20th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology (ICIT 2019) The IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology is one of the flagship conferences of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society.  This prestigious event is held every year in a different part of the world. The aim of this conference is to provide a forum for the presentation and discussion of emerging industrial technologies and for professional interactions.  Additionally, it serves as a conduit for channelling advanced technology to the regional industry.

4th International Workshop on Requirements Engineering for Self-Adaptive and Cyber-Physical Systems (RESACS 2018) http://resacs2018.wordpress.com | http://twitter.com/RESACS_WS

Third Workshop on Self-Awareness in Cyber-Physical Systemsp The concept of self-awareness has become a hot research topic in a variety of disciplines such as robotics, artificial intelligence, control theory, networked systems, and so on. Its applicability has been explored in various application domains such as automotive, military, consumer electronics, industrial control, medical equipment, and so forth.

International Conference on Embedded Software (EMSOFT 2018) The ACM SIGBED International Conference on Embedded Software (EMSOFT) brings together researchers and developers from academia, industry, and government to advance the science, engineering, and technology of embedded software development.

IEEE 12th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS 2018) 29-31 May 2018 | Nantes, France | http://rcis-conf.com/ co-located with the 36th French conference INFORSID http://www.inforsid.fr/Nantes2018/

International Conference on Pervasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments (PETRA) The PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments (PETRA) conference is a highly interdisciplinary conference that focuses on computational and engineering approaches to improve the quality of life and enhance human performance in a wide range of settings, in the workplace, at home, in public spaces, urban environments, and other.

Stroke is a leading cause of long-term disability, with 80% of survivors having locomotor impairments. Individuals after stroke typically present with hemiparetic gait, characterized as slow, asymmetric, and inefficient. Our lab has been developing soft wearable cyber-physical sytems, called soft exosuits, that interface with paretic limb after stroke through soft and conformal textile-based structures to assist hemiparetic walking. Soft exosuits transmit mechanical power to human body joints via interaction between functional textiles worn on the body and Bowden cable retraction.

Our overall aim in this project is to synthesize desired behaviors in populations of bacterial and mammalian cells. To this goal, we define the basis of a next-generation cyber-physical system (CPS) called biological CPS (bioCPS). The enabling technologies are synthetic biology and micron-scale mobile robotics. Synthetic genetic circuits for decision making and local communication among the cells are automatically synthesized using a Bio-Design Automation (BDA) workflow.

This project will design and implement a domain-specific language and compiler for microfluidic laboratory-on-a-chip (LoC) devices based on electrowetting-on-dielectric (EWoD) technology. The Lead PI’s team has designed and implemented BioScript, a domain-specific programming language for programmable microfluidics. The BioScript syntax is programmer friendly, with the intention of being accessible to biologists and other researchers and practitioners in the life sciences.