iFAN Lab members, Dr. Fan Zhang, Sungmin Kim, and Stephen Yoo, participated and showed the great work of the lab in the NPIC&HMIT 2023 conference held in Knoxville, Tennessee. As session chair of two technical sessions and two panel discussions, Dr. Zhang actively lead the idea sharing on cyber security for LWRs and advanced reactors and risk-informed cyber security. Sungmin presented his work in cyber-attack detection and distinguish system for nuclear power plants, and participated in the student research lighting round presenting robot assisted online monitoring framework for nuclear power plants. Stephen presented his work of resilience strategy against false data injection attacks targeting nuclear power plants. The lab members were able to gain valuable feedbacks and experience throughout the conference. Way to go, iFAN Lab!
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Georgia Tech Researchers Awarded $1M for Nuclear Energy Project
Congratulations! Dr. Fan Zhang has been awarded $1 million from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for a nuclear energy research project through the Nuclear Engineering University Program (NEUP) as a co-PI. With the lead PI, Dr. Shaheen Dewji, the lab will start working on the project “Risk-Informed Consequence-Driven Hybrid Cyber-Physical Protection System Security Optimization for Advanced Reactor Sites.” The project aims to develop an expanded methodology for designing a novel risk-informed cybersecurity-integrated physical protection system (PPS) framework for advanced reactor (AR) concepts that serve to reduce the operational costs for the life of a reactor against that of a traditional light water reactor PPS design, promoting efforts to credit safety features of advanced reactors through proposed amendments to current security regulations while integrating health and economic consequence analyses.