November 21, 2024
Amy Babay, an assistant professor in the departments of Informatics & Networked Systems and Computer Science, along with PhD student Huzaifah Nadeem, Maher Khan (SCI ’24G), and Benjamin Gilby (SCI ’23), received the Best Paper Award at the 43rd International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS).
Their paper, “Tolerating Compound Threats in Critical Infrastructure Control Systems," addresses the issue of compound threats, when cyberattacks target infrastructure that has been damaged or stressed by natural hazards. Their work demonstrates that existing power control systems are unable to handle these threats and proposes dynamically reconfigurable architectures as one possible approach to improving resilience.
Babay, Nadeem, Khan, and Gilby collaborated with computer scientists, civil engineers, and electrical engineers from Johns Hopkins University, the Defense Logistics Agency, Colorado State University, Florida International University, the University of Cyprus, and George Mason University.
Nadeem also received the SRDS PhD Forum Award at the conference for his presentation of “Evaluating and Designing Routing Protocols for Reliable Distributed Quantum Systems.”
“Tolerating Compound Threats in Critical Infrastructure Control Systems” can be read here.
Please join us in congratulating Dr. Babay, Nadeem, Khan, and Gilby on these achievements!