On 9 Sep, 2018
A paper by Dr. Saleh Soltan, a former WiMNet Ph.D. student, that focuses on the vulnerabilities of the power grid to attacks leveraging Internet of Things (IoT) devices was published in USENIX Security’18. The paper was featured in numerous media…
On 30 Apr, 2018
WiMNet former Ph.D. students Saleh Soltan and Varun Gupta, current Ph.D. student Tingjun Chen, and former M.S. student Steven Alfano received four awards from the Department of Electrical Engineering: Saleh received the Jury Award – “Established in 1991, this award is presented to…
On 15 Jul, 2017
Saleh Soltan successfully defended his Ph.D. Thesis titled “Computational and Analytical Tools for Resilient and Secure Power Grids”. Over the past few years, Saleh has led WiMNet lab’s efforts in the area of power grid resilience to cyber attacks and…
On 16 May, 2017
A recent article in the Columbia Engineering Magazine unveiled the vision of Columbia Engineering for Humanity. It highlights five focus areas and discusses WiMNet lab’s research (in collaboration with Prof. Dan Bienstock) as an example of the research in the…
On 31 Jul, 2016
A paper by WiMNet Ph.D. student Saleh Soltan titled “Quantifying the Effect of k-line Failures in Power Grids” was selected as one the 19 best paper finalists in the Power System Modeling and Analysis category at 2016 IEEE Power and Energy Society General…
On 18 Jun, 2016
WiMNet Lab takes part in a project awarded to Los Alamos National Lab (LANL) within the framework of the DOE Grid Modernization Laboratory Consortium (GMLC) (see news item). The $3M project titled “Advanced Machine Learning for Synchrophasor Technology” is being led by…