RAGE 2026 @ CPS-IoT Week

Invited Speakers

Name: Prof. Tarek Abdelzaher

Affiliation: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA

Name: Prof. Sanjoy Baruah

Affiliation: Washington University in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA

Name: Silviu S. Craciunas

Affiliation: NXP Semiconductors, Austria

Name: Prof. Luigi De Simone

Affiliation: University of Naples, Italy

Name: Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Gerhard Fohler

Affiliation: TU Kaiserslautern, Germany

Name: Takahiro Ishikawa-Aso

Affiliation: The University of Tokyo / TIER IV Inc., Japan

Name: Prof. Edward Lee

Affiliation: UC Berkley, California, USA

Name: Dr. Fedor Smirnov

Affiliation: Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany

Prof. Tarek Abdelzaher

Affiliation:

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA

Webpage:

https://abdelzaher.cs.illinois.edu/

Bio:

Prof. Tarek Abdelzaher received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Michigan in 1999. He is currently a Professor and Willett Faculty Scholar at the Department of Computer Science, the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. He has authored/coauthored more than 400 refereed publications in real-time computing, CPS/IoT, distributed systems, intelligent networked sensing, machine learning, and control. He served as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Real-Time Systems for 15 years, and as Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, IEEE Embedded Systems Letters, the ACM Transaction on Sensor Networks, ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, ACM Transactions on Internet of Things, and the Ad Hoc Networks Journal. He chaired (as Program or General Chair) several conferences in his area including RTAS, RTSS, IPSN, Sensys, DCoSS, ICDCS, Infocom, and ICAC. Abdelzaher's research interests lie broadly in understanding and influencing performance and temporal properties of networked embedded, social, and software systems in the face of increasing complexity, distribution, and degree of interaction with an external physical environment. Tarek Abdelzaher is a recipient of the IEEE Outstanding Technical Achievement and Leadership Award in Real-time Systems (2012), the Xerox Award for Faculty Research (2011), as well as several best paper awards. He is a fellow of IEEE and ACM.

Prof. Sanjoy Baruah

Affiliation:

Washington University in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA

Webpage:

https://engineering.washu.edu/faculty/Sanjoy-Baruah.html

Bio:

Professor Baruah joined Washington University in St. Louis in September 2017. He was previously at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1999-2017) and the University of Vermont (1993-1999). His research interests and activities are in real-time and safety-critical system design, scheduling theory, resource allocation and sharing in distributed computing environments, and algorithm design and analysis. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, and the recipient of the 2014 Outstanding Technical Contributions and Leadership Award of the IEEE Technical Committee on Real-Time Systems.

Silviu S. Craciunas

Affiliation:

NXP Semiconductors, Austria

Webpage:

https://scraciunas.github.io/

Bio:

Silviu S. Craciunas is Principal Scientist at NXP Semiconductors. Since 2011, he worked at the TTTech Labs @TTTech as a Principal Scientist doing research on advanced scheduling methods for TTEthernet- and TSN-based distributed systems and on real-time allocation and scheduling solutions for ADAS platforms. His research interests include time-sensitive networking, deterministic (time-triggered) Ethernet, operating systems, real-time and safety- critical embedded systems, real-time scheduling algorithms, power-aware computing, cloud computing, IoT.

Prof. Luigi De Simone

Affiliation:

University of Naples, Italy

Webpage:

http://wpage.unina.it/luigi.desimone/

Bio:

Luigi De Simone is an Assistant Professor (tenure track) at Federico II University of Naples in the Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering. His research interests include Dependability (in particular Fault Injection Testing) of Operating Systems and Cloud Systems. He is a member of DESSERT (DEpendable and Secure Software Engineering and Real-Time Systems) research group. Furthermore, he collaborates actively as researcher with CINI laboratory (Consorzio Interuniversitario Nazionale per l'Informatica) of University of Naples Federico II.

Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Gerhard Fohler

Affiliation:

TU Kaiserslautern, Germany

Webpage:

https://eit.rptu.de/fgs/rts/people/gerhard-fohler

Bio:

Gerhard Fohler has been holding the Chair for Real-time Systems at TU Kaiserslautern since 2006. He received his Dipl. Ing. and Ph.D. degrees with honors from the TU Vienna, Prof. Hermann Kopetz, then was with the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA as postdoctoral researcher. Before joining TU Kaiserslautern, he was with MDH Sweden where he was promoted to full professor. His research is based on issues in the field of real-time, embedded systems, with emphasis on safety critical and flexible real-time systems and networks. He has been involved in a number of EU projects, coordinator and partner, and was core partner of the EU IST Networks-of-Excellence ARTIST. He was Chairman of the Technical Committee on Real-time Systems of Euromicro, which is responsible for ECRTS, the prime European conference on real-time systems, was member of the executive board of the real-time and embedded committees of the IEEE. He was program chair of the leading real-time conferences, regular member of most technical program committees in the area, and was associate editor of Springer's Real-time System Journal. He has been serving as expert reviewer for the EU IST embedded systems unit and other funding agencies. He has been collecting insights, observations, thoughts on the procedures of scientific conferences, in particular paper evaluation and selection based on these experiences in a blog. He has received the IEEE Technical Committee on Real-time Systems award for outstanding service to the real-time systems community and the ECRTS Outstanding Achievements Award for his efforts to turn ECRTS into one of the leading conferences in real-time systems.

Takahiro Ishikawa-Aso

Affiliation:

The University of Tokyo / TIER IV Inc., Japan

Webpage:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/sykwer/

Bio:

System Software Department Manager at TIER IV, researching in system software and real-time system.

Prof. Edward Lee

Affiliation:

UC Berkley, California, USA

Webpage:

https://ptolemy.berkeley.edu/~eal/

Bio:

Edward A. Lee is Professor of the Graduate School and Distinguished Professor Emeritus in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS) at the University of California at Berkeley, where he has been on the faculty since 1986. He is the author of seven books, some with several editions, including two for a general audience, and hundreds of papers and technical reports. Lee has delivered more than 200 keynote and other invited talks at venues worldwide and has graduated 40 PhD students. Professor Lee's research group studies cyber-physical systems, which integrate physical dynamics with software and networks. His focus is on the use of deterministic models as a central part of the engineering toolkit for such systems. He is the director of iCyPhy, the Berkeley Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems Research Center. From 2005-2008, he served as Chair of the EE Division and then Chair of the EECS Department at UC Berkeley. He has led the development of several influential open-source software packages, notably Ptolemy and Lingua Franca. He received his BS degree in 1979 from Yale University, with a double major in Computer Science and Engineering and Applied Science, an SM degree in EECS from MIT in 1981, and a Ph.D. in EECS from UC Berkeley in 1986. From 1979 to 1982 he was a member of technical staff at Bell Labs in Holmdel, New Jersey, in the Advanced Data Communications Laboratory. He is a co-founder of BDTI, Inc., where he is currently a Senior Technical Advisor, and has consulted for a number of other companies. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, was an NSF Presidential Young Investigator, won the 1997 Frederick Emmons Terman Award for Engineering Education, received the 2016 Outstanding Technical Achievement and Leadership Award from the IEEE Technical Committee on Real-Time Systems (TCRTS), the 2018 Berkeley Citation, the 2019 IEEE Technical Committee on Cyber-Physical Systems (TCCPS) Technical Achievement Award, the 2022 European Design and Automation Association (EDAA) Achievement Award, the 2022 ACM SIGBED Technical Achievement Award, an Honorary Doctorate in Computer Science from the Technical University of Vienna in 2022, and the 2023 CASES Test of Time Award for a paper published in 2008.

Dr. Fedor Smirnov

Affiliation:

Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany

Webpage:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/fedorsmirnov89/

Bio:

Dr. Fedor Smirnov is a senior research engineer at Robert Bosch GmbH, specializing in specializing in software engineering with a focus on optimization and decision-making for the orchestration of safety- and real-time-critical applications in distributed systems. With experience spanning academic research, corporate research, and applied industrial development, he works at the boundary between research and engineering. He has contributed to the WASI community group and works extensively with Wasm runtimes, embedded firmware, and open-source tooling.