Smart Cyber-Physical Systems Lab

Hadis Karimipour-Director

Dr. Hadis Karimipour is the Director of the Smart Cyber-Physical (SCPS) Lab, an Associate Professor and Chair in Secure and Reliable Networked Engineering Systems in the Department of Electrical and Software Engineering at the University of Calgary. Her research mainly focuses on the application of Artificial Intelligent (AI) and machine learning on the Internet of Things (IoT) and critical infrastructure security.

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​Her research interest includes:

• AI-enabled Monitoring Solution for Smart Cyber-Physical Grids 

• AI-enabled IoT/OT Security

• Anomaly Detection in Critical Cyber-physical System

• Machine Learning/Deep Learning

News

• Dec. 5- 2021- Our paper “A Self-tuning Cyber-Attacks Location Identification Approach for Industrial Internet of Things” is accepted for publication in IEEE Transaction o Industrial Informatics.

• Dec. 3-  2021- Congratulation to Shahrzad on her successful MASc defence.

• Oct. 3- 2021- Our paper “A Deep Neural Network Combined with Radial Basis Function for Abnormality Classification ” is published in Mobile Networks and Applications Journal.

• Sept. 1- 2021- Dr. Karimipour's interview with Cybercrimeology Podcast about research and diversity in engineering and cybersecurity for the cyber-physical systems is available at https://cybercrimeology.com/episodes/who-moved-my-cheese-engineering-smart-farms-grids-and-ai.

• Aug.16-2021- Our paper “A Review on Security of Smart Farming and Precision Agriculture: Security Aspects, Attacks, Threats and Countermeasures” is published in MPDI Applied Sciences Journal.

• Aug.02-2021- Our paper “Generative Adversarial Network to Detect Unseen Internet of Things Malware” is published at Elsevier Ad Hoc Network Journal.

• Jul. 28- 2021- Dr. Karimipour was selected as one of the "Canada's Top 20 Women in Cybersecurity" for 2021 by IT World Canada. https://www.itworldcanada.com/event/virtual/WICS-TV/?f5=no 

• Jul. 19- 2021- Our first informational cybersecurity video is now posted! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ysv57jbMt7k

• Jul.13- 2021- Our paper “Data Aggregation Mechanisms on the Internet of Things: A Systematic Literature Review" is published at Elsevier Internet of Things Journal.

• June 25- 2021- Our paper “Federated Learning for Drone Authentication" is published at  Elsevier Ad Hoc Network Journal.

• June 13- 2021- Our paper “A Review on Virtual Power Plant for Energy Management" is published at  Elsevier Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments Journal.

• May 29- 2021- Our paper “Integration of Blockchain and Federated Learning for Internet of Things:  Recent Advances and Future Challenges" is accepted for publication at  Elsevier Computer & Security Journal.

• Apr. 27- 2021- Our paper “Attack Identification and Localization in Smart Grids Using Ensemble and Representation Learning" is accepted for publication in Elsevier Physical Communication Journal.

• Mar. 17- 2021- Our paper “Towards Intelligent Anomaly Detection and Attribution in IoT-enabled Cyber-physical Grids" is accepted for publication at  IEEE Internet of Things Journal.

• Feb. 9-  2021- Congratulation to Hossein on his successful MASc defence.

• Jan. 15- 2021- Our paper “Resilient Scheduling of Networked Microgrids Against Real-time Failures" is published in the IEEE Access Journal.

• Nov. 19- 2020- Congratulation to Abdul on his successful MASc. defence.