2026 CPS-IoT Week Ph.D. Forum

The CPS-IoT Week PhD Forum will take place on Monday 11 May 2026 at Rotonde Cezembre (Level 3). The PhD forum is an inclusive platform for PhD students working in Cyber-Physical Systems and the Internet of Things to share ideas, present their research, and connect with the community.

Participants will showcase their work through a short, engaging 90-second pitch and a poster presentation, receiving valuable feedback from leading experts in academia and industry. The forum provides an excellent opportunity to network, foster collaborations, and explore future career paths. their research, and connect with the community.

Presentations:

  1. "Planning the Full Decision Stack for Urban Emergency Response Under Non-Stationary Conditions", Ammar Bin Zulqarnain (Vanderbilt University)
  2. "Enabling Robust Contactless Wireless Sensing under Dynamic Interference", Zhaoxin Chang (Institut Polytechnique de Paris)
  3. "Bounded Model Checking and Data-Driven Falsification Strategies for Cyber-Physical Systems", Atanu Kundu (Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science)
  4. "Towards Efficient Secure Distributed AI", Kichang Lee (Yonsei University)
  5. "PUF-Based Lightweight Authentication and Key-Exchange in IoT Environment", Chandranshu Gupta, Gaurav Varshney (Indian Institute of Technology Jammu)
  6. "Neuro-Symbolic Online Decision Making for Autonomous Systems Under Non-Stationarity and Semantic Drift", Nathaniel Keplinger (Vanderbilt University)
  7. "Formal Methods-Guided Artificial Intelligence for Trustworthy and Explainable Cyber-Physical Systems", Ziyan An (Vanderbilt University)
  8. "Trading-Off Energy Demand and Timeliness in Embedded Devices", Eva Dengler (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)
  9. "Data-Driven Identification of Models for Discrete and Hybrid Systems", Swantje Plambeck (Hamburg University of Technology)
  10. "Semantic-BDI Agents for Autonomous Task Allocation in Building Automation Systems", Freya Wentzel (University of Birmingham)
  11. "Action Confidence Trajectories for Safety Assurance in Autonomous Systems", Zhenjiang Mao (University of Florida)
  12. "Acoustic Metastructures for Enhanced Sensing and Communication Underwater", Andrew Bergey (University of Washington)
  13. "Towards Practical mmWave Sensing", Xinghua Sun (University of Washington)
  14. "Unsupervised Constraint-Aware Diffusion for Scalable Combinatorial Optimization", Jacob Buckelew (Vanderbilt University)
  15. "Correlation-Aware Probabilistic Analysis of Dependent Tasks", Oleksandr Marmaliuk (Max Planck Institute for Software Systems)