ELECO 2023 Invited Talks

Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security and Power Networks: the IEC 61850 Standard

Sule YILDIRIM YAYILGAN

Faculty of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Gjøvik, Norway

E-mail: sule.yildirim@ntnu.no

Abstract – In this talk, I will be navigating in the artificial intelligence, cyber security and power networks landscape in order to provide a brief view on the status of how these three domains provide an intersection in today’s world.

Examples of how artificial intelligence is used in the power networks and the reasons for why cybersecurity is important in power network security will be provided.

Nevertheless, artificial intelligence can be used to provide cyber security as well as it can be a source of security challenges in the power network infrastructures in different components and in the communication lines.

On the other hand, "IEC 61850: Communication networks and systems for power utility automation" standard series is used to implement the process bus and the station bus communication in digital substations.

I will then look into whether IEC 61850 standards integrate any artificial intelligence algorithms or it can be complemented with the use of artificial intelligence approaches in order to improve the cybersecurity challenges in the digital substation.



  


Professor Sule YILDIRIM YAYILGAN

Biography - Sule Yildirim Yayilgan received the M.Sc. degree in computer engineering in 1995 and the Ph.D. degree in artificial intelligence and computer science from Ege University, Izmir, Turkey, in 1995 and 2002, respectively.

She has been working with the Department of Information Security and Communication Technology (IIK), NTNU, Gjøvik, Norway, since 2009.

She has worked for more than 25 years in academia teaching and doing research and served as the Head of the Department from 2005 to 2009.

She has participated in projects funded by EU Horizon 2020, Eurostars, Erasmus+ programs, the Research Council of Norway, the Regional Research Council of Norway, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norway.

She belongs to the Center for Cyber Information Security, and she is leading the research group MR PET: Multidisciplinary Research Group on Privacy and data protEcTion.

She has been supervising students at different academic levels and has been publishing more than 100 journals and conference papers.

She is one of the editors of international conference book on Intelligent Technologies and Applications in 2020.


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