What if the technology that powers our cars, medical devices and energy grids could guarantee safety and reliability like never before? Pengyuan “Eric” Lu, a Ph.D. candidate at the Penn Research in Embedded Computing and Integrated Systems Engineering (PRECISE) Center, has been making this vision a reality through his research in deep learning for safety-critical systems.
Cyber-physical systems (CPS), in which “smart” technology interacts with the physical world, are vital to our daily lives: they power automobiles, medical devices, building heating-and-cooling systems, and smart-grid electricity networks. Lu’s research focuses on enhancing the reliability and safety of such systems.