2024 NSF 13th Annual CPS PI Meeting 
The 2024 Cyber-Physical Systems Principal Investigators' Meeting (CPS PI Meeting '24) was held in-person at Vanderbilt University's Student Life Center (SLC) located at 310 25th Ave. South, Nashville, TN 37212. The program included an adjacent Aspiring CPS PIs Workshop on the arrival day of Tuesday, March 19th. On the main meeting dates, Wednesday, March 20, 2024 and Thursday, March 21, 2024, the meeting featured keynote talks, panels, PI-led activities (lightning talks, posters, workshops, demos). 

2022 NSF 12th Annual CPS PI Meeting 
The 2022 Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) Principal Investigators' (PI) Meeting was held at the Crystal Gateway Marriott Hotel on Monday, November 7, 2022 through Wednesday, November 9, 2022. The meeting was in-person with virtual components, and featured keynote talks, panels, PI-led activities (lightning talks, posters, workshops, demos), a social program, and also a graduate-student forum. 

2021 NSF 11th Annual CPS PI Meeting 
The eleventh Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) Principal Investigators' (PI) Meeting was held from Wednesday, June 2 through Friday, June 4, 2021 in a virtual format. The PI meeting included keynote talks, panels, PI-led activities (lightning talks, posters, workshops, demos), a social program, and also a graduate-student forum.

2019 NSF 10th Annual CPS PI Meeting 
The tenth annual Cyber-Physical Systems Principal Investigators' Meeting (CPS PI Meeting '19) was held Wednesday, November 20 - Thursday, November 21 & Friday, November 22 at the Crystal Gateway Marriott, located at 1700 VA-110, Arlington, VA. The meeting provided a forum for a wide range of stakeholders in academia, industry, and federal agencies to review new developments in CPS foundations, to identify new, emerging applications, and to discuss technology gaps and barriers.

2018 NSF 9th Annual CPS PI Meeting 
The ninth annual CPS PI Meeting took place on Monday, November 14, and Tuesday, November 15, 2018 at the Hilton Alexandria Mark Center located in Alexandria, Virginia at 5000 Seminary Rd, Alexandria, VA 22311. The Meeting provided a forum for a wide range of stakeholders in academia, industry, and Federal agencies to review new developments in CPS foundations, to identify new, emerging applications, and to discuss technology gaps and barriers.

2017 NSF 8th Annual CPS PI Meeting 
The eighth annual CPS PI Meeting took place on Monday, November 13, and Tuesday, November 14, 2017 at the Hilton Alexandria Mark Center located in Alexandria, Virginia at 5000 Seminary Rd, Alexandria, VA 22311. The program of the meeting included presentations about projects funded by NSF and other agencies, keynotes, panels, discussion groups, and poster and demonstration sessions.

2016 NSF 7th Annual CPS PI Meeting 
The seventh annual CPS PI Meeting took place on Monday, October 31 and Tuesday, November 1, 2016 at the Renaissance Arlington Capital View (RACV) Hotel located in the Crystal City Community of Arlington, Virginia at 2800 South Potomac Avenue, Arlington, Virginia 22202. The Meeting provided a forum for a wide range of stakeholders in academia, industry, and Federal agencies to review new developments in CPS foundations, to identify new, emerging applications, and to discuss technology gaps and barriers.

2015 NSF 6th Annual CPS PI Meeting 
The sixth annual CPS PI Meeting was held on Monday, November 16 and Tuesday, November 17, 2015 at the Renaissance Arlington Capital View (RACV) Hotel in Arlington, Virginia. The annual CPS PI Meeting is a research community forum designed to showcase results and contribute to collective progress. At this year's CPS PI meeting, we took stock of CPS research and discuss with the community new directions, challenges, and opportunities going forward.

