Past News
2021 Dec Xiaoliang successfully defended his Ph.D. Thesis and will join Facebook. Congrats, Dr. Wu!

Oct Kevin will serve as the Program Co-Chair for ACM SIGSIM-PADS 2022.

Sep UofA Chancellor's Fund for Innovation and Collaboration awarded.


Our paper on SeQUeNCe (Quantum Network Simulation) was accepted by Quantum Science and Technology. Congrats, Xiaoliang!

Jun Our paper "Real-time Anomaly Detection and Classification in Streaming PMU Data” was accepted by IEEE PowerTech. Congrats, Chris!

Apr Our paper on distributed virtual time system was accepted by ACM TOMACS. Congrats, Chris and Jiaqi!
2020 Dec Xin successfully defended his Ph.D. Thesis and will join Facebook. Congrats, Dr. Liu!


Our paper "Simulation-based Evaluation of Handover Mechanisms in High-Speed Railway Control and Communication Systems" was accepted by WSC'20. Congrats, Xin!

Nov Our paper on SDN-based self-healing PMU networks won the Best Paper Award in SmartGridComm'20. Congrats, Yanfeng, Gong, Xin and Jiaqi!

Oct Our paper "Dynamic Data-Driven Self-Healing Application for Phasor Measurement Unit Networks" was accepted by the 20202 InfoSymbiotics/DDDAS Conference. Congrats, Yanfeng, Xin, and Jiaqi!

Jun Our paper "Parallel Simulation of Quantum Key Distribution Networks" was in the Best Paper Finalist of ACM SIGSIM-PADS'20. Congrats, Xiaoliang and Bo!


Industrial research grant from Protect Our Power Inc. was awarded to study "Data Protection and Encryption for Power Grid." Thanks, PoP!

May Chris successfully defended his Ph.D. Thesis and will join CRCL GmbH. Congrats, Dr. Hannon!


Chris received the CS Best Student Paper Award at IIT!


Gong received the CS Best TA Award at IIT (CSP544 System and Network Security)!

Apr NSF student travel grant was awarded to support Ph.D. students to attend ACM SIGSIM-PADS'20. Thanks, NSF!

Feb Xiaoliang received the NSF Quantum Information Science and Engineering Network (QISE-NET) Fellowship!
2019 Dec Christopher Hannon received the College of Science Excellence in Dissertation Award. Congrats, Chris!


Jiaqi Yan successfully defended his Ph.D. Thesis and will join Microsoft. Congrats, Dr. Yan!

Oct Our paper on Electric Power Grid Resilience with Interdependencies between Power and Communication Networks accepted by IET Smart Grid. Congrats, Xin!

Jun Kevin gave a full-day tutorial on Cyber-Physical System Security and Resilience at the University of Wisconsin Madison's Internet of Things Systems Research Center


We had two papers accepted by the ACM SIGSIM-PADS'19; Our paper on distributed virtual time system won the Best Paper Award. Congrats, Chris, Jiaqi, Xiaoliang, and Brian!


NSF student travel grant awarded to support Ph.D. students to attend ACM SIGSIM-PADS'19 at IIT, Chicago. Thanks, NSF!


Our paper on high-speed train communication network simulation was accepted by WSC'19. Congrats, Xin!

May
 Our paper "Classifying Malware Represented as Control Flow Graphs using Deep Graph Convolutional Neural Network" was accepted by DSN'19. Congrats, Jiaqi!

Apr Our paper "Bitcoin Payment-Channels for Resource Limited IoT Devices" was accepted by COINS'19. Congrats, Chris!
2018 Dec Our paper "Just-In-Time Parallel Simulation" was accepted by WSC'18. Congrats, Chris!


Kevin served as a panelist to discuss "Dynamic Data Driven Application Systems: Research Challenges and Opportunities" in WSC'18.

Oct Our paper "Combining Simulation and Emulation Systems for Smart Grid Planning and Evaluation," was accepted by ACM TOMACS. Congrats, Chris and Jiaqi!

Aug Our paper on smart traffic light security received the Premium Award for Best Paper in IET Cyber-Physical Systems: Theory & Applications, 2018 [news]


Air Force research grant awarded to build a co-simulation framework for cyber-physical systems. Thanks, Air Force!


Kevin was invited to the NSF Visioning Workshop on Programmable Security in a Software Defined World.

Jun Our paper "A Comparative Study of Off-Line Deep Learning Based Network Intrusion Detection" was accepted by ICUFN'18. Congrats, Jiaqi!


Research grant awarded, "Privately Sharing the Smart Energy Data." --- Thanks, WISER!

May Kevin is serving as an Associate Editor of the Journal of the Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy (MPCE)

Mar Our paper "Enabling a Resilient and Self-healing PMU Infrastructure Using Centralized Network Control" was accepted by SDN-NFV Security 2018. Congrats, Yanfeng and Xin!


