Keynote

Talk 1:

Professor Leo Kempel

Michigan State University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE)

Biography:

Leo C. Kempel, the Dennis P. Nyquist Endowed Professor of Electromagnetics, has been a faculty member in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering since 1998. He pursued electrical engineering and received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Cincinnati in 1989, a master’s degree from the University of Michigan in 1990, and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1994. He served as the ninth dean of the Michigan State University College of Engineering from 2014 to 2024, acting dean and associate dean for research from 2008 to 2013, associate dean for special initiatives from 2006 to 2008, and the inaugural director of the MSU High Performance Computing Center from 2004 to 2006.

His research interests include conformal antennas, engineered materials for microwave applications, and computational electromagnetics. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society, and the Engineering Society of Detroit. He is a member of Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, and Commission B of the International Scientific Radio Union (URSI). He is a member of the Department of Air Force Scientific Advisory Board.

Talk 2:

Professor Sami Tantawi

Arizona State University, Department of Physics

Biography:

Professor Sami Tantawi is in the Department of Physics and researcher with the Biodesign Institute and ASU CXFEL Labs. Prior to ASU, he was a professor at Stanford University’s Particle Physics and Astrophysics Department. He has been the chief scientist for RF Accelerator Technology Research at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. He led a world-class research effort on RF linacs and associated RF systems. He won the prize of Achievements in Accelerator Physics and Technology from the U.S. Particle Accelerator School and is a fellow of the American Physical Society. His research interests include vacuum electronics, high-power RF devices, modeling of RF structures, planner RF circuits and high gradient accelerator structures.

Talk 3:

Professor Soichiro Ikuno

Tokyo University of Technology, School of Computer Science

Biography:

Soichiro Ikuno received the B.E. and M.E. degrees in electrical and information engineering from Yamagata University, Yamagata, Japan, in 1994 and 1996, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in information engineering from the University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan, in 1999.,In 1999, he joined the Faculty of Engineering, Tokyo University of Technology, Tokyo, Japan, where he is currently an Associate Professor in the School of Computer Science. His research interest is in numerical analysis of partial differential equations and high-performance computing.

Keynote talk:

Physics-Informed Neural Networks for Fluid and Electromagnetic Phenomena: Explainability via Approximate Inverse Model Explanations (AIME)

Abstract:

In this presentation, we explore the application of Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) to model two representative physical systems: vortex shedding in the Kármán vortex street and electromagnetic wave propagation. These simulations integrate governing equations directly into the learning process, enabling physically consistent representations without labeled data. To enhance interpretability and foster trust in such black-box neural models, we apply Approximate Inverse Model Explanations (AIME)—a post-hoc, model-agnostic XAI technique that provides both local and global feature importance by constructing approximate inverse operators. Furthermore, we utilize AIME’s representative instance similarity distribution plots to visually assess model behavior and dataset complexity. Our findings demonstrate that combining PINNs with AIME yields not only accurate and physically plausible simulations but also transparent insights into model reasoning, paving the way toward reliable AI-based modeling in computational physics.

Talk 4:

Dr. Niyaz Beysengulov

Director of Quantum Engineering, EeroQ Quantum Hardware

Biography:

Niyaz Beysengulov earned a Ph.D. in Physics from Kazan Federal University (Kazan, Russia) through a joint program with RIKEN (Wako, Japan) in 2017. During this time, he conducted research in the Low Temperature Physics Laboratory at RIKEN under the supervision of Dr. Kimitoshi Kono, focusing on two-dimensional electrons on the surface of liquid helium in microchannel devices. This work led to the first demonstration of precise control over the number of electron rows formed in microchannels and the observation of an order–disorder phase transition in this low-dimensional electron system. From 2018, he was a postdoctoral researcher in the Laboratory for Hybrid Quantum Systems at Michigan State University, working with Prof. Johannes Pollanen. There, his research involved the development of nano- and microfabricated devices—including superconducting single-electron transistors—as sensitive electrometers for detecting small numbers of electrons on helium. Since 2023, Niyaz Beysengulov has served as Director of Quantum Engineering at EeroQ, where the scientific focus is on developing a novel qubit platform based on electrons floating on the surface of superfluid helium for quantum information science applications.

Keynote talk:

Toward Scalable Quantum Processing with Electrons on Superfluid Helium

Abstract:

Electrons on helium are naturally identical, highly mobile, with exceptionally long spin coherence, and have device sizes which seamlessly integrate with CMOS technology for high-density quantum gates. These features provide a unique foundation for developing a scalable quantum processor comprising millions of qubits integrated on a single chip. This talk outlines the development of experimental infrastructure for probing surface-state electrons on superfluid helium across a temperature range spanning from the millikelvin regime up to 1 K. We demonstrate the positional control and measurement of single electrons, as well as the functionality of a large CCD array that allows for the addressability and measurement of many small electron packets. To detect electron packets ranging in size down to single electrons, we leverage a superconducting resonator embedded below the helium surface and measure the dispersive shift of the coupled electron-resonator system. The CCD was fabricated using a standard CMOS foundry process and we show its ability to both shuttle and measure thousands of electron packets.