FORCES NSF Review Meeting 2017

The FORCES NSF Review Meeting will be held January 25-26, 2017 at the Westin Arlington Gateway in Arlington, VA.

FORCES Meeting Agenda

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

Wednesday, January 25, 2017

08:00 - 08:15 Welcome and Opening Remarks
David Corman (National Science Foundation); Shankar Sastry (Berkeley)
08:15 - 08:30 FORCES Updates and Highlights
Larry Rohrbough (Berkeley)
08:30 - 09:30 Keynote Presentations
     Game Theoretic Issues in Security of CPS
     Demos Teneketzis (Michigan)
     Learning Human Intent in CPS
     Shankar Sastry (Berkeley); Dorsa Sadigh (Berkeley)

Session I - Security and Resilience

09:30 - 09:50 Network Interdiction and Inspection Models for Cyber-physical Security
Saurabh Amin (MIT)
09:50 - 10:10 Experimental Analysis of Resilience in Power Systems
Gabor Karsai (Vanderbilt)
10:10 - 10:30 Game-Theoretic Foundations for Cyber-(Physical) Insurance Contracts
Galina Schwartz (Berkeley)
10:30 - 10:45 Security and Resilience Q&A
10:45 - 11:00 Break

Session II - Energy and Power

11:00 - 11:20 Modeling and Control of Load Ensembles
Ian Hiskens (Michigan)
11:20 - 11:40 Resilience in Networked Dynamic Systems Using Trusted Nodes
Xenofon Koutsoukos (Vanderbilt)
11:40 - 11:55 Energy and Power Q&A
11:55 - 13:15 Lunch and Keynote Presentation
     New Vistas for Urban Infrastructure
     Lillian Ratliff (Berkeley)
13:15 - 14:00 Young Researchers Talks I
13:15 - 13:25 Resilience Sensor Placement for Faults and Attacks in Water Distribution Networks
Waseem Abbas (Vanderbilt)
13:25 - 13:35 Strategic Network Inspection Using Resource-Constrained sUAS
Mathieu Dahan (MIT)
13:35 - 13:45 A Game-Theoretic Approach for Alert Prioritization in Cyber-Physical Systems
Aron Laszka (Vanderbilt)
13:45 - 14:00 Exploring New Attack Space on Adversarial Deep Learning
Chang Liu (Berkeley)

Session III - Transportation

14:00 - 14:20 Resilience of Networks with Switching Topologies
Hamsa Balakrishnan (MIT)
14:20 - 14:40 Repeated Games Framework for Routing Problems
Alex Bayen (Berkeley)
14:40 - 15:00 Provably Safe Learning
Kene Akametalu (Berkeley)
15:00 - 15:15 Transportation Q&A
15:15 - 15:30 Break
15:30 - 16:15 Young Researchers Talks II
15:30 - 15:40 An AC-QP Optimal Power Flow Algorithm Considering Wind Forecast Uncertainty
Jenny Marley (Michigan)
15:40 - 15:50 A Dynamic Control Scheme for the Secure Operation of Cyber-physical Systems
Erik Miehling (Michigan)
15:50 - 16:00 Designing Data Markets for Competitive Industries: Structure, Stability, and Fairness
Tyler Westenbroek (Berkeley)
16:00 - 17:00 Education and Outreach
16:00 - 16:30 Engaging Undergraduates in CPS Research: From Freshman Explorations to Senior Design Projects
Saurabh Amin (MIT)
16:30 - 17:00 Making CPS Accessible for High School Learners
Kena Hazelwood-Carter (Berkeley)
18:00 NETWORKING DINNER

Thursday, January 26, 2017

Session IV: Industry and International Collaborations

08:30 - 08:50 Resilient Cyber Physical Systems Research in the Philippines
Susan Festin (University of the Phillipines)
08:50 - 09:10 Machine Learning and Diagnostics for Electricity Theft Detection and Industrial IoT
Roel Dobbe (Berkeley); Henrik Ohlsson (C3 IoT)
09:10 - 09:30 Randomized Algorithms for Scalable Inference
Shaunak Bopardikar (UTRC)
Gaussian Process Regression for Modeling Aircraft Fuel Flow
Hamsa Balakrishnan (MIT)
09:30 - 09:50 Towards a Framework for Privacy: Design Principles and an Industrial Perspective
Roy Dong (Berkeley); Shaunak Bopardikar (UTRC)
09:50 - 10:05 Break

Session V - FORCES Alumni

10:05 - 10:25 Urban Mobility: Learning and Incentives
Lillian Ratliff (University of Washington); Eric Mazumdar (Berkeley)
10:25 - 10:45 Learning Dynamics, Estimation and Control in Congestion Games
Walid Krichene (Google); Jérôme Thai (Berkeley)
10:45 - 11:05 Data-driven Incentive Design for Residential Demand Response
Max Balandat (Facebook); Datong Zhou (Berkeley)
11:05 - 11:35 The Fourth Component of Societal-Scale CPS: Components That Can Learn
Janos Sztipanovits (Vanderbilt)
11:35 - 12:30 Lunch and NSF Caucus
12:30 - 13:15 NSF Outbrief
13:15 Meeting End