Earlier in July 2020, American Control Conference and International Federation for Automatic Control World Congress, which were to be held in Denver and Berlin, were held as virtual online meetings. While it was a pity that I could not meet colleagues in person, a positive was that I ended up making videos of presentations for the virtual meetings. These are now included in the Presentations and Papers sections:
- I organized a Tutorial Session (which was actually held as a live track) on Systems and Control Opportunities for Decarbonization of the Energy System. I invited Professors Anu Annaswamy (MIT), Mario Rotea (UT Dallas), and Jakob Stoustrup (Aalborg) to contribute their presentations. My own presentation was entitled Energy System and Decarbonization Challenge.
- I was honored to be invited to make a presentation in a tutorial session organized by Professors M. Vidyasagar (IIT Hyderbad) and B. Touri (UC San Diego) on the topic of Learning and Control: Opportunities and Challenges. My talk was entitled Cognitive Cyber-Physical Systems: Cognitive Neuroscience, Machine Learning, and Control. An extended abstract appears in the ACC Proceedings.
- Meera Sampath and I published and presented a paper entitled A Framework for Ethics in Cyber-Physical Systems in the IFAC World Congress. A paper appears in the Proceedings of IFAC World Congress.