Why Resilience?

We live in the today's world where everyone is connected in a certain form of relationship in cyberspace. Information flow and exchange from the consumers to operational level can affect the implications of any decision making by system dispatchers. Power control centers, for example, have been upgraded with state of the art where system operators can observe the grid closer with high resolutions of data that would help applications analyze and provide recommendations to them. However, these are the paradigms of the past. The term of “resilience” define the new normal we are living in to withstand emerging disturbances.

CIRsilience is a research group committed to power grid resilience emphasizes the interdependencies between the grid and others. The communication infrastructure is the salient part of all that includes the cyber-physical system security. Our group aims at tackling the challenges and emerging issues related to system deployment and economics of the rare extreme event that can be catastrophic.

Our CIResilience research emphasis is three-fold: Reconfigurability, Interdependability, and Sustainability (RIS). The team is devoted to understanding the challenges and ready to work with his international collaborators from other disciplinary areas, e.g., transportation system or water management. The frameworks to be established would anticipate extreme consequences of nation’s critical infrastructures against both natural catastrophe and cyberterrorism. These may affect the socioeconomic establishment of our next generations to come. Our office is in Houghton Michigan shown on the map below.