| Title | : | Talk on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems |
| Speaker | : | Prof. Karthik Pattabiraman (UBC) |
| Details | : | Fri, 27 Sep, 2024 3:00 PM @ MR1, SSB233 |
| Abstract: | : | Abstract: The autonomy revolution promises to radically improve our lives in the near future. From autonomous vehicles (i.e., self-driving cars) to drones (UAVs) and autonomous robots in our homes and workplaces, autonomous systems have immense potential to take over routine and tedious tasks, and maximize our productivity and well-being. Unfortunately, as recent incidents have shown, failures and security compromises of these systems can erode our society’s trust in them, thereby preventing us from realizing their immense benefits. Therefore, it is vitally important to build autonomous systems that are trustworthy by design, in order to engender our society’s trust in them. In this talk, I will provide some examples of the research we are doing in my group to build trustworthy autonomous systems that are resilient to both errors and attacks. I will conclude by presenting my vision of the future challenges and opportunities in this area. This is joint work with my students and collaborators.
Bio: Karthik Pattabiraman is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the University of British Columbia (UBC). He received his PhD in 2009 in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), an MS in Computer Science also from UIUC in 2004, and B. Tech. from the University of Madras, India, in 2001. Before joining UBC in 2010, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft Research (MSR), Redmond. Karthik’s research interests are in dependable computer systems, software security, cyber-physical systems, and software engineering. Karthik has won awards such as the Inaugural IEEE Rising Star in Dependability Award, UIUC CS department’s early career alumni achievement award, UBC-wide Killam mentoring excellence award, UBC-wide Killam Faculty Research Prize and the Killam Faculty Research Fellowship, NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement (DAS) in Canada, and the William Carter PhD Dissertation Award. Karthik is a distinguished member of the ACM, a distinguished contributor of the IEEE Computer Society, and a professional engineer (P.Eng.) in Canada. Find out more about him at: https://blogs.ubc.ca/karthik/ |
