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Benjamin Lion is a researcher focused on the formal foundations of cyber-physical systems (CPS), with a particular emphasis on composition, interaction, and runtime adaptation. His work addresses the challenge of modeling systems where cyber and physical components must seamlessly interoperate. Lion’s major contribution is the development of a component-based semantic model that abstracts the internal details of both cyber and physical processes, exposing a uniform view of their externally observable behaviors as sequences of observations. This framework enables rigorous reasoning about system composition and decomposition—a critical capability for designing complex, distributed CPS. His papers, including "A Semantic Model for Interacting Cyber-Physical Systems" and "A Rewriting Framework for Interacting Cyber-Physical Agents," have accumulated over 20 citations, reflecting growing interest in his formal approach. Notably, his 2023 work on runtime composition advances the practical deployment of these models in dynamic environments. Lion’s research is particularly relevant for students and engineers working on autonomous systems, IoT, and safety-critical infrastructure, offering a clear path from formal semantics to real-world implementation.