Dr. Peng Zhang

Professor
Stony Brook University

Abstract

Communication has always played a vital role in microgrids in maintaining reliable operations and achieving resilience benefits, and will be even more critical with the increasing deployment of renewable energy sources, information technologies, and real-time automation and control systems. However, existing classical cryptographic methods for securing microgrid communication are based on mathematical assumptions, which are vulnerable to attacks from quantum computers. This seminar reviews the current status of developing quantum-secure microgrids, namely, microgrids that are secure against attacks from quantum computers. Specifically, I will discuss why  implementing quantum security is important, how quantum security can be integrated into  a single microgrid and networked microgrids (NMS), respectively. Future perspectives to make quantum security more practical in microgrids will also be introduced.

Biography

Dr. Peng Zhang is a Full Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and a SUNY Empire Innovation Professor at Stony Brook University, New York. His research interests include AI-enabled smart grids, quantum-engineered power grids, networked microgrids, power system stability and control, cybersecurity, and formal methods and reachability analysis. He is the author of Networked Microgrids published by Cambridge University Press, and Microgrids: Theory and Practice by Wiley-IEEE Press.  Dr. Zhang  established a series of quantum computing, quantum security, quantum networking and quantum machine learning algorithms that have been successfully implemented on  today’s  noisy intermediate-scale quantum computers to solve challenging power system problems.

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