Project Team

Mr. Edmond Rogers is a Smart Grid Cybersecurity Engineer at the University of Illinois Infor- mation Trust Institute (ITI). Mr. Rogers has been actively involved in research at ITI, including CyPSA, NetAPT and LZFuzz. Rogers co-founded Network Perception and kaedago, Inc. Mr. Rogers was previously a security analyst for Ameren, responsible for cyber security and NERC CIP compliance. He was also a security manager and network architect for Boston Financial Data Systems (BFDS) and founded Bluegrass.Net, one of the first Internet service providers in Ken- tucky. Rogers leverages his experience to assist ITI in creating laboratory conditions that closely reflect real-world configurations. Rogers speaks across the world on defense of critical infrastructure at conferences such as Blackhat, Defcon, BsidesLV, Troopers, BerlinSides, H2HC, 31c0n, Daycon, 617con, and he is currently president of Hackito ergo Sum.

Dr. Saman Zonouz is founder and CEO of Sekurity LLC and Associate Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Georgia Institute of Technology, and the Director of the 4N6 Cyber Security and Forensics Laboratory. Dr. Zonouz is a Permanent Resident of United States and has applied for U.S. Citizenship. Dr. Zonouz’s work focuses on mobile and IoT systems security and privacy, trustworthy embedded, IoT and cyber-physical systems, binary/malware analysis and reverse engineering. His applied research and development efforts received numerous awards including the NSF CAREER Award in 2015. At Sekurity LLC, Dr. Zonouz is working closely with Siemens and DHS to incorporate his embedded system security solutions into products.

Dr. Shamina Hossain-McKenzie is a Cybersecurity Researcher at Sandia National Laboratories. She received her Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2017; her dissertation focused on developing proactive strategies against distributed controller compromise in the power grid. Her research interests include power system resilience, grid modeling and simulation, mitigation strategy development for cyber attacks, and distributed energy resource (DER) cybersecurity.

Dr. Eric Vugrin is a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories in the Cyber Resilience Research and Development Department. He leads the development of math- ematical cyber resilience metrics, modeling, and analysis techniques for Sandia’s emerging cyber resilience initiative. His work integrates the mathematics of control and game theory with cyber security expertise and modeling and simulation to inform and design resilience into information technology (IT) and operational technology (OT) systems. His work is being leveraged for the US Army (NETCOM), DARPA, and other agencies.

Mr. James O’Brien is a Power Systems Engineer with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Prior to that, he was a senior engineer at Peak Reliability from 2014-2016, and a transmission sys- tem operations engineer at BPA from 2008-2014. Before attending college, he served as a super- visory nuclear electrician aboard the USS NIMITZ until 2005. His main area of expertise is bulk power system operations including dynamic analysis, generation, system protection and small signal stability.

Dr. Mark Rice is a Senior Power Systems Engineer with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Dr. Rice improves power grid operation through his research on cyber security, transmission and distribution power system state estimation, contingency analysis, and human factors of operators. Previously, he served as a lead investigator on research with AREVA and utilities to investigate improvements in state estimation with the addition of syncrophasor measurements.