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Cyber-Secure Integration of Renewable Energy Sources

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Program
Electrical Engineering
Field of Study
Electrical and Computer Engineering/Computer Science
Division
Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering
Faculty Lab Link
https://www.kaust.edu.sa/en/study/faculty/charalambos-konstantinou

Project Description

This research project aims to contribute towards a resilient and secure power system employing power electronics for renewable energy sources (RES) integration. The goal is to examine the security implications of integrity and availability attacks in power transmission and distribution systems, and examine the performance and economic impact on real-time energy market operations. Risk assessment methodologies will quantify attack resources under certain level of adversarial knowledge. The objective is to enhance system cyber-(resiliency, security), while addressing disruptive cyber-physical events and preventing these effects from escalating into major failures and hence causing cascading blackout scenarios.

About the Researcher

Charalambos Konstantinou
Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Science and Engineering Division

Affiliations

Education Profile

  • PhD, New York University, 2018
  • MS, National Technical University of Athens, 2013
  • BS, National Technical University of Athens, 2013

Research Interests

a€‹Professor Konstantinou's research interests are in secure, trustworthy, and resilient cyber-physical and embedded IoT systems. He is also interested in critical infrastructures security and resilience with special focus on smart grid technologies, renewable energy integration, and real-time simulation.

Selected Publications

  • I. Zografopoulos, J. Ospina, X. Liu, and C. Konstantinou, ""Cyber-Physical Energy Systems Security: Threat Modeling, Risk Assessment, Resources, Metrics, and Case Studies,"" in IEEE Access, vol. 9, pp. 29775-29818, 2021, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3058403.
  • C. Konstantinou, ""Cyber-Physical Systems Security Education Through Hands-on Lab Exercises,"" in IEEE Design & Test, vol. 37, no. 6, pp. 47-55, Dec. 2020, doi: 10.1109/MDAT.2020.3005365.
  • O. M. Anubi and C. Konstantinou, ""Enhanced Resilient State Estimation Using Data-Driven Auxiliary Models,"" in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 639-647, Jan. 2020, doi: 10.1109/TII.2019.2924246.
  • C. Konstantinou, et al., ""GPS spoofing effect on phase angle monitoring and control in a real-time digital simulator-based hardware-in-the-loop environment"", IET Cyber-Physical Systems: Theory & Applications, 2017, 2, (4), p. 180-187, doi: 10.1049/iet-cps.2017.0033
  • S. McLaughlin, C. Konstantinou, X. Wang, L. Davi, A. R. Sadeghi, M. Maniatakos, and R. Karri, ""The Cybersecurity Landscape in Industrial Control Systems,"" in Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 104, no. 5, pp. 1039-1057, May 2016, doi: 10.1109/JPROC.2015.2512235.

Desired Project Deliverables

1. Improve an existing power system benchmark to support certain RES and their corresponding controllers. 2. Impact evaluation of attacks at the various connection points. 3. Examine effects of attacks on market operations. 4. Identify methods to improve system performance.
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