Vanderbilt researchers received top honors at the recent 16th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS), including Best Paper, Best Artifact, and Best Poster awards.
ICCPS is the premier forum for presenting and discussing the most significant technical research contributions in the field of cyber-physical systems (CPS). The conference was held May 6-9 in Irvine, California, as part of the CPS-IoT Week 2025.
Jonathan Sprinkle, chair of the Vanderbilt Computer Science Department, and Dan Work, professor of civil and environmental engineering and computer science, won Best Paper for “Can control barrier functions keep automated vehicles safe in live freeway traffic?” The research in the paper focuses on ways in which new approaches to controlling automated vehicles can be safely tested in live traffic. The lead authors on the paper were recent Vanderbilt Ph.D. graduate George Gunter, Matthew Nice (VU PhD 2024), and Matt Bunting, a senior research scientist at the Institute for Software Integrated Systems at Vanderbilt.
Tianshu Bao (VU PhD 2023), a postdoctoral researcher in the Institute for Software Integrated Systems advised by Taylor Johnson, A. James and Alice B. Clark Foundation Faculty Fellow in Engineering, and Meiyi Ma, assistant professor of computer science, received the Best Artifact award for being able to show significant reproducibility of their work. They submitted the code and data of the accepted paper, “Uncertainty Quantification for Physics-Informed Traffic Graph Networks,” and reviewers were able to generate the same results as shown in the paper. This research was done in collaboration with Hua Wei, an assistant professor in the School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence at Arizona State University and Xiaoou Liu, a Ph.D. student at ASU.
Ph.D. student Rishav Sen received the award for Best Poster on “Adaptive Energy Optimization Under Uncertainty for Electric Mobility.”
All the researchers are from the Institute for Software Integrated Systems, which has been a significant force in the field of cyber-physical systems since the inception of the field.
Sponsors of this year’s conference were ACM SIGBED, MathWorks, and Toyota Motor North America, research and development.
Last year, Abhishek Dubey, associate professor of computer science and electrical and computer engineering, and his team developed an AI system to help improve operations of Nashville’s public transportation network that won Best Paper at the 15th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems.
Contact: Lucas Johnson, lucas.l.johnson@vanderbilt.edu