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LIRA Invited Seminar - Dr Mahdieh Sadabadi: Cybersecurity in power-electronics-dominated power grids

Speaker: Dr Mahdieh Sadabadi (University of Sheffield, UK)

Title: Cybersecurity in power-electronics-dominated power grids

Abstract: A reliable electrical power grid is the lifeblood of the economy and essential to every part of UK society, from manufacturing and internet banking to transportation systems and hospitals. Microgrids play a valuable role in the UK energy system not only due to their alignment with the green growth and smart grid UK ambitions but also due to protecting UK power systems from potential grid interruption such as voltage sag and blackouts. Microgrid technology is becoming ever more reliant on reliable data sharing and information exchange in microgrid control and communication systems, as well as acquiring accurate and fine-grained measurements of power demands. With this high involvement of data, the cybersecurity of microgrids is becoming a major challenge. This talk focuses on the development of resilient control systems for power-electronics-dominated microgrids

Brief bio: Dr. Mahdieh S. Sadabadi is currently a Lecturer in the Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom. Prior to that, she was a Research Associate in the Computational and Biological Learning (CBL) Group at the Department of Engineering, the University of Cambridge, and affiliated with Trinity College in Cambridge. She was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Division of Automatic Control at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Linkoping University in Sweden. She received her Ph.D. in Control Systems from Automatic Control Laboratory, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland in February 2016. She was a Visiting Scholar at the Electrical Engineering Department, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, QC, Canada, Methods and Algorithms for Control (MAC) group, LAAS-CNRS in Toulouse, France, and HHMI Janelia Research Campus in Ashburn, VA, USA. Her research interests are generally centered on the control and cybersecurity of large-scale uncertain systems and their applications in power grids, microgrids, and power electronics converters

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