Yoshikazu Tanaka (Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University)
- Structural basis of activity enhancement in a bispecific antibody via domain rearrangement
- Evan Antoniuk (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
- FLASK Copilot: Agentic AI for Molecule and Material Discovery
- Tuesday, August 4, 2026
- Technical Session III: Synchrotron Science
- Session Chairs: Yukio Takahashi, Maiko Nishibori, Motoki Shiga (International Center for Synchrotron Radiation Innovation Smart, Tohoku University (SRIS))
- 09:30 – 12:15
- Amlan Das (Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source)
- Data-driven experimental autonomy: Perspectives from the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source
- Dan Savage (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
- Data Platform Considerations for Edge-Based Processing of NNSA High Data-Rate Synchrotron Experiments
- Yukio Takahashi (International Center for Synchrotron Radiation Innovation Smart, Tohoku University)
- High-Resolution Coherent Diffraction Imaging at NanoTerasu: Current Status and Challenges
- Harry Charalambous (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
- Challenges and opportunities of XRCT to analyze compaction and sintering of ceramics
- Maiko Nishibori (International Center for Synchrotron Radiation Innovation Smart, Tohoku University)
- Bridging Spectroscopy and Data Science: From Topological Ordering in Zeolites to Future Multimodal Imaging
- Motoki Shiga (Unprecedented-scale Data Analytics Center, Tohoku University)
- Self-Supervised Machine Learning for Denoising Material Measurement Data
- 12:15 – 13:15
- Lunch & Poster Session
- 13:15 – 13:25
- Mitsuyuki Nakao (Unprecedented-scale Data Analytics Center, Tohoku University)
- Future Collaborative Exchanges Between Case Western Reserve University and Tohoku University Advancing "AI for Science"
- 13:25 – 14:05
- Andrew Shoffstall (CWRU School of Engineering)
- Featured Talk: High Resolution Imaging and Tractography of the Peripheral Nervous System
- Technical Session IV: Life Sciences
- Session Chair: Katherine Karkosiak (CWRU School of Engineering)
- 14:05 – 17:00
- Hiranmayi Ranganathan (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
- Integrating Biofertilizers and Computational Modeling for Secure Agriculture
- Adam Perzynski (CWRU School of Medicine)
- Digital Twin Neighborhoods for Improving Population Health
- Julie Renner (CWRU School of Engineering)
- Engineered Peptides for Rare Earth Element Recovery
- Yuichi Aoki (Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization, Tohoku University)
- Integrative Microbiome Analysis in a Japanese Population-Based Cohort: Linking Gut, Oral, and Living Environmental Factors
- Siwalee Choileck (Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University)
- Menstrual phase effects on sleep moderated by habitual bedtime maintenance
- Masashi Tabuchi (CWRU School of Medicine)
- Hysteretic Excitability Links DNA Double-Strand Breaks to Sleep-Circuit Vulnerability in Aging and Tauopathy
- Dengzhe Hou (Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University)
- From Preprocessing Choices to LLM Agents: Automated and Verifiable Cognitive EEG Analysis
Co–hosted by
International Center for Synchrotron Radiation Innovation Smart (SRIS), Tohoku University
Contact
Email: maiko.nishibori.d8*tohoku.ac.jp (change * to @)