Dr. Yan delivered an invited seminar on "Energy Autonomy through Agentic AI: Challenges and Opportunities" at Florida Atlantic University, USA.
Yefei's paper, "Dynamic trigger-based attacks against next-generation IoT malware family classifiers," has been accepted by Computers & Security (COSE). Well done!
Yiheng's paper, "Can LLMs Identify Event Causality More Accurately through Debate? A Systematic Assessment of LLMs’ Factuality and Reasoning," has been accepted by the 2025 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI 2025). Well done!
Congratulations, Dr. Li! Yuanliang successfully defended his PhD thesis, "Deep Reinforcement Learning-based Automated Penetration Testing for Active Distribution Networks."
Dr. Yan delivered an invited seminar on "Machine Intelligence and Digital Twinning for Grid-Interactive Communities" at the University of Maine, USA.
Dr. Yan visited the Laboratoire des Technologies de l'Énergie (LTE) of Hydro-Québec in Shawinigan, QC, with collaborators from the NSF EuReCa Global Center and the Concordia Design Lab. Thanks very much to John and Fatima for hosting us!
We organized a workshop on "AI for energy transformation: Use cases and challenges to adopting AI in local contexts" with the NSF EuReCa Global Center and the Applied AI Institute.
Shun's paper "Early Wildfire Detection and Distance Estimation Using Aerial Visible-Infrared Images" has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics (TIE). Well done!
Yuanliang's paper on Knowledge-Informed Auto-Penetration Testing Based on Reinforcement Learning with Reward Machines has been accepted by IEEE WCCI/IJCNN 2024. See you in Japan!
Dr. Yan was awarded a new 4-year, $135k Mitacs Accelerate Grant in partnership with Ericsson's Global AI Hub on Causal Graph Learning-Based Proactive Anomaly Management for Radio Access Networks (RAN) in 5G and Beyond.
Moshfeka's paper on adversarial machine learning in false data injection in smart grids has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (TII). Well done!
Moshfeka successfully defended her PhD thesis, "Applied Artificial Intelligence for Secure and Resilient Smart Grid." She will join the University of Waterloo as a Mitacs postdoctoral fellow, working with the Ericsson Global AI Accelerator Hub in Montreal. Congratulations, Dr. Rahman!
Hang's paper "Modeling and Assessment of Cyber Attacks Targeting Converter-Driven Stability of Power Grids With PMSG-Based Wind Farms" has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Power Systems (TPWRS). Well done!
Chengming's paper on trilateral geometry for knowledge distillation has been accepted by the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2024). Well done! (ArXiv preprint)
Yefei's paper on dynamic trigger-based attack modelling and mitigation for machine learning-based IoT malware classifiers has been accepted by the IEEE International Conference on Communication (ICC 2024). Well done!
Yiheng Zhao and Claire Jiahui Wang joined our group as PhD students. Welcome!
[News] Our team (Y. Zeng, J. Yan, H. Ge, and M. Nik-Bakht) was awarded a new $1.7 million NSERC Alliance-Mitacs Accelerate Grant in partnership with CREO Solutions on Evidence-based monitoring of construction projects through effective, reliable, and credible RFI analysis and management.
Our international team (Y. Liu, H. Lee, and Y. Fang at Santa Clara University, USA; J. Yan and M. Ghafouri at Concordia University, Canada) was awarded an NSF Global Centers - Track 2 Grant on Equitable and User-Centric Energy Market for Resilient Grid-interactive Communities.
Our joint paper on graph MARL for inverter-based AVC has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid (TSG).
Yasaman Haghjoo joined our group as a PhD student. Welcome!
Dr. Yan proposed a new Task Force on Big Data Analytics for Security and Resilience in Power Systems at the 2023 IEEE PES General Meeting.
It has been approved by IEEE AMPS/BDA. Stay tuned as we unroll the activities, and feel free to contact me if you are interested in joining us!
Dr. Yan has been appointed the Concordia University Research Chair (Tier 2) in Artificial Intelligence in Cyber Security and Resilience.
Dr. Yan delivered an invited seminar on "Applied Artificial Intelligence for Smart Grid Security" at Monash University, Australia.
Dr. Yan was appointed the Graduate Program Director for thesis-based students at CIISE.
Dr. Yan presented the DualHGNN paper at IJCNN 2023. It was wonderful to meet old and new friends at IJCNN this year!
Ludjina Benoit and Mohammad-Hossien Darabi joined our group as the prestigious NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award interns. Welcome!
Shun has successfully defended his Master's thesis on early wildfire detection, geolocation, and 3D reconstruction using aerial visible and infrared images. Congratulations!
Our joint paper on virtual data collection for distributed PVs has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid (TSG).
Dr. Yan delivered an invited seminar on "The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Smart Grid Security" at Clarkson University, USA (link).
Our paper on dual hypergraph neural networks (DualHGNN) for semi-supervised node classification has been accepted by IJCNN 2023. See you in Australia!
Dr. Yan delivered a virtual seminar on "AI-based Smart Technologies in Smart Grid Security" to the University of Delaware, USA.
Our joint paper on measurement data integrity attacks has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid (TSG).
Yuanliang's paper on packetized energy trading and management for virtual power plants has been accepted by IEEE PES GM 2023. See you in Orlando!
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.
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!
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!
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!
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!