IEEE International Conference on
Engineering Reliable Autonomous Systems

May 29-30, 2025
Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA, USA

Detailed Program

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Program Overview

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**Day 1: May 29**
Time	Activity
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM	Registration & Breakfast
9:00 AM - 9:15 AM	Opening Session
9:15 AM - 10:15 AM	Keynote Talk 1: Ben Axelrod (Robotics and AI Institute) Reliable Robotics Research at the Robotics and AI Institute
10:15 AM - 11:15 AM	Technical session 1: Design of Reliable Autonomous Systems
11:15 AM - 11:30 AM	Break
11:30 AM - 12:15 PM	Technical session 2: Reliable Autonomous Vehicles
12:15 PM - 1:30 PM	Lunch
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM	Keynote Talk 2: Craig Lennon (US Army) Contributions to Assurance from Basic and Applied Research
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM	Technical session 3: Reliable Vision for Autonomous Systems
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM	Coffee Break
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM	Tutorial: Hardened Extension of the Adversarial Robustness Toolbox (HEART): Evaluating and Hardening AI Models against Novel Attack Vectors Organizer: Jordan Fischer (IBM)
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM	Welcome Gathering
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM	Banquet

**Day 2: May 30**
Time	Activity
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM	Registration & Breakfast
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM	Poster Session 1 (online): Challenges in Engineering Reliable Autonomous Systems I
10:00 AM - 11:15 AM	Technical Session 4: Evaluation of Reliable Autonomous Systems
11:15 AM - 11:30 AM	Break
11:30 AM - 12:15 PM	Technical Session 5: Reliable Human-Robot Teaming
12:15 PM - 1:30 PM	Lunch
1:30 PM - 4:30 PM	Keynote Talk 3, 1:30-2:30: Sayan Mitra (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Towards Verified Visual Autonomy: Perception Contracts and Abstract Rendering Poster session 2 (onsite), 2:30-4:30: Challenges in Engineering Reliable Autonomous Systems II Coffee Break, 3:30-4:00 Workshop 2:30-4:30: SAFE-Robotics: Safe, Assured, Formal methods-Enabled Robotics
4:30 PM - 4:45 PM	Farewell Gathering
4:45 PM - 5:00 PM	Closing Session