Kishan Baranwal, Haresh Dagale, ’A Survey of Machine Learning Resources for IEC 61850 in Power Grid Security’ [accepted at 11th IEEE International Conference on intelligent data and security (IDS) 2025; New York, United States.]
Kishan Baranwal, Haresh Dagale, Vikas Bishnoi, ’Critical IEC 61850 MMS Feature Selection for ML-Driven IDS’ [accepted at 11th ACM Cyber-Physical System Security Workshop (CPSS) 2025; Hanoi, Vietnam.]
S. Sharma, K. Baranwal, P. Rathore, C. Singh, G. Gurrala, and V. Bishnoi, “Guarding Digital Substations,” [submitted in IEEE Power & Energy Magazine 2026.]
Title: TYLOR: TDC-based Low-Overhead Synthesizable Power SCA Countermeasure on FPGAs, IEEE Design & Test Journal Authors:Samarth Shivakumar Titti, Harshit Saurabh, Debayan Das
Title: Securing IEC 61850 Smart Grids Communication Protocols with AI: Challenges, Opportunities and the Path forward, Author: Punit Rathore
Title: Large Alphabet Set Time-bin Encoded Measurement-Device-Independent Quantum Key Distribution, Authors: Gokul Agasthilingam, Harinee Natarajan, and Varun Raghunathan. Venue: Physics Archives
Conference
Shashank S, G. Gurrala, P. S. Sastry, V. Katewa. Cyber-Physical Modeling and Vulnerability Assessment of Substations for Transmission System Operator. Power Systems Computation Conference (PSCC), Paris, France, 2024
L. Pai Angle, Prashanth S, Shashank S, V. Bishnoi, M. Kumar, G. Gurrala and V. Katewa. Substation Vulnerability Assessment Using Bayesian Network. IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies, Asia Conference (ISGT Asia), Bangalore, India, 2024
A. Banerjee and U. Banerjee, “A High-Performance Curve25519 and Curve448 Unified Elliptic Curve Cryptography Accelerator,” IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing Conference (HPEC), Boston, MA, USA, September 2024.
Shashank S, N. Aahladh, Sridevi P Rao, G. Gurrala, V. Katewa, V. Bishnoi and M. Kumar. Analyzing Risk in Power Substations through an Automated Vulnerability Assessment Tool. International Conference on Power Systems (ICPS), Hyderabad, India, 2025.
A. Banerjee, U. Banerjee, “Securing IEC 61850 with Ascon Lightweight Authenticated Encryption: A Case Study,” IEEE Future Networks World Forum (FNWF), November 2025. Link: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11317357
K. S. T. Ramapragada, U. Banerjee, “A 0.05mm2 1.19-to-7.34mW SQIsign-1D Isogeny-Based Post-Quantum Signature Verification Accelerator for IoT,” IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), February 2026. Link: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11408981
Title: Study of Cybersecurity in Power Automation: Implementation Challenges of IEC 62351 for IEC 61850 SystemsAuthors: Kiran TS, Gurunath Gurrala, Siva Chaitanya
Title: Beyond Memory Safety: A Paradigm and Benchmark for Semantic Logic Bug Detection in IoT Firmware, Venue: ACSAC – 2026, Author: Haresh Dagale
Title: Smart Automated Optical Inspection of PCBs, Authors: Pratham Parlecha, Soma Biswas, Gayathri S V, Dr. T.V. Prabhakar, Venue: Denver, CO, USA
Title: Time-bin encoded higher dimensional measurement device independent quantum key distribution, Authors: Gokul Agasthilingam, Harinee Natarajan, and Varun Raghunathan. Venue: Proceedings of SPIE 13919, Quantum Computing, Communication, and Simulation VI
Title: Comparison between high-dimensional time-bin encoded measurement device independent and prepare-and-measure quantum key distribution, Authors: Gokul Agasthilingam, Harinee Natarajan, and Varun Raghunathan. Venue: Proceedings of SPIE, Quantum Technologies 2026
Patents
Patent filed – “AUTHENTICATING MESSAGES PRIOR TO TRANSMISSION FROM A MAIN SYSTEM TO A PLURALITY OF SUBSYSTEMS“
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