Invited Speakers

 

Claire Tomlin, University of California, Berkeley

EECS Prof. Claire Tomlin holds of the Charles A. Desoer Chair in Engineering. Her research interests include hybrid systems, distributed and decentralized optimization, and control theory, with an emphasis on applications, unmanned aerial vehicles, air traffic control and modeling of biological processes. She taught at Stanford University from 1998 to 2007 where she was a director of the Hybrid Systems Laboratory and held joint positions the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the Department of Electrical Engineering. She was awarded a MacArthur Genius grant in 2006 and the IEEE Transportation Technologies Award in 2017 "for contributions to air transportation systems, focusing on collision avoidance protocol design and avionics safety verification"

[Safe Learning in Robotics]

 

Paulo Tabuada, University of California, Los Angeles

Paulo Tabuada (Fellow, IEEE) was born in Lisbon, Portugal, one year after the Carnation Revolution. He received the "Licenciatura" degree in aerospace engineering from the Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal, in 1998 and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the Institute for Systems and Robotics, a private research institute associated with Instituto Superior Tecnico, in 2002. Between January 2002 and July 2003, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Pennsylvania. After spending three years at the University of Notre Dame, as an Assistant Professor, he joined the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA, where he currently is the Vijay K. Dhir Professor of Engineering. Dr. Tabuada received multiple awards including the NSF CAREER award in 2005, the Donald P. Eckman award in 2009, the George S. Axelby award in 2011, and the Antonio Ruberti Prize in 2015. In 2009, he co-chaired the International Conference Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control (HSCC'09) and joined its steering committee in 2015; in 2012, he was Program Co-Chair for the 3rd IFAC Workshop on Distributed Estimation and Control in Networked Systems (NecSys'12); in 2015, he was Program Co-Chair for the IFAC Conference on Analysis and Design of Hybrid Systems; and in 2018, he was Program Co-Chair for the International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS'18). He also served on the editorial board of IEEE Embedded Systems Letters and the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control.

[Deep Neural Networks, Universal Approximation, and Geometric Control]

 

Verena Wolf, Saarland University

Verena Wolf received the diploma degree in computer science from the University Bonn, in 2003 and the PhD degree from the University Mannheim, in 2008. She is a full professor with Saarland University since 2012 and leads the Modelling and Simulation Group at the Department of Computer Science. She is currently working on discrete stochastic modelling as well as efficient simulation methods and has been on the program committees of more than 50 international conferences.

[Mean First Passage Times and End-point Conditioning of Markov Jump Processes]