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 Abhishek Dubey (National Science Foundation) Ellen Zegura (Division Director for Computer and Network Systems, National Science Foundation, joining virtually)*	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 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 CPS in Agriculture Steven Thomson (USDA-NIFA, virtual)	SLC Ballroom
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM	Networking Lunch	SLC Lobby/Ballroom
1:00 PM – 2:30 PM	Mini-Workshops: CPS and Agriculture Moderators: Steve Thomson (USDA-NIFA) \| 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) Open Problems for CPS in the Age of AI Moderator: Cathy Wu (MIT) Speakers: Lillian Ratliff (University of Washington), Jyotirmoy Deshmukh (USC), Cathy Wu (MIT) CPS & Digital Twins Moderator: Fatemeh Afghah (Clemson University) Speakers: Kaushik Chowdhury (UT Austin), Rudra Dutta (NC State) CPS Resilience Moderators: Saman Zonouz (Georgia Tech) and Saurabh Bagchi (Purdue) Speakers: Tarek Abdelzaher (UIUC), Stanley Bak (Stony Brook University), Brandon Lucia (CMU), Melkior Ornik (UIUC), Edward Lee (UC Berkeley) Human-in-the-Loop CPS in the Era of Human-AI Alignment: Impact and Future Direction Moderator: Salma Elmalaki (UC Irvine) Speakers: Meeko Oishi (University of New Mexico), Nalini Venkatasubramanian (UC Irvine), Eric Mazumdar (Caltech), Bolei Zhou (UCLA)	Agriculture in SLC Ballroom Age of AI in FGH Building Auditorium (134) w/ breakouts in FGH (132 & 136) Digital Twins in SLC Rooms 1&2 (downstairs) Resilience in FGH Building (Room 110) Human-in-Loop in FGH Building (Room 138)
2:30 PM – 3:00 PM	Coffee Break
3:00 PM – 4:30 PM	Impactful CPS Projects Moderator: Abhishek Dubey (National Science Foundation) 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 University)	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 Abhishek Dubey (National Science Foundation)	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	Tutorial Sessions Decision-Making under Non-Stationarity: Concepts, Trends, and Challenges Ayan Mukhopadhyay (Vanderbilt University) and Nathaniel Keplinger (Vanderbilt University) Formal Verification and Control with Conformal Prediction Lars Lindemann (USC) and Jyotirmoy Deshmukh (USC)	SLC Rooms 1&2 (downstairs) SLC Ballroom
11:00 AM – 12:30 PM	Poster and Demonstration Session 2	SLC Board of Trust (BOT)
12:30 PM – 1:30 PM	Networking Lunch
1:30 PM – 2:30 PM	Impactful CPS Projects Moderator: Jonathan Sprinkle (Vanderbilt University) 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 Moderator: Fatemeh Afghah (Clemson University) Panelists: Jia (Kevin) Liu (Ohio State University), Dan Work (Vanderbilt University), Nalini Venkatasubramanian (UC Irvine), Gregor Veble Mikić (Joby Aviation)	SLC Ballroom
3:30 PM – 4:00 PM	Closing Remarks Abhishek Dubey (National Science Foundation)	SLC Ballroom
4:00 PM	Closing Networking Session (attendance optional/light refreshments)	SLC Ballroom