09/2024 We were awarded a grant from the Central Virginia Node (CVN) of the Commonwealth Cyber Initiative (CCI) on "Securing Highly Integrated AI-Assisted Emergency Medical Services for Smart Cities". Co-PI: Carl Elks (VCU).
07/2024 We were awarded a collaborative research grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) on End-to-End Resilience in Autonomous Driving Systems: Strategic Vulnerability Assessment and Mitigation . Co-PIs: Lishan Yang (GMU), Evgenia Smirni (W&M).
09/2022 Our work on design and evaluation of an "Open-Source Closed-Loop Testbed for Artificial Pancreas Systems" was featured by the Diabetes Connections with Stacey Simms.
08/2022 We hosted the 2022 BIO-MED TECH-GIRLS with demos and hands-on activities on robotics in medicine.
06/2022 I co-organized the Second IFIP workshop on Intelligent Vehicle Dependability and Security (IVDS) in conjunction with the Summer Meeting of the IFIP Working Group 10.4 on Dependable Computing and Fault Tolerance. All the talks are available here.
01/2022 I received an NSF CAREER Award on "Context-Aware Runtime Safety Assurance in Medical Human-Cyber-Physical Systems".
12/2021 Our paper was selected as the finalist for the Best Paper Award at the 2021 IEEE CHASE conference.
09/2021 My PhD students, Kay Hutchinson and Zoey Li, won the second place in the ECE Graduate Student Research Poster competition!
07/2021 We were awarded a grant from Commonwealth Cyber Initiative (CCI) on "Trustworthiness in Autonomous Vehicles". Co-PI: Evgenia Smirni (W&M).
04/2021 We were awarded a grant from NIST PSIAP-AR on "Context Aware Augmented Reality for Cognitive Assistance in Emergency Medical Services". Co-PIs: Jack Stankovic (CS), Ronald Williams (ECE).
03/2021 Our paper on Data-driven Design of Context-aware Monitors for Hazard Prediction in Artificial Pancreas Systems was accepted to the 51st IEEE/IFIP Int. Conf. on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2021) (Acceptance rate: 16.3%).

Our CognitiveEMS project on AI Cognitive Assistants for Emergency Medical Services was featured by: UVA Today, NBC29, WSLS, and EMS1.
01/2021 I am co-organizing the First IFIP workshop on Intelligent Vehicle Dependability and Security (IVDS) in conjunction with the Winter Meeting of the IFIP Working Group 10.4 on Dependable Computing and Fault Tolerance. All the talks are available here. [IFIP News]
07/2020 I am serving on the program committee of ICCPS 2021. Looking forward to your contributions!

I was invited to join the IFIP Working Group 10.4 on Dependable Computing and Fault Tolerance.
05/2020 My MSc student, Mustafa Hotaki, defended his thesis and will be joining Counterpoint Consulting. Congratulations!
03/2020 My PhD student, Kay Hutchinson, was awarded the prestigious 2020 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (GRF). Congratulations!

Our paper on Real-Time Context-aware Detection of Unsafe Events in Robot-Assisted Surgery was accepted to the 50th IEEE/IFIP Int. Conf. on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2020) (Acceptance rate: 16.5%).
01/2020 Our paper on design of A Reactive Autonomous Camera System for the RAVEN II Surgical Robot was accepted to the 2020 International Symposium on Medical Robotics (ISMR).
12/2019 I am co-organizing the third workshop on Dependable and Secure Machine Learning (DSML) at the DSN 2020. Check out the program with the keynote and paper presentation videos here.
10/2019 We were awarded a seed grant from the UVA Center for Engineering in Medicine to work with the faculty and surgeons from the UVA School of Medicine on developing a system for "Context Aware Cognitive Assistance for Robotic Surgery Training".
08/2019 My MSc student, Bulbul Ahmed, defended his thesis and will be joining University of Florida for pursuing a PhD degree. Congratulations!
07/2019 I am co-organizing the Medical CPS Workshop 2019, co-located with IEEE CHASE and will be serving on the program committees of the IEEE/ACM ICCPS 2020, IEEE DSN 2020, and IEEE ISSRE Workshop on Reliability and Security Data Analysis (RSDA) 2019. Looking forward to your submissions!
06/2019 We received a Research Innovation Award from UVA SEAS for design of "Intelligent Cognitive Assistant (ICA) Systems in Healthcare".

