News
2022
Pengyi has successfully defended his Master's thesis on transferable and domain-adversarial smart grid intrusion detection. Congratulations!
Our paper on DRL-based adaptive feature boosting for smart grid intrusion detection has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid (TSG).
Our paper on MARL mechanism design for EVs has been accepted by the International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems (IJEPES).
Our paper on a transferability analysis-based domain-adversarial framework for smart grid intrusion detection has been accepted by Energies.
Our paper on denial-of-service attacks targeting virtual power plants has been accepted by ISGT-NA 2023.
Our paper on a false data injection scheme against coupled gas-power networks has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Power Systems (TPS).
Our survey on the cybersecurity of smart inverters has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics (TPEL).
Our paper on a new TLS extension for energy-efficient IoT encryption has been accepted by the IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoT-J).
Our paper on a new virtual data collection scheme for distributed PV stations has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Power Systems (TPS).
Our proposal with SCU (USA) on blockchain-integrated packetized energy was awarded by IEEE Blockchain-enabled Transactive Energy (BCTE)!
Our papers on packetized energy co-simulation and wind farm security risk analysis have been accepted by IEEE SmartGridComm.
Dr. Yan presented an invited seminar on "Applied Machine Learning for Smart Grids" at the University of Calabria, Italy.
Congratulations to Luyang for starting a new position at the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunication, China.
Dr. Yan has been promoted to the rank of Associate Professor with an early tenure promotion.
The National Cybersecurity Consortium (NCC), co-founded and co-led by our Security Research Centre (SRC), has been selected by Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) Canada for the $80 million Cyber Security Innovation Network (CSIN).
Find the news release from the Government of Canada (English, French) and Concordia (English, French)SRC is our center of expertise on cyber security with 20+ faculty members and 75+ researchers. We will play a leading role in NCC with researchers and partners across Canada, with a special focus on critical infrastructure security and network security.
Our paper on transferability analysis in cyber-physical systems has been accepted by IEEE Access.
Our paper on reinforcement learning-based auto-pen-testing has been accepted by IEEE WCCI 2022.
Our paper on data quality assessment in AI-driven waste management has been accepted by IFAC MIM 2022 in France.
Our paper on attack-resilient PMU placement has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS).
Our paper on continuous skipping for RNNs has been accepted by Neural Computing and Applications (NCAA).
Dr. Yan presented an invited talk on "Machine Learning for Secure and Resilient Cyber-Physical Systems" at Ericsson's Global AI Accelerator Montréal.
Our joint paper on FDIA detection has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid (TSG).
Congratulations to Quentin for starting a new position at Pineappli, France.
2021
Yongxuan started a new position as a Software Engineer at Google Canada. Congrats!
Our paper on "Optimal Integrated Energy System Planning with DG Uncertainty Affine Model and Carbon Emissions Charges" is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy (TSTE).
Our paper on "Improved Harris Hawks Optimization for Configuration of PV Intelligent Edge Terminals" is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing (TSUSC).
Jinli joined our group. Welcome!
Tianyu joined our group. Welcome!
William started a new position as a Software Engineer R&D at Scality, France. Congrats!
Hang's paper "Modeling of Cyber Attacks Against Converter-Driven Stability of PMSG-Based Wind Farms with Intentional Subsynchronous Resonance" has been accepted by IEEE SmartGridComm 2021.
Our paper "An XGBoost-Based Vulnerability Analysis of Smart Grid Cascading Failures under Topology Attacks" has been accepted by IEEE SMC 2021.
Our paper "A Cyber Attack Mitigation Scheme for Series Compensated DFIG-Based Wind Parks" has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid (TSG).
Our paper "Self-Adaptive Evaluation of Hybrid AC/DC Distribution Networks with Multi-Energy Complementary Systems" has been accepted by IEEE PESGM 2021.
Jeremy Frandon joined our group for his Master study. Welcome!
Luyang's paper "A Simultaneous Multi-Round Auction Design for Scheduling Multiple Charges of Battery Electric Vehicles on Highways" has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (T-ITS).
Dr. Yan joined the organizing committee of CSoNet 2021 (website).
Dr. Yan was featured in the newsletter of APSIPA U.S. Local Chapter (link).
Dr. Yan joined Dr. Avestimehr (USC), Dr. Cheng (eBay), Dr. Wang (DOCOMO) and Dr. Li (NYIT) in the APSIPA U.S. Local Chapter panel on “Computing Security, Trust and Privacy in a Hyperconnected World” (link).
