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Deepa Kundur is Professor & Chair of The Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto. A native of Toronto, Canada, she received the B.A.Sc., M.A.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees all in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 1993, 1995, and 1999, respectively, from the University of Toronto.<\/p>\n

Professor Kundur\u2019s research interests lie at the interface of cybersecurity, signal processing and complex dynamical networks. She is an author of over 200 journal and conference papers and is a recognized authority on cybersecurity issues. She \u00a0has served as Honorary Chair of the\u00a02021 IEEE Electric Power and Energy Conference,\u00a0<\/a>TPC Co-Chair of\u00a02023 IEEE SmartGridComm,\u00a0<\/a>Publicity Chair for\u00a0ICASSP 2021<\/a>, Track Chair for the\u00a02020 IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Systems<\/a>, General Chair of the\u00a02018 GlobalSIP Symposium on Information Processing<\/a>, Learning and Optimization for Smart Energy Infrastructures, TPC Co-Chair for\u00a0IEEE SmartGridComm 2018<\/a>. Symposium Co-Chair for the\u00a0Communications for the Smart Grid Track<\/em>\u00a0of\u00a0ICC 2017<\/a>,\u00a0General Chair for the\u00a0Workshop on Communications, Computation and Control for Resilient Smart Energy Systems<\/a>\u00a0at\u00a0ACM e-Energy 2016<\/a>,\u00a0General Chair for the\u00a0Workshop on Cyber-Physical Smart Grid Security and Resilience at Globecom 2016<\/a>,\u00a0General Chair for the\u00a0Symposium on Signal \u00a0and Information Processing for Smart Grid Infrastructures at GlobalSIP 2016<\/a>, General Chair for the\u00a02015 International Conference on Smart Grids for Smart Cities<\/a>\u00a0, General Chair for the\u00a02015 Smart Grid Resilience (SGR) Workshop at\u00a0<\/a>IEEE GLOBECOM 2015<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0General Chair for the\u00a0IEEE GlobalSIP\u201915 Symposium on Signal and Information Processing for Optimizing Future Energy Systems<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Professor Kundur has participated on several editorial boards and funding panels. She currently served on the Advisory Board of\u00a0IEEE Spectrum<\/a>\u00a0and, from 2013 to 2020, served as a member, Section chair and eventually Group Chair on the NSERC Discovery Grant Panel 1510 (Electrical & Computer Engineering), a salient source of federal research funding in Canada.<\/p>\n

Professor Kundur\u2019s\u00a0research has received best paper recognitions at numerous venues including the 2015 IEEE Smart Grid Communications Conference, the 2015 IEEE Electrical Power and Energy Conference, the 2012 IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical & Computer Engineering,\u00a0the 2011 Cyber Security and Information Intelligence Research Workshop and the 2008\u00a0IEEE INFOCOM Workshop on Mission Critical Networks. She has also been the recipient of teaching awards at both the University of Toronto and Texas A&M University. She is a\u00a0Fellow of the IEEE, a\u00a0Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, and a Senior Fellow of Massey College.<\/p><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n

Kundur Research Group<\/h4><\/div>

Our objectives are to develop tractable models of cyber and physical systems and their couplings within modern intelligent systems to:<\/p>\n

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  1. identify inherent vulnerabilities<\/li>\n
  2. detect and predict outcomes<\/li>\n
  3. respond appropriately to circumstance<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>
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    Deepa Kundur is Professor & Chair of The Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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