Keynote speakers
Keynote #1
Angelo Corsaro: CEO, CTO, and co-founder of ZettaScale Technology, formerly a founding Co-Chair of the OMG DDS standard.
Title: Zenoh: Unconstrained Communication, Compute and Storage from the Cloud to the Microcontroller.
Abstract: Soon
Bio: Angelo Corsaro, Ph.D., is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Chief Technology Officer (CTO), and co-founder of ZettaScale Technology. At ZettaScale, he leads a world-class team dedicated to revolutionizing distributed computing, ensuring that every connected human and machine can communicate, compute, and store data anywhere, at any scale, efficiently, and securely.
A globally recognized expert in Cloud-to-Thing Continuum, high-performance distributed systems, and real-time computing, Angelo is the inventor of the Zenoh protocol and the lead of the Eclipse Zenoh project. His work is reshaping the future of data-centric and event-driven architectures, bridging the gap between cloud, edge, and embedded systems.
With a prolific research background, Angelo has authored over 100 publications in peer-reviewed journals, conferences, workshops, and industry magazines. He has also contributed to over ten international standards, shaping the evolution of real-time and large-scale distributed computing.
Angelo was a founding Co-Chair of the OMG DDS standard, playing a key role in its development and adoption. His leadership in DDS continued until 2015, when he stepped away due to technical divergences and committed himself to designing and implementing the first Zenoh protocol, paving the way for the next generation of data-centric middleware.
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Keynote #2
Mohammad Al Faruque: Full professor at the University of California Irvine and Director of the Cyber-Physical Systems Lab.
Title: Cyber-Physical Vulnerabilities in Autonomous Systems: Facing Hard Realities and Shaping the Road Ahead!
Abstract: Cyber-physical systems (CPS) are in every security-sensitive autonomous system, such as aerospace, automotive, UAVs, robotics, energy, healthcare, manufacturing, transportation, and consumer appliances. CPSs are engineered systems that are built from and depend upon the seamless integration of computation and physical components [NSF]. Embedded systems comprising hardware and software systems are the primary enabling technology for these cyber-physical systems. Compared to traditional information processing systems, new vulnerabilities emerge from the boundaries between various layers due to the tight interactions between cyber and physical components in CPSs and closed-loop control from sensing to actuation. In this Keynote, Prof. Al Faruque will discuss how new vulnerabilities emerge at the intersection of various components and subsystems and their various hardware, software, communication, and physical layers. Several recent examples from various cyber-physical systems will be presented in this talk. A very different set of methodologies and tools are needed to understand these new vulnerabilities. Defenses against these vulnerabilities also demand new hardware/software co-design approaches. The keynote will highlight recent developments in this regard. The primary goal of this keynote will be to highlight various research challenges and the need for novel scientific solutions from the larger research community.
Bio: Mohammad Al Faruque is currently with the University of California Irvine (UCI), where he is a full professor and directs the Cyber-Physical Systems Lab. He is currently the ACM Distinguished Speaker and was the IEEE CEDA Distinguished Lecturer for 2022-2023. Prof. Al Faruque also directs the Samueli School of Engineering Autonomous Systems Initiatives. Among many awards, Prof. Al Faruque received 4 best paper awards, including ACSAC, DAC, DATE, and ICCAD. He received many best paper award nominations from the top embedded and cyber-physical systems conferences. He also received the IEEE Technical Committee on Cyber-Physical Systems Early-Career Award and the IEEE CEDA Ernest S. Kuh Early Career Award. Besides 175+ IEEE/ACM publications in the premier journals and conferences, Prof. Al Faruque holds 12 US patents. He has been awarded the Thomas Alva Edison Patent Award for one of his inventions.