FORCES NSF All Hands Meeting 2017

The FORCES NSF Review Meeting will be held August 23-24, 2017 at the Faculty Club on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley.

FORCES Meeting Agenda

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

Wednesday, August 23, 2017

08:30 - 08:45 Welcome and Opening Remarks
David Corman (National Science Foundation); Shankar Sastry (Berkeley)
08:45 - 09:15 FORCES Overview and Highlights
Larry Rohrbough (Berkeley)
09:15 - 10:15 Keynote Presentation
     Provably Correct Intelligent Learning CPS
     Claire Tomlin (Berkeley); Janos Sztipanovits (Vanderbilt)
10:15 - 10:30 Break

Session I

10:30 - 11:00 Secure AI in Cyber Physical Systems
Dawn Song (Berkeley)
11:00 - 11:30 Humans Amidst Automation: Competition, Learning, and Uncertainty
Roy Dong (Berkeley); Lillian Ratliff (University of Washington)
11:30 - 12:30 Young Researchers Talks I
11:30 - 11:45 A Distributed Control Algorithm Robust to Forecast Uncertainty for a Large Stormwater Catchment
Margaret Chapman(Berkeley)
11:45 - 12:00 A Game-Theoretic Approach for Selecting Optimal Thresholds for Anomaly Detection in Dynamical Environments
Amin Ghafouri (Vanderbilt)
12:00 - 12:15 Reinforcement Learning for Mixed-Autonomy Traffic
Eugene Vinitsky (Berkeley); Cathy Wu (Berkeley)
12:15 - 12:30 Effect of Information in Bayesian Congestion Games
Manxi Wu (MIT)
12:30 - 13:45 Lunch and Keynote Presentation
     Toward a Resilient and Sustainable Air Transportation System
     Hamsa Balakrishnan (MIT)

Session II

13:45 - 14:15 Strategic Sensing and Resource Allocation for Pipeline Network Resilience
Saurabh Amin (MIT)
14:15 - 15:00 Education and Outreach
Claire Tomlin (Berkeley); Saurabh Amin (MIT); Xenofon Koutsoukos (Vanderbilt)
15:00 - 15:15 Break

Session III

15:15 - 16:15 Keynote Presentation
     Resilience of Cyber-Physical Systems Using Redundancy, Diversity, and Hardening
     Xenofon Koutsoukos (Vanderbilt)
16:15 - 17:30 Young Researchers Talks II
16:15 - 16:30 Vulnerability Analysis Based on Cyber-Attack and Defense Models in Power Transmission Systems
Saqib Hasan (Vanderbilt)
16:30 - 16:45 Secure Learning in Adversarial Environments
Bo Li (Berkeley)
16:45 - 17:00 Resilient Diffusion Least-Mean Squares Over Adaptive Networks for Distributed Clustering in CPS
Jiani Li (Vanderbilt)
17:00 - 17:15 Neural Network-based Graph Embedding for Cross-Platform Binary Code Similarity Detection
Chang Liu (Berkeley)
17:15 - 17:30 On Threshold Properties of the Optimal Policy for POMDPs on Partially Ordered Spaces
Erik Miehling (Michigan)
18:30 NETWORKING DINNER

Thursday, August 24, 2017

Session IV

08:30 - 10:00 Young Researchers Talks III
08:30 - 08:45 Economizing the Uneconomic: Sustainable Electricity Markets
Mohammad Rasouli (Michigan)
08:45 - 09:00 Competitive Outcomes in the Data Market: Statistical Estimation in a Strategic Setting
Tyler Westenbroek (Berkeley)
09:00 - 09:15 Residential Demand Response - A Randomized Controlled Trial in California
Datong Zhou (Berkeley)
09:15 - 09:30 No More Cruisin' for Parking: Targeted Information and Incentives via Spatio-Temporal Analysis and Bandits
Tanner Fiez (University of Washington)
09:30 - 09:45 An Inverse Risk-Sensitive Reinforcement Learning Approach to Learning Agent Preferences
Eric Mazumdar (Berkeley)
09:45 - 10:00 Negative Externalities of GPS-Enabled Routing Applications: A Game Theoretical Approach
Jérôme Thai (Berkeley)
10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:15 Keynote Presentation
     Inference and Control in Routing Games
     Alex Bayen (Berkeley)

Session V

11:15 - 11:45 Platform-based Resilience for CPS
Gabor Karsai (Vanderbilt)
11:45 - 12:00 Philippine California Advanced Research Institute (PCARI)
Susan Festin (University of the Philippines)
12:00 - 12:30 Digital Transformation of Societal Scale Systems
Shankar Sastry (Berkeley)
12:30 - 13:15 Lunch and NSF Caucus
13:15 - 14:00 NSF Outbrief and Closing Remarks
14:00 Meeting End