Event

ISR Seminar: Sandip Roy, Wide-Area Security and Resilience for Cyber-Enabled Infrastructures

Tuesday, March 14, 2023
12:30 p.m.-1:30 p.m.
2168 AV Williams Bldg
André Tits
andre@umd.edu

ISR Seminar

Wide-Area Security and Resilience for Cyber-Enabled Infrastructures

Sandip Roy
Professor, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Washington State University

Host: André Tits

Abstract
New cyber-technologies embedded in critical infrastructures are enabling tremendous improvements in performance, autonomy, and customization.  At the same time, however, pervasive cyber-integration also increases the risk of disruptions to these infrastructures, both by introducing new vulnerabilities and by complexifying their wide-area dynamics.  My group’s recent research has been concerned with enabling security and resilience in cyber- enabled infrastructures, through assessment and mitigation of the wide-area impacts of disruptions.

In this talk, I will first motivate our work on wide-area disruption management in infrastructures with three use cases: 1) cyber- + weather threat management in aviation, 2) cooperative resilience in inverter-based power distribution networks, and 3) risk analysis for new computing architectures (e.g. containerized applications) being deployed in naval warfare systems. Focusing on the aviation use case, I will also overview our network-theoretic approach for wide-area threat assessment and mitigation, which encompasses integrated modeling of cyber-physical assets, development of graph-theoretic rubrics for threat analysis, and sparsity-based intelligence for threat management. I will also delve into the network-controls foundations for this research, which are focused on model- and data- based analysis of dynamical networks operating in highly disrupted environments.

Biography
Sandip Roy is a Professor in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Washington State University. His research is focused on developing secure and resilient autonomy in cyber-physical infrastructures. The research has led to tools and software that have been prototyped/deployed in several settings (e.g., the Western U.S. power grid, and the U.S. air transportation system's central command center), as well as technology transfer through a spinoff small business and industry partnerships. The outcomes of the research are described in about 90 journal papers and 170 conference papers across multiple disciplines.  He holds a joint appointment at Pacific Northwest National Laboratories, and recently served as a program director for the U.S. National Science Foundation.