ECE Seminar - Security, Privacy and Network Intelligence in the CPS/IoT Era
Abstract: The past few years have witnessed the explosive growth of Cyber-physical System (CPS) and Internet of Things (IoT). These phrases emerged from different communities, but they refer to a related set of trends in integrating information and communication technologies (ICT) with engineered systems and physical devices to enhance performance and functionality. From a unified perspective, the emerging convergence of CPS and IoT concepts is referred to as CPS/IoT. While CPS/IoT bring unprecedented efficiency and productivity, the embedded information system, especially if wireless communications are used, exhibits vast vulnerabilities for adversaries to explore. This talk covers three aspects of CPS/IoT, its security, privacy, and network intelligence, and the third one will be expanded in specific. This is an interdisciplinary study, wherein fundamental connections between local responses of shifting in graph signal processing (GSP) field, and the system observability in control theory are established. It serves as a starting point to reinterpret GSP from the viewpoint of control theory, and it is promising to develop this field further by establishing fundamental theories and practical applications.
Kemi Ding received the B.S. degree in Electronic and Information Engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China, in 2014 and the Ph.D. degree in the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2018. Currently she is an Associate Professor in the department of System Design and Industrial Manufacturing. Prior to this, she was a postdoctoral researcher in the School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, Arizona State University from September 2018 to August 2019, and a postdoctoral researcher at the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, from August 2019 to October 2021. She is the recipient of the NSFC for Outstanding Youth Scholar (Oversea, 2022). Her current research interests include security and privacy in Cyber-physical systems/Internet-of-things, intelligent control and decision, networked state estimation, game theory, and graph signal processing.