Overview
The Cyber-Physical Systems Innovation Symposium 2025 aims to unite researchers, entrepreneurs, and program leaders from academia, industry, and government to build a robust innovation ecosystem centered around cybersecurity, cyber-physical systems, edge computing, Internet of Things (IoT), and medical devices. Cyber physical systems are important for a wide range of applications including industrial systems and medical devices. A key objective of the symposium is to foster collaboration between high-tech startups and university research labs to accelerate disruptive innovation and promote bold entrepreneurship.
This year’s symposium focuses on the interaction of Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence in cyber-physical systems. It will explore how AI can help to improve cybersecurity aspects of cyber-physical systems, and how to make the use of AI in such systems more secure. The symposium will feature technical sessions and discussions aligned with these core domains. The symposium aims to ultimately improve the operation, safety, and security of medical devices and other cyber physical systems.
The symposium is sponsored by an NSF Innovation Engine grant and will host partners including Augusta University (lead), University of Georgia, Augusta Technical College, Clark Atlanta University, Savannah River National Laboratory, U.S. Army Cyber Command, Southeast Cyber Industry Association, Georgia Cyber Innovation and Training Center, International Economic Development Council (IEDC), Trideum, BigBear.ai, and others. The symposium also aims to enhance collaborations with experts from the medical field such as the Medical College, and the Dental College of Georgia.
Sponsorship Opportunities
Organizations can support the symposium through tiered sponsorships:
– Platinum: $5,000
– Gold: $2,500
– Silver: $1,000
Sponsorships will help cover event costs and increase student participation. Sponsors will receive logo placement on the symposium website, program guide, and presentation materials.
Registration
The CPS symposium’25 will be on September 05, 2025 and please register at here by August 25, 2025.
Venue
The conference will be held on the Riverside Campus of Augusta University at the Georgia Cyber Center in the downtown district of Augusta, Georgia, USA. The Center is also the home of the School of Computer and Cyber Sciences. You can find the Georgia Cyber Center on Google Maps by clicking here.
The address of the conference venue is: Plug ’n’ Play room at Georgia Cyber Center 100 Grace Hopper Lane Augusta, GA 30901, USA.
Agenda [Welcome] [Talk Slides][Photos]
Thursday September 4, 2025 (First floor, Georgia Cyber Center, Hull Mcknight Building)
6:00 – 7:30 PM Welcome Reception, and Posters.
Friday September 5, 2025 (Plug ’n’ Play room at Georgia Cyber Center, Hull Mcknight Building)
7:30 – 8:15 AM: Morning Coffee and Pastries
8:15 – 8:30 AM: Introduction and remarks
8:30 – 9:30 AM: Keynote Speaker:
– Talk Title: Putting Science to Work in Cyber-Physical Systems.
– Tammy Taylor, Deputy Laboratory Director, Savannah River National Laboratory.
9:30 – 9:45 AM: Coffee Break and Poster
9:45 – 10:45 AM: Session 1 (presentations) [Chair: Haijian Sun]
– Adversarial Methods in Cyber Physical Hardware Subversion, Nicholas DeRoller, Engineer, Savannah River National Lab.
– Sensor Web: Connecting the Dots for Intelligence, WenZhan Song, Professor, UGA.
– Zero-trust distributed data infrastructure for healthcare, Haijian Sun (Assistant Professor), UGA.
– Medical Device Security, Michael Nowatkowski, Professor and Director of Cyber Institute, Augusta University.
10:45 – 11:00 AM: Break and Poster
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM: Session 2 (presentations) [Chair: Guoming Li]
– Robotic Cyber-Physical Systems for Addressing Floor Eggs in Cage-free Hen Houses, Guoming Li, Assistant Professor, UGA.
– AI Models for Semantics-aided Digital Twins, Ramviyas Parasuraman, Associate Professor, UGA.
– Sensing, automation, and AI for digital agriculture, Xin Zhang, Assistant Professor, UGA.
12:00 – 1:00 PM: Lunch
1:00 – 2:00 PM: Keynote Speaker:
– Talk Tile: Innovation and Cybersecurity: Challenges and Opportunities in AI-Driven Manufacturing.
– Speaker: Jaime Camelio, Former Program Director for the National Science Foundation (NSF), Innovation Corps (I-Corps™) program, and Professor of Mechanical Engineering, UGA.
2:00 – 2:15 PM: Break and Poster
2:15 – 3:15 PM: Session 3 (presentations) [Chair: Costas Busch]
– Leveraging AI and Machine Learning to Transform Clinical Trials: Enhancing Design, Analysis, and Outcomes Through Real-World Evidence, Sejong Bae, Professor and Chair, Department of Biostatistics, Data Science, & Epidemiology, Augusta University.
– The First AI Model for COVID-19 Identification, and How It Worked, Arni S.R. Srinivasa Rao, Professor and Director, Laboratory for Theory and Mathematical Modeling, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta University.
– Implications of AI in Dentistry, Kim L. Capehart, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs & Advanced Education, Dental College of Georgia, Augusta University.
– When Sensing Meets Intelligence: Building Ubiquitous Human-Centric Systems for Everyday Life, Zi Wang, Assistant Professor, Augusta University.
