The convergence of artificial intelligence, pervasive sensing, and distributed computing is transforming cyber-physical systems across terrestrial and space domains. This talk presents an integrated perspective on Earth–Space Cyber-Physical Intelligence, focusing on how AI-driven systems enable intelligent interaction between physical environments, digital representations, and human activities at multiple scales.

The first part of the talk addresses human-centric cyber-physical systems on Earth, including indoor localization, behavior understanding, privacy-preserving sensing, and campus-scale digital twins. These systems demonstrate how edge intelligence, multimodal sensing, and data-driven modeling can support real-time perception, decision-making, and system optimization while respecting privacy and operational constraints. The second part extends these concepts to space-based cyber-physical infrastructures, with emphasis on satellite connectivity, formation-flying systems, and distributed beamforming for direct-to-cell communication. By integrating AI, distributed optimization, and physics-informed models, such systems provide scalable and resilient connectivity beyond traditional terrestrial networks.

Through deployed systems and representative case studies, this talk highlights the architectural principles and research challenges underlying AI-driven cyber-physical intelligence across the Earth–space continuum, and discusses their role in enabling robust, human-centered, and globally connected infrastructures.

Speaker

Hamada Rizk

Hamada Rizk (IEEE Senior Member) is an Associate Professor at the University of Osaka, Japan. He received his M.E. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science and Engineering from Tanta University and the Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology (E-JUST) in 2016 and 2020, respectively. He is also a Principal Research Scientist at the RIKEN Center for Computational Science, contributing to Japan’s flagship supercomputing project, Fugaku, and serves as Senior Technical Advisor at Hulix-Tech Inc. He is also a co-founder of several startups, including B-oN inc.

His research interests include mobile and pervasive and mobile computing, spatial intelligence, and artificial intelligence of things. He has led and contributed to numerous projects funded by academic and industrial organizations in Egypt, the United States, Japan, Saudi Arabia, and other countries. Hamada’s team has won multiple awards, securing gold, silver, and bronze medals in the ACM SIGSPATIAL research competition for the last seven consecutive years (2019–2025). He has been recognized as an outstanding young researcher by the HLF Foundation in Germany (2019), Google (2019 & 2020), and NVIDIA (2022). Among his many awards, he is also a recipient of the prestigious IEEE Japan Medal 2023.