Event-based Systems in 2020: Analysis and Forecast

first european experts’ workshop on emerging trends in event based systems

Speakers



           

        Christos G. Cassandras

cristors_cassandrasChristos G. Cassandras is Distinguished Professor of Engineering at Boston University. He is Head of the Division of Systems Engineering, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and co-founder of Boston University’s Center for Information and Systems Engineering (CISE). He received degrees from Yale University (B.S., 1977), Stanford University (M.S.E.E., 1978), and Harvard University (S.M., 1979; Ph.D., 1982). In 1982-84 he was with ITP Boston, Inc. where he worked on the design of automated manufacturing systems. In 1984-1996 he was a faculty member at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Massachusetts/Amherst. He specializes in the areas of discrete event and hybrid systems, cooperative control, stochastic optimization, and computer simulation, with applications to computer and sensor networks, manufacturing systems, and transportation systems. He has published over 350 refereed papers in these areas, and five books. He has guest-edited several technical journal issues and serves on several journal Editorial Boards. In addition to his academic activities, he has worked extensively with industrial organizations on various systems integration projects and the development of decision-support software. He has most recently collaborated with The MathWorks, Inc. in the development of the discrete event and hybrid system simulator SimEvents ® .
Dr. Cassandras was Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control from 1998 through 2009 and has also served as Editor for Technical Notes and Correspondence and Associate Editor. He was the 2012 President of the IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS). He has also served as Vice President for Publications and on the Board of Governors of the CSS, as well as on several IEEE committees, and has chaired several conferences. He has been a plenary/keynote speaker at numerous international conferences, including the American Control Conference in 2001 and the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control in 2002, and has also been an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer.

He is the recipient of several awards, including the 2011 IEEE Control Systems Technology Award, the Distinguished Member Award of the IEEE Control Systems Society (2006), the 1999 Harold Chestnut Prize (IFAC Best Control Engineering Textbook) for Discrete Event Systems: Modeling and Performance Analysis, a 2011 prize and a 2014 prize for the IBM/IEEE Smarter Planet Challenge competition (for a “Smart Parking” system and for the analytical engine of the Street Bump system respectively), the 2014 Engineering Distinguished Scholar Award at Boston University, several honorary professorships, a 1991 Lilly Fellowship and a 2012 Kern Fellowship. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Tau Beta Pi. He is also a Fellow of the IEEE and a Fellow of the IFAC.

       

        Christoforos Hadjicostis


christoforos_hajicostisChristoforos Hadjicostis received S.B. degrees in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, and Mathematics, the M.Eng. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in 1995, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in 1999, all from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA. After serving as Assistant and Associate Professor in the ECE Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, he joined the University of Cyprus where he is currently Professor of ECE and also serving as Dean of Engineering. His current research interests span the areas of fault diagnosis and tolerance, error control coding, distributed monitoring and control of networked systems, and discrete event systems. His research has been funded by sources within the University and outside, including several competitive grants from the National Science Foundation (including an NSF CAREER Award), the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the European Commission, Qatar Foundation, the Cyprus Research Promotion Foundation, and companies like Boeing, Motorola, and Lucent. Dr. Hadjicostis is an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, and the Journal of Discrete Event Dynamic Systems. He has also served as Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology and IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I (Regular Papers).

 

        Tobi Delbruck


tobi_delbruckTobi Delbruck is professor of physics and electrical engineering in the Inst. of Neuroinformatics (a joint institute of Univ. of Zurich and ETH Zurich), where he has been since 1998. He leads the Sensors group together with Shih-Chii Liu, which focuses on neuromorphic sensors and processing. He received his PhD from Caltech in 1993. He worked on electronic imaging at Arithmos, Synaptics, National Semiconductor, and Foveon. He has co-organized the Telluride Neuromorphic Cognition Engineering summer workshop and the live demonstration sessions at ISCAS and NIPS, and was formerly chair of the IEEE CAS Sensory Systems Technical Committee. He has been awarded 9 IEEE awards and is an IEEE Fellow.

 

        Maurice Heemels


maurice_heemelsMaurice Heemels received the M.Sc. degree in mathematics and the Ph.D. degree in control theory (both summa cum laude) from the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), Eindhoven, The Netherlands, in 1995 and 1999, respectively. After being an Assistant Professor at the Electrical Engineering department at TU/e and a research fellow at the Embedded Systems Institute (ESI), he is currently a Full Professor in the Control Systems Technology Group at the Mechanical Engineering department at TU/e. Maurice held visiting research positions at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland (2001), at Océ, Venlo, the Netherlands (2004) and at the University of California at Santa Barbara, USA (2008). He was awarded a prestigious VICI grant entitled “Wireless control systems: A new frontier in automation,” served/s on the editorial board of the journals “Automatica” and “Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems” and as general/IPC chair of IFAC ADHS 2012, IPC chair of IFAC NECSYS 2013 and IPC-co chair of ECC 2013 next to serving in numerous IPCs. His current research interests include control theory, hybrid and cyber-physical systems, networked, wireless and event-triggered control and constrained systems including model predictive control.

 

       

        Yannis Tsividis


yannis_tsividisYannis Tsividis received the B.S. degree from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1972, 1973, and 1976, respectively. He is Charles Batchelor Professor of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University, New York, NY. His research has dealt with mixed analog-digital integrated circuits at the device, circuit, system, and computer simulation level. He has received the 1984 IEEE W.R.G. Baker Award for the best IEEE publication, and is recipient or co-recipient of best paper awards from the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference in 2003, and the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (Darlington Award, 1987; Guillemin-Cauer Award, 1998 and 2008). He has received the IEEE Undergraduate Teaching Award in 2005, and the IEEE Circuits and Systems Education Award in 2010. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, and received the IEEE Gustav Robert Kirchhoff Award in 2007.