3:15 – 3:30 PM: Coffee Break and Poster
3:30 – 4:30 PM: Session 4 (presentations) [Chair: Steven Weldon]
– Scalable Object Detection in Mixed Reality using Incremental Re-training and One-shot 3D Annotation, Jason Orlosky, Associate Professor, and Alireza Taheritajar, PhD Student, Augusta University.
– Encountering Complications Involving NIDS and ML Research for CPS, Justin Henry, PhD Student, Augusta University.
– A Robust Data-Driven Abnormity Detection for Power Grid with CHIL Verification, Shibo Zhou, PhD Student, UGA.
4:30 – 4:45 PM Break and Poster
4:45 – 5:30 PM Research Ideas Teaser
Poster Session: Titles and Presenters
– All-in-One Wearable Patch for Muscle Activity Monitoring, Liang Dong, Professor, UGA.
– New Statistical Methods for Complex Time Series Data, Yuan Ke, Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, UGA.
– Sensor Web: Connecting the Dots for Intelligence, WenZhan Song, Professor, UGA.
– Sensing, automation, and AI for digital agriculture, Xin Zhang, Assistant Professor, UGA.
– MCU Security, Le Guan, Associate Professor, UGA.
– Mapping the Research Landscape – An Exploratory Analysis of AI Applications in Digital Forensics, Pouria Rad, PhD Student, Augusta University.
– FlushSync: Hardware Resource Stalling from Asynchronous Services in LSM-tree based Stateful Streaming Processing, Prajwal Basnet, PhD Student, Augusta University.
– Secure and Resilient Clustered Federated Learning for Web-Enabled Healthcare Analytics Using Lightweight Blockchain and Adaptive Model Selection, Abdullah Melhem, PhD Student, Augusta University.
– Integration of NLP in Digital Forensics: A Pilot Study of Practitioner Perceptions on Chat Data Analysis Tools, Rajon Bardhan, PhD Student, Augusta University.
– Efficient Transaction Processing in Blockchain Sharding, Ramesh Adhikari, PhD Candidate, Augusta University.
– Organizing Records for Retrieval in Multi-Dimensional Range Searchable Encryption, Mahdieh Heidaripour, PhD Student, Augusta University.
– WiFi Traffic Inspection for Obscured Devices, Maksuda Rabeya, PhD Student, Augusta University.
– Cross-Reality Asymmetric Collaboration, Hanieh Rashidpour, PhD Student, Augusta University.
– AI-Driven Robust ECG Denoising and Cardiac Anomaly Detection Technique for Wearable Healthcare Devices, MD Mahady Hassan and Shawn Edwards, PhD Students, Augusta University.
Guidance
Posters and Slides:
– Slides for presentations shall be sent to the organizer’s email.
– The posters must be formatted to be up to 48×42 inches (Height x Width). Please post it before the welcome reception.
Meeting Location: Plug ’n’ Play room at Georgia Cyber Center 100 Grace Hopper Lane Augusta, GA 30901, USA.
Parking : Parking is available on the Nathan Deal Campus for Innovation in the adjacent parking deck for $1.25/hour or $7 all day. The parking deck is cashless and accepts all major credit cards. It is located at the front of the campus and can be accessed from 11th Street or Grace Hopper Lane. The Georgia Cyber Center is not able to provide validated parking passes. For more details please follow this link: https://www.gacybercenter.org/facility/map-directions/.
Hotel
The main hotel for the conference is the Augusta Marriott at the Convention Center. The hotel is about 200 meters away from Georgia Cyber Center, and the shortest walk is on the scenic Augusta Riverwalk that runs along the Savannah River. We have arranged a special rate with Augusta Marriott for CPS attendees. Please book the hotel using this link.
There are several other hotels in the area. Other options include:
– Hyatt House Downtown Augusta, on Broad Street about one block away from the conference venue.
– Crowne Plaza North Augusta, just across the Savannah River in North Augusta.
– The Partridge Inn, a historic hotel with a rooftop bar, a short drive down Walton Way from downtown Augusta.
Other budget option nearby include:
Background
The School of Computer and Cyber Sciences (SCCS) aims to provide high-engagement, state-of-the-art technology education and research across its computer science, information technology and cybersecurity disciplines. SCCS is uniquely positioned within multiple facilities at Augusta University, including the prestigious Georgia Cyber Innovation & Training Center. Through strong partnerships, SCCS impacts K-12 education, higher education, healthcare, government, and the business community. These collaborations foster cutting-edge cybersecurity research, workforce development, and entrepreneurial innovation, positioning Augusta as a national hub for talent in the cyber industry.
The mission of UGA Center for Cyber-Physical Systems (CCPS) is to develop partnerships among university, industry and government on research and education in Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) analytics and security, and fosters bold innovation and entrepreneurship in CPS. The CCPS center is an interdisciplinary research center in UGA committed to advancing research and education in CPS and to transitioning CPS science and technology into engineering practice and real-world applications with lasting impact. More details found here: UGA Center for Cyber-Physical Systems.
Organizing Committee:
Costas Busch [kbusch@augusta.edu] (Augusta University)
Alexander Schwarzmann [aschwarzmann@augusta.edu] (Augusta University)
WenZhan Song [wsong@uga.edu] (UGA)
Web Chair: Ramesh Adhikari [radhikari@augusta.edu] (Augusta University)
Platinum Sponsors:
School of Computer and Cyber Sciences, Augusta University
Office of the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost
National Science Foundation | Regional Innovation Engines Program
