CALCON 2022

Prof. SAIFUR RAHMAN

Director, Virginia Tech Advanced Research Institute, USA | President, IEEE Power & Energy Society, 2018 & 2019
| 2022 IEEE President-Elect

Bio:
Professor Saifur Rahman is the founding director of the Advanced Research Institute at Virginia Tech, USA where he is the Joseph R. Loring professor of electrical and computer engineering. He also directs the Center for Energy and the Global Environment. He is a Life Fellow of the IEEE and an IEEE Millennium Medal winner. He is the 2022 IEEE President-elect and was the president of the IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES) for 2018 and 2019. He was the founding editor-in-chief of the IEEE Electrification Magazine and the IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy. He has published over 150 journal papers and has made over five hundred conference and invited presentations. He is the founder of BEM Controls, LLC, a Virginia (USA)-based software company providing building energy management solutions. He has conducted several energy efficiency, blockchain and sensor integration projects for Duke Energy, Tokyo Electric Power Company, the US National Science Foundation, the US Department of Defense, the US Department of Energy and the State of Virginia. He has a PhD in electrical engineering from Virginia Tech.

Title: The Existential Threat of Climate Change: How Should We Respond?

This lecture will address what is climate change, what is causing it and how it is impacting the daily lives of citizens around the world. In the context the author will the issue of greenhouse gas emissions and how it can be reduced to help mitigate the effect of climate change.

There has been a major focus placed on the carbon produced through electricity generation, as it is responsible for roughly 30% of emissions globally, When focusing on the energy sector alone, it is apparent that nation states are coalescing into two groups when targeting carbon reductions:

• Industrialized nation states, which have been responsible for the vast majority of the total CO2 emissions thus far.
• Emerging economies, which are less responsible for past carbon emissions, but increasing their carbon emissions at a much faster rate.

As the former pushes the latter, which are heavily reliant on fossil fuels to transition towards renewable energy solutions in the future, there is a tension that needs to be navigated if we are to meet CO2 reduction targets globally- and they are, to be clear, shared targets.

A nuanced approach to navigating this tension will be presented which will require industrialized nation states to collaborate with emerging economies to deploy a portfolio of solutions with low-carbon generation including nuclear, hydrogen, storage and demand side management with advanced technology focusing on energy efficiency.

Prof. Neelesh B. Mehta

Professor, ECE Dept., Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India

Bio:
Neelesh B. Mehta is a Professor in the Department of Electrical Communication Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore. His research group focuses on the design, modeling, analysis, and optimization of 5G and beyond wireless systems. He received his B. Tech. degree from IIT Madras in 1996 and his Masters' and Ph.D. degrees from the California Institute of Technology, USA in 1997 and 2001. Until 2007, he worked in the USA as a research scientist at AT&T Research Labs, Broadcom Corp., and Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs.

• He is a Fellow of the IEEE, Indian National Science Academy (INSA), Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE), and National Academy of Sciences India (NASI).
• He is a recipient of the IIT Roorkee's Khosla National Award, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award, Vikram Sarabhai Research Award, DST-Swarnajayanti Fellowship, and NASI-Scopus Young Scientist Award.
• He currently serves as the Chair of the Steering Committee of the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications and is a member secretary of the IEEE ComSoc Nominations and Elections committee.
• He served on the Executive Editorial Committee of the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications during 2014-17 and was its Chair during 2017-18. He also served on the Board of Governors of the IEEE Communications Society from 2012-15.

Title: Interference-Aware Design of 5G and Beyond Cellular Communication Systems

Abstract:
Interference has been an integral aspect of cellular communication systems since 2G, which strive for increasingly higher spectral efficiencies and reuse the scarce spectrum as aggressively as possible. 5G systems incorporate several new technologies to meet their diverse requirements. These have led to new sources of interferences and require a fresh look at cellular system design.
The talk focuses on understanding how interference and, equally importantly, the information available about it affect allocation and scheduling of scare wireless resources by the cellular base station. It takes a close look at two technologies, one of which is already in 5G while the other is being actively considered for 6G. The first technology is device-to-device or sidelink communications, which enables two vehicles or mobiles to talk directly with each other without routing their signals through the base station. The second technology is full-duplex radio, which promises to double the spectral efficiency by enabling a wireless node to transmit and receive simultaneously on the same band. We highlight the new sources of interference that arise in these and related technologies, and bring out some common threads in the design of interference-aware algorithms and protocols for them.

Prof. Sandeep K. Shukla

Professor, Computer Science and Engineering department at IIT Kanpur, India

Bio:
Prof. Sandeep K. Shukla is an IEEE fellow, and ACM Distinguished Scientist. He is currently a professor of Computer Science and Engineering department at IIT Kanpur which he headed during 2017-2020. He was the editor in chief of the ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems during 2013-2020. He is currently associate editor of ACM Transactions on Cyber Physical Systems, and Journal of the British Blockchain Association. In the past he has served as associate editors of IEEE Transactions on Computers, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, IEEE Design and Test, and IEEE Embedded Systems Letters. Before joining IIT Kanpur in 2015, he was a professor at Virginia Tech, USA. He served as ACM Distinguished Speaker, and IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Visitor in the past. He has authored over 300 peer reviewed journal and conference papers, and authored/edited 10 books. He was awarded the Presidential Early Career Award in Science and Engineering (PECASE) in 2004, The Bessel Award by Humboldt Foundation in 2009, a Distinguished Alumnus Award by SUNY Albany in 2007, a Ramanujan Fellowship in 2015. His major research interest is Cyber Security of Critical Infrastructures, Cyber Security of IT/OT systems, and Applications of Blockchain Technology in Security and Privacy.

Title: Cyber Security of Cyber Physical Systems: A C3iHub Perspective

Abstract:
Much of our national critical infrastructure is based on Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) such as the power grid, oil and gas refineries and pipelines, water and sewage treatment systems, industrial automation etc. As a result, these are lucrative targets for nation state attackers and advanced persistent threat groups (APT). On the other hand, these systems being cyber physical are increasingly digital and network connected during IP convergence trends. These trends have given rise to a wide attack surface which cyber attackers continue to exploit. Cyber Security and Cyber Defense of such cyber physical systems is of paramount importance today. As part of the National Mission on CPS (NMCPS), we have established the national technology hub (TIH) on cyber security of cyber physical systems. In this talk we will outline the various cyber security research and technology development work in the C3iHub and explain some of the novel technologies developed and deployed in real industrial sites by the C3iHub.