FORCES 2015 Research Exchange and Advisory Board Meeting

The FORCES 2015 Research Exchange and Advisory Board Meeting was held May 28-29, 2015 at the Hotel Shattuck Plaza in Berkeley, CA.

FORCES Meeting Agenda

Below is the meeting agenda. A PDF version of the program is available here.

Thursday, May 28, 2015

09:00 - 09:30 Welcome and Overview
Shankar Sastry (Berkeley); Larry Rohrbough (Berkeley)

Research Presentations - Morning Session

09:30 - 09:55 Data-Driven Modeling of Human Decision Making Processes
Jacob Avery (MIT)
09:55 - 10:20 Scalable Tools for Learning Models of Strategic Decision-Making
Lillian Ratliff (Berkeley)
10:20 - 10:45 Stealthy Epidemics: Modeling Worm Attacks against CPS
Aron Laszka (Vanderbilt)
10:45 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 11:20 Online Learning on a Continuum
Walid Krichene (Berkeley)
11:20 - 11:50 Scalable Supervisory Control Approach for Dynamic Cyber Security
Mohammad Rasouli (Michigan)
11:50 - 12:15 Approximation Algorithms for Optimization of Large-scale Interdependent Systems: From Supermarket Refrigerators to Electrical Grids
Insoon Yang (Berkeley)
12:15 - 13:30 Lunch

Research Presentations - Afternoon Session

13:30 - 13:55 Guarding Networks through Mobile Heterogeneous Guards
Waseem Abbas (Vanderbilt)
13:55 - 14:20 Sequential Contracts for Uncertain Electricity Resources
Hamid Tavafoghi (Michigan)
14:20 - 14:45 Approximate Bilevel Programming via Pareto Optimization for Imputation and Control of Optimization and Equilibrium Models
Jérôme Thai (Berkeley)
14:45 - 15:00 Break
15:00 - 15:25 Resilient Design and Operation of Urban Water Infrastructure Networks
Lina Sela (MIT)
15:25 - 15:50 Protecting Virtual Calls in Binary Programs: An Empirical Study From COTS Applications To CPS Applications
Chao Zhang (Berkeley)
15:50 - 16:15 Differential Privacy of Populations in Routing Games
Roy Dong (Berkeley)
16:15 - 17:00 Research Work in Progress Session
16:15 - 16:25 Data-Driven Modeling of Aircraft Engine Performance
Yashovardhan Chati, (MIT)
16:25 - 16:35 Selling Wind: A Model
Ali Kakhbod, (MIT)
16:35 - 16:45 Applying Decentralized Information Flow Labels for System-level Synthesis
Istvan Madari (Vanderbilt)
16:45 - 16:55 Defense Policies for Partially Observed Spreading Processes on Bayesian Attack Graphs
Erik Miehling (Michigan)
17:00 NETWORKING RECEPTION

Friday, May 29, 2015

08:30 - 09:30 Welcome and Program Highlights
Larry Rohrbough (Berkeley)
09:30 - 09:45 Break
09:45 - 11:45 FORCES Student Council Convenes in Breakout Room
09:45 - 10:15 Distributed Control of Electricity Distribution Networks in the Face of DER Disruptions
Saurabh Amin (MIT)
10:15 - 10:45 Resilient Monitoring, Diagnosis, Control, and Security Codesign for CPS
Gabor Karsai (Vanderbilt)
10:45 - 11:15 Distributed Online Learning in Multi-Agent Systems
Alex Bayen (Berkeley)
11:15 - 11:45 Secure Estimation-based Kalman Filter for Cyber-Physical Systems Against Adversarial Attacks
Claire Tomlin (Berkeley)
11:45 - 13:00 Lunch
13:00 - 13:30 FORCES Education and Outreach and Student Council Outbrief
Aimée Tabor (Berkeley); Walid Krichene (Berkeley)
13:30 - 14:00 Towards Security in Cyber-Physical Systems
Dawn Song (Berkeley)
14:00 - 14:30 Informational Brass Paradox: The Impact of Information on Traffic Congestions
Asu Ozdaglar (MIT)
14:30 - 14:45 Break
14:45 - 15:15 A General Framework for Management of Cyber-risks In Large Scale Interdependent CPS
Galina Schwartz (Berkeley)
15:15 - 15:45 Societal Scale CPS Systems: Privacy Aware Incentive Design
Shankar Sastry (Berkeley)
15:45 - 16:30 Discussion with Advisory Board Members
16:30 Meeting End