- Location: Gainesville, FL
- Department: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Degree Programs: BS – Computer Science, MS – Computer Science
- Key Contact: Yier Ji, Associate Professor and Endowed IoT Term Professor
- Email: yier.jin@ece.ufl.edu
- Direct: 352-294-0401
- Research Areas: Internet of Things, Cyber-Physical System Security, Sensor Attacks, Intrusion Detection System Design, Demand response, Control and Coordination, Integration of renewable energy sources with power grid, Energy management, Peak power shaping with net load control
- Utility Work: Southern Company
- Other Work: National Science Foundation, Department of Energy, Texas Instruments, Intel Corp.
- Wikipedia link: University of Florida-Wikipedia
- Website: University of Florida
- Protect Our Power Best Practice Focus: Internet of Things (IoT), IT/Enterprise Network Monitoring, Frameworks and Controls, Incident Response
Program Overview:
Yier Jin:
- Website
- Google scholar site
- Focus area(s): Hardware Security, IoT and CPS Design and Security, Hardware IP/SoC Formal Verification, Security Enhanced Processor Architectures for Cybersecurity, Gate-Level Netlist Security Analysis and Enhancement, Emerging Devices in Hardware Security
Key relevant outcomes:
- “Resilient Distributed Filter for State Estimation of Cyber-Physical Systems Under Attack,” American Control Conference (ACC), 2019.
- “Estimation of Safe Sensor Measurements of Autonomous System Under Attack,” IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2017.
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Prabir Barooah:
- Website
- Google scholar site
- Focus areas: control and coordination of distributed energy resources (DERs), virtual energy storage from flexible loads, energy efficiency, IoT, differential privacy.
Key relevant outcomes:
- First demonstration of a commercial building air conditioning system providing frequency regulation to the power grid (Lin et al., IEEE Trans on Smart Grid, 2015)
- A set of algorithms for distributed coordination of air conditioning loads to provide the same service as a giant battery through distributed control, requiring only low bandwidth communication and being robust to malicious tampering.
Zoleikha Biron:
Key relevant outcomes:
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- R. Abdollahi, Z. Biron, and H. Hadidi, “Effects of Tariff on Commercial Load Profile Optimization in the Presence of Batteries”, accepted at IEEE Industry Application Society, 2019
More than 1,000 companies sell cybersecurity products to electric utilities in the U.S. and Canada. This project is designed to organize and evaluate these vendors, and their products and services, to make it easier for utility companies to make informed decisions on products that meet their specific cybersecurity needs.
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Protect Our Power has identified more than 80 topics related to Best Practices for Cybersecurity Solutions. For each topic, we will provide a short overview, a list of the vendors who provide products or solutions that address that topic, and a link to the university or universities evaluating those vendor offerings.
Universities, colleges and research labs are conducting valuable research on vendor product offerings and solutions that address a broad range of cybersecurity issues and challenges. The results of these analyses are published here and will be updated as new information becomes available.
More than 1,000 suppliers and vendors provide hardware and software solutions to the utility industry to address cybersecurity issues and threats. Those vendors are listed here, grouped according to the cybersecurity topic that their product offerings address.