Profile:

Swati Agarwal received her B.Tech degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from JSS Academy of Technical Education Noida (JSSATEN), India in 2018. She is awarded twice with Academic Excellence Award during her graduation. She is currently pursuing her Ph.D degree in the Electrical Engineering Department of Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, Rupnagar, India under the supervision of Dr. Ranjana Sodhi.

Her research interests include Power system cyber-security, Cyber-physical contingency analysis, Power theft detection and Applications of reinforcement learning in modern power systems.

Academic Experience:

• Jan 2021 - May 2021: Teaching Assistant - Power Systems Laboratory (EE-310), Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Ropar.

• July 2021 - Dec 2021: Teaching Assistant - Simulation and Analysis of Modern Power Systems Lab (EE-513), Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Ropar.

Work Experience:

April 2019 - May 2019:   Assistant Engineer Trainee in Network Operation and Control (NOC) department in Ericsson Global, Noida.

Publications:

1. Swati Agarwal, Ayush Srivastava, Ranjana Sodhi, and T Soni "A Comparative Assessment of Exploratory Data Techniques for Power Theft Detection in Residential Distribution Grids," 2023 IEEE International Conference on Smart Technologies for Power, Energy and Control  (Accepted)

2. Swati Agarwal, Ayush Srivastava, and Ranjana Sodhi "Power Theft Detection in Residential Distribution Grids using Dirichlet Process Mixture Modelling," 2023 IEEE International Conference on Power Systems (ICPS 2023)  (Accepted)

3. Swati Agarwal and Ranjana Sodhi, "A Multilevel Vulnerability Assessment Strategy of N-k-{j} Contingencies for Ensuring the Cybersecurity of Power Systems", IEEE SeFet 2024 (Accepted)

4. Swati Agarwal and Ranjana Sodhi, "A Fast Multilevel Vulnerability Assessment Strategy for Power Systems Cyber Security ", IEEE SeFet 2024 (Accepted)

5. Swati Agarwal and R Sodhi,"A Novel Power Theft and Data Breach Detection Technique for Low-Voltage Distribution Networks ," Electric Power System Research 2025 (EPSR), Accepted

6. Swati Agarwal and Ranjana Sodhi, "A Novel Attack Path Detection Framework considering Cascaded Failures in an Interdependent Cyber-Physical Power System", IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (TII), Accepted May 2025

7. Swati Agarwal and Ranjana Sodhi,"A Software-in-Loop Cyber-Physical Simulator for Cyber Contingency Analysis in Smart Grids", IEEE ISGT Europe 2025 (Accepted)

8. Tony Kondotey, Swati Agarwal, Manish Pandit and R Sodhi, "A Novel Image-Based Watermarking Method for Detecting False Data Injection in Line Current Differential Relays", 11th International Conference on Power Systems (ICPS 2025), Hyderabad (Accepted)