Shun Li (co-supervised with Prof. Youmin Zhang) joined our group. Welcome!
2020
Quentin successfully defended his Master thesis "Dynamic Reduced-Round TLS Extension for Secure Wireless Communication of IoT Devices." Congratulations to Quentin!
Yongxuan successfully defended his Master thesis "Domain Adversarial Transfer Learning for Robust Cyber-Physical Attack Detection in the Smart Grid." Congratulations to Yongxuan!
William successfully defended his Master thesis "ASGARDS-H: Enabling Advanced Smart Grid cyber-physical Attacks, Risk and Data Studies with HELICS." Congratulations to William!
Dr. Yan received the CFI Innovation Fund (co-PI) for Intelligent and Resilient Smart Cities with Energy-Vehicle-Human Interactions. Thanks to CFI!
Luyang (co-supervised with Dr. Chun Wang) successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis "Advanced Mechanism Design for Electric Vehicle Charging Scheduling in the Smart Infrastructure." Congratulations to Dr. Hou!
Dr. Yan served on the local organizing committee of PESGM 2020.
Dr. Yan received the NSFC - FRQSC Research Grant on Smart Cities and Big Data (co-PI) to investigate artificial intelligence for sustainable smart city management. Thanks to FRQSC and NSFC!
Our paper "Self-Learning Robust Control Synthesis and Trajectory Tracking of Uncertain Dynamics" has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics (TCYB).
2020-03: Yongxuan's paper "Semi-Supervised Domain-Adversarial Training for Intrusion Detection against False Data Injection in the Smart Grid" has been accepted by IEEE WCCI 2020.
Luyang's paper "Reinforcement Mechanism Design for Electric Vehicle Demand Response in Microgrid Charging Stations" has been accepted by IEEE WCCI 2020.
Moshfeka and Yuanliang's paper "Multi-Objective Evolutionary Optimization for Worst-Case Analysis of False Data Injection Attacks in the Smart Grid" has been accepted by IEEE WCCI 2020.
William and Quentin's paper "Dynamic Reduced-Round Cryptography for Energy-Efficient Wireless Communication of Smart IoT Devices" has been accepted by IEEE ICC 2020.
Chengming's paper "Adaptive Feature Boosting of Multi-Sourced Deep Autoencoders for Smart Grid Intrusion Detection " has been accepted by IEEE PESGM 2020.
Pengyi's paper "Electrochemical Method on the Optimum Cathodic Protection Potential of Grounding Grid in High Resistivity Soil" has been accepted by IEEE PESGM 2020.
Ekram's paper "Optimal Scheduling of EV Charging at a Solar Power Based Charging Station" has been accepted by IEEE Systems Journal (ISJ).
Hang Du joined our group for his Ph.D. study. Welcome!
Juanwei joined our group for her Ph.D. study. Welcome!
Pengyi joined our group for his Master's study. Welcome!
2019
Zhenxing's paper "Adaptive Event-triggered Control for Unknown Second-order Nonlinear Multi-agent Systems" has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics (TCYB).
Zhenxing's paper "Event-Triggered Control for a Class of Nonlinear Multi-Agent Systems with Directed Graph" has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems (SMCA).
Our paper "Data-based composite control design with critic intelligence for a wastewater treatment platform" has been accepted by Artificial Intelligence Review.
Dr. Yan presented three papers at IEEE SmartGridComm 2019 and three invited talks in China.
Dr. Yan received three Mitacs Accelerate Cluster Grants (PI) to investigate artificial intelligence in 5G-aware cyber-physical system security in collaboration with Ericsson Canada. Thanks to Ericsson and Mitacs!
Jinli's paper "An Extended Regret Theory for Multi-Attribute Decision Making under Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Set Environment" has been accepted by Elsevier's Information Sciences.
Chengming Hu (co-supervised with Dr. Chun Wang) successfully defended his MASc thesis "Ensemble Feature Learning-Based Event Classification for Cyber-Physical Security of the Smart Grid. " Congratulations! Chengming will join McGill University as a co-supervised Ph.D. student in Computer Science.
Chengming's paper "Robust Feature Extraction and Ensemble Classification Against Cyber-Physical Attacks in the Smart Grid" has been accepted by IEEE EPEC 2019.
Yuanliang Li joined our group for his PhD study. Welcome!
Jinli Yao joined us as an IEEE Computational Intelligence Society graduate research fellow. Welcome!
