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NIST Identity, Credential, and Access Management 

(ICAM) Workshop Outcomes: 

Bill Fisher, NIST NCCoE

Evaluating Speech Analytic Technology 

Tasks in Simulated Public Safety Related 

Communications:

Fred Byers, NIST

Indoor Mapping & Navigation Pilot - Improved 

First Responder Preplanning through Open 

Standards:

Bart De Lathouwer, Open Geospatial Consortium

LMR Data Modeling for LTE: 

Chris Dennis, NIST

Don Bradshaw, NIST

Current State of Mobile Application Security:

Michael Ogata, NIST ITL

Extensible Toolkit for Analytics in Public 

Safety:

Jason Corso and Brian Moore, VOXEL 51

Point Cloud City: 

Lan Wang, Eddie Jacobs, City of Memphis

Enfield Fire Dept., Joel Lawhead, Hancock County, MS

Coverage, Capacity, & Resilience Enhancement in Limited 

Public Safety Networks: 

Hyeong-Ah Choi and Amrinder Arora, George Washington 

University and Miami University

Evaluating Voice and Hand Tracking in Virtual 

Reality and the Impact They Have on Users: 

Cole Sandau, Justin Mette, and John Dwyer, Health 

Scholars

Accelerating Data-Driven Operations in the 

Fire Service:

Tyler Garner, Prominent Edge LLC

Hyper-Reality Helmet with Multimodal Interfaces: 

Yang Cai, Carnegie Mellon University

Open Ecosystems in Public Safety Communications: Mission 

Critical Open Platform Lessons Learned and Future Steps: 

Fidel Liberal, University of the Basque Country,

Jani Lyrintzis, BITTIUM, 

Bartolo Scanavino, ENENSYS/EXPWAY,

Harald Ludwig, TCCA

Cognition-driven Display for Navigation Activities 

(Cog-DNA): Personalized Spatial Information System 

Based on Information Personality of Firefighters: 

Eric Jing Du, University of Florida, Texas A&M, 

Ryan Qi Wang, Northeastern University, Yingzi Lin, 

Northeastern University, Patrick Suermann, Texas A&M 

University

Information-Driven Video Communication for 

Public Safety Networks: 

Rui (April) Dai, University of Cincinnati

Accelerating Adoption and Use of Emerging 

Location Based Services by Public Safety: 

Paul Doherty, PhD and Jared Doke, National Alliance 

for Public Safety GIS (NAPSG) Foundation 

End-to-End Mission Critical Push-to-Talk – Pushing for the 

Future: 

Robert Escalle, Sonim

Jose Oscar Fajardo, Nemergent Solutions

Bridging Non-ISSI LMR and LTE Mission Critical Push-To-Talk: 

Chris Walton, NIST, Don Bradshaw, NIST

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Level of Technicality

Location-Based Services

Security

Resilient Systems

Analytics

Enhanced UI/UX

Mission Critical Voice

Beginner

Intermediate

Advanced

Open Innovation 

Session

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HAPTIC INTERFACES FOR PUBLIC SAFETY | Scott Ledgerwood - NIST PSCR, Megan Waldock - Yet2

ARRIVE AND CHECK-IN

WELCOME AND OPENING REMARKS |

PSCR PROGRAM OVERVIEW | Dereck Orr - Division Chief, NIST PSCR

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PSCR PORTFOLIO OVERVIEWS

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LOCATION: ERIE AND MICHIGAN BALLROOM

4:05 – 5:30PM

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Walt Copan - Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology, NIST Director

Keynote Speaker, Jonathan Lewin - Bureau of Technical Services Chief at Chicago Police Department
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 Improving the Security and Authentication 

Features on First Responders’ Mobile Devices: 

John Beltz, NIST PSCR, Mike Bartock, NIST ITL, Sarah 

Hughes, NIST PSCR, Bill Fisher, NIST NCCoE, Santosh 

Rajvaidya, Nok Nok Labs 

Body-Worn Camera Analytics: 

Jason J. Corso, University of Michigan

Ultimate Navigation Chip – Chip-Scale Personal 

Navigation System Integrating Deterministic Localization 

and Probabilistic Signals of Opportunities: 

