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James Briones, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
CEDS Program Update
James Briones joined Department of Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory (DOE-NETL) in 2009 and currently serves as the Program Manager for Cybersecurity for Energy Delivery Systems (CEDS) R&D Program under the new Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security and Emergency Response (CESER). Mr. Briones also serves as Energy System Security Specialist in the Office Energy Delivery Technologies Division with degrees in Electrical Engineering, Information Systems Management and Master of Business Administration. Mr. Briones has over 9 years of experience managing numerous projects in Cybersecurity for Energy Delivery Systems and Smart Grid Research and Development Program for the Department of Energy (DOE). Serves as the subject matter experts on all matters pertaining to cybersecurity technology for energy delivery systems. Plans, develops, coordinates and executes intra-Department and interagency coordination strategies to advance the current state-of-the-art and emerging technologies. Conducts detailed analyses of cyber capabilities, resourcing issues and requirements to define and implement research, development and technology demonstration programs. Synchronizes the integration, operations, strategic engagement and strategic initiatives coordinating internal and external activities in support of CESER while serving as a Regional Coordinator for Emergency Support Function to facilitate the reestablishment of damaged energy systems and components for incidents requiring a coordinated Federal response under the Stafford Act. Prior to joining DOE, Mr. Briones served as Information Systems Professional for over 9 years and has led a broad range of information technology efforts for the United States Air Force (USAF), Space and Missile Systems Center.
Rupak Chandra, Cisco
Showcase: Industry/Academic Partnership (Cisco & University of Illinois)
Rupak Chandra is a Senior Technical Leader at Cisco’s Internet of Things (IoT) business unit working on Cisco Field Area Network (FAN) solution. He focuses on the new challenges that utilities are facing today related to grid resilience, efficiency and management. He is the lead architect of Cisco’s next generation FAN called the Cisco Resilient Mesh that addresses these challenges by providing a multiservice, secure, scalable and standards compliant solution.
Kegan Gerard, American Gas Association
Panel: Cyber Crossroads
Kegan joined the American Gas Association in May 2018 and serves as the Security, Operations and Engineering Services Specialist. In his role, he supports AGA’s initiatives related to cyber and physical security, resilience, and quality management. Prior to joining AGA, Kegan was a Research Analyst at BCS, Inc, a consulting firm specializing in energy sector resilience and renewable energy. In that role, he supported the Department of Energy’s Infrastructure Security and Energy Restoration Division, where he focused on security and emergency response initiatives in the electric and oil and natural gas subsectors. He has also previously worked on the employee safety, emergency response, and mutual assistance programs at the American Public Power Association. Kegan has a B.S. in Environmental Sciences from American University.
Eddie Habibi, PAS Global
Panel: Cyber-Physical Dimension
Eddie Habibi is the Founder and CEO of PAS Global. Eddie is a pioneer and a thought leader in the fields of industrial control systems (ICS) cybersecurity, Industrial IoT, data analytics, and operations management. In 2017, PAS was recognized in CRN’s 15 coolest industrial IoT companies, and Eddie was listed by CRN as one of the 30 Internet Of Things Executives Whose Names You Should Know. He is the co-author of two popular best practices books on operational risk and safety management: The Alarm Management Handbook and The High Performance HMI Handbook. Eddie holds an Engineering degree from the University of Houston and an MBA from the University of St. Thomas. He is based in Houston, Texas.
Dmitry Ishchenko, ABB
Panel: Cyber-Physical Dimension
Dmitry Ishchenko is a Lead Principal Scientist at ABB US Corporate Research Center in Raleigh, NC, where he currently provides technical leadership and supports strategic corporate technology development in the areas related to cyber-physical security for power grids, microgrid control and protection, renewable integration and utility communications.
Dr. Ishchenko is an active member of several IEC and IEEE Working Groups on DER integration and interoperability, and microgrid control functions, has published more than 20 technical papers and holds three patents. Additionally, he has extensive utility, new product development and application engineering experience in power systems.
Pam Johnson, TDI Technologies
Industry Sponsor Message
Pam Johnson is a 25-year, growth-phase software veteran. Johnson thrives in a fast-paced, innovative environment assuring customer success and solving business problems. Her responsibilities at TDi Technologies include professional services, customer support, sales, marketing and innovative projects development. Johnson received her B.S. in Engineering Technology from Cameron University and has pursued classes toward her M.B.A at the University of Texas at Dallas. In her personal life, Johnson’s interests include performing as a member of a local symphony and photographing her husband’s passion for motorcycle racing.
