[CSEE Talk] talk: Secured Energy-Based Critical Infrastructure, Noon Fri 3/6, ITE325b

[Tim Finin]

              Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
                University of Maryland, Baltimore County

          Towards Secured Energy-Based Critical Infrastructure

                            Professor Wei Yu
   Director of Cyber-Physical Networked System & Security Laboratory
          Computer and Information Sciences, Towson University

                12:00-1:00 Friday, 6 March 2015, ITE325b


The smart grid, as a typical energy-based cyber-physical system, uses
modern computing, communication and control technologies to make the
power grid more efficient, reliable, and secure. Nonetheless, the
smart grid may operate in hostile environments and lacking
tamper-resistance hardware for sensor, meters, etc., increases the
chance to be compromised by cyber adversaries. In this talk, I will
introduce a modeling framework to systematically explore the space of
threats in the smart grid and understand their impacts on both system
operations and end users, as well as the development of effective
mitigation schemes to defend against these attacks. This research
provides a scientific foundation for designing a secured energy-based
critical infrastructure. I will also briefly present other security
related projects, such as traffic analysis techniques on tracing
anonymous flows, etc.

Dr. Wei Yu is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of
Computer and Information Sciences at Towson University. Before joining
Towson University, he worked as a networking software developer for
Cisco Systems, Inc. for nine years. He received his Ph.D. degree in
Computer Engineering from the Department of Computer Science and
Engineering at Texas A&M University in May 2008. His research
interests include cyber security, computer networks, and
cyber-physical systems. His research is currently supported by federal
agencies, including the NSF, NIST, ARL, AFRL, etc. He published over
140 papers, including articles in premier security and networking
journals such as IEEE ToN, TDCS, TC, TPDS, TMC, and TVT and
conferences such as IEEE S&P, ACM CCS, IEEE INFOCOM, and ICDCS. He
received the NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award in
2014, the 2012 Excellence in Scholarship Award from Fisher College of
Science and Mathematics at Towson University, the Best Paper Award at
the 2013 and 2008 IEEE International Conference on Communications
(ICC) – Communication & Information System Security Symposium,
respectively

Host: Nilanjan Banerjee

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