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Alvaro A. Cardenas is a researcher affiliated with the University of California, Santa Cruz in the United States. Their work primarily spans the fields of Engineering and Computer Science, with a total of 41 publications in each area. Within these domains, their research contributions focus on several subfields including Control and Systems Engineering, Computer Networks and Communications, Artificial Intelligence, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Information Systems.

The scientist's research extensively covers topics related to Smart Grid Security and Resilience, reflecting the highest concentration of their work with 42 publications. Additional significant topics include Network Security and Intrusion Detection, Information and Cyber Security, Radiation Effects in Electronics, Security and Verification in Computing, Traffic Prediction and Management Techniques, and Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) and Hardware Security.

Alvaro A. Cardenas has contributed to multiple recent papers published in reputable venues. These include:

  • Smart Grid Cyber-Physical Situational Awareness of Complex Operational Technology Attacks: A Review, 2022, ACM Computing Surveys
  • Digital Substations and IEC 61850: A Primer, 2023, IEEE Communications Magazine
  • Control Barrier Function-Based Attack-Recovery with Provable Guarantees, 2022, 2022 IEEE 61st Conference on Decision and Control (CDC)
  • A switching-based Moving Target Defense against sensor attacks in control systems, 2022, Nonlinear Analysis Hybrid Systems
  • SCADA World: An Exploration of the Diversity in Power Grid Networks, 2024, Proceedings of the ACM on Measurement and Analysis of Computing Systems

Their frequent co-authors include Neil Ortiz, Ricardo G. Sanfelice, Luis Burbano, Jennifer S. Holmes, and Daniel Barbosa. Collaboration with these researchers occurs repeatedly across different projects and publications.

Publication venues where Alvaro A. Cardenas often publishes research include arXiv (Cornell University) with 9 papers, IEEE Communications Magazine, and the 2022 IEEE 61st Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), among others. These outlets reflect engagements with both preprint repositories and well-established academic conferences and journals.

Best Publications

  • Secure Control: Towards Survivable Cyber-Physical Systems

    A.A. Cardenas;S. Amin;S. Sastry

  • Attacks against process control systems: risk assessment, detection, and response

    Alvaro A. Cárdenas;Saurabh Amin;Zong-Syun Lin;Yu-Lun Huang

  • Research challenges for the security of control systems

    Alvaro A. Cárdenas;Saurabh Amin;Shankar Sastry

  • Safe and Secure Networked Control Systems under Denial-of-Service Attacks

    Saurabh Amin;Alvaro A. Cárdenas;S. Shankar Sastry

  • A Survey of Physics-Based Attack Detection in Cyber-Physical Systems

    Jairo Giraldo;David Urbina;Alvaro Cardenas;Junia Valente

  • Limiting the Impact of Stealthy Attacks on Industrial Control Systems

    David I. Urbina;Jairo A. Giraldo;Alvaro A. Cardenas;Nils Ole Tippenhauer

  • Big Data Analytics for Security

    Alvaro A. Cardenas;Pratyusa K. Manadhata;Sreeranga P. Rajan

  • Security and Privacy in Cyber-Physical Systems: A Survey of Surveys

    Jairo Giraldo;Esha Sarkar;Alvaro A. Cardenas;Michail Maniatakos

  • Understanding the physical and economic consequences of attacks on control systems

    Yu Lun Huang;Alvaro A. Cárdenas;Saurabh Amin;Zong Syun Lin

  • Semantic middleware for the Internet of Things

    Zhexuan Song;Alvaro A. Cardenas;Ryusuke Masuoka

  • Detection and prevention of MAC layer misbehavior in ad hoc networks

    Alvaro A. Cárdenas;Svetlana Radosavac;John S. Baras

  • Game-Theoretic Models of Electricity Theft Detection in Smart Utility Networks: Providing New Capabilities with Advanced Metering Infrastructure

    Saurabh Amin;Galina A. Schwartz;Alvaro A. Cardenas;S. Shankar Sastry

  • Smart Grid Cyber-Physical Situational Awareness of Complex Operational Technology Attacks: A Review

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  • Evaluating electricity theft detectors in smart grid networks

    Daisuke Mashima;Alvaro A. Cárdenas

  • Rethinking security properties, threat models, and the design space in sensor networks: A case study in SCADA systems

    Alvaro A. Cardenas;Tanya Roosta;Shankar Sastry

  • A game theory model for electricity theft detection and privacy-aware control in AMI systems

    Alvaro A. Cardenas;Saurabh Amin;Galina Schwartz;Roy Dong

  • A framework for the evaluation of intrusion detection systems

    A.A. Cardenas;J.S. Baras;K. Seamon

  • AMI threats, intrusion detection requirements and deployment recommendations

    David Grochocki;Jun Ho Huh;Robin Berthier;Rakesh Bobba

  • Towards a secure and interoperable DRM architecture

    Gelareh Taban;Alvaro A. Cárdenas;Virgil D. Gligor

  • A multi-layered and kill-chain based security analysis framework for cyber-physical systems

    Adam Hahn;Roshan K. Thomas;Ivan Lozano;Alvaro Cardenas

  • Integrity Attacks on Real-Time Pricing in Smart Grids: Impact and Countermeasures

    Jairo Giraldo;Alvaro Cardenas;Nicanor Quijano

Frequent Co-Authors

Shankar Sastry
Shankar Sastry University of California, Berkeley
John S. Baras
John S. Baras University of Maryland, College Park
Murat Kantarcioglu
Murat Kantarcioglu The University of Texas at Dallas
Avishai Wool
Avishai Wool Tel Aviv University
Henrik Sandberg
Henrik Sandberg Royal Institute of Technology
George V. Moustakides
George V. Moustakides University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
William H. Sanders
William H. Sanders Carnegie Mellon University
Ross Baldick
Ross Baldick The University of Texas at Austin
Jens Grossklags
Jens Grossklags Technical University of Munich

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