2022 Cyber-Physical Systems Principal Investigators' Meeting

The 2022 CPS PI Meeting was the first in-person PI Meeting since 2019, where the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 was largely responsible for no meeting being held in 2020 and a virtual PI Meeting being held in 2021. It is also the first PI Meeting where only a partial contingent of up to 300 PIs were accommodated to participate. The meeting was attended by 245 stakeholders from academia, industry, and Federal agencies, foreign institutions, and independent research labs. Of these 245 attendees, 222 comprised Lead PIs, PIs, and Co-PIs representing over 100 U.S. colleges and universities and research labs located in 36 states and Washington D.C. The goal of CPS PI Meetings is to assemble on an annual basis CPS PIs whose research is supported by NSF to discuss new developments and progress of the diverse research that spans a broad spectrum of domain sectors, including agriculture, climate change, energy, the environment, healthcare, and transportation, among many other sectors; to identify new, emerging applications; to discuss technology gaps and barriers; and brainstorm future research directions. The PI meeting program featured keynote talks, PI-led activities including panels, workshops, poster sessions, and “live” demonstration sessions; numerous networking activities including an informal reception on the arrival night, which was a first-time test case event, a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) session, and a Broadening Participation (BP) session.