Kate Davis, Ph.D., P.E. (Associate Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University; Assistant Director for Education, TEES Smart Grid Center) will present the webinar titled “Opportunities for Scalable Cyber-Physical Optimal Response in Power Systems” at 3 P.M. CST on February 28, 2024.
Abstract
Power systems are cyber-physical critical infrastructure with interdependent electrical and communications networks whose security and integrity underpin resilience. Increasing cyber-physical threats along with technology and policy drivers heighten the importance of providing, accurate, timely, and actionable cyber-physical risk analysis. Texas A&M University with Georgia Tech University, Oregon State University, Network Perception, PSC Consulting, TDi, and Electric Power Engineers are leading the scalable cyber-physical optimal response engine (SCORE) project for U.S. Department of Energy Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (DOE CESER) to design a scalable cyber-physical optimal response engine as an integral part of next generation cyber-physical energy management systems for electric power systems. This talk focuses on developing solutions (framework, algorithms, tools) to help utilities identify and improve techniques for grid defense: cyber-physical situational awareness and control under adversarial presence. Finally, we discuss opportunities to participate with us to achieve the vision of optimal use of cyber-physical power system models and data in decision-making problems across different time horizons for accurate and trustworthy response of the emerging cyber-physical-human systems-of-systems.
The video recording will be linked here.
More on the Speaker
Dr. Kate Davis, P.E. is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University. Dr. Davis’s work has pioneered significant enhancements to power system cyber-physical security by advancing cyber-physical modeling and analysis capabilities. Prior to joining Texas A&M in 2017, Dr. Davis was a Software Engineer and Senior Consultant for PowerWorld Corporation and with University of Illinois’s Information Trust Institute as a Research Scientist. Her expertise includes large scale modeling, analysis, and simulations of cyber-physical power system critical infrastructure, where she has particular interest in security-oriented control system analysis techniques. She also works to facilitate transition to practice of state-of-the-art cyber-physical situational awareness capabilities for power utilities. She is the faculty advisor for the Texas A&M student chapter of HKN and a licensed Professional Engineer in the state of Texas. She was recognized as IEEE Senior Member (2018), received the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station Engineering Genesis Award (2019), and became a Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) Young Faculty Fellow (2021). She leads the Resilient Energy Systems Lab (RESLab), the cyber-physical emulation testbed created by her group, fully functional since 2020.
Dr. Davis’ research website can be viewed here.