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2022
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Joint Keynote SAFECOM'22 and IMBSA'22, the 7th Int'l Symposium on Model-Based Safety and Assessment, CIAO (Complexity Intelligence Autonomy Openness) – 4 horsemen of Untrustworthy AI and ways to address them, Munich, September 2022
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2020
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Tools and Tutorials chair IMBSA'20, the 7th Int'l Symposium on Model-Based Safety and Assessment, Lisbon Portugal, August 2020
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2019
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Co-chair at IMBSA'19, the 6th Int'l Symposium on Model-Based Safety and Assessment, Thessaloniki Italy, Greece, October 2019
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Invited Talk at ‘Letterature 2019’, the Annual International Festival of Literature, city of Rome, on ‘Meeting Epictetus and Seneca in an Infinite Virtual Stoa - Classical Wisdom as Emotional Education of the Future’, June 2019
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2018
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Invited Talk at Lorentz Centre workshop on "Safety of Future Systems, 9-13 April 2018, Leiden, Netherlands
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2017
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Invited Tutorial at UK Safety Critical Systems Club (SCSC) event on "Introduction to model-based safety assessment and engineering, 28 September, 2017, London, UK
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Co-chair at IMBSA'17, the 5th Int'l Symposium on Model-Based Safety Assessment, Trento, Italy, September 2017
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Organiser of Special Track on Dependable Control of Discrete Systems, IFAC World Congress, Toulouse, France, July 9-14, 2017.
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Lecturer at the Dutch DISC Summer School on "A Systems and Control Perspective on Privacy, Safety, and Security in large-scale Cyber-Physical Systems", July, 2017. DISC was founded in 1995 as an inter-university research institute and graduate school by the Delft and Eindhoven Universities of Technology and the University of Twente, involving also several research groups from Groningen, Maastricht, Wageningen, Tilburg and Amsterdam.
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"Robot Penguins Zap Cyber-Threat": The DEIS research group is currently developing nature-inspired algorithms mimicking the hunting behaviour of Penguins. In recent work, we have shown that this applies to solving problems concerning the safety of modern vehicles. An invited talk on "Darwin, Penguins and ISO26262" was given recently by myself at the Automotive System Safety Symposium in Berlin. The BBC has discovered this work and has run an article on "Hungry penguins help keep car code safe". The Daily Mail reported that the research tool can spot hackers in “PENGUINS could keep your self driving car safe: Researchers say their hunting strategy can be used to spot hackers”. The story has spread in the global media since. The Electronic Engineering Journal published an amusing analysis entitled “Robot Penguins Zap Cyber-Threat!”. Another highly regarded technical publication, Automotive IQ, has discovered a connection to Aristotle and published a piece on "Philosophical penguins show the road to safety for smart cars" which was voted top content in Automotive IQ for February 2017. For those interested, a link to a recent 10 minute long BBC interview can be found here. Events took place in January and February, 2017.
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2016
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Invited speaker, Automotive System Safety Europe, "Darwin, Penguins, and ISO 26262", Berlin, November 28-30, 2016.
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Invited Expert Speaker and Panellist, Annual Advanced Automotive Diagnostics Summit, "Can genes and flightless aquatic birds allocate automotive safety requirements?", Stuttgart, Germany, February 18-19, 2016.
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2015
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Keynote speaker, 7th Int'l IEEE Conference on Intelligent Computing and Information Systems, “Metaheuristics for the design of safety critical systems: a synthesis of logic and biology in system design”, Cairo, Egypt, December 12-14, 2015.
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Organiser of Special Track and Chairing of sessions on Discrete Event Dependability and Diagnosis and Dependability and Risk Assessment, IFAC SAFEPROCESS Symposium, Paris, France, September 2-4, 2015.
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Keynote speaker, Advanced Powertrain Control Symposium, “Dependability-driven model-based analysis optimisation and refinement of system designs”, Birmingham City University, Millennium Point, Birmingham, July 7th, 2015.
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Invited speaker, 4th VECTOR Functional Safety Conference, "Safety-directed design refinement: How to optimise the allocation of requirements", Birmingham, June 11th, 2015.
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Plenary speaker, IFAC-DCDS 2015, "Intersections of philosophy, logic and biology in design", Cancun Mexico, May 27th, 2015.
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Organiser and Chair of special track, IFAC-DCDS 2015, "Tool supported techniques for model-based dependability analysis and optimisation", Cancun Mexico, May 27th, 2015.
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Invited public lecturer, Otley Library, "Evolving musical paintings between permanence and change", May 13th, 201
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2014
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Publicity chair, ICISCE 2014, 4th Int’l Conf. on Information Science and Control Engineering, December 26-28, Shanghai, China, 2014.
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REF 2014 results. Computer Science at University of Hull ranked 5th nationally for impact of research in the nationwide Research Excellence Framework with 80% of impact output classed as 4*
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