Events

We heard three vision talks in the internal CRISP seminar series on Nov 8 over the lunch hour. The talks were on cyber-physical and built infrastructure resilience given by three teams of researchers.

CRISP Associate Director, Jitesh Panchal, is organizing an NSF-sponsored workshop on Engineering Design and Systems Engineering (EDSE) on Purdue campus. The program includes plenary talks, breakout sessions, panels, and lightning talks. The speakers include: Prof. Sridhar Kota (Michigan), Dr. Jan Vandenbrande (DARPA), Prof. Mary Lou Maher (UNC Charlotte), and Professor Andy Dong, UC Berkeley (representative of NSF EDSE).

Purdue Engineering’s Center for Resilient Infrastructures, Systems, and Processes (CRISP) will host an NSF-sponsored Grand Challenges in Resilience Workshop on March 19-21 on the Purdue campus.

We had the opening seminar in the internal CRISP seminar series on Sep 27 over the lunch hour. We heard 5 intriguing takes on resilience from 5 teams of speakers on cyber, cyber-physical, and built infrastructure resilience.

University of Michigan faculty, Baris Kasikci, will give a talk on his recent work on automated root cause analysis of in-production failures and concurrency bugs.

CRISP Director Saurabh Bagchi moderated a panel featuring Robert Kahn, who is credited with designing Internet’s basic communications protocols, TCP/IP, along with Vinton Cerf. The title "The Internet's Present and Future: Technology and Policy Grand Challenges".

Dr. Brandon Eames, a Principal Member of the Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories, will address Purdue researchers and educators on trust in microelectronics-based systems. The hosts are CRISP affiliate faculty Shreyas Sundaram and Director Saurabh Bagchi.

Netflix engineer, Dr. Lorin Hochstein, will give a talk about reliability engineering in Netflix services. This will be given as part of the graduate class "Fault tolerant computer system design". Any member of the Purdue community is welcome to attend in person or over Webex.

CRISP Director, Saurabh Bagchi, attended the IEEE Computer Society Board of Governors meeting in Phoenix, Arizona Nov 12-14, 2017. Saurabh is serving a 3 year term as an elected Board member.

CRISP Director, Prof. Saurabh Bagchi, will be the speaker at the Distinguished Colloquium at Virginia Tech's Blacksburg Campus. The talk is titled "Dependability for Computer Systems meets Data Analytics".