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\r\nAbstract: 
\r\nAccelerated by rapid advances in machine learning and AI, there has been tremendous success in the design of learning-enabled autonomous systems in areas such as autonomous driving and robotics. These exciting developments are accompanied by new fundamental challenges that arise regarding the safety and reliability of these increasingly complex systems due to imperfect learning, system unknowns, and uncertain environments. Statistical tools for uncertainty quantification have gained popularity due to their ability to deal with these challenges. However, their guarantees rely on i.i.d. data, an assumption that is violated when control actions change the underlying data distribution.
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\r\nIn this talk, I will provide new insight to design safe controllers under distribution shifts using robust conformal prediction (CP). I will begin by advocating for the use of CP due to its simplicity, generality, and efficiency as opposed to existing optimization-based verification techniques. I will then provide an introduction to CP and summarize existing work that uses CP to design probabilistically safe controllers in dynamic environments. Subsequently, we will look into interactive settings where the system’s behavior may change the environment's behavior, and vice versa. This circular dependency creates an interaction-driven distribution shift that invalidates existing CP guarantees. To deal with this problem, we propose an iterative framework that episodically updates the controller while robustly maintaining safety guarantees by quantifying the potential impact of a controller update on the environment's behavior. We realize this via adversarially robust CP where we perform a regular CP step in each episode using observed data under the current controller, but then transfer safety guarantees across controller updates by analytically adjusting the CP result to account for distribution shifts. Lastly, I will show how these ideas extend to handling policy-induced distribution shifts that arise when using barrier/Lyapunov functions to control uncertain systems.
\r\n
\r\nBiography:
\r\nLars Lindemann is currently an Assistant Professor for Algorithmic Systems Theory in the Automatic Control Laboratory at ETH Zürich. From 2023 to 2025 he was an Assistant Professor in the Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science at the University of Southern California. Before that, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania from 2020 to 2022. He received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from KTH Royal Institute of Technology in 2020. Professor Lindemann's research interests include systems and control theory, formal methods, machine learning, and autonomous systems. He is a recipient of a European Research Council Starting Grant and two U.S. National Science Foundation Grants. He also received the Outstanding Student Paper Award at the 58th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and the Student Best Paper Award (as an advisor) at the 60th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, and has been a finalist for several other best paper awards.","image_description":"","creation_date":"2026-10-01T11:07:20","last_modification_date":"2026-10-01T11:20:51","link_label":"","link_url":"","canceled":"False","cancel_reason":"","place_and_room":"ME C2 405","url_place_and_room":"https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==ME%20C2%20405","url_online_room":"https://epfl.zoom.us/j/66361455244","spoken_languages":["https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/spoken_languages/2/?format=json"],"speaker":"Professor Lars Lindemann , Assistant Professor for Algorithmic Systems Theory in the Automatic Control Laboratory @ ETH Zürich","organizer":"Professor Giancarlo Ferrari Trecate","contact":"barbara.schenkel@epfl.ch","is_internal":"False","theme":"","vulgarization":{"id":1,"fr_label":"Tout public","en_label":"General public"},"registration":{"id":3,"fr_label":"Entrée libre","en_label":"Free"},"keywords":"","file":null,"icalendar_url":"https://memento.epfl.ch/event/export/122012/","category":{"id":1,"code":"CONF","fr_label":"Conférences - Séminaires","en_label":"Conferences - Seminars","activated":true},"academic_calendar_category":null,"domains":[],"mementos":["https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/8/?format=json","https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/15/?format=json"]},{"id":72730,"title":"Johnson & Johnson – Reimagining Human Model Systems QuickFire Challenge","slug":"johnson-johnson-reimagining-human-model-systems-qu","event_url":"https://memento.epfl.ch/event/johnson-johnson-reimagining-human-model-systems-qu","visual_url":"https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33947/200x112.jpg","visual_large_url":"https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33947/720x405.jpg","visual_maxsize_url":"https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33947/max-size.jpg","lang":"en","start_date":"2026-10-23","end_date":"2026-10-23","start_time":null,"end_time":null,"description":"Aim: Johnson & Johnson has launched the Reimagining Human Model Systems QuickFire Challenge to identify novel, scalable and physiologically relevant human tissue model systems that can improve the translatability, predictability and reliability of preclinical safety and pharmacology evaluations. Innovators worldwide with an interest in leveraging the Singapore ecosystem are invited to propose qualified alternatives to traditional animal models that more accurately mimic human biology.
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\r\nAreas of interest include:\r\n\r\nAdditional priorities:\r\n\r\n\r\n
\r\nFunding: Up to $100,000 in award funding. Selected finalists will also be invited to present at a poster showcase in San Francisco during the week of 10–14 January 2027; travel costs will not be reimbursed.
\r\n
\r\nHow to Apply: Applications should be submitted through the QuickFire Challenge webpage. Proposals will be assessed for strategic alignment, novelty and differentiation, proof-of-concept feasibility and supporting data, key resources and development roadmap, team strengths and capabilities, and demonstrated interest in the Singapore innovation ecosystem. Proposal contents will not be treated as confidential; therefore, confidential information should not be submitted.
\r\n
\r\nDeadline:      23 October 2026
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\r\nThe 2nd call will support research projects in the following thematic challenges: \r\n\r\nFunding and duration:\r\n\r\n\r\nWho can apply:
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\r\nAn online applicant workshop will take place on Tuesday 20 October 2026 from 11:00 to 12:00 CET. The registration form is available here.
\r\n
\r\nFor additional questions, please contact the Research Office via research@epfl.ch. 
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Thesis Director: Prof. K. Sivula,
\r\nChemistry and Chemical Engineering doctoral program
\r\nThesis Nr. 11708
\r\n
\r\nTo take part in the public defense, please contact directly the speaker

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Title TBA

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Title TBA

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Title TBA

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Title TBA

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Modeling, slicing, rapid prototyping:
\r\nLearn to see your mechanical projects through to completion.

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