Special Session 3

Electrical grids around the world are undergoing a fundamental transformation. While many of them today are still closed systems centered around big utility companies, soon they will become much more open ones that integrate distributed energy resources, use advanced sensing & control technologies for decentralized supply-demand balancing, and rely on competitive markets to coordinate different players. The future internet-of-energy will also enable tight coupling across multiple energy sectors. For example, the electrical grids and the Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) systems can be jointly optimized. Such information-physical-social changes promise a future that we can rely more on renewable energy while keeping our energy cost in check. However, how to ensure the trustworthiness and resilience of the resulting internet-of-energy plexus under different forms of disturbances and attacks presents major challenges.
This special session will feature invited talks and invited papers that discuss about the key challenges and promising solutions for making our future energy infrastructure trustworthy and resilient.

Daisuke Mashima is a research scientist at Advanced Digital Sciences Center in Singapore. He is also a research affiliate of University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. His research focus is cybersecurity in smart grid and cyber-physical systems. Previously, he was a member of the research staff at Fujitsu Laboratories of America, where he worked on research about smart energy and smart home technologies, especially in information security and privacy aspects. One of his papers discussing smart meter network security won the best paper award at IEEE SmartGridComm 2014, and the outcome of the smart home project won the silver prize at ACM MobiCom 2015 App Contest. While working at Fujitsu, he also served as an editor of the spec document of OpenADR 2.0b.

Binbin Chen is a Senior Research Scientist at Advanced Digital Sciences Center (ADSC). His research focuses on improving the design of complex interconnected systems (e.g., cyberphysical systems and IoT systems), so that such systems can become more efficient and more secure, yet still remain as simple as they can. Prior to joining ADSC, he obtained his PhD from National University of Singapore (NUS) and his Bachelor from Peking University, both in Computer Science. His research has received several awards, including the Best Paper Award in ACM SIGCOMM conference 2010. His research has been funded by Energy Market Authority (EMA) of Singapore, Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Building & Construction Authority (BCA) of Singapore, and Singapore Cybersecurity Consortium.

• Mr Zhiyuan Yang, Michigan Technological University, USA
• Dr Kazuhiro Minami, Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Japan
• Prof. David Nicol, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Advanced Digital Sciences Center
• Prof. Aditya Mathur, Singapore University of Technology and Design
• Prof. Biplab Sikdar, National University of Singapore

Panel Speakers:

• Prof. Zbigniew Kalbarczyk, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, [Moderator]
• Prof. Hideo Ishii, Waseda University
• Mr. Eng Kiat Chan, Accenture
• Prof. Chee-wooi Ten, Michigan Technological University
• Prof. Yunhe Hou, University of Hong Kong