Prof. Shadmand will serve as Principal Investigator for Development of PKC and PUF-Based Authentication and Secret Key Establishment in Smart Grid funded by U.S. Department of Energy

IPEG Research lab to investigate the security vulnerabilities of existing standards by integrating authentication, secret key establishment, and encryption-based secure communication mechanisms with existing standards for reliable authentication and communication between smart grid nodes, inverters’ gateways, and other grid-edge devices.

The project entitled “PKC and PUF-Based Authentication and Secret Key Establishment in Smart Grid” is selected for funding by U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for $3.9 Million (2024-2027). The project collaborators are Kansas State University, University of Illinois Chicago, Florida International University, Florida Power & Light, National Instrument and Testforce.

Prof. Shadmand serves as PI at UIC and the project is led by Prof. Arslan Munir at Kansas State University.