Our paper on A Behavior Tree Cognitive Assistant System for EMS was accepted to the 2019 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS).
04/2019 My MSc student, Sile Shu, successfully defended his thesis and will be joining Amazon. Congratulations!
03/2019 Our work on analysis of the FDA MAUDE data was mentioned in an award-winning piece by Christina Jewett, titled Hidden FDA Reports Detail Harm Caused By Scores Of Medical Devices.

My PhD student, Samin Yasar, won the ISMR student travel award for his outstanding application and contribution to the symposium!

I am co-organizing the Student Forum at DSN 2019 and was awarded an NSF grant to support Student Travel Awards for the conference.
12/2018 Our paper on Context-aware Monitoring in Robotic Surgery was accepted to the 2019 International Symposium on Medical Robotics (ISMR).

I am co-organizing the second workshop on Dependable and Secure Machine Learning (DSML) at the DSN 2019.
09/2018 Our paper on Resilience Assessment of OpenPilot Autonomous Driving Agent was accepted to the 23rd IEEE Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing (PRDC 2018).

My PhD students, Samin Yasar and Yongming Qin, won the second place in the ECE Graduate Student Research Poster competition!

We were awarded a NRT (NSF Research Traineeship) grant to launch a graduate program in Cyber-Physical Systems at the UVA Link Lab,
PI: Jack Stankovic. [UVA SEAS]

I am serving on the program committee of the ICCPS 2019.
06/2018 We presented an early prototype of our "Cognitive Assistant System for Emergency Response" at the 2018 NIST PSCR Stakeholder Meeting. [Video][In Press: IWCE's Urgent Communications, UVA SEAS]

Our work on the Safety of Robotic Surgery was mentioned in the Medical Training Magazine and Virginia Business Magazine.

We received two Research Innovation Awards on from UVA SEAS.

I am serving on the program committee of DSN 2019 and the organizing committee of WoSoCer 2018.

Our research on the safety of robotic surgery was featured in the UVA Today and the UVA's Student Newspaper, Cavalier Daily.
04/2018 We were awarded a Graudate Medical Education (GME) Innovation grant from UVA Health System for "Development of a New Simulation-Based Training Method for Robot Assisted Surgery".
PIs: Inki Kim (SIE), Homa Alemzadeh (ECE), Noah Schenkman (Urology), Leigh Cantrell (Obstetrics and Gynecology), Jose Oberholzer (Surgery)
02/2018 We have moved to the new Link Lab! [In Press: CBS 19, radioIQ, UVA Today]

The RAVEN surgical robot was delivered to the UVA Link Lab!
12/2017 We are organizing a new workshop on Dependable and Secure Machine Learning (DSML) at the DSN 2018.

I am serving on the program committee of the 7th Medical CPS Workshop.
10/2017 I am serving on the program committee of SELSE 2018.
09/2017 I am serving on the program committee of HotSoS 2018 (Symposium and Bootcamp on the Science of Security).
08/2017 We were awarded an NSF SCH EAGER grant for "Implantable Medical Devices and Body Area Networks: A System Resilience by Construction Approach". PI: Jim Aylor (ECE), Co-PI: Homa Alemzadeh

Our paper on the "Safety of Machine Learning: Cyber-Physical Systems, Decision Sciences, and Data Products" appears in the Big Data Journal.
07/2017 I am serving on the program committee of DSN 2018.

We received a Research Innovation Award on "Machine Learning in Adversarial Contexts" from UVA SEAS.
PI: David Evans (CS), Co-PIs: Homa Alemzadeh, Quanquan Gu (CS), Mohammad Mahmoody (CS), and Yanjun Qi (CS).
06/2017 I was invited to attend the 72th meeting of IFIP Working Group 10.4 on Dependable Computing and Fault Tolerance.

Our proposal on "Cognitive Assistant Systems for Emergency Response", was funded by NIST PSIAP.
PI: Homa Alemzadeh, Co-PIs: Ronald Williams (ECE), Jack Stankovic (CS). [In Press: NIST News]
05/2017 I received the William C. Carter PhD Dissertation Award in Dependability. [In Press: CSL News]
01/2017 I am serving on the program committee of ISSRE 2017 and the organizing committee of WoSoCer 2017.

I joined UVA as an Assistant Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Systems and Information Engineering