2014 NSF 5th Annual CPS PI Meeting 
The fifth annual CPS PI Meeting was held on November 6-7, 2014 at the Crystal Gateway Marriott in Arlington, Virginia. Day two featured three keynotes on the internet of safe things, responsive cities, and internet of agriculture as well as CPS energy, transportation and medical workshop briefings. The workshop briefings were followed by a working lunch with CPS Frontiers presentations. Day three included a plenary session with talks on Industrial Internet Fabric, an academic keynote on aerial robot swarms, and a talk on academic experience in Smart America. The meeting concluded with a government panel on CPS.

2013 NSF 4th Annual CPS PI Meeting 
The fourth annual CPS PI Meeting was held on Thursday and Friday, October 17-18, 2013 at the Crystal Gateway Marriott Hotel in Arlington, Virginia. The Industry Keynote was given by Ken Gabriel (Motorola) and a special plenary session by Helen Gill (NSF-retired) CPS - the first five years. Other sessions focused on CPS Testbeds in Mobile Robots, Ground Vehicles, Medical Devices, Boeing SWARM, and Industrial Internet. Panels discussed Frontier Projects, Industrial Internet, CPS Security, Diversity in CPS. An exciting innovators forum was moderated by Jonathan Sprinkle on Friday afternoon. The meeting was closed by David Corman (NSF).

2012 NSF 3rd Annual CPS PI Meeting 
The third consecutive CPS PI Meeting was held on October 3-5, 2012 at Gaylord National Hotel and Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland. Plenary sessions focused on the Science of CPS, Technology for CPS, and Design & Manufacturing. Day 2 featured parallel sessions on Health & Medical, Energy, and Transportation CPS. The morning of day 3 included a panel on the International CPS Research Agenda and an international conversation on mechanisms for collaboration in CPS. The meeting closed with a session on CPS Education.

2011 NSF 2nd Annual CPS PI Meeting 
The second annual CPS-PI Meeting was held on August 1-2, 2011 at the Gaylor National Hotel and Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland. The meeting was opened with a charge from Dr. Helen Gill and Dr. Kishan Baheti. The meeting included sessions on CPS Foundations, Health and Medical CPS, International CPS, Transportation, and Energy.

2010 NSF 1st Annual CPS PI Meeting 
The inaugural Cyber-Physical Systems Principal Investigators' Meeting was held August 10-12, 2010 as the Westin Arlington Gateway in Arlington, Virginia. The meeting opened with remarks by Thomas Peterson (NSF Assistant Director for Engineering), Ty Znati (NSF Division Director for CNS/CISE), and Robert Trew (NSF Division Director for EECS/ENG). Dr. Helen Gill followed with a Charge from NSF. Keynote presentations were delivered by Chris Geer (OSTP), P. R. Kumar (UIUC), and Curtis Carlson (SRI International).

2024 NSF Aspiring CPS PIs’ Workshop
The workshop was co-located with the 2024 NSF CPS PI meeting that was held on the subsequent two days. We encouraged aspiring PIs to attend both the workshop and the CPS PI Meeting. The goal of the workshop is to help aspiring PIs understand what NSF (and importantly, the review panels convened by NSF) expect to see in a successful CPS proposal, and to articulate their ideas in a way that proposal reviewers can more easily understand how the proposed work will contribute to the advance the CPS research agenda.

2024 CPS-IoT Week Tutorial: Enhancing CPS Data Reproducibility
Through this interactive tutorial, participants were taken through the process of taking their existing validation set, and producing both static and active ways for individuals to explore it onto the Cyber-Physical Systems Virtual Organization. 

2022 CPS-IoT Week Tutorial
In this tutorial, participants will learned how to existing datasets can be posted to the Cyber-Physical Systems Virtual Organization (CPS-VO), and how to acquire a DOI for that dataset in order to broadly disseminate those results to community.

Workshop on Smart and Connected Communities: Technological Foundations, Challenges and Opportunities (SCC-2022)
The Smart & Connected Communities Virtual Principal Investigator's Meeting was held from Tuesday October 11 through Wedneday, October 12, 2022.

Workshop on Smart and Connected Communities: Technological Foundations, Challenges and Opportunities (SCC-2021)
The Smart & Connected Communities Virtual Principal Investigator's Meeting was held from Wednesday, April 7 through Friday, April 9, 2021.

