People
Taesic Kim, Ph.D. (Director)
Associate Professor, IEEE Senior Member
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Texas A&M University-Kingsville
EC 277, MSC 192, 700 University Blvd.
Kingsville, TX, 78363-8202 USA
Email: taesic.kim@tamuk.edu (tkx96@missouri.edu)
Tel: 361-593-4851, Fax: 361-593-4026
As of September 2024,
Associate Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
University of Missouri Columbia
143B Naka Hall,
Columbia, MO, 65211 USA
Email: tkx96@missouri.edu
Tel: 573-882-9122
Education:
Ph.D., University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Lincoln, NE, USA, 2015
M.S., University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Department of Electrical Engineering, Lincoln, NE, USA, 2012
B.S., Changwon National University, Department of Electronics Engineering, South Korea, 2008
Employment:
Sept. 2024- present, Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
Sept. 2021-August 2024, Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Texas A&M University-Kingsville, Kingsville, TX, USA
Sept. 2015 – Aug. 2021, Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Texas A&M University-Kingsville, Kingsville, TX, USA
Sept. 2009 – May 2015, Graduate Research Assistant, Power and Energy Systems Laboratory, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, USA
Jun. 2013 – Aug. 2013, Graduate Research Intern, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories in MA, USA
Feb. 2009 – Aug. 2009, Research Intern, Korea Electrotechnology Research Institute in South Korea
Honors and Awards:
First Place in the Student Demonstration Project Software Competition, 2022, 2022 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, Project title: First demonstration of ransomware attack and forensics on a commercial smart inverter
Best Paper Award, 2021, IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies – Asia (ISGT Asia 2021), Paper title: Real-time hardware-in-the-loop distributed energy resources system testbed using IEEE 2030.5 standard, 2021
College of Engineering Dean's Award in Excellence in Research at Texas A&M University-Kingsville, 2021
Departmental Award in Professor of the Year, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Texas A&M University-Kingsville, 2021
IEEE Myron Zucker Student-Faculty Grant Award, 2018
University Research Award, 2018 at Texas A&M University-Kingsville
Best Presentation Award, IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC), Paper title: An outlier mining-based real-time fault diagnosis for lithium-ion batteries using a low-priced microcontroller, 2018
Microsoft Azure Research Award, 2017
Best Paper Award (First Place) in the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Electro Information Technology, Paper title: Fast recursive least square-based estimator for active and reactive power control of single-phase power electronic converts, 2017
2017 Texas A& M University-Kingsville Summer Support Award
Texas A& M University-Kingsville Council for Undergraduate Research Awards (2015-2016, 2016-2017)
The First Prize Awards in the 2013 IEEE Industry Applications Society Graduate Student Thesis Contest, 2013
Current Graduate Students
Bohyun Ahn (Ph.D. candidate, Engineering-Electrical Engineering Specialization)
Education:
M.S., Electrical Engineering, Minnesota State University Mankato , MN
B.S. Electrical Engineering, Minnesota State University Mankato , MN
Dissertation Title: Security Built-in Smart Inverters at Grid Edge: Threat Modeling, Penetration Testing, and Smart Inverter Security Framework
Project Title: 1) A study on cybersecurity function for power transformer diagnosis system (KERI); 2) Development of cybersecurity technology for cloud-based big data platform in smart grid (IITP); 3) Multilevel cybersecurity for photovoltaic systems (DOE-SETO); 4) Resilient cyber-physical security framework for DER at grid edge (NSF)
Research Interest: Cyber-Secure Smart Inverter, Penetration Testing, Blockchain-based Security, Firmware Security, and Malware Defense
Seerin Ahmad (Ph.D. candidate, Engineering-Electrical Engineering Specialization)
Education:
M.S., Electrical Engineering, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary
B.E., Electrical Engineering, Aligarh Muslim University Aligarh, India
Dissertation Title: Development of Blockchain-Assisted Cyber-Resilience for Distributed Energy Resource Management System (DERMS)
Project Title: 1) A study on cybersecurity function for power transformer diagnosis system (KERI); 2) Multilevel cybersecurity for photovoltaic systems (DOE-SETO); 3) Resilinet cyber-physical security framework for DER at grid edge (NSF)
Research Interest: Cyber-Resilient Distributed Energy Resources Management System (DERMS), Blockchain-Based Transactive Energy
Alve Rahman Akash (M.S. student, Electrical Engineering)
Education:
B.S. Electrical and Electronic Engineering, American International University-Bangladesh, Bangladesh
Thesis Title: Online Battery Data Analytics Pipleline using Bigdata Tools and Quantum Machine Learning for Electric Vehicles
