Abstract: This talk will introduce our recent research on CPS/IoT, covering three different but closely coupled research concepts originated from batteries, i.e., relaxation-assisted battery management, batteries as sensors/actuators, and cross-domain invariants. We will first introduce R-AWARE, a recovery period-assisted battery health management solution that improves battery health via relaxation-aware scheduling of battery (dis)charging and monitoring. R-AWARE optimizes battery health by scheduling system operation, inspiring the research in the reverse direction, i.e., exploiting batteries as sensors/actuators to optimize system operation. We will introduce our research on exploring this concept to secure vehicular systems. Lastly, we will generalize the research theme of batteries as sensors/actuators to a novel concept called cross-domain invariants, and demonstrate its application to advance trustworthy manufacturing.

Short Bio: Dr. Liang He is an assistant professor at the University of Colorado Denver (CU-Denver), CO, USA. Before joining CU-Denver, he worked as a research fellow at The University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. Dr. He’s research focuses on cyber-physical systems and internet-of-things, with applications to batteries, vehicles, and manufacturing systems. He has published over 100 research papers in the proceedings of premier academic conferences such as ACM MobiCom, MobiSys, SenSys, UbiComp, and journals such as IEEE TMC and ACM TCPS. Dr. He has served as a TPC member for many academic conferences such as ACM/IEEE ICCPS, IoTDI, and ACM e-Energy. He is an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Systems. Dr. He is a senior member of IEEE and a member of ACM.