Confirmed Speakers

Marco Pavone
Stanford University
Andrea L'Afflitto
Virginia Tech
Ufuk Topcu
The University of Texas
Naira Hovakimyan
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Negar Mehr
UC Berkeley
Dimitra Panagou
University of Michigan
Soon-Jo Chung
California Institute of Technology

Preliminary Program

Time

Session

Speaker

Title

Abstract

08:45-09:00 Opening Organizers Welcome & Opening Remarks --
Part I Learning-enabled autonomy: From research to deployment
09:00-09:30 Part I Marco Pavone "AI-based autonomy for aerospace systems" Link
09:30-10:00 Part I Heather Hussain "TBD" --
10:00-10:30 Pause Morning Coffee Break
Part II Robustness foundations for safe learning and certification
10:30-11:00 Part II Andrea L’Afflitto "Robust and adaptive control over native spaces with aerospace applications" Link
11:00-11:30 Part II Ufuk Topcu and Adam Thorpe "From adaptation to estimation: Learned function spaces for safe control" Link
11:30-12:00 Part II Naira Hovakimyan "Ontological robustness for certification of autonomous systems" Link
12:00-14:00 Pause Lunch Break
Part III Runtime safety and resilience in learning-enabled autonomous systems
14:00-14:30 Part III Negar Mehr "Provable safety enforcement in reinforcement learning-based control for aerospace applications" Link
14:30-15:00 Part III Dimitra Panagou "Safety assurance with AI in-the-loop" Link
15:00-15:30 Part III Soon-Jo Chung "Learning-based methods for fault detection and recovery" Link
15:30-16:00 Pause Afternoon Coffee Break
16:00-16:30 Part III Evangelos Theodorou "TBD" --
Part IV From safety guarantees to responsible autonomous deployment
16:30-17:00 Part IV Martina Mammarella "Constraints beyond mathematics: Governance, responsibility, and ethics in learning-enabled aerospace systems" Link
17:00-17:30 Round Table Organizers / All Speakers Final round table discussion --