Project Title: Digital Twin for Grid-Connected Battery Energy Storage Systems (IITP)
Research Interest: Quantum Machine Learning, AI Security
Ameya Khot (M.S., Computer Science)
Education:
B.E. Computer Engineering, University of Pune, India
Thesis Title: Quantum-Inspried Machine Learning using a Physic-based Ising Solver Chip
Project Title: Secure and Efficient Hardware Implementation of Cellular Computational Network (NSF)
Research Interest: Quantum Software Engineering
Joaquin Massa (M.S., Electrical Engineering, DoD SMART Scholarship)
Education:
B.S. Electrical Engineering, Texas A&M University-Kingsville
Thesis Title: Development of Cyber-Secure and Efficient Artificial Intelligence (AI)-Based Controller for Solar Inverters
Project Title: Secure and efficient hardware implementation of cellular computational networks (NSF)
Research Interest: AI-FPGA Controller for Smart Inverter
Current Researchers
Current Undergraduate Students
Logan A. Atkinson (B.S, Electrical Engineering)
Project Title: Resilient cyber-physical security framework for DER at grid edge (NSF)
Research Interest: DER Management System
Hugo D. Tavares-Vengas (B.S, Electrical Engineering)
Project Title: Resilient cyber-physical security framework for DER at grid edge (NSF)
Research Interest: Machine learning
Alumni
Alycia Jenkins (M.S., Computer Science), Spring 2024
Project Title: Resilient cyber-physical security framework for DER at grid edge (NSF)
Thesis Title: Memory Forensics against Ransomware Attack on Distributed Energy Resources Devices
Current Position: Cyber Network Operations (CNO) Developer, Mantech
Lauren M Silva (M.S., Electrical Engineering), Fall 2023
Project Title: Secure and efficient hardware implementation of cellular computational networks (NSF)
Current Position: Cybersecurity Engineer, the Joint Base San Antonio
Venkata Swamy Kalyan Nakka (M.S., Computer Science; Research Associate)
Project Title: Resilient cyber-physical security framework for DER at grid edge (NSF)
Current Position: PhD Student, Computer Science in Texas A&M University
Dr. Jinchun Choi (Post-Doc. Research Associate), Aug. 2020-June 2022
Project Title: Multilevel cybersecurity for photovoltaic systems (DOE-SETO)
Current Position: Senior Researcher, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) in Korea.
Syed R. B. Alvee (M.S., Electrical Engineering), Spring 2022
Project Title: 1) A study on cybersecurity function for power transformer diagnosis system (KERI); 2) Multilevel cybersecurity for photovoltaic systems (DOE-SETO)
Thesis Title: Study on artificial intelligence-based ransomware detection for digital substations
Current Position: Firmware Engineer, Milwaukee Tools
Swathi Pedavalli (M.S., Computer Science), Spring 2022
Project Title: Digital twin for grid-connected battery energy storage systems (IITP)
Current Position: Software Engineer, Honeywell
Deneesh Narayanasamy (M.S., Computer Science), Spring 2021
Project Title: Development of cybersecurity technology for cloud-based big data platform in smart grid (IITP)
Current Position: Software Engineer, Terralogic Solutions Inc.
Justin J. Ochoa (M.S. , Electrical Engineering), Spring 2020
Project Title: 1) Development of a new Internet of Things (IoT) network and cybersecurity framework toward wireless battery management systems in cyber-physical environments (IEEE Foundation); 2) Cloud-based health monitoring platform for battery energy storage systems (IITP)
Thesis Title: Security enhanced cyber-physical battery management system using blockchain and security hardening technology
Current Position: Electrical Engineer, SNL
Abdullah A. Hadi (Ph.D., Sustainable Energy System Engineering) , Spring 2020
Project Title: Multilevel cybersecurity for photovoltaic systems (DOE-SETO)
Current Position: Lead Engineering-Power Electronics and Motor Control, CNH Industrial
Gomanth Bere (M.S., Computer Science), Spring 2020
Project Title: 1) Cloud-based health monitoring platform for battery energy storage systems (IITP); 2) Multilevel cybersecurity for photovoltaic systems (DOE-SETO)
Thesis Title: Brain tumor segmentation from brain MRI data using deep neural networks
Position at TAMUK: Research Assistant (May 2019-July 2020); Research Associate (Aug. 2020~Feb. 2021)
Current Position: Software Engineer, Tata Consultancy Services Limited
Indrasena Reddy Aenugu (M.S., Computer Science), Fall 2019
Project Title: Cloud-based health monitoring platform for battery energy storage systems (IITP)
Current Position: Software Engineer, Tata Consultancy Services Limited
Tasnimun Faika (M.S. Electrical Engineering), Spring 2019
Project Title: Development of a new Internet of Things (IoT) network and cybersecurity framework toward wireless battery management systems in cyber-physical environments (IEEE Foundation)
Thesis Title: Development of an Internet of Things (IoT) network and cybersecurity framework toward dispersed, decentralized and secured wireless battery management system in cyber physical environments
Current Position: Software Delveopment Engineer, Hyundai Mobis North America
Upamanyu Sinha (M.S. Electrical Engineering), Spring 2019
