Guest Professor Pierluigi Nuzzo

18. May 2025
High-Assurance Design Methods for Trustworthy Cyber-Physical Systems: A Contract-Based Approach

Pierluigi Nuzzo

A highlight of this semester’s seminar series was the opportunity to welcome Guest Professor Pierluigi Nuzzo. Professor Pierluigi Nuzzo is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS) at the University of California, Berkeley. Professor Nuzzo shared his expertise on cutting-edge research related to Trustworthy Autonomous Cyber-Physical Systems, providing participants with exposure to advanced methodologies and new research perspectives.

His lecture focsued on rigorous methods and tools for designing and verifying complex cyber-physical systems. It introduces mathematical modeling, system synthesis, and verification techniques, focusing on a powerful contract-based framework known as assume-guarantee contracts. This approach enables modular design, stepwise refinement, and compositional verification. Applications include avionics, robotics, manufacturing systems, and autonomous system certification.