NSF Programs in Energy, Power, Robotics, and Cyber-Physical Systems

Speaker: Dr. Radhakisan Baheti
Affiliation: National Science Foundation

Abstract: The goal of the presentation is to provide an update on National Science Foundation (NSF) funding opportunities in the area of Energy, Power, Control and Networked Systems research and education. Research projects in power systems with renewable energy integration, power electronics, and open-access testbeds will be presented. The presentation will include NSF programs in Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), Smart and Connected Communities, and National Robotics Initiative. The CPS program brings together researchers from computations, communications, and control disciplines to address important engineering problems.

Biography: Dr. Kishan Baheti is a Program Director for Energy, Power, Control and Networks Program in the Division of Electrical, Communications, and Cyber Systems at the National Science Foundation, which he joined in 1989 and where he has advanced several important initiatives. More recently, he has been involved in initiatives related to cyber-physical systems, the science of learning, and robotics. His PhD training is in the area of control theory where he has made notable contributions at GE Corporate Research to the control of jet engines, computer-aided control design, vision-based robotics, and Kalman filtering. He has served as a member of the Control Systems Society Board of Governors and as Awards Chair for the American Automatic Control Council (AACC). He received the Distinguished Member Award from the IEEE Control Systems Society and the Outstanding Leadership and Service Award from the ECE Department Heads Association.  He is a Fellow of both IEEE and AAAS.

For more information, contact Prof. Ali H. Sayed (sayed@ee.ucla.edu)

Date/Time:
Date(s) - Apr 14, 2016
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm

Location:
CNSI – Auditorium
570 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles CA 90095