Keynote Speaker

Title: Cognitive Dynamic System for Cyber Physical Systems and Cybersecurity

The starting point of this talk is Cognitive Dynamic System (CDS), the ideas of which go back to 2006. However in today’s new world, CDS consists of two major items:

i. CDS-I, which simulates certain features of the brain.
ii. CDS-II, which goes deeper in the brain.

Under these two brief introductions, we now introduce the following statement:

The Principle of Predictive Adaptation is for new practical applications

To elaborate, we will be focusing on the following pair of related but different topics, simply stated as follows:

i. Cyber Physical Systems, which are internal.
ii. Cybersecurity, which is external.

As different as they are, they do nevertheless settle on the same end result:
Risk Sensitive Cognitive Action

Biography:

Simon Haykin received his B.Sc. (First-class Honours), Ph.D., and D.Sc., all in Electrical Engineering from the University of Birmingham, England. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. He is the recipient of the Henry Booker Gold Medal from URSI, 2002, the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Technical Sciences from ETH Zentrum, Zurich, Switzerland, 1999, and many other medals and prizes.

He is a pioneer in adaptive signal processing with emphasis on applications in radar and communications, an area of research that has occupied much of his professional life.  In the mid-1980s, he shifted the thrust of his research effort in the direction of Neural Computation, which was re-emerging at that time. All along, he had the vision of revisiting the fields of radar and communications from a brand new perspective. That vision became a reality in the early years of this century with the publication of two seminal journal papers:

“Cognitive Radio: Brain-empowered Wireless communications”, which appeared in IEEE J. Selected Areas in Communications, Feb. 2005.
“Cognitive Radar: A Way of the Future”, which appeared in the IEEE J. Signal Processing, Feb. 2006.

Cognitive Radio and Cognitive Radar are two important parts of a much wider and integrative field: Cognitive Dynamic Systems, research into which has become his passion.   His current research exploits the Principle of Predictive Adaptation to achieve the following objective:

Risk Sensitive Cognitive Action, the purpose of which is to control Cognitive Dynamic Systems as if the presence of uncertainties do not exist.