DSAS 2026

Dependable and Secure Autonomous Systems — Space and Drone/UAV Technologies in the Age of AI

Joint Workshop Program: DSAS–DT4DRS


Time Title Speaker(s)
2:00 PM – 2:15 PM Welcome and Opening Gokhan Kul
2:15 PM – 3:15 PM Keynote: Trusting the System, Not Just the Model: A Perspective on AI-Enabled Autonomous Systems Marco Vieira
3:30 PM – 4:00 PM Coffee Break  

4:00 PM – 4:34 PM · Session 1: AI Safety, Security & Risk Analysis

Time Title Authors
4:00 PM – 4:17 PM Safety Beyond the Interface: Detecting Harm via Latent States in Large Language Models Alizishaan Khatri, Chiquita Prabhu and Omkar Neogi
4:17 PM – 4:34 PM From Threat Intelligence to Decision Theory: ATT&CK-Derived Utility Functions for Adversarial Risk Analysis in NIDS Mayank Raj, Nathaniel Bastian and Gokhan Kul

4:34 PM – 5:30 PM · Session 2: Dependable and Secure Cyber-Physical & Autonomous Systems

Time Title Authors
4:34 PM – 4:51 PM PACT: Predictive Approximate Computing with Temporal Guarantees Gustavo Londono, Sibin Mohan, Sathish Gopalakrishnan and Radha Venkatagiri
4:51 PM – 5:08 PM Threat-Oriented Digital Twinning for Security Evaluation of Autonomous Platforms Thomas Neubert, Laxima Niure Kandel and Berker Peköz
5:08 PM – 5:25 PM Consequence-Driven Dependability Models for Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) Ronan Oostveen, Stefano Simonetto, Peter Bosch, Alessandro Chiumento and Maarten van Steen
5:25 PM – 5:30 PM Closing Remarks Gokhan Kul