Invited Talks

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Visible to the public CPS for Automotive Control Systems

Panagiotis Tsiotras joined the faculty of the School of Aerospace Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1998 as an Associate Professor. He has held visiting appointments with INRIA, Rocquencourt, the Laboratoire d' Automatique de Grenoble, and the Ecole des Mines de Paris in France. He has published over 250 journal and conference papers in the areas of astrodynamics, optimal and nonlinear control, and dynamics and control of mechanical and aerospace systems.

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Visible to the public Connected Vehicles: Semi-Autonomous, Collaborative Vehicular Systems

Umit Ozguner is a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The Ohio State University. His research interests include the following topics: large-scale, intelligent systems modeling and optimization, hybrid systems, decentralized control, automotive and transportation systems Automated Highway Systems and all aspects of ITS. Ozguner served as the President of the IEEE ITS Council in 1999 and 2000.

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Visible to the public Cars, Drivers, and the Road

Ruzena Bajcsy ("buy chee") was appointed Director of CITRIS and professor of the EECS department at the University of California, Berkeley on November 1, 2001. Prior to coming to Berkeley, she was Assistant Director of the Computer Information Science and Engineering Directorate (CISE) between December 1, 1998 and September 1, 2001. As head of National Science Foundation's CISE directorate, Dr. Bajcsy managed a $500 million annual budget. She came to the NSF from the University of Pennsylvania where she was a professor of computer science and engineering since 1972.