Vivek Kumar Singh is a senior researcher for the Cybersecurity Evaluation and Application Group within NREL's Energy Security and Resilience Center. He is currently involved in leading a technology commercialization project with an industry vendor, 5G applications for securing distributed energy resources, and NREL's Clean Energy Cybersecurity Accelerator. Previously, Singh worked on several cybersecurity projects for solar, wind, and hydropower funded by the U.S. Department of Energy. He is also involved in proposal writing and development with internal partners and partners from other national laboratories.

Research Interests

Federated machine learning and artificial intelligence for digital twins

Cybersecurity and wireless (5G) application for distributed energy systems

Attack-resilient wide-area monitoring, protection, and control system

Hydropower integration with hybrid energy storage system

Education

Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Iowa State University

B.S., Electrical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Durgapur

Professional Experience

Senior researcher, NREL (2020–Present)

Postdoctoral research associate, Idaho National Laboratory (2020–2021)

Graduate intern, NREL (2019)

Journeyman fellow, U.S. Army Research Laboratory (2017–2018)

Graduate research assistant, Iowa State University (2015–2020)

Summer intern, Michigan State University (2013)

Associations and Memberships

Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Member, IEEE Power and Energy Society

Featured Work

Advanced Grid Operational Technology Edge-Level Threat Detection, NREL Technical Report (2023)

The Virtualized Cyber-Physical Testbed for Machine Learning Anomaly Detection: A Wind Powered Grid Case Study, IEEE Access (2021)

A Cyber-Physical Anomaly Detection for Wide-Area Protection Using Machine Learning, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid (2021)

Review of Design Elements within Power Infrastructure Cyber–Physical Test Beds as Threat Analysis Environments, Energies Journal (2021)

Cyber Kill Chain-Based Hybrid Intrusion Detection System for Smart Grid, Springer (2021)

Impact Analysis of Data Integrity Attacks on FACTS-based Wide-Area Voltage Control System, IEEE Power and Energy Society Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference (2021)

Novel Health Assessment Techniques for a Modern Power Distribution System, IEEE Symposium on Industrial Electronics and Applications (2021)

Design of Attack-Resilient System for Wide-Area Monitoring, Protection, and Control in Smart Grid, IEEE Smart Grid (2020)

A Novel Architecture for Attack-Resilient Wide-Area Protection and Control System in Smart Grid, Resilience Week (2020)

HIDES: Hybrid Intrusion Detector for Energy Systems, IEEE Texas Power and Energy Conference (2020)

SHARP-Net: Platform for Self-Healing and Attack Resilient PMU Networks, IEEE Power and Energy Society Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference (2020)

Testbed-based Performance Evaluation of Attack Resilient Control for Wind Farm SCADA System, IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting (2020)

Patents

Hydro + Storage Sizing Tool (2021)

Systems and Methods for State-Estimation Based Anomaly Detection, BA-1272 (2022)

Tracking of Health and Resilience of Physical Equipment and Related Systems, 63/203, 146 (2022)

Dispatchable Power and Hybrid Energy Storage Integrated Architecture for Frequency Regulation, BA-1355 (2022)

Network Visualization, Intrusion Detection, and Network Healing, U.S. Patent No. 17/069,320 (2020)

Awards and Honors

North American Synchrophasor Initiative Outstanding Graduate Student of the Year (2020)

Research Excellence Award, Iowa State University (2020)

Best Paper Award, Resilience Week (2019)

Best Paper Award, Resilience Week (2019)

3^rd Best Power Award, Texas Power and Energy Conference (2020)

2^nd Lightening Talk Award at Resilience Week (2018)

Journeyman Fellowship Award, U.S. Army Research Laboratory (2017)