Program Agenda

2025 CPS PI Mtg - Program Agenda

O V E R V I E W O F E V E N T S

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All times listed in CST

Wednesday, March 12th, 2025

4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Registration Check-in and Informal Networking Reception for Early Arrivals (light snacks)

SLC Lobby

Thursday, March 13th, 2025

7:00 AM – 8:00 AM	Registration and Breakfast	SLC Lobby
8:00 AM – 8:30 AM	Welcome and Opening Remarks David Corman (National Science Foundation) Padma Raghavan - (Vice Provost for Research and Innovation, Vanderbilt University)	SLC Ballroom
8:30 AM – 9:30 AM	Keynote: The Dawn of Electric Aviation Gregor Veble Mikić (Joby Aviation)	SLC Ballroom
9:30 AM – 10:00 AM	Coffee Break
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM	Panel: CPS in the Age of AI Organizer/Moderator: Cathy Wu (MIT) Panelists: Soumik Sarkar (Iowa State University), Xiaopeng Li (University of Wisconsin), James Weimer (Vanderbilt University), Ayan Mukhopadhyay (Vanderbilt University)	SLC Ballroom
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM	Keynote: Promoting Greater Use and Adoption of Cyber-Physical Systems in Agriculture and Status of Applicable Programming at the USDA-NIFA Steven Thomson (USDA-NIFA)	SLC Ballroom
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM	Networking Lunch	SLC Lobby/Ballroom
1:00 PM – 2:30 PM	Mini-Workshops: CPS and Agriculture - Organizers/Moderators: Steve Thomson (USDA/NIFA) and Simone Silvestri (University of Kentucky) Speakers: Cheol Lee (University of Michigan), Zhaohui (Julene) Tong (Georgia Tech), Miguel Acevedo (University of North Texas), Melissa Cantor (Penn State University) CPS in the Age of AI - Organizer/Moderator: Cathy Wu (MIT) Speakers: Lillian Ratliff (University of Washington), Jyotirmoy Deshmukh (USC), Cathy Wu (MIT) CPS & Digital Twins - Organizer/Moderator: Fatemeh Afghah (Clemson University) Speakers: Kaushik Chowdhury (UT Austin), Rudra Dutta (NC State) CPS Resilience - Organizers/Moderators: Saman Zanouz (Georgia Tech) and Saurabh Bagchi (Purdue) Speakers: Tarek Abdelzaher (UIUC), Stanley Bak (Stony Brook University) Human-in-the-Loop CPS in the Era of Human-AI Alignment: Impact and Future Direction - Organizer/Moderator: Salma Elmalaki (UC Irvine) Speakers: Meeko Oishi (University of New Mexico), Nalini Venkatasubramanian (University of California, Irvine), Eric Mazumdar (Caltech), Bolei Zhou (UCLA)	SLC Ballroom, SLC Rooms 2&3 (downstairs), and FGH Building
2:30 PM – 3:00 PM	Coffee Break
3:00 PM – 4:30 PM	Impactful CPS Projects (Day 1) Organizer/Moderator: David Corman (NSF) Projects/Presenters: Design Automation for Automotive Cyber-Physical Systems Samarjit Chakraborty (UNC) Provably Safe and Robust Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning with Applications in Urban Air Mobility Peng Wei (GWU) Sharing the World with Autonomous Systems: What Goes Wrong and How to Fix It Tichakorn (Nok) Wongpiromsarn (Iowa State)	SLC Ballroom
4:30 PM – 6:30 PM	Poster & Demo Session 1	Board of Trust (BOT) in SLC
5:00 PM – 6:30 PM	Evening Reception/Informal Networking	SLC Patio/ Ballroom/ Lobby & BOT

Friday, March 14th, 2025

7:00 AM – 8:00 AM	Registration and Breakfast	SLC Lobby
8:00 AM – 8:30 AM	Opening Remarks David Corman (National Science Foundation) Krishnendu Roy (Dean of Engineering, Vanderbilt University)	SLC Ballroom
8:30 AM – 9:30 AM	Keynote: Decentralized and Dispersed Computing for Cyber-Physical Systems Bhaskar Krishnamachari (USC)	SLC Ballroom
9:30 AM – 10:00 AM	Coffee Break
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM	Panel: Undergraduate Research in CPS Organizer/Moderator: Abhishek Dubey (Vanderbilt University)	SLC Ballroom
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM	Tutorial Sessions Organizer/Moderator: Salma Elmalaki (UC Irvine): Decision-Making under Non-Stationarity Ayan Mukhopadhyay (Vanderbilt University) Formal Verification and Control with Conformal Prediction Lars Lindemann (USC) and Jyotirmoy V. Deshmukh (USC)	(in FGH building) FGH Room 132 & FGH Room 136
11:00 AM – 12:30 PM	Poster and Demonstration Session 2	Board of Trust (BOT) in SLC
12:30 PM – 1:30 PM	Networking Lunch
1:30 PM – 2:30 PM	Impactful CPS Projects (Day 2) Organizer/Moderator: Jonathan Sprinkle (Vanderbilt University) Projects/ Presenters: Safe and Agile Autonomous Cyber-Physical Systems Madhur Behl (University of Virginia) Sharing Farm Intelligence via Edge Computing Flavio Esposito (Saint Louis University)	SLC Ballroom
2:30 PM – 3:30 PM	Panel: CPS & Digital Twin Organizer/Moderator: Fatemeh Afghah (Clemson University) Panelists: Jia (Kevin) Liu (Ohio State University), Dan Work (Vanderbilt University), Nalini Venkatasubramanian (UC Irvine)	SLC Ballroom
3:30 PM – 4:00 PM	Closing Remarks David Corman (National Science Foundation)	SLC Ballroom