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IEEE International Conference on
Engineering Reliable Autonomous Systems

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

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Program (tentative)

Day 1: May 29
Time Activity
9:00 AM - 9:15 AM Opening Session
9:30 AM - 10:15 AM Keynote Talk 1: Ben Axelrod (Boston Dynamics)

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 2: Craig Lennon (US Army)

Contributions to Assurance from Basic and Applied Research

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM Technical session 2: Reliable Vision 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
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Keynote 3: Sayan Mitra (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Towards Verified Visual Autonomy: Perception Contracts and Abstract Rendering

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
4:30 PM - 4:45 PM Farewell Gathering
4:45 PM - 5:00 PM Closing Session