Varun Badrinath Krishna, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Showcase: Industry/Academic Partnership (Cisco & University of Illinois)
Varun Badrinath Krishna is a Ph.D. student in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department and a research assistant at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). He is advised by Professor William H. Sanders, and is researching data-driven methods to improve energy resource utilization, data integrity and cyber-resilience in modern power grids. His work has won best paper awards at QEST 2015 and CRITIS 2015, a seed-funding award from the Siebel Energy Institute in 2015, the Rambus Computer Engineering Fellowship in 2017, and an ECE Alumni Endowment Fellowship in 2018.
Varun received a B. Eng. from the National University of Singapore in 2010 and a M.S. from UIUC in 2016. Between those degrees, he worked as a research engineer for three years in Singapore. While in graduate school, he completed summer internships in the U.S. at ABB Corporate Research Center in 2015, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center in 2016, Cisco Systems Inc. in 2017, and C3IoT in 2018. His work at IBM Research led to two U.S. patent applications on which he is the primary inventor. Varun was inducted into the Siebel Scholars Class of 2018 for academic, research, and leadership excellence in energy sciences.
Bheshaj Krishnappa, ReliabilityFirst
Showcase: Industry/Academic Partnership (ReliabilityFirst & Old Dominion University)
Bheshaj (Bhesh) Krishnappa joined ReliabilityFirst in August 2012, a regional regulator overseeing electric service reliability across 13 U.S. States and Washington D.C. Initially, he worked as Critical Infrastructure Protection Compliance Auditor and currently works as a Principal in the Risk Analysis and Mitigation Department. With over 20 years of experience, he has worked for Utility, Software & Services, Manufacturing, Aerospace, Mortgage and Finance companies in consulting and senior roles. He was instrumental in leading several small to large scale IT and security projects that have enabled businesses to transform and be resilient in delivering their mission. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Bangalore University, India, and an MBA in Sustainable Business (Renewable Energy), Marylhurst University, USA. He actively holds CISSP, CISM, and Carnegie Mellon University’s Executive CISO certifications.
Blake Larsen, Andeavor
Panel: Cyber-Physical Dimension
Blake Larsen has been performing IT-related functions within the oil and gas industry since 1992. As Vice President of Information Technology at Andeavor, he is responsible for all IT and OT functions within Western Refining Logistics (a subsidiary of Andeavor) and their affiliates. Larsen’s cybersecurity design and management experience and approach emphasizes mitigating risks to business and process control systems in addition to protecting national critical infrastructure. He has invested many years in developing relationships with process control engineers to support secure initiatives and interface design while maintaining discipline and conservative security policies and procedures. Larsen currently serves as an Industrial Advisory Board member for the Cyber Resilient Energy Delivery Consortium (CREDC). Larsen’s early career focused on management and installation of manufacturing information systems for multi-company and multi-site facilities. He has led IT project management efforts across a broad ecosystem which includes acquisition, systems consolidation, standardization, big-data analytics, technical innovation, and technology adoption to improve business efficiencies and effectiveness.
David Lawrence, Duke Energy
Industry Standards for EDS Cybersecurity
David Lawrence is a Technology Development Manager with Duke Energy in the Emerging Technology Office. In this role, he provides leadership on technologies for the Future Grid, including development of use cases, architectures and designs, and test plans. He works to define and execute technology evaluations, and provides change management support. Mr. Lawrence is currently focused on Grid distributed autonomous functions, edge analytics, and cybersecurity.
Mr. Lawrence has 38 years of experience in the energy industry. He worked in R&D and IT management for electric metering, transformer and switchgear product manufacturing. His roles included embedded systems development, engineering management, global engineering systems, manufacturing and scheduling systems, PLM, and IT management. A native of Portsmouth, VA., Mr. Lawrence earned a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and has received six US Patents.
Stuart Madnick, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Opening Remarks
Professor Stuart Madnick has been a faculty member at M.I.T. since 1972. He has served as the head of MIT’s Information Technologies Group for more than twenty years. During that time the group has been consistently rated #1 in the nation among business school information technology programs (U.S. News & World Reports, BusinessWeek, and ComputerWorld). He has also been an affiliate member of MIT’s Laboratory for Computer Science, a member of the research advisory committee of the International Financial Services Research Center, and a member of the executive committee of the Center for Information Systems Research.
His current research interests include connectivity among disparate distributed information systems, database technology, software project management, and the strategic use of information technology. He is presently co-Director of the PROductivity From Information Technology (PROFIT) Initiative and co-Heads the Total Data Quality Management (TDQM) research program.