Project Title: Blockchain-based communication and data security framework for IoT-enabled micro solar inverters
Current Position: MBA, Iowa State University
Rajendra Pandey (M.S. Electrical Engineering), Spring 2018
Project Title: Development of SOC/SOH algorithm for high power Li-ion battery system (KERI)
Thesis Title: Design and development of on-board condition monitoring for lithium-ion batteries
Current Position: HW Failure Analysis Engineering, Amazon Robotics
Darshan Makwana (M.S. Computer Science), Spring 2018
Project Title: Cloud-based battery health monitoring platform
Current Position: Java Developer, Miracle Soft System
Amit Adhikaree (M.S. Electrical Engineering), Fall 2017
Project Title: IoT-enabled multiagent system and IoT-enabled BMS
Current Position: Cloud Software Developer-IoT, Accenture
Jitendra Vagdoda (M.S. Computer Science), Fall 2017
Project Title: Cloud-based battery health monitoring platform
Current Position: Senior Member of Technical Staff, Oracle
Patrick Hernandez (B.S. Electrical Engineering), Spring 2017
Project Title: Powering a wireless sensor node via energy harvesting (TCUR)
Current Position: AEP TEXAS
Ason Ochoa ( B.S. Electrical Engineering), Spring 2017
Project Title: Powering a wireless sensor node via energy harvesting (TCUR)
Current Position: AEP TEXAS
Ron Huerta (B.S. Electrical Engineering), Spring 2016
Project Title: Automatic power factor correction using automated capacitor banks (TCUR)
Current Position: AEP TEXAS
Visiting Scholars
Nigel Raymundo, UG Student Intern, Cosumnes River College, May 2022-Aug. 2022
Project Title: Digital twin for power and energy systems (NSF IR-SEED REU)
Mr. Dongjun Han, MS Student, Inha University, June 2022-Oct. 2022
Research Topic: Development of integrated optimal operation and cybersecurity technology for connected, autonomous, shared and electric (CASE) vehicles with power system, KETEP)
Mr. Myungsuk Chae, MS Student, Inha University, Mar. 2022-Sept. 2022
Research Topic: Development of integrated optimal operation and cybersecurity technology for connected, autonomous, shared and electric (CASE) vehicles with power system, KETEP)
Mr. Jongoh Park, MS Student, Inha University, Mar. 2022-June 2022
Research Topic: Development of integrated optimal operation and cybersecurity technology fro connected, autonomous, shared and electric (CASE) vehicles with power system, KETEP)
Ms. Eunsong Kim, MS Student, Soongsil University, Sep,. 2021-Feb. 2022
Research Topic: Electrochemical battery modeling, Physics-informed ML (Digital twin for grid-connected battery energy storage systems, IITP)
Mr. Joonchul Kim, MS Student, Soongsil University, Sep,. 2021-Feb. 2022
Research Topic: Universal battery Remaining Useful Life (RUL) prediction using ML pipleline (Digital twin for grid-connected battery energy storage systems, IITP)
Mr. Junghwan Park, MS Student, Soongsil University, Sep,. 2021-Feb. 2022
Research Topic: Digital twin (Digital twin for grid-connected battery energy storage systems, IITP)
Mr. Kyoungtak Kim, PhD Student, Soongsil University, Sep,. 2021-Feb. 2022
Research Topic: PE controller firmware attack modeling and defense (Digital twin for grid-connected battery energy storage systems, IITP)
Ms. Ying (Ashley) Su, UG Student Intern, The University of Texas at Austin, May 2021-Aug. 2021
Project Title: Cybersecurity Threat Modeling and Defense for Photovoltaic (PV) Systems (NSF IR-SEED REU)
Mr. Jinsan Kim, MS Student, Inha University, Dec. 2020-May 2021
Research Topic: Energy IoT (Development of cybersecurity technology for cloud-based big data platform in smart grid, IITP)
Mr. Hee-Yong Kwon, PhD Student, Inha University, Dec. 2020-May 2021
Research Topic: AI-based intrusion detection (Development of cybersecurity technology for cloud-based big data platform in smart grid, IITP)
Mr. Kyuchan Park, MS Student, Inha University, Oct. 2020-May 2021
Research Topic: Cybersecurity testbed and resilient control for a DER aggregation system (Development of cybersecurity technology for cloud-based big data platform in smart grid, IITP)
Mr. Jongmin Ahn, PhD Student, Inha University, Oct. 2020-Mar. 2021
Research Topic: Quantum security for DER systems (Development of cybersecurity technology for cloud-based big data platform in smart grid, IITP)
Mr. Hyunjun Lee, PhD Student, Soongsil University, Dec. 2019-July 2020
Research Topic: CNN-based battery sensor data fault diagnosis (Cloud-based health monitoring platform for battery energy storage systems, IITP)
Mr. Kyoungtak Kim, PhD Student, Soongsil University, Dec. 2019-July 2020
Research Topic: BMS hardware fault diagnosis algorithm using AI (Cloud-based health monitoring platform for battery energy storage systems, IITP)
Mr. Chun Gu Lee, PhD Student, Soongsil University, Aug. 2019-Jan. 2020
Research Topic: Internal short circuit cell detection algorithm (Cloud-based health monitoring platform for battery energy storage systems, IITP)
Dr. Myung-Hyo Ryu, Korea Electrotechnology Research Institute (KERI), Dec. 2018-Feb. 2019
Research Topic: Internet of Things (IoT)-enabled solar micro inverter using blockchain technology