Congratulations to Diana, Tyler, and Mahmoud for having their papers accepted at HumanSys’25.
Prepreint versions are available:
This workshop addresses critical challenges in Human-in-the-Loop Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) by focusing on human-AI alignment. We will explore three key gaps: (1) Formalizing Alignment Concepts: Developing rigorous frameworks for defining and measuring crucial aspects like trustworthiness, transparency, explainability, fairness, and sustainability. (2) Limitations in Sociotechnical Approaches: Evaluating current sociotechnical methods and identifying their shortcomings in achieving effective human-AI collaboration. (3) Assessing Societal Impact: Analyzing the broad impact of advancements in human-AI collaboration on large-scale CPS. The workshop features invited talks from leading experts and a panel followed by interactive roundtable discussions designed to foster brainstorming and collaborative solutions. Join us in contributing to the future of aligned and beneficial human-AI integration in CPS.
https://cps-vo.org/group/cps-pimtg25/miniworkshops
The 2025 Cyber-Physical Systems Principal Investigators’ Meeting (CPS PI Meeting ’25) was held in person at Vanderbilt University’s Student Life Center (SLC) in Nashville.
In collaboration with Athina Markopoulou‘s group, our new work on user identification based on VR sensor data has been accepted to appear at the coming 25th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS 2025). Congrats to all the authors. Stay tuned for the proceedings!
Congratulations to Dr. Mojtaba Taherisadr (my first PhD student!) for successfully defending his thesis entitled “Methodologies for personalized privacy-aware ML in human-in-the-loop systems.” His thesis addresses the multi-fold challenges of personalized privacy-aware systems, namely adaptation, detection, mitigation, and control under inter- and intra-human variation. His thesis led to several publications, including IEEE IoT journal, IoTDI, ICCPS, ISQED, and IEEE Bio-Inspired Computing Newsletter.
Congratulations again, and good luck with your future endeavors!
Congratulations to Ismail, Citlali, and Rithvik.
Watch their cool video demonstration in our lab: https://photos.app.goo.gl/Z3tp3xweQ7wM1PkT7
Yixin Zhang (former undergrad researcher) and Tyler Zhao have a new paper accepted in DESTION’24 also part of the CPS-IoT’24 week.
The paper entitled “Towards Fairness-aware Crowd Management System and Surge Prevention in Smart Cities,” discusses crowd management methodologies that focus on fairness in terms of the disparity of evacuation time between healthy and vulnerable individuals. It also suggests approaches to manage surge prevention in large gatherings.
https://www.isis.vanderbilt.edu/events/6th-workshop-design-automation-cps-and-iot-destion-2024
Our two papers on fairness and equity in human-in-the-loop systems with sequential decision-making are accepted to appear at the 15th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS) as part of the CPS-IoT’24 week. CPS-IoT Week is the premier event on Cyber-Physical Systems and the internet-of-things.
Check out the arxiv versions of the two papers:
The first paper, entitled “FAIRO: Fairness-aware Adaptation in Sequential-Decision Making for Human-in-the-Loop Systems” by Tyler Zhao and Mojtaba Taherisadr
The second paper, entitled “FinA: Fairness of Adverse Effects in Decision-Making of Human-Cyber-Physical-System” by Tyler Zhao