Aleksander Madry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Keynote: Towards Artificial Intelligence You Can Rely On
Aleksander Madry is an NBX Associate Professor of Computer Science in the MIT EECS Department and a principal investigator in the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). He received his PhD from MIT in 2011 and, prior to joining the MIT faculty, he spent some time at Microsoft Research New England and on the faculty of EPFL. Aleksander’s research interests span algorithms, continuous optimization, science of deep learning and understanding machine learning from a robustness perspective. His work has been recognized with a number of awards, including an NSF CAREER Award, an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, Google Research Award, an ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award Honorable Mention, and 2018 Presburger Award.
Jonathon Monken, PJM Interconnection
Panel: Cyber Crossroads
Panel: Cyber Leadership
Jonathon E. Monken is Senior Director, System Resiliency and Strategic Coordination in the ITS Division of PJM Interconnection. In this capacity, he works to build enterprise-level resilience in the areas of business continuity, physical and cyber security, risk management, operations and planning.
Mr. Monken served as VP, U.S. Operations for the Electric Infrastructure Security (EIS) Council. Where he worked with government and industry to develop best practices and capabilities to improve the resilience of life support infrastructure systems to widespread, long duration power outages, known as “Black Sky” events.
Mr. Monken also served as Director of the Illinois Emergency Management Agency (IEMA) from February of 2011 to January of 2015 where he oversaw Illinois’ disaster preparedness and response, nuclear safety and homeland security programs, as well as the agency’s 225+ employees and a budget of more than $425 million. In this capacity, he also served as the Illinois Homeland Security Advisor to the Governor. At IEMA, Mr. Monken directed the response and recovery effort to a wide variety of disasters including flooding, blizzards, and tornadoes.
Prior to becoming IEMA director, Monken served for two years as Acting Director of the Illinois State Police, an agency with a staff of 3,400 sworn and civilian personnel and an annual budget of approximately $428 million.
Jonathon also possesses a distinguished military career having served as an armor officer for one tour of duty in Kosovo and two combat tours in Iraq between January 2003 and December 2006. While serving with the United States Army, Major Monken was awarded the Bronze Star Medal and the Army Commendation Medal with “V” Device for valor in combat. He is currently serving in the Army Reserves supporting the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCCIC) at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Monken earned a Bachelor of Science Degree from the United States Military Academy at West Point, and holds a master’s degree in Business Administration from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.
David M. Nicol, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
CREDC Overview and Update
Professor David M. Nicol is the Franklin W. Woeltge Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Director of the Information Trust Institute. Previously he held faculty positions at the College of William and Mary and at Dartmouth College. His research interests include high-performance computing, simulation modeling and analysis, and security. He was elected Fellow of the IEEE and Fellow of the ACM for his contributions in those areas. He is co-author of the widely used textbook Discrete-Event Systems Simulation and was the inaugural awardee of the ACM Special Interest Group on Simulation’s Distinguished Contributions Award, for his contributions in research, teaching, and service in the field of simulation.
Keri Pearlson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Panel: Cyber Leadership
Keri Pearlson is the Executive Director of the Cybersecurity at MIT Sloan: The Interdisciplinary Consortium for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity (IC)3 at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Pearlson has held positions in academia and industry including Babson College, The University of Texas at Austin, Gartner’s Research Board, CSC, and AT&T. She founded KP Partners, a CIO advisory services firm and the IT Leaders’ Forum, a community of next generation IT executives. She is the founding director of the Analytics Leadership Consortium at the International Institute of Analytics. Pearlson began her career at Hughes Aircraft Company as a systems analyst.
Pearlson’s research spans MIS, business strategy, and organizational design. Her current research studies how organizations build a culture of cybersecurity and how organizations build trust to share mitigations for cyber breaches. She is the coauthor of Managing and Using Information: A Strategic Approach 6thed and of Zero Time: Providing Instant Customer Value. Her work has been published in the MIT Sloan Management Review, The Academy of Management Executive, Information Resources Management Journal, and Harvard Business Publishing.
Harry Perper, National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE)
Industry Sponsor Message
Harry Perper is a Principal Systems Engineer for the MITRE operated National Cybersecurity Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) for the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE), within NIST. In his role as Principal Systems Engineer, Harry is responsible for designing and building solutions to tackle some of our nation’s most pressing cybersecurity challenges. Prior to the NCCoE, Harry worked in MITRE’s Center for National Security, leading teams focused on evaluating a range of cyber technologies for the US Department of Defense. Prior to this, Harry worked in the telecommunications industry in various capacities including operations, engineering and marketing. Mr. Perper has a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland and a master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the George Washington University.
