<div dir="ltr">Folks, We are having the interview today inspite of the delayed opening. The interview will start with the candidate talk at 12:00 pm. He is a security candidate. Please attend the talk and encourage your students to attend as well. Thanks.<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:13px"> Computer Science and Electrical Engineering</span><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px"> University of Maryland, Baltimore County</span><br style="font-size:13px"><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px"> Towards Secured Energy-Based Critical Infrastructure</span><br style="font-size:13px"><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px"> Professor </span><span class="" style="font-size:13px">Wei</span><span style="font-size:13px"> </span><span class="" style="font-size:13px">Yu</span><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px"> Director of Cyber-Physical Networked System & Security Laboratory</span><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px"> Computer and Information Sciences, Towson University</span><br style="font-size:13px"><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px"> </span><span class="" tabindex="0" style="font-size:13px"><span class="">12:00</span></span><span style="font-size:13px">-1:00 </span><span class="" tabindex="0" style="font-size:13px"><span class="">Friday, 6 March 2015</span></span><span style="font-size:13px">, ITE325b</span><br style="font-size:13px"><br style="font-size:13px"><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">The smart grid, as a typical energy-based cyber-physical system, uses</span><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">modern computing, communication and control technologies to make the</span><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">power grid more efficient, reliable, and secure. Nonetheless, the</span><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">smart grid may operate in hostile environments and lacking</span><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">tamper-resistance hardware for sensor, meters, etc., increases the</span><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">chance to be compromised by cyber adversaries. In this talk, I will</span><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">introduce a modeling framework to systematically explore the space of</span><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">threats in the smart grid and understand their impacts on both system</span><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">operations and end users, as well as the development of effective</span><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">mitigation schemes to defend against these attacks. This research</span><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">provides a scientific foundation for designing a secured energy-based</span><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">critical infrastructure. I will also briefly present other security</span><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">related projects, such as traffic analysis techniques on tracing</span><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">anonymous flows, etc.</span><br style="font-size:13px"><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">Dr. </span><span class="" style="font-size:13px">Wei</span><span style="font-size:13px"> </span><span class="" style="font-size:13px">Yu</span><span style="font-size:13px"> is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of</span><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">Computer and Information Sciences at Towson University. Before joining</span><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">Towson University, he worked as a networking software developer for</span><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">Cisco Systems, Inc. for nine years. He received his Ph.D. degree in</span><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">Computer Engineering from the Department of Computer Science and</span><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">Engineering at Texas A&M University in May 2008. His research</span><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">interests include cyber security, computer networks, and</span><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">cyber-physical systems. His research is currently supported by federal</span><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">agencies, including the NSF, NIST, ARL, AFRL, etc. He published over</span><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">140 papers, including articles in premier security and networking</span><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">journals such as IEEE ToN, TDCS, TC, TPDS, TMC, and TVT and</span><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">conferences such as IEEE S&P, ACM CCS, IEEE INFOCOM, and ICDCS. He</span><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">received the NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award in</span><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">2014, the 2012 Excellence in Scholarship Award from Fisher College of</span><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">Science and Mathematics at Towson University, the Best Paper Award at</span><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">the 2013 and 2008 IEEE International Conference on Communications</span><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">(ICC) – Communication & Information System Security Symposium,</span><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">respectively</span><br><div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">Nilanjan Banerjee<br>Assistant Professor<div>Computer Science and Electrical Engineering</div><div>University of Maryland, Baltimore County.</div><div><a href="http://www.csee.umbc.edu/%7Enilanb/" target="_blank">http://www.csee.umbc.edu/~nilanb/</a></div><div><br></div></div>
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