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EE Talk: Cybersecurity for the Power Grid in the AI Age – 7th March 3PM, MMCR
March 7 @ 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM IST
IEEE PES Student Branch Chapter, IISc and POWERGRID Center of Excellence in Cyber Security (PGCoE) is pleased to invite you for a technical talk by Prof. Manimaran Govindarasu, Iowa State University, USA. The technical talk details are as follows.
Title: Cybersecurity for the Power Grid in the AI Age
Venue: C-241, MMCR, 1st floor, Electrical Engineering Department
Date and Time: 07th March 2025, 03:00 PM IST
Mode: Hybrid (Online and Offline). MS Team link
Talk Abstract: Power grid is a complex cyber-physical system (CPS) that forms the lifeline of our modern society. Reliable, secure, and resilient operation of nation’s energy infrastructure is of paramount importance to national security and economic wellbeing. In recent years, there has been a growing trend of cyber threats/attacks, both in numbers and sophistication, targeting critical infrastructure systems around the globe (e.g., Stuxnet, Ukraine power grid attacks, and Colonial Pipeline attack). This evolving cyber threat landscape, coupled with the leveraging of AI tools by the adversaries, underscores the importance and urgency for CPS security solutions that go beyond the traditional IT cybersecurity by leveraging grid’s cyber-physical properties and harnessing the power of AI models to be able to prevent, detect, and mitigate stealthy cyber attacks. This talk will present an overview of cybersecurity threats to critical energy infrastructures, then it will present a holistic life-cycle model for CPS security with some illustrative example solutions for attack prevention, detection, and mitigation. The talk will also briefly discuss CPS security testbeds for attack-defense evaluations and then conclude with some future research directions.
Speaker Bio: Manimaran Govindarasu is on the faculty of Iowa State University since 1999, and he currently holds the titles of Anson Marston Distinguished Professor in Engineering and Harploe Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Prior to joining Iowa State, he received his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (Chennai). His research experience includes Cybersecurity for the Smart Grid and Critical Infrastructures, and Real-time Systems and Networks. He has co-authored over 300 peer-reviewed research publications, received multiple conference best paper awards, presented several dozen conference invited talks, tutorials, and industry short-courses, hands-on training sessions, and mentored over 50 graduate students for their dissertation/thesis research. He is currently serving as the Chair of Cybersecurity Working Group for Power Grid in IEEE Power & Energy Society and has served as an Associate Editor and guest co-editor for several flagship IEEE publications. His research is supported over the years by US NSF, DOE, DHS, and DOD. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and an ABET Program Evaluator.