Margaret Powell, Exelon
Panel: Cyber Leadership
Maggy Powell is the Senior Manager, Real Time Systems Security for Exelon. Her teams include security engineering, a security operations center and security compliance focused on real time systems across the enterprise. She is responsible for vulnerability assessment, threat management, security event monitoring and incident response for industrial control systems and operational technology as well as compliance fulfillment for applicable CIP cyber security standards.
She has been with Exelon for thirteen years and prior to joining the Exelon Corporate and Information Security Services (CISS) worked in the NERC Compliance Management Team at Exelon. She was responsible for corporate-wide engagement on reliability regulatory matters. During that time, Maggy served as co-chair on the CIP Version 6 Standards Drafting Team and as chair of the subsequent CIP Standards Drafting Team until taking the position in Exelon Security.
Maggy has more than twenty-five years of risk management experience covering a broad range of industries and risk profiles including those for energy, environmental markets, healthcare, scientific research, higher education and international trade.
Exelon’s family of companies represents every stage of the energy business: power generation, competitive energy sales, transmission and delivery. Exelon’s six utilities deliver electricity and natural gas to approximately 10 million customers in Delaware, the District of Columbia, Illinois, Maryland, New Jersey and Pennsylvania through its Atlantic City Electric, BGE, ComEd, Delmarva Power, PECO and Pepco subsidiaries. Exelon Generation is one of the largest competitive U.S. power generators and has approximately 32,700 megawatts of nuclear, gas, wind, solar and hydroelectric generating capacity. Constellation provides energy products and services to approximately 2 million residential, public sector and business customers.
Jason O. Reeves, Dartmouth College
Showcase: Industry/Academic Partnership (GE & Dartmouth College)
Dr. Jason Reeves is an experienced programmer and researcher who specializes in protecting mission-critical systems.
Dr. Reeves earned his PhD from Dartmouth College in 2016. During his time at Dartmouth, he worked with the “Trustworthy Cyber Infrastructure for the Power Grid” (TCIPG) research group to produce practical security solutions for embedded devices on grid networks. His work has been productized by power hardware manufacturers and has made a practical, positive impact in the mission to secure the nation’s critical infrastructure. In addition, he is a skilled communicator whose guest lectures and research presentations have garnered positive reviews from his audience. After graduating, Dr. Reeves joined the NFS team at Oracle and spent a year enhancing the debugging tools of the company’s ZFS Storage Appliance, helping to better identify problems and reduce triage time.
Rohit Robinson, Apergy
Panel: Cyber-Physical Dimension
As Vice President of Product Management & Strategic Marketing, Rohit provides thought leadership and technical direction for Apergy Digital’s operating companies. With over 24 years of experience in developing digital solutions for various industries such as Healthcare, Marine and Oil & Gas, Rohit keeps a keen eye out for customer focused innovation. Coupling his Computer Science background with the unique exposure of rotating through various organizational departments such as Development, Operations, Consulting, P&L ownership and Marketing has allowed him to spot technology trends for profitable business growth.
Dilhan Rodrigo, Cyber Resilient Energy Delivery Consortium (CREDC)
Opening Remarks
Dilhan Rodrigo has wide utility experience, having worked at multiple Independent System Operators (MISO, IESO and AESO) in progressive roles in Transmission Settlement, Market & Customer Information Systems Management, Market Systems & Process Design, Regulatory and Program Management. Prior to joining the Information Trust Institute, Dilhan led electricity system operation and market impact studies related to renewables integration & coal generation retirements, non-generating resources providing grid support/ancillary services and managed inter-jurisdictional electricity transfer capability enhancements at the AESO. Earlier in his career, Dilhan also held various roles in the Banking, Finance and Information Technology industries.
David Safford, General Electric’s Global Research Center (GRC)
Showcase: Industry/Academic Partnership (GE & Dartmouth College)
David Safford is a Senior Principal Engineer for Security at GE Global Research where his responsibility is to devise new solutions for embedded security for all business units. Dave is also the Linux Kernel Maintainer for trusted keys, and has contributed extensively to the Linux Integrity subsystem. Before joining GE, Dave worked at IBM’s T.J. Watson Research Center, where he first managed their ethical hacking lab and later worked on hardware rooted security at all levels, from hardware through cloud applications. He is a co-author of “A Practical Guide to Trusted Computing” (IBM Press, Jan 2008) and a recognized expert in high assurance hardware and software, security analysis tools, security engineering, Linux security, wireless security, ethical hacking, security hardware tokens and coprocessors and cryptography. Previously, he was Director of Supercomputing and Networking at Texas A&M University, and a weapon system test pilot and submarine diving officer in the US Navy. He has a PhD in computer science from Texas A&M University.
