Friday, September 8, 2023
10:20 a.m. – 11:10 a.m. (CST)
ETB 1020
P. R. Kumar
Professor at Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Texas A&M University
Title: “Security of Cyber-Physical Systems: Theory and Applications of the Dynamic Watermarking Method”
Talking Points:
- How to protect our critical infrastructure from cyber-attacks?
- How to secure the power grid, oil refineries, autonomous vehicles?
- What sort of guarantees can be provided?
Abstract
The coming decades will see the large scale deployment of networked cyber–physical systems to address global needs in energy, water, health care, transportation, etc. However, as recent events have shown, such systems are vulnerable to cyber attacks. We present a general purpose technique, called “dynamic watermarking,” for detecting malicious activity in networked systems of sensors and actuators. It provides a provable guarantee of detection of any non-zero power attack. This method has been implemented in several systems of interest. We present the results of attacks on an autonomous automobile, a grid-tied photovoltaic system, a process control system, and a tethered helicopter. We also present the results of simulation studies of attacks on larger scale systems such as the power grid, through attacks on its automatic gain control loop, and attacks on the Tennessee-Eastman model, an open source benchmark that has been developed for the purpose of evaluating process control technology used in industries such as chemical plants and oil refineries. [Joint work with Kenny Chour, Tong Huang, Hasan Ibrahim, Gopal Kamath, Jaewon Kim, Woo Hyun Ko, Tzu-Hsiang Lin, Jorge Ramos-Ruiz, Bharadwaj Satchidanandan, Lantian Shangguan, Bin Wang, Prasad Enjeti, Swaminathan Gopalswamy, and Le Xie].
Biography
Dr. Kumar has a B.Tech. from IIT Madras (1973), and D.Sc. from Washington University (1977). After serving in the Math Department, UMBC (1977-84), and ECE and CSL, UIUC (1985-2011), he joined Texas A&M. He is a member of the U.S. NAE, the World Academy of Sciences, and the Indian NAE. He was awarded an honorary doctorate by ETH, Zurich. He has received the Alexander Bell Medal of IEEE, the IEEE Field Award for Control Systems, and the Outstanding Contribution Award of ACM SIGMOBILE. He has also received the Eckman Award of AACC, the Ellersick Prize of IEEE COMSOC, the Infocom Achievement Award, and the SIGMOBILE Test-of-Time Paper Award. He is a Fellow of IEEE, an ACM Fellow, and Fellow of IFAC. He was awarded the Distinguished Alumnus Award from IIT Madras, Alumni Achievement Award from Wash U, and Drucker Eminent Faculty Award from CoE, University of Illinois. His current research focus includes reinforcement learning, security, privacy, power systems, automated transportation, unmanned aerial vehicle traffic management, millimeter wave 5G, snd cyber-physical systems.
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Please join on Friday, 9/8/23 at 10:20 a.m. in ETB 1020.