Third International Workshop on Science of Smart City Operations and Platforms Engineering (SCOPE 2018)
This workshop in partnership with Global City Teams Challenge (GCTC) encouraged submissions of previously unpublished work that addressed challenges critical to integrating humans, physical components and computers in cyber-physical systems at smart city scale. 

2015 Workshop on Big Data Analytics in CPS: Enabling the Move from IoT to Real-Time Control
We convened the community for a workshop to explore challenges and opportunities in moving from IoT to real-time control and CPS. This workshop focused on the current state of big data real time analytics in CPS (in medical, transportation (automotive, aerospace, rail), energy and other fields), evaluated the promises and shortcomings, and evaluated what needs to be done to enable big data real-time analytics in closed-loop cyber-physical systems.

IEEE ICC Workshop on Security and Privacy for IOT and CPS Systems
Recent advances in networking, communications, computation, software, and hardware technologies have revolutionized the way humans, smart things, and engineered systems interact and exchange information. The Internet of Things (IoT) and Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), which are the major contributors to this area, will fuel the realization of this new, globally interconnected cyber-world. The goal of the 2015 IoT/CPS-Security workshop is to bring together internationally leading academic and industrial researchers in an effort to identify and discuss the major technical challenges and recent results aimed at addressing all aspects of security and privacy for IoT and CPS.

2014 NSF National Workshop on Transportation Cyber-Physical Systems 
This workshop gathered leaders from industry, research laboratories, academic institutions, and government agencies to assess the current state of transportation CPS and continue discussion on future directions for research and development. A report for this workshop is forthcoming.

2014 NSF National Workshop on Research Frontiers in Medical CPS
The goal of the workshop was to identify research directions and opportunities that, if pursued, would initiate new developments in medical instrumentation, technologies, and approaches to maintaining health and wellbeing and treating illnesses. This workshop built on the conversations of previous medical CPS meetings such as the Planning Meeting for NSF Workshop on Medical Device Innovation (July 2012) and Joint Medical CPS workshops conducted as part of CPS Week during 2011 and 2013 among others. A report for this workshop is forthcoming.

2014 NSF Early Career Professionals' Workshop on Exploring New Frontiers in Cyber-Physical Systems 
This workshop aimed to identify new paradigms, challenges, and opportunities that will define future research directions for CPS; expand the conversation to facilitate advances in closely related disciplines such as energy, transportation, and healthcare; and nurture and grow the field by fostering new collaborations among young researchers. 

2014 NSF CPS Reference Architectures Workshop 
The goal of this workshop was to help identify elements of CPS reference architecture and an Industrial Internet "stack".

Medical CPS Workshop 2013: Medical Device Interoperatbility, Safety, & Security Assurance (at CPS Week 2013)
The fourth workshop on Medical Cyber-Physical Systems (formerly know as HCMDSS (High Confidence Medical Devices, Software, and Systems) and Medical Device Plug-and- Play (MD PnP)) provides a forum for the presentation of research and development covering aspects of high integrity and interoperability for medical devices, software, and systems that are essential to improve safety and efficiency in health care. The goal of the workshop is to bring together medical device specialists, including researchers, developers, and caregivers, from clinical environments, industry, research laboratories, academia, and government to identify and address challenges facing the design, manufacture, certification, and use of medical devices.

A planning meeting for the workshop was held July 18-19, 2012 to prepare for the Spring Workshop. The planning meeting brought together invited experts from the clinical and technology domains to define healthcare challenges that can benefit from advanced CPS-enabled technologies. Details about the planning meeting can be found at https://cps-vo.org/CPSMedicalDevicesPlanningMeeting

2013 NSF National Workshop on Energy Cyber-Physical Systems 
This workshop offered a unique NSF perspective focusing on the blend of the cyber and physical aspects of energy, and provided inputs from a broader energy-related community including academia, industry and other federal agencies for a long term CPS research agenda. The workshop identified fundamental issues and provided research directions for enabling strategic approaches to achieving future cyber-controlled energy infrastructures, including monitoring, control, and protection solutions. A report for this workshop is forthcoming. 

