Saleh Soltan (WiMNet Ph.D. student) and Dr. Guy Grebla (a postdoc co-advised with Prof. Daniel Bienstock) received the Best Poster Award in the yearly program review of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA). The poster entitled “Cascading Failures in the Power Grid – Analytical Properties and…
Engility was recently selected as prime contractor on a Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) Indefinite-Delivery/Indefinite-Quantity (IDIQ) award, which focuses on combating weapons of mass destruction. The WiMNet Lab is one of the participants in the Engility team. Within the framework…
An article in the Columbia Magazine discusses our research in the area of power and communication networks vulnerability to large scale attacks. In particular, it discusses a recent grant from DTRA received by Prof. Zussman (PI), Prof. Dan Bienstock (Columbia, IEOR Department), and…
A Columbia Spectator article, entitled “SEAS Professors Receive Grant to Research Power Outages” discusses our work in the area of power grid resilience.
Prof. Gil Zussman along with co-PIs Prof. Dan Bienstock from the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research and Prof. Eytan Modiano from MIT received a $1.05M grant from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA). The project will focus on studying the resilience of the power grid to…
Dr. Reuven Cohen (PI), Dr. David Hay (former WiMNet postdoc), Prof. Eytan Modiano, Prof. Ariel Orda, and Prof. Gil Zussman received a grant from the US-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF). The project will focus on coping with physical attacks on…
