Registration & Workshop
Plenaries & Keynotes
Sessions, Panels & Discussions
Posters & Social Events
FOCAPO-CPC 2027 | Program at a Glance
January 10–14, 2027 | The Westin La Paloma Resort & Spa | Tucson, Arizona
Sunday, January 10 | Opening Day
1:30–8:30 PM
Registration
Conference Registration
2:00–6:00 PM
Workshop
PrOMMiS Workshop
7:30–7:45 PM
Opening
Opening Remarks
7:45–8:45 PM
Opening Plenary
History of FOCAPO/CPC – Gintaras Reklaitis and Christos Georgakis
8:45–10:00 PM
Monday, January 11 | AI/ML
7:00 AM–5:00 PM
Registration
Conference Registration
7:30–8:30 AM
Breakfast
Breakfast (OYO)
8:30–9:30 AM
Plenary
AI/ML – Venkat Venkatasubramanian and Artur Schweidtmann
9:30–10:00 AM
Refreshment Break
10:00–10:30 AM
Keynote
Antonio Chanona and Mehmet Mercangoz
10:30–11:00 AM
Keynote
Can Li and Jeffrey Arbogast
11:00–11:15 AM
Break
11:15–11:45 AM
Keynote
Joseph Kwon and Luis Ricardez-Sandoval
11:45 AM–12:15 PM
Keynote
Francisco Trespalacios and Satya Amaran
12:15–2:00 PM
Lunch
Lunch
2:00–3:30 PM
Oral Sessions
Parallel Oral Sessions
3:30–4:00 PM
Refreshment Break
4:00–6:00 PM
Oral Sessions
Parallel Oral Sessions
6:00–8:00 PM
Dinner
Dinner on Your Own
8:00–10:00 PM
Tuesday, January 12 | Computing Frontiers
7:00 AM–5:00 PM
Registration
Conference Registration
7:30–8:30 AM
Breakfast
Breakfast (OYO)
8:30–9:30 AM
Plenary
Computing Frontiers, Autonomous Systems & Advanced Manufacturing – Xiaojun Huang
9:30–10:00 AM
Refreshment Break
10:00–10:30 AM
Keynote
Helen Durand and Alicia Magann
10:30–11:00 AM
Keynote
Qi Chen and Sungho Shin
11:00–11:15 AM
Break
11:15–11:45 AM
Keynote
Alexander Dowling and Davood Pourkargar
11:45 AM–12:15 PM
Keynote
Iiro Harjunkoski and Michael Baldea
12:15–2:00 PM
Lunch
Lunch
2:00–3:30 PM
Panel
Computing and AI/ML – Richard Braatz, Calvin Tsay, John Siirola, and Rohit Ramachandran
3:30–4:00 PM
Refreshment Break
4:00–6:00 PM
Oral Sessions
Parallel Oral Sessions
6:00–7:00 PM
Free Time
Free Time
7:00–7:30 PM
7:30–7:40 PM
7:40–8:40 PM
Banquet Plenary
Joe Qin and Jay Lee
8:40–10:00 PM
Wednesday, January 13 | Foundations and Applications
7:00 AM–5:00 PM
Registration
Conference Registration
7:30–8:30 AM
Breakfast
Breakfast (OYO)
8:30–9:30 AM
Plenary
PSE Foundations and Applications – Brian Douglas
9:30–10:00 AM
Refreshment Break
10:00–10:30 AM
Keynote
George Stephanopoulos
10:30–11:00 AM
Keynote
Joseph Scott and Marianthi Ierapetritou
11:00–11:15 AM
Break
11:15–11:45 AM
Keynote
Matthew Realff and Maria Paz Ochoa
11:45 AM–12:15 PM
Keynote
Maria Papathanasiou and Manjiri Moharir
12:15–2:00 PM
Lunch
Lunch
2:00–3:30 PM
Panel
Shaping Collaborations Between Industry, Academia, and Government – Martha Grover and Aimee Curtright
3:30–4:00 PM
Refreshment Break
4:00–6:00 PM
Oral Sessions
Parallel Oral Sessions
6:00–8:00 PM
Dinner
Dinner on Your Own
8:00–10:00 PM
Thursday, January 14 | Future of PSE
7:30–8:30 AM
Breakfast
Breakfast (OYO)
8:30–9:30 AM
Plenary
Ruth Misener and Victor Zavala
9:30–10:00 AM
Keynote
Chrysanthos Gounaris, Josephine Elia, and Jose Pinto
10:00–10:30 AM
Keynote
Future of CPC – Rohit Patwardhan, Joel Paulson, and Ilias Mitrai
10:30–11:00 AM
Refreshment Break
11:00 AM–12:30 PM
Discussion
Future of Teaching – Kirti Yenkie
12:30 PM
Adjournment
Conference Adjournment