NSA Science of Security (SoS) grant awarded to investigate An Automated Synthesis Framework for Network Security and Resilience. --- Thanks, NSA!

Feb Research grant awarded, "Advancing Simulation Technology for the Next-Generation Rail Transit Network Control System" --- Thanks, CRRC!
2017 Aug Our paper "A Hardware-in-the-loop Emulation Testbed for High Fidelity and Reproducible Network Experiments" was accepted by WSC'17. Congrats, Xiaoliang, Qi and Xin!

Jul NSF grant awarded to build a Big Data Professing Infrastructure for Smart Energy Systems. --- Thanks, NSF!

May Our paper "Simulation of a Software-Defined Network as One Big Switch" accepted by ACM SIGSIM-PADS'17. Congrats, Jiaqi and Xin! [pdf]


Our paper "Towards a Cyber Resilient and Secure Microgrid Using Software-Defined Networking" was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid. Congrats, Zhiyi and Chris! [pdf]

Mar Our paper "Ultimate Forwarding Resilience in OpenFlow Networks" was accepted by SDN-NFV Security'17. Congrats, Chris! [pdf]
2016 Nov Kevin received the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), Young Investigator Program (YIP) Award. Thanks AFOSR! [news]


Kevin received the College of Science Junior Faculty Research Award.


Our paper on Smart Street Lighting System Security was accepted by the Electricity Journal. Congrats, the CSMART team!


Our paper "A Modeling and Simulation of Extreme-Scale Fat-Tree Networks for HPC Systems and Data Centers" was accepted by ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation (TOMACS). Congrats, Ning and Adnan!


Our paper on Traffic Light Systems Security was accepted by IET Cyber-Physical Systems: Theory & Applications. Congrats, Zhiyi and Chris! [pdf]

Oct Our paper "A Lightweight Container-based Virtual Time System for Software-defined Network Emulation" was accepted by Journal of Simulation. Congrats, Jiaqi!

July Our paper "Self-Healing Attack-Resilient PMU Network for Power System Operation" was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid. [pdf]

Jun WISER Interdisciplinary Seed Funding Grant awarded to build resilient and secure energy infrastructure --- Thanks, WISER!


Our poster "Towards a Secure and Resilient Industrial Control System with Software-Defined Networking", received the Best Poster Award in SoSSDN 2016 [link]


Our paper "ConVenus" accepted in WSC 2016 --- Congrats, Xin! [pdf]

May Kevin will serve as the Program Co-Chair for ACM SIMSIM-PADS 2017


"DSSnet" [pdf] nominated for the Best Paper Award in ACM SIGSIM-PADS 2016; "DSSnet" also won the Best Poster Award in IIT Research Day --- Congrats, Chris and Jiaqi! [news article]

Apr Argonne National Lab Grant Awarded for Cyber-Physical Microgrid Co-Simulation Testbed --- Thanks, ANL!

Feb
 Our smart streetlight safety application is mentioned in an article on "the Energy Times" [news article] --- Congrats, Srinivasan and Chris!

Jan
 Adnan Haider named finalist for CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award --- Congrats, Adnan! [news article]
2015 Nov Our paper "Parallel Simulation and Virtual-machine-based Emulation of Software-defined Networks" was accepted by ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation (TOMACS)

Oct Kevin Jin, invited to serve as a guest editor for IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid Special issue on Smart Grid Cyber-Physical Security


Kevin Jin, serves as the General Co-chair for 2016 ACM SIGSIM PADS Workshop on Dynamic Data-Driven Application Systems (DDDAS)

Jul Our educational game on Smart Grid Security, "Agent Jones! v1.0" has been released for evaluation. Thanks Chakree Petpichetchian and Daniela Martinez for the good work!

Jun  "FatTreeSim" wins the best paper award at ACM SIGSIM PADS 2015. --- Congrats, Ning and Adnan! [news article]


 "On Massively Parallel Simulation of Large-Scale Fat-Tree Networks for HPC Systems and Data Centers" wins best poster award at ACM SIGSIM PADS 2015. --- Congrats, Ning!


Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) grant awarded for Dynamic Data-Driven and Real-Time Verification for Industrial Control System Security. --- Thanks, AFOSR!

May
 Kevin Jin received the CS Teacher of the Year Award at IIT.

Apr "FatTreeSim" and "A Virtual Time System for Linux-container-based Emulation of Software-defined Networks" accepted by ACM SIGSIM PADS 2015. --- Congrats, Jiaqi, Ning and Adnan!


"VT-Mininet" accepted by ACM SIGCOMM Symposium on SDN Research (SOSR) 2015. (Early known as HotSDN). --- Congrats, Jiaqi! [source code]


Kevin Jin, invited talk at the 4th Greater Chicago Area System Research Workshop (GCASR)

Mar Kevin Jin, invited to serve on IEEE INFOCOM 2016 TPC