Cybersecurity for Power Electronics
Organizers
Prof. Alan Mantooth, Distinguished Professor, The Twenty-First Century Research Leadership Chair in Engineering, University of Arkansas, USA
Prof. Frede Blaabjerg, Danish Professor and Villum Investigator, Aalborg University, Denmark
Prof. Sudip K. Mazumder, Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago
Abstract
The growing threat of cyber-physical attacks targeting electric power grids is rising in number and sophistication. This special session covers several aspects of trending secure power electronic design, intrusion detections, and resilient control schemes. The concept of cyber resiliency in the realm of power electronics at the system level will be presented. The special session hosts demonstrate the importance of designing power electronics with security features in mind in the context of increasingly connected power electronics as a result of IoT, Industry 4.0, and 5G. Device-level attacks that aim to compromise the controllers, intentional noises and denial of service will be presented considering their impact and potential mitigation approaches. Subsequently, this special session presents the significance of the power electronics at the device-level resiliency as it supports a system-level resilience framework, targeting the new trend of securing the edge following the “resilience by design” principle, and an approach for combining fault-tolerance techniques with cyber-attack surface diversification to make legacy real-time control systems resilient against classes of attacks will also be discussed. More importantly, this session will present several industry-oriented topics (e.g., standardization, HVDC applications, among others), covering the latest development of DER community in the areas of stakeholder education programs, standards development, and cybersecurity research.
Short Bio of Organizers
Alan Mantooth (S’83 – M’90 – SM’97 – F’09) received the Ph.D. degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1990. In 1998, he joined the faculty of the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, where he currently holds the rank of Distinguished Professor. He currently serves as Senior Past-President for the IEEE Power Electronics Society. He is a Fellow of IEEE. He helped establish the National Center for Reliable Electric Power Transmission (NCREPT) at the UA in 2005. He serves as the Executive Director for NCREPT and two of its centers of excellence: the NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Center on GRid-connected Advanced Power Electronic Systems (GRAPES) and the Cybersecurity Center on Secure, Evolvable Energy Delivery Systems (SEEDS) funded by the U.S. Department of Energy. In 2015, he also helped to establish the UA’s first NSF Engineering Research Center entitled Power Optimization for Electro-Thermal Systems (POETS) that focuses on high power density systems for transportation applications.
Frede Blaabjerg (S’86–M’88–SM’97–F’03) was with ABB-Scandia, Randers, Denmark, from 1987 to 1988. From 1988 to 1992, he got the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering at Aalborg University in 1995. He became an Assistant Professor in 1992, an Associate Professor in 1996, and a Full Professor of power electronics and drives in 1998. From 2017 he became a Villum Investigator. He is honoris causa at University Politehnica Timisoara (UPT), Romania and Tallinn Technical University (TTU) in Estonia. He has published more than 600 journal papers in the fields of power electronics and its applications. He is the co-author of four monographs and editor of ten books in power electronics and its applications.
Sudip K. Mazumder (S’97–M’01–SM’03–F’16) received his Ph.D. degree from Virginia Tech in 2001. He is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois, Chicago. He also serves as the President of NextWatt LLC since 2008. He was an IEEE Power Electronics Society (PELS) Distinguished Lecturer and the Chair for IEEE PELS Technical Committee on sustainable energy systems. He is the Editor-in-Chief at Large of IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
Speakers and presentations
1. Alan Mantooth, Distinguished Professor, The Twenty-First Century Research Leadership Chair in Engineering, University of Arkansas, USA
Cybersecure Power Electronics – Why You Should Care
2. Frede Blaabjerg, Danish Professor and Villum Investigator, Aalborg University, Denmark
On Resiliency of Power Electronics Against Cyber Attacks
3. Sudip K. Mazumder, Sudip K. Mazumder, Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago
Control Resilience and Cybersecurity Analytics of Power Electronics Dominated Grids
4. Aranya Chakrabortty, NSF Program Manager
Power and Energy Programs at the US National Science Foundation
5. Ryan Craven
Physics-driven approaches for controller cyber resiliency
6. Reynaldo Nuqui, Senior Principal Scientist, Hitachi-ABB Power Grids
Cyber Attack Resilient High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) Systems
7. Jay Johnson, Senior Member of Technical Staff, Sandia National Laboratories
DER Cybersecurity Stakeholder Engagement, Standards Development, and EV Charger Penetration Testing
8. Salam A Baniahmed, Lead Engineer, Eaton Corporation
The Role of Power Electronics in Edge Resiliency