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Stanley Bak received his PhD from the the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in 2013 and then worked for several years at the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) in the Verification and Validation (V&V) group of the Aerospace Systems Directorate. He received the AFOSR Young Investigator Research Program (YIP) award in 2020 and the NSF CAREER award in 2023. He is currently an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at Stony Brook University.
Research interests
verification of autonomy, cyber-physical systems, and neural networks
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Education/Academic qualification
PhD, Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Collaborative Research: CPS: Medium: Mitigating Errors in Air Traffic Control
Bak, S. (PI) & Smolka, S. (CoPI)
08/1/25 → 07/31/28
Project: Research
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CAREER: Verified AI in Cyber-Physical Systems through Input Quantization
Bak, S. (PI)
08/1/23 → 07/31/28
Project: Research
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SBIR Phase II: Data-Driven Dynamic Runtime Assurance Using Polynomial Zonotopes
US Air Force Research Laboratory
04/9/24 → 05/31/26
Project: Research
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Verifying Sensor-Noise Robustness of Reinforcement Learning
Bak, S. (PI) & Rahmati, A. (CoPI)
US Air Force Office of Scientific Research
01/15/23 → 01/14/24
Project: Research
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Scalable verification of autonomous systems using gray-box reachability approved for public release
Bak, S. (PI)
US Navy Office of Naval Research
01/19/22 → 01/18/25
Project: Research
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Fast Koopman Surrogate Falsification Using Linear Relaxations and Weights
Bak, S., Hekal, A., Kochdumper, N., Lew, E., Mata, A. & Rahmati, A., 2025, Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis - 22nd International Symposium, ATVA 2024, Proceedings. Akshay, S., Niemetz, A. & Sankaranarayanan, S. (eds.). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, p. 234-255 22 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) ; vol. 15055 LNCS).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review
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Finding Unknown Unknowns using Cyber-Physical System Simulators
Wehbe, S. D. & Bak, S., Jun 5 2025, Proceedings of the 2025 Workshop on Design Automation for CPS and IoT, DESTION 2025, 2025 Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet-of-Things Week, CPS-IoT Week 2025 Workshops. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 3727829. (Proceedings of the 2025 Workshop on Design Automation for CPS and IoT, DESTION 2025, 2025 Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet-of-Things Week, CPS-IoT Week 2025 Workshops).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review
2 Scopus citations -
Polynomial Zonotopes Intersection Checking
Luo, E., Huang, Y., Sun, Y. & Bak, S., May 7 2025, Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE 16th International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems, ICCPS 2025, held as part of the CPS-IoT Week 2025. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 35. (Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE 16th International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems, ICCPS 2025, held as part of the CPS-IoT Week 2025).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review
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Reachability analysis for linear systems with uncertain parameters using polynomial zonotopes
Huang, Y., Luo, E., Bak, S. & Sun, Y., May 2025, In: Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems. 56, 101571.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Reachability of Koopman linearized systems using explicit kernel approximation and polynomial zonotope refinement
Bak, S., Bogomolov, S., Hencey, B., Kochdumper, N., Lew, E. & Potomkin, K., Aug 2025, In: Formal Methods in System Design. 66, 2, p. 307-333 27 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
1 Scopus citations