IIT Bombay is organising an Institute Lecture on Wednesday, July 27, 2011.

The details are as follows:

Speaker

Prof. P .R. Kumar Franklin W. Woeltge Professor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Challenges in Cyberphysical Systems

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Wednesday, July 27, 2011 11:15 am Lecture Hall, 2nd Floor, VMCC

All are invited. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Abstract: Cyberphysical systems refer to the coming together of physical systems and physical resources. The computational resources are expected to help increase the efficiency, adaptability, autonomy and functionality of the physical systems. In this talk will be presented a brief historical account of paths leading to the present interest in cyberphysical systems. This is followed up with an account of several foundational research topics that underlie this area. These include issues in data fusion, real-time communication, clock synchronization, security, middleware, hybrid systems and proofs of correctness. About the Speaker: Prof. P .R. Kumar is at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where he is Franklin W. Woeltge Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Research Professor in the Coordinated Science Laboratory, Research professor in the Information Trust Institute, and Affiliate Professor of the Department of Computer Science. He obtained his B.Tech. degree in Electrical Engineering (Electronics) from I.I.T. Madras in 1973, and the M.S. and D.Sc. degrees in Systems Science and Mathematics from Washington University, St. Louis, in 1975 and 1977, respectively. From 1977-84 he was a faculty member in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. He has worked on problems in game theory, adaptive control, stochastic systems, simulated annealing, neural networks, machine learning, queueing networks, manufacturing systems, scheduling, wafer fabrication plants and information theory. His current research interests are in wireless networks, sensor networks, and networked embedded control systems. He has received the Donald P . Eckman Award of the American Automatic Control Council, the IEEE Field Award in Control Systems, and the Fred W. Ellersick Prize of the IEEE Communications Society. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, and a member of the US National Academy of Engineering. He has been awarded an honorary doctorate by ETH, Zurich. He is the Lead Guest Chair Professor of the Group on Wireless Communication and Networking at Tsinghua University, Beijing. He is an Honorary Professor at IIT Hyderabad. He has been elected an Associate Fellow of the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS). He is the recipient of the Tau Beta Pi Daniel C. Drucker Eminent Faculty Award of the College of Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has received the Alumni Achievement Award of Washington University in St. Louis.