Andrei M. Shkel and Zak Kassas, University 

of California Irvine

Propagation Channel Models & System 

Performance: 

Andreas Molisch and Hussein Hammoud, 

University of Southern California 

LUNCH BREAK *Please note that lunch will not be provided* 

Securing First Responder Mobile and Wearable 

Devices – Going Beyond the Public Safety Use Case: 

Gema Howell, NIST ITL, Michael Ogata, NIST ITL

Imagine a World Where Data Is Shared Safely: 

Terese Manley, NIST, Christine Task, Knexus 

Research Corporation, Challenge Winners, Community 

First Responder

An Infrastructure-Free Localization System for 

Firefighters: 

Anthony Rowe, Carnegie Mellon University

Enabling Service Continuity Using UE-toNetwork Relays: 

Richard Rouil, David Griffith, NIST

Security Standards Influence Public Safety 

Communication: 

Mike Dolan, First Responder Network Authority, Jeff 

Cichonski, NIST ITL, Adam Lewis, Motorola, Bill Fisher, 

NIST NCCoE

Video and Imagery Dataset to Drive Public Safety 

Capabilities: 

Andrew Weinert, MIT Lincoln Laboratory in partner with 

New Jersey Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness

Robust First Responder Tracking and Mapping with 

Thermal, Inertial, and Radar Sensing: 

Jamie Cousins, HFRS, Dr. Pedro Porto Buarque de Gusmao, 

Dr. Johan Wahlstrom, Niki Trigoni and Andrew Markham, 

University of Oxford

Improving ProSe Off-Network Coverage: 

Dan Ericson, Harris

Towards the Development of a VR-Based Emergency 

Response Scenario and Intelligent User Interface: 

Randall Spain, North Carolina State University, 

Donia Slack, RTI International

Cognitive Mobile Edge Computing: Video Analytics 

Use Case: 

Zongru (Doris) Shao, Spectronn

First Responder 3D Mapping and Location: 

Jeff Kunst, TRX, Inc.

Matt Herbert, Battalion Chief, Arlington County

Public Safety Communications Above Six GHz 

– Challenges and Opportunities: 

Marco Mezzavilla, New York University

FirstSimVR: Evaluating Future Tools Using Today’s 

VR: 

Jason Jerald, Jason Haskins, Charles Laird, and Blake 

Boyd, NextGen Interactions

Next Generation First Responder Deployables and 

Internet of Things (IoT) Technology: 

Sam Ray, Alison Kahn, Max Maurice, Hien Nguyen, NIST

Decimeter Accurate, Long Range Non-Line-of-Sight 

RF Wireless Localization Solution for Public Safety 

Applications: 

Hun-Seok Kim, University of Michigan

Mission Critical Voice Quality of Experience 

Measurement Methods: 

Tim Thompson, NIST PSCR

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Level of Technicality

Location-Based Services

Security

Resilient Systems

Analytics

Enhanced UI/UX

Mission Critical Voice

Beginner

Intermediate

Advanced

Open Innovation 

Session

WELCOME & KEYNOTE ADDRESS

Ed Horowitz - FirstNet Board Chairman

TECH TO PROTECT: DESIGNING APPS THAT FURTHER THE MISSION OF EMERGENCY 

RESPONDERS | Craig Connelly - NIST PSCR

BREAK *DEMOS OPEN & LOCATED IN ERIE & MICHIGAN BALLROOM

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4:20-5:30PM DEMOS

LOCATION: ERIE AND MICHIGAN BALLROOM

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Demonstration of the Wildland-Fire Data 

Logistics Network (WDNL): 

Nancy French, Michigan Tech Research Institute, 

Ezra Kissel and Martin Swany, Indiana University,

Micah Beck, University of Tennessee

Developing Real-Time Analytics to Improve 

Outcomes: 

David Blankinship, Interra David Van Ballegooijen, 

Western Fire Chiefs

First Responder Indoor Location using LTE 

Direct Mode Communications Signal: 

H. Howard Fan, University of Cincinnati

Modeling and Improving Device-to-Device Direct Discovery: 

Collin Brady, University of Washington

7000+ First Responders Have Something to 

Say: Are We Answering the Call?: 

