Program Agenda

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2021 CPS PrincipaI Investigators' Meeting - Program Agenda

Please note: All sessions (except where noted) will be happening in the Marigold Plenary Room.
All times listed in EDT.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2
12:45 PM - 1:00 PM Welcome & Opening Remarks
Speakers: 
Margaret Martonosi (NSF Assistant Director, CISE)
                  David Corman (NSF Program Director, CISE)
                  Sandip Roy (NSF Program Director, CISE)
2020 CPS Challenge Announcement
Speakers: Janos Sztipanovits (Vanderbilt University)
                  Jnaneshwar Das (Arizona State University)
                  Srikar Siddarth (National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal)
                  Yogesh (National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal)
1:00 PM - 3:15 PM Graduate Student Presentations: Session 1
Moderator: Daphney-Stavroula Zois (University at Albany-SUNY)
3:15 PM - 3:30 PM Break / Networking
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM Project Reports: Career Awards
Moderator:
Sandip Roy (NSF)
Panelists: Mahnoosh Alizadeh (University of California, Santa Barbara)
                  Andrew Clark (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
                  Rose Faghih (University of Houston)
                  Lu Feng (University of Virginia)
                  Simone Silvestri (University of Kentucky)
                  Daphne-Stavroula Zois (University at Albany-SUNY)
4:30 PM - 4:45 PM Break / Networking
4:45 PM - 6:45 PM Graduate Student Presentations: Session 2
Moderator: Daphney-Stavroula Zois (University at Albany-SUNY)
6:45 PM End of Day 1
THURSDAY, JUNE 3
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM Informal Networking
Visit Gather.town (accessible through Hopin) to network with other attendees, including NSF Program Directors
10:45 AM - 11:15 AM Welcome & Introduction
Speakers: David Corman (NSF)
                  Gurdip Singh (NSF Division Director, CISE)
Moderator: Sandip Roy (NSF)
11:15 AM - 12:05 PM Keynote: Are Autonomous Vehicles a Grand Challenge for CPS or AI?
Raj Rajkumar (Carnegie Mellon University)
Moderator: David Corman (NSF)
12:05 PM - 1:05 PM Demonstration Showcase: Session 1
Moderator: 
Rose Faghih (University of Houston)
1:05 PM - 2:00 PM Keynote: Opinion Dynamics for Decision Making and Learning in Multi-agent Interactions
Naomi Ehrich Leonard (Princeton)
Moderators: Sandip Roy (NSF) & Andrew Clark (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Lightning Talks (concurrent sessions)
Energy
Marigold Plenary Room
Transportation and Vehicles 1
Lavender Plenary Room
Other CPS Applications 1
Dandelion Plenary Room
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM Poster Session & Networking
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Mini-Workshops (concurrent sessions)
Rethinking Socio-Cyber-Physical Systems of Tomorrow: Health, Security, Safety & Resilience
Marigold Plenary Room
Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Engineering (TRASE)
Lavender Plenary Room
Next Big Research Challenges in Cyber-Physical Systems
Dandelion Plenary Room
6:00 PM End of Day 2
FRIDAY, JUNE 4
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM Informal Networking
Visit Gather.town (accessible through Hopin) to network with other attendees, including NSF Program Directors
10:45 AM - 11:00 AM Welcome & In Memoriam: Kishan Baheti (formerly NSF ENG)
Speaker: Aranya Chakrabortty (National Science Foundation)
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Lightning Talks (concurrent sessions)
Health and Biosciences
Marigold Plenary Room
Verification and IoT
Lavender Plenary Room
Systems, Signals, Control
Dandelion Plenary Room
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Panel
Marigold Plenary Room
Demonstration Showcase Session 2 & Session 3
Lavender Plenary Room
1:15 PM - 2:00 PM Lightning Talks (concurrent sessions)
Embedded Systems and Networking
Marigold Plenary Room
Transportation and Vehicles 2
Lavender Plenary Room
Other CPS Applications 2
Dandelion Plenary Room
2:00 PM - 2:15 PM Break / Networking
2:15 PM - 3:15 PM REU Panel
Moderator: Jane Cleland-Huang (University of Notre Dame)
Panelists: Helen Durand (Wayne State University)
                  Nick Feamster (University of Chicago)
                  Kunal Mankodiya (University of Rhode Island)
                  Kelly Shaw (Williams College)
                  Simone Silvestri (University of Kentucky)
3:15 PM - 4:15 PM Project Reports: Frontiers Awards
Moderator:
Linda Bushnell (NSF Program Director, CISE)
                    Sandip Roy (NSF)
Panelists: Kira Barton (University of Michigan)
                  Juan Bello (New York University)
                  Meeko Oishi (University of New Mexico)
                  Soumik Sarkar (Iowa State University)
                  Sanjit Seshia (University of California, Berkeley)
                  Scott Smolka (Stony Brook University)
4:15 PM - 5:15 PM Poster Session & Networking
5:15 PM - 5:25 PM Closing Remarks
Moderator: David Corman (NSF)
5:25 PM 2021 CPS PI Meeting Adjourned