Secure, Resilient Cyber-Physical Energy System Workforce Pathways via Data-Centric, Hardware-in-the-Loop Training

<p dir="ltr">This project will establish a CyberTraining hub of cyber physical energy systems in Southern Florida, a region that suffers from numerous coastal processes impacting critical infrastructures and therefore would greatly benefit from resilience and security research and education. This project aims to provide students and researchers with mentored, hands-on training. The faculty team has expertise across power engineering, communication networks, data science, and cyber/hardware security to build a novel model for energy cyberinfrastructure resilience education. The curriculum and instructional materials to be developed will bring advanced skills from multiple areas, under the umbrella of cyber-physical energy systems. Participants will develop and refine multi-disciplinary skillsets needed for the data-centric energy industry, using the unique, remotely connected smart grid cyberinfrastructure. Participants will extend their academic research portfolios, strengthening their career competitiveness as future cyberinfrastructure professionals and users. Two-week workshops will immerse undergraduate/graduate students and researchers in a unique training opportunity through laboratory demonstrations and mini workshops. Semester-long projects will provide research-intensive training and further strengthen the participants' real-world problem-solving capabilities.</p>