Workshop Details
With the postponement of the corresponding event, CEMA 2025, we have decided to also postpone these workshops.
Tutorial on Cognitive Electronic Warfare | Pre-Summit Professional Development Workshops
Date: Fall 2025
Location: Water’s Edge Events Center | 4687 Millennium Drive Belcamp, MD 21017
Length: 3 hours total delivered across one session
Description: This tutorial will highlight how artificial intelligence (AI) can be used in electronic warfare (EW). AI enables EW systems to respond more quickly and effectively to battlefield conditions with complex and novel emitters.
The tutorial will describe how AI-enabled systems are different from Cognitive systems and present the implications of this capability on system performance and test and evaluation requirements. It will cover situation assessment techniques for electronic support (ES), including characterization, classification, anomaly detection, and intent recognition. It will cover decision-making techniques for electronic protect (EP), electronic attack (EA), and electronic battle management (EBM), including planning, optimization, and scheduling. The presentation describes real-time in-mission learning, discusses why it is important to learn from a single example, and how to do so. It covers the concepts of managing data on an embedded device, the role of humans, and evaluation approaches to show how a learning system can learn how to handle novel environments.
Who Should Attend: This workshop is intended for engineers, project managers, and researchers who would like to understand how AI can improve performance of EW systems. The workshop presents a broad landscape of possible AI and ML techniques, rather than an in-depth analysis of any one technique or problem space.
This workshop will be held before Cyber Electromagnetic Activity (CEMA) 2025. While registration for CEMA 2025 is not required, it is recommended to enhance your overall experience.
Registration
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Instructor
Dr. Karen Haigh is a recognized expert in Cognitive Electronic Warfare (EW) and embedded Artificial Intelligence (AI). She is a Fellow of the IEEE for contributions to closed-loop control of embedded systems, and a Fellow of the AsiaPacific AI Association for outstanding achievements in the area of smart homes. Her focus is on physical systems with limited communications and limited computation resources that must perform under fast hard-real-time requirements. She was a pioneer in three different fields that are now common across the globe: autonomous vehicles, smart homes for elder care, and cognitive radio frequency systems. With her co-author Julia Andrusenko, she wrote the book “Cognitive Electronic Warfare: An AI Approach.”
Dr. Haigh is a regular presenter to academic and military communities globally. She is a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems society and is regularly invited to give keynote addresses at relevant venues. She received her undergraduate degree in Computer Science from the University of Ottawa, and her doctorate in Computer Science (focus in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics) from Carnegie Mellon University.