Kristen Greene, Mary Theofanos, Yee-Yin 

Choong, Sandra Spickard Prettyman, Pamela 

Konkol, NIST

Demonstrating the Power of Collaboration to Solve 

Video Analytics Challenges in Baltimore Citiwatch: 

John Garofolo, NIST, Major Samuel Hood, Baltimore 

Citiwatch/ Baltimore PD, Julie Stroup, City of Houston, 

Jason Corso, VOXEL51, James Horan, NIST

Situational Awareness for Emergencies through 

Network Enabled Technologies (Safe-T-Net): 

Professor Moe Z. Win, Massachusetts Institute of 

Technology

Open-Source Simulation Platform for Public Safety: 

Richard Rouil, NIST, Tom Henderson, University of Washington,

Marco Mezzavilla, New York University, Michele Polese, University 

of Padova

LUNCH BREAK *Please note that lunch will not be provided* 

Emergency Edge Supercloud: 

Robert Van Renesse, Cornell University

Real-Time Video Analytics for Situation Awareness: 

Junwei Liang and Salvador Medina, Carnegie Mellon 

University

UWB Localization and Mapping Using 

Computational Imaging: 

Fabio da Silva, NIST

Recent Mission Critical Voice QoE Awarded Projects: 

Brad Fain and Alessio Medda, Georgia Tech Research Institute, 

Henning Sculzrinne, Columbia University

Requirement Analysis and Participatory 

Design of Next Generation Public Safety User 

Interfaces: 

Regis Kopper & Jeronimo Grandi, Duke Univ.

Towards Cognitive Assistant Systems for Emergency 

Response: 

Sarah Masud Preum, University of Virginia

Mobile Edge Services in 4G LTE: 

Max Hollingsworth, University of Colorado Boulder

Mission Critical Voice Quality of Experience Speech-Based 

Access Time Measurement: 

Jaden Pieper, NIST PSCR

Mixed Reality Training and Testing Facility for 

First Responders (VALOR): 

John Blackwell, Diamond Age Technology,

Patrick Hagan, Houston Fire Department, David 

Kortenkamp, TRACLabs

Public Safety Video, Analytics, and Workflow to 

Enable the End User - Lessons Learned: 

Shishir Shah, University of Houston, Julie Stroup, City 

of Houston

ReDiCom: Resilient Communications for 

Dynamic First Responder Teams in Disaster 

Management: Dr. K.K. Ramakrishnan, University 

of California Riverside, Dr. Murat Yuksel, University 

of Central Florida, Dr. Hulya Seferoglu, University 

of Illinois at Chicago, Dr. Jiachen Chen, WINLAB, 

Rutgers University

OpenFirst – The Open-Source LTE Platform for First 

Responders: 

Paul Sutton, Software Radio Systems

Augmented Reality Testing of Equipment in 

Multiple Immersive Simulations (ARTEMIS): 

Brad Fain, Sarah Farmer, and Nicole Kosoris, 

Georgia Tech Research Institute

SAFE-NET: A Computing Platform for Public Safety 

Applications: 

Khaled Abdelghany and Barbara Minsker, Southern 

Methodist University, May Yuan, University of Texas at 

Dallas

DistressNet-NG: A Resilient Broadband 

Communication & Edge Computing 

Infrastructure for FirstNet: 

Radu Stoleru, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment 

Station, Harsha Chenji, Ohio University

Device-to-Device System for Public Safety (DDPS): 

Richard Lau, Stephanie Demers, Eric Beck, Heechang Kim, 

Perspecta Labs

Evaluating Multicast Capability in LTE Public Safety Networks: 

Chunmei Liu, NIST

*This sessions ends at 5:05PM*

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Location-Based Services Level of Technicality:

Security

Resilient Systems

Analytics

Enhanced UI/UX

Mission Critical Voice

Beginner

Intermediate

Advanced

Open Innovation 

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WELCOME AND FIRESIDE CHAT 

Paul Steinberg - Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for Motorola Solutions

*PLENARY WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE GREAT LAKES BALLROOM*

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BREAK *DEMOS OPEN & LOCATED IN ERIE & MICHIGAN BALLROOM

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1:50-2:35PM

2:40-3:25PM

3:30-4:15PM

DEMOS

LOCATION: ERIE AND MICHIGAN BALLROOM