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he is currently an associate professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, New York University (NYU). He is an affiliated faculty member of the Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP) and Center for Cyber Security (CCS) at NYU. He is a recipient of many awards, including NSF CAREER Award, NYU Goddard Junior Faculty Fellowship, NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship (PDF), NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarship (CGS), and Mavis Future Faculty Fellowships. He spearheaded and chaired INFOCOM Workshop on Communications and Control on Smart Energy Systems (CCSES), Midwest Workshop on Control and Game Theory (WCGT), and ICRA workshop on Security and Privacy of Robotics. His current research interests include game theory, machine learning, cyber deception, network optimization and control, smart cities, Internet of Things, and cyber-physical systems. He has served as the general chair or the TPC chair of the 7th and the 11th Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security (GameSec) in 2016 and 2020, the 9th International Conference on NETwork Games, COntrol and OPtimisation (NETGCOOP) in 2018, the 5th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Security (ICAIS 2019) in 2019, and 2020 IEEE Workshop on Information Forensics and Security (WIFS). He is a co-author of three recent books published by Springer: Cyber-Security in Critical Infrastructures: A Game-Theoretic Approach (with S. Rass, S. Schauer, and S. König), A Game- and Decision-Theoretic Approach to Resilient Interdependent Network Analysis and Design (with J. Chen), and Cross-Layer Design for Secure and Resilient Cyber-Physical Systems: A Decision and Game Theoretic Approach (with Z. Xu).
Pavan Kumar Vaddi: Mr. Pavan Kumar Vaddi is a Ph.D. student in the Reliability and Risk Laboratory in the department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at The Ohio State University. He received his B.Tech. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Madras in 2017. His research interests include fault diagnosis and risk assessment for cyber physical systems.
Yunfei Zhao: Dr. Yunfei Zhao is a Research Associate Engineer at The Ohio State University, where he was a Post-doctoral Researcher for 3 years. He earned his doctoral degree in Nuclear Engineering from Tsinghua University and his bachelor's degree in Thermal Energy Engineering from Shandong University. Dr. Zhao's research interests include human reliability analysis, cybersecurity, fault diagnostics, and maintenance optimization for complex engineering systems.
Linan Huang: Dr. Linan Huang received his B.Eng. degree in electrical engineering from the Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT) in 2016. He received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering at New York University (NYU) Tandon School of Engineering in 2022. He was the recipient of the Ernst Weber fellowship from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) to support his studies and research and was advised by Professor Quanyan Zhu at the Laboratory for Agile and Resilient Complex Systems (LARX). During his Ph.D., he was awarded the best student paper award at the 2021 Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security (GameSec 2021) and the 2022 Dante Youla award for research excellence by the NYU ECE department. His research interests are broadly in dynamic decision-making of multi-agent systems, mechanism design, artificial intelligence, security, and resilience of cyber-physical systems.
Xiaoxu Diao: Dr. Xiaoxu Diao is a post-doctoral researcher working in the Reliability and Risk Laboratory in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, The Ohio State University. He received his MTech and Ph.D. degrees in Software Reliability Engineering from the School of Reliability and System Engineering at Beihang University, Beijing, China, in 2006 and 2015, respectively. He has participated in several research and projects regarding software reliability and testing. His research interests are real-time embedded systems, software testing methods, and safety-critical systems. Rakibul Talukder: Mr. Rakibul Talukder is a graduate student in the Computer Science Department at Colorado State University. He received a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Technology from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology in 2017.
Michael C. Pietrykowski: Dr. Michael Pietrykowski received his Ph.D. degree in Nuclear Engineering in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at The Ohio State University in 2022. He holds a B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering (2011) and M.S. in Nuclear Engineering (2017) from the same institution. His research interests include distributed digital instrumentation and control systems.