2026 IEEE Conference on Cognitive and Computational Aspects
of Situation Management (CogSIMA)

March 9-12, 2026 | Tempe, Arizona

Organizing Committee




General Chair
Jamie Gorman
Arizona State University,
USA

Honorary Chair
Gabriel Jakobson
CyberGem Consulting,
USA

Vice Chair
Scott Fouse
Fouse Consulting Services,
USA

TPC Co-Chair
Giuseppe D'Aniello
University of Salerno,
Italy

TPC Co-Chair
Erin Chou
Arizona State University,
USA

TPC Co-Chair
Erik Blasch
AFOSR,
USA

Treasurer
Ken Baclawski
Northeastern University,
USA

CogSIMA TC Liaison
Andrea Salfinger
University of Udine,
Italy

Local Arrangements Chair
Courtney Candage
Arizona State University,
USA

Intl. Liaisons Chair
Tamás Ruppert
University of Pannonia,
Hungary

Publication Co-Chair
Robert Gutzwiller
Arizona State University,
USA

Publication Co-Chair
Lixiao Huang
Arizona State University,
USA

Special Sessions Chair
Chen Zhong
University of Tampa,
USA

Tutorials Chair
Heather Lum
Arizona State University,
USA

Publicity Chair
Elmira Zahmat Doost
Arizona State University,
USA

Website Chair
Ray Hao
Arizona State University,
USA



Technical Program Committee

Hasan Ayaz (Drexel University, USA)
Giacinto Barresi (University of the West of England, Italy)
Jean Botev (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
Dave Braines (IBM UK Ltd, United Kingdom)
Jin-Hee Cho (Virginia Tech, USA)
Caterina Cinel (University of Essex, United Kingdom)
Paulo Costa (George Mason University, USA)
Natalia Derbentseva (Defence R&D Canada, Canada)
Ada Diaconescu (Telecom Paris, France)
Patricia Dockhorn Costa (Federal University of Espirito Santo, Brazil)
Valentina Dragos (ONERA, France)
Varun Dutt (Indian Institute of Technology, Mandi, India)
Péter Érdi (Kalamazoo College, USA)
Göran Falkman (University of Skövde, Sweden)
Matteo Gaeta (University of Salerno, Italy)
Jesus Garcia (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)
Raffaele Gravina (University of Calabria, Italy)
Georg Hägele (Husqvarna Group, Sweden)
Anne-Laure Jouselme (CS Group, France)
Mieczyslaw Kokar (Northeastern University, USA)
Michael W Kozak (Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Laboratories, USA)
Christopher Landauer (USA)
Claire Laudy (THALES Research & Technology France, France)
Christian Lebiere (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Antonio Lieto (University of Salerno, Italy)
Domenico Lofù (Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy)
Gaëlle Lortal (Thales R&T, France)
Dalila B. Megherbi (University of Massachusetts, Lowell, USA & Director of CMINDS Research Center, UMASS, USA)
Arash Mohammadi (Concordia University, Canada)
Almuth Müller (Fraunhofer IOSB, Germany)
Tal Oron-Gilad (Ben-Gurion University, Israel)
Patrick Philipp (University of Applied Sciences Koblenz, Germany)
Tamás Ruppert (University of Pannonia, Hungary)
Alicia Ruvinsky (USACE ERDC, USA)
Giuseppe Sansonetti (Roma Tre University, Italy)
Domenico Santaniello (Università degli Studi di Salerno, Italy)
Arezoo Sarkheyli-Hägele (Malmö universitet, Sweden)
Ute Schmid (Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, Germany)
David Schuster (San Jose State University, USA)
Sabrina Senatore (University of Salerno, Italy)
Alexander Smirnov (SPIIRAS, Russia)
Lauro Snidaro (University of Udine, Italy)
Alan N. Steinberg (Alan Steinberg, Independent Consultant, USA)
Pontus Svenson (RISE, Sweden)
Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan (Wright State University, USA)
Robert Thomson (United States Military Academy & Army Cyber Institute, USA)
Risto Vaarandi (Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia)
Rob Vingerhoeds (ISAE-SUPAERO, France)

News

Keynote Speaker Updates:
Dr. Maia Cook and Professor Subbarao Kambhampati have agreed to be our keynote speakers.

We’re also delighted to share that Dr. Mica Endsley has agreed to serve as our Banquet Keynote Speaker on March 11.

June 27: We are thrilled to announce that we have IEEE SMC Sponsorship for CogSIMA 2026.

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