Outreach

Academic service, invited talks, research support, awards, and fellowships.

Academic Service

  • HSCC+ICCPS 2027: Artifact / Repeatability Evaluation Co-Chair
  • Conference reviewing: AAAI (2026–2027); NeurIPS (2025–2026); ICLR (2026); IEEE CDC (2022–2026); ACC, IROS, EMSOFT, CHASE, IEEE RTSS, and QEST/FORMATS (2026)
  • Journal reviewing: IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems (2025–2026); IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (2023–2026); IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (2023–2025); ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems (2023–2025); IEEE Transactions on Robotics (2025); IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (2025–2026); IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles (2026)

Invited Talks

  • Vanderbilt University, September 2025 — Resilient Safe Control of Autonomous Systems; host: Thomas Beckers
  • University of Michigan, February 2025 — Resilient Safe Control of Autonomous Systems; host: Necmiye Ozay
  • Washington University in St. Louis Center for Trustworthy AI in CPS, April 2024 — Cooperative Perception for Safe Control of Autonomous Vehicles under LiDAR Spoofing Attacks

Research Support

  • Vanderbilt Center for Sustainability, Energy, and Climate Seed Project Fund Award, 2026 ($200,000 total): Reliable AI and Critical Infrastructure: Compliance, Resilience, and Explainability in Electric and Water Networks. Investigators: Taylor T. Johnson, Meiyi Ma, Ahmad F. Taha, Mark Williams, and Hongchao Zhang.
  • National Science Foundation CMMI-2418806, 2024: provided neural-symbolic verification supporting the grant. This entry records a research contribution, not a personal award.

Awards and Fellowship

  • General Motors AutoDriving Security Award, 2023, ISOC Symposium on Vehicle Security and Privacy
  • Shao-Fang and Tsu-Chin Lee Endowed Fellowship, 2022, Washington University in St. Louis