Nick Santillo, American Water
Panel: Cyber Crossroads
Nicholas Santillo Jr. is the Chief Digital Infrastructure and Security Officer leading the Technology operations, Physical and Cyber security, Business Continuity, and Digital Risk teams. Nicholas has been with American Water for 19 years and held multiple operational and leadership roles most recently leading Internal Audit as the company’s chief audit executive. He has over 20 years’ experience in technology, security, and the water utility industry and holds a Bachelor’s degree in Organizational Security and Management and is Board certified by ASIS in Physical Security, Security Management, and Investigations.
Pete Sauer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Closing Remarks
Pete Sauer obtained his BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Missouri at Rolla in 1969. From 1969 to 1973, he was the electrical engineer on a design assistance team for the Tactical Air Command at Langley Air Force Base, Virginia, working on design and construction of airfield lighting and electrical distribution systems. He obtained the MS and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University in 1974 and 1977 respectively. He has been on the faculty at The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign since 1977 where he teaches courses and directs research on power systems and electric machines.
From August 1991 to August 1992 he served as the Program Director for Power Systems in the Electrical and Communication Systems Division of the National Science Foundation in Washington D.C. He is a cofounder of PowerWorld Corporation and served as Chairman of the Board of Directors from 1996-2001. He is a cofounder of the Power Systems Engineering Research Center (PSERC) and has served as the Illinois site director from 1996-2015. He retired from the Air Force reserves as a Lt. Col. in 1998.
He has authored/coauthored over 200 technical papers and the book with M. A. Pai, “Power System Dynamics and Stability”, published by Prentice-Hall in 1998. He is a registered Professional Engineer in Virginia and Illinois, a Fellow of the IEEE, and a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering. He is currently the Grainger Chair Professor of Electrical Engineering at Illinois.
Sachin Shetty, Old Dominion University
Showcase: Industry/Academic Partnership (ReliabilityFirst & Old Dominion University)
Sachin Shetty is an Associate Professor in the Virginia Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Center at Old Dominion University. He holds a joint appointment with the Department of Modeling, Simulation and Visualization Engineering and the Center for Cybersecurity Education and Research. Sachin Shetty received his PhD in Modeling and Simulation from the Old Dominion University in 2007 under the supervision of Prof. Min Song. Prior to joining Old Dominion University, he was an Associate Professor with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Tennessee State University. He was also the associate director of the Tennessee Interdisciplinary Graduate Engineering Research Institute and directed the Cyber Security laboratory at Tennessee State University. He also holds a dual appointment as an Engineer at the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Indiana. His research interests lie at the intersection of computer networking, network security and machine learning. His laboratory conducts cloud and mobile security research and has received over $10 million in funding from National Science Foundation, Air Office of Scientific Research, Air Force Research Lab, Office of Naval Research, Department of Homeland Security, and Boeing. He is the site lead on the DoD Cyber Security Center of Excellence, the Department of Homeland Security National Center of Excellence, the Critical Infrastructure Resilience Institute (CIRI), and Department of Energy, Cyber Resilient Energy Delivery Consortium (CREDC). He has authored and coauthored over 140 research articles in journals and conference proceedings and two books. He is the recipient of DHS Scientific Leadership Award and has been inducted in Tennessee State University’s million dollar club. He has served on the technical program committee for ACM CCS, IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE ICDCN, and IEEE ICCCN. He is an Associate Editor for International Journal of Computer Networks.
Michael Siegel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Panel: Cyber-Physical Dimension
Michael Siegel is a Principal Research Scientist at the MIT Sloan School of Management and is currently the Co-Director of the PROductivity from Information Technology (PROFIT) Project. Siegel’s research interests include the integration and use of information from multiple and the use of modeling and data analytics to analyze complex systems.
His work has been published in areas including the use of information technology in financial risk management and global financial systems, cybersecurity, applications of computation social science to analyze state stability, digital business, financial account aggregation, healthcare information systems, heterogeneous database systems, managing data semantics, query optimization, intelligent database systems, and learning in database systems.
