Session 0 - Scene Setting, Goals of Workshop

Claire Tomlin (UC Berkeley)
Claire Tomlin is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California at Berkeley, where she holds the Charles A. Desoer Chair in Engineering. She held the positions of Assistant, Associate, and Full Professor at Stanford from 1998-2007, and in 2005 joined Berkeley. She received the Erlander Professorship of the Swedish Research Council in 2009, a MacArthur Fellowship in 2006, and the Eckman Award of the American Automatic Control Council in 2003. She works in hybrid systems and control, with applications to air traffic systems, robotics, and biology.

David Corman (NSF)
Dr. David Corman is the Lead Program Director, Cyber-Physical Systems for the National Science Foundation. His current research interests are in the field of Cyber Physical Systems (CPS), security for CPS, unmanned systems, manufacturing, and Smart and Connected Communities. He has approximately 30 publications and has obtained five patents. David joined NSF’s Computer and Information System Engineering (CISE) directorate as an IPA in March 2013 as a Senior Research Scientist with the University of Maryland’s Institute for Systems Research.  He was appointed as a Research Associate Professor in the Preston M. Green Department of Electrical & Systems Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, in March 2015.

Dr. Corman obtained a dual BS degree in System Science and Mathematics and Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from Washington University in 1977. He then obtained a dual MS degree in SSM and Mechanical Engineering from Washington University in 1978. He completed his graduate education at the University of Maryland – College Park, and obtained a PhD in Electrical Engineering in 1983 with a major in controls and minor in communications. While at Maryland, Dr. Corman also worked at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in the area of estimation, detection, and control. He worked for McDonnell Douglas / Boeing in a variety of positions.  His work included a broad portfolio of DARPA and Air Force Research Laboratory research programs including Software Enabled Control, Mixed Initiative Control of Automa-teams, Threat Agent Cloud Tactical Intercept and Countermeasures, and Adaptive Vehicle Make.  He was elected a Boeing Technical Fellow in 1999.