"The Human Heart - An Ultimate Cyber-Physical System"

Radu Grosu, a new professor and head of the Dependable Systems Group at the Institute of Computer Engineering, gives his inaugural lecture on November 7, 2012. Consisting of more than four billion communication nodes interconnected through a very sophisticated communication structure, the human heart is an ultimate cyber-physical system which achieves with astonishing reliability, the electric synchronization and the mechanical contraction of all of its nodes, in order to pump blood, during what is commonly known as a heart beat. However, even this cyber-physical system, engineered by billion years of genetic evolution, is fallible, and predicting its failure is a great challenge for our society. This inaugural lecture addresses the modeling, analysis and control challenges, and opportunities, associated with this ultimate cyber-physical system. Biography - Radu Grosu is a Professor and Head of the Dependable Systems Group at the Faculty of Informatics of the TU Vienna since 2012. Furthermore, he is Research Professor at the Computer Science Department of the State University of New York at Stony Brook. His research interests include modeling, analysis and control of cyber-physical and biological systems and his application focus includes green operating systems, mobile ad-hoc networks, automotive systems, the Mars rover, cardiac-cell networks and genetic regulatory networks.