Yongxuan's paper "Domain-Adversarial Transfer Learning for Robust Intrusion Detection in the Smart Grid" has been accepted by IEEE SmartGridComm 2019.
William and Quentin's paper "Quantum-Sim: An Open-Source Co-Simulation Platform for Quantum Key Distribution-Based Smart Grid Communications" has been accepted by IEEE SmartGridComm 2019.
Ekram's paper "Demand Aware Deployment and Expansion Method for an Electric Vehicles Fast Charging Network" has been accepted by IEEE SmartGridComm 2019.
Moshfeka's paper "Finding the Worse Case: Undetectable False Data Injection with Minimized Knowledge and Resource" has been accepted by IEEE GLOBECOM 2019.
Jieyuan Tan joined our group for his Mitacs Globalink research internship. Welcome!
William Lardier joined our group for his Master study. Welcome!
Quentin Varo joined our group for his Master study. Welcome!
Luyang's paper "Bidding for Preferred Timing: An Auction Design for Electric Vehicle Charging Station Scheduling" has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (T-ITS).
Our paper "An Extended TOPSIS Method Based on Gaussian Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Set" has been accepted by Springer's International Journal of Fuzzy Systems (IJFS).
Maryna Kluban joined our group from the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (KNU) for her Mitacs Globalink research internship. Welcome!
Dr. Yan served on the organizing committee of CPS-IoT Week 2019. (Website)
Zhenxing's paper "Adaptive Event-Triggered Consensus Control for A Class of Unknown Second-Order Nonlinear Multi-Agent Systems" has been accepted by CCC 2019.
Luyang's paper "Accommodating More Users in Highway Electric Vehicle Charging through Coordinated Booking: A Market-Based Approach" has been accepted by IEEE CSCWD 2019.
Chengming's paper "Advanced Cyber-Physical Attack Classification with Extreme Gradient Boosting for Smart Transmission Grids" has been accepted by IEEE PESGM 2019.
Yongxuan Zhang joined our group for his Master study. Welcome!
2018
Dr. Yan served on the organizing committee of 2018 International Symposium on Foundations & Practice of Security (FPS). (Website)
Dr. Yan received the Concordia Aid to Research-Related Events Grant (PI) for invited seminars and research outreach.
Luyang Lu (co-supervised with Dr. Chun Wang) joined for his PhD study. Welcome!
Our survey "Cyber-Physical Attacks and Defences in the Smart Grid: A Survey" recognized as the highest-cited & most downloaded paper of IET Cyber-Physical Systems: Theory & Applications since 2016.
Dr.Yan's invited article "Cyber-Physical Resilience of the Smart Grid: Challenges and Opportunities" has been published by IEEE Smart Grid Newsletter in the "Special Issue on Resiliency in Smart Grids." (PDF)
Moshfeka Rahman joined our group for her PhD study. Welcome!
Dr. Yan received the Mitacs Globalink Grant (PI) for research on deep learning for cyber-physical security.
Our paper "A Functional Nonlinear Model Predictive Control Based on Adaptive Dynamic Programming" has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics (TCYB).
Dr. Yan delivered invited seminars on smart grid cyber-physical security at universities and institutions in China.
Dr. Yan received the Concordia Horizon Grant (co-PI) for research on proactive security for attack-resilient microgrids.
Our paper "Multiscale Convolutional Neural Networks for Fault Diagnosis of Wind Turbine Gearbox" has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics (TIE).
Dr. Yan received the Excellence in Doctoral Research Award from the University of Rhode Island, the only recipient in the Ph.D. Class of 2018.
Dr. Yan received the NSERC Discovery Grant (PI) for research on cyber-physical security in safety-critical IoT infrastructures.
Dr. Yan received the FRQNT Établissement de Nouveaux Chercheurs Universitaires Grant (PI) for research on feature learning for the smart grid.
Dr. Yan received the ENCS Capital Research Innovation Funds (co-PI) with Arash Mohammadi for research on smart and connected communities and with Kash Khorasani for research on intelligent control, diagnosis, and security for the smart grid. Congratulations to all!
Dr. Yan received the Nvidia GPU Grant (PI) for research on data-intensive situational awareness in smart grids - Thanks, Nvidia!
Chengming's paper "Deep Learning-Aided Cyber-Attack Detection in Power Transmission Systems" has been accepted by IEEE PESGM 2018.
Our paper "SDE: A Novel Clustering Framework Based on Sparsity-Density Entropy" has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE).
Chengming Hu joined our group for his Master study. Welcome!