A planning meeting was held on October 24, 2012 in Baltimore, Maryland. Details about the planning meeting can be found at https://cps-vo.org/group/edu/planning

2012 National Workshop on the New Clockwork for Time-Critical Cyber-Physical Systems
The goal of the workshop was to define a list of needs for research on time-critical aspects of cyber-physical systems so that future research can develop robust foundations for reasoning about time in cyber-physical systems across scales, managing resources to meet timeliness requirements, and ensuring service agreements through new tools, techniques and methodologies. The workshop was structured as a sequence of panels, presentations and breakout sessions. 

A planning meeting for the full workshop was held on June 11 and 12, 2012 in Dayton, Ohio. The planning meeting focused on identifying the structure and technical agenda for the workshop. Details about the planning meeting can be found at https://cps-vo.org/group/time/planning

2011 CPS Community Forum (at CPS Week 2011)
The goal of the CPS Community Forum is to facilitate information exchange among industry, government and academic participants of CPSWEEK. Topics covered by the Forum include reports from the Industry Executive board and Academic Executive Board of the CPS Virtual Organization, discussion of CPS technology needs, research directions and state of education in the US, summaries of CPS research approaches internationally. The panel discussion will focus on exploiting new strategies to collaborative research in industry and academy, on accelerating the establishment of a core science and technology foundation that is relevant to the extremely broad spectrum of applications for CPS and identifying solutions for the education challenges.

2011 Workshop on Developing Dependable and Secure Automotive Cyber-Physical Systems from Compontents
The goal of this workshop was to address emerging challenges relative to reliability, availability, safety, and security attributes of software-intensive electronic automotive controls systems, and road infrastructure systems. 

2010 CPS Community Forum (EU-US Institutional Panel at CPS Week 2010 | 1st International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems)
In the scope of the first International Conference on CPS (ICCPS), one of the streams of the CPS Week 2010, an EU-US Institutional Panel discussion was held to discuss strategies and approaches as well as cooperation opportunities in the area of CPS/Embedded Systems and Control. The different approaches to the theme, as well as the different priorities, were highlighted while trying to reinforce the existing informal cooperation between EU and the US.

2009 CPS Community Forum ( at CPS Week 2009)
The goal of the CPS Community Forum was to lay the foundations of a CPS Research community.

2008 CPS Information Day
At this event, information related to the recently announced NSF Research Program on Cyber-Physical Systems was provided in a morning session. A subsequent afternoon workshop considered building a CPS research community.

2008 CPS Summit
The purpose of this workshop was to strongly influence a FY 2009 NSF Research Initiative on CPS.

2008 Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems: Closing the Loop
This workshop was a community activity to raise awareness of cyber-physical systems and discuss technical challenges in the area. The workshop presented several invited talks to frame issues and included substantial time for discussion by all participants.

Workshop: From Embedded Systems to Cyber-Physical Systems: a Review of the State-of-the-Art and Research Needs
The theme of the workshop is presenting an overarching view of methodologies and theories for the design of embedded and critical systems as it has emerged in the past five years and discussing the future in terms of the extension of the notion of embedded systems to Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS). In the overview of the present status of the discipline, the workshop will address heterogeneous system composition, design methods based on abstraction and refinement, interface theories, mapping of abstract entities to implementation platforms and industrial applications. The discussion will also include public research organizations. European Community representatives will provide the state-of-the-art and the research initiatives on embedded systems in the EU.

2006 NSF Workshop On Cyber-Physical Systems: Research Motivation, Techniques and Roadmap
The research initiative on Cyber-Physical Systems sought new scientific foundations and technologies to enable the rapid and reliable development and integration of computer- and information-centric physical and engineered systems. The goal of the initiative was to usher in a new generation of engineered systems that are highly dependable, efficiently produced, and capable of advanced performance in information, computation, communication, and control.