Rajesh Kavasseri is an Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering at North Dakota State University (NDSU). Dr. Kavasseri received his BS from the Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur, India in 1995, his M.S. from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India in 1998 and PhD from Washington State University, Pullman in 2002, all in Electrical Engineering. His primary research expertise is in bulk power system dynamics, power systems computation, stability and control.

Abstract: The presentation will talk about our work on the topic so far. In particular, we will present a new lightweight integrity checking algorithm for smart grid communications that can meet the stringent latency requirements of protection switching. We will also discuss a novel method to detect data falsification attacks on smart meters.

Abstract: Future CPS will include large, decentralized systems of semi-autonomous sensor and actuator components, and will need to operate safely beyond human response times. One current data-rich example is the U.S. network of electronic exchange networks which is the largest and fastest network CPS in existence, but is already known to produce a wide variety of sub-second instabilities that are little understood and which impact safety, efficiency and accuracy.

Ravishankar Iyer is the George and Ann Fisher Distinguished Professor of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He holds joint appointments in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the Coordinated Science Laboratory (CSL), and the Department of Computer Science and serves as Chief Scientist of the Information Trust Institute and is affiliate faculty of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology at Illinois.