He received his BS in engineering from Trinity College (1977), an MS in engineering from the Solar Energy Laboratory at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1980), and an MA and PhD in computer science from Boston University (1989).
Sean W. Smith, Dartmouth College
Showcase: Industry/Academic Partnership (GE & Dartmouth College)
Professor Sean Smith has been working in information security—attacks and defenses, for industry and government – since before there was a Web. In graduate school, he worked with the US Postal Inspection Service on postal meter fraud; as a post-doc and staff member at Los Alamos National Laboratory, he performed security reviews, designs, analyses, and briefings for a wide variety of public-sector clients; at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, he designed the security architecture for (and helped code and test) the IBM 4758 secure coprocessor, and then led the formal modeling and verification work that earned it the world’s first FIPS 140-1 Level 4 security validation.
His current work, as PI of the Dartmouth Trust Lab and Director of Dartmouth’s Institute for Security, Technology, and Society, investigates how to build trustworthy systems in the real world. Sean has published over one hundred refereed papers; been granted over a dozen patents; and advised over three dozen Ph.D., M.S., and senior honors theses. He and his students have won several “Best Paper” awards. Sean was educated at Princeton and CMU, and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi.
Dong Wei, Siemens
Showcase: Industry/Academic Partnership (Siemens & Rutgers University)
Dr. Dong Wei is a research scientist, currently specializing in cybersecurity at Siemens Corporate Technology. Wei has done research on factory automation systems, PLC, motion control, human-machine interface, drive systems and industrial communications for more than 20 years, with the last 15 years spent at Siemens. Dr. Wei started specializing in cybersecurity for the industrial network in 2006, and has authorized around 30 publications, including book chapters and journal papers. The holder of several patents, Dr. Wei also works as a Principal Investigator for several government-funded research projects, and is an active reviewer of industry publications, such as: IEEE Transaction on Smart Grid, Automation Science and Engineering, Industrial Informatics and on IEEE Transaction on System, Man and Cybernetics, Computer in Industry, Journal of the Network and Systems Management, etc. He received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, and his received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, New Jersey.
Stuart Wright, Ontario Energy Board
Panel: Cyber Leadership
Stuart Wright is a trusted advisor to financial institutions, utilities, and governments. As a former executive with Enbridge, he directed the Project Management Office managing functional teams with projects in excess of $1.3 billion (Canadian) including the Alberta Northern Gateway Pipeline. He has over 20 years of experience in energy, cyber security, and risk management in executive roles for international Telecom and Audit firms. Prior to his leadership role, Stuart directed large-scale complex transformation projects worth $3 billion within the public and private sectors.
Stuart sits on the board of MacKenzie Institute (2018), Advisory Board of the Canadian Advanced Technologies Alliance’s Cyber Security Council (2017), Quantum Alliance (2017), National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC), Cyber Advisory Council (2016), and IESO Executive Forum (2016). He is a member of ISACA, PMI, NARUC, SGIP, ECCouncil and NAESB. Stuart is a Certified Information Systems Auditor, Certified Risk and Information Systems Manager, is a qualified Six-Sigma Green-belt and a Certified PMP and Certified Blockchain Professional. He possesses an MBA, MSc IT and a degree in Business Administration.
Saman Zonouz, Rutgers University
Showcase: Industry/Academic Partnership (Siemens & Rutgers University)
Saman Zonouz is an Associate Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Rutgers University since September 2014 and the Director of the 4N6 Cyber Security and Forensics Laboratory. His research has been awarded NSF CAREER Award in 2015, Google Security Award in 2015, Top-3 Demo at IEEE SmartGridComm 2015, the Faculty Fellowship Award by AFOSR in 2013, the Best Student Paper Award at IEEE SmartGridComm 2013, the University EARLY CAREER Research award in 2012 as well as the Provost Research Award in 2011.
The 4N6 research is currently supported by National Science Foundation (NSF), Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Office of Naval Research (ONR), Department of Energy (DOE), Advanced Research Projects Agency Energy (ARPA-E), Department of Education (DOE), Siemens Research, WinRiver, GrammaTech, Google, ETAP, and Fortinet Corporation including tech-to-market initiatives.
Saman’s current research focuses on systems security and privacy, trustworthy cyber-physical critical infrastructures, binary/malware analysis and reverse engineering, as well as adaptive intrusion tolerance architectures. Saman has served as the chair, program committee member, guest editor and a reviewer for top international conferences and journals. Saman serves on Editorial Board for IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid. He obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science, specifically, intrusion tolerance architectures for the cyber-physical infrastructures, from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2011.