Faculty in the Center for Renewable Energy actively work on cyber security for energy applications. They research and support the analysis of architectures and protocols for ultra-high-speed networks, grid and cloud networks, smart grid modeling, monitoring, forecasting, cyber-physical security. In particular with Nuclear energy, faculty provide support to IAEA and U.S. Department of State on threat assessment of cyber and physical security vulnerability to nuclear and radiological material and facilities.  

Research Highlight

Prof. Sukesh Aghara is a contributor to and editor of the recently-published Oxford Handbook of Nuclear Security, the first major academic publication dedicated to the emerging study of nuclear security including cyber security. 

  • The Integrated Nuclear Security and Safeguards Laboratory aims to promote the development of research, education and training tools that support a wide range of global nuclear security and safeguards objectives.
  • The Center for Smart Cyber-Physical Systems (SCyPS) works to develop high-impact solutions to key challenges in heterogeneous distributed cyber-physical systems that support emerging smart society, data-centric applications. By enhancing capabilities, protecting data and evaluating and optimizing technologies, SCyPS will support cyber-physical system reliability and scalability, improving resource utilization, and guaranteeing system security and privacy.

  • Sukesh Aghara - cyber-physical testbed, modeling and simulation of energy systems response study from cyber intrusions
  • Orlando Arias - hardware security, hardware-software co-design, embedded security, microarchitectural security
  • Murat Inalpolat - diagnostics and prognostics, signal processing, nonlinear dynamics
  • Vinod Vokkarane - design, analysis, and modeling of architectures, protocols, and algorithms for ultra-high speed networks, such as optical networks, grid/cloud networks, big-data networks, and green networking