Dr Sridhar Adepu
B Tech, M Tech, PhD
Expertise
My research interests are in the security of Cyber Physical Systems (CPS), Industrial Control Systems and Critical Infrastructure. My research takes a multidisciplinary approach to tackle the security issues associated with CPS.
Current positions
Lecturer
School of Computer Science
Contact
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Biography
I am a Lecturer in Cyber Physical Systems Security in Computer Science at University of Bristol. I am a core member of the Bristol Cyber Security Group and part of the MSc infrastructure security programme. I also lectures and supervise PhD students at EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Cyber Security. I was a Postdoctoral researcher at Advanced Digital Sciences Center (ADSC)(affiliated to UIUC). I was also a President Graduate Fellow in the Information Systems Technology and Design pillar at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) under the supervision of Professor Aditya Mathur and Professor Jianying Zhou. I am also part of iTrust, centre for research in cyber security, where I have been involving in multiple Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) security projects. I was a visiting researcher and got an opportunity to work with Professor Eunsuk Kang and Professor David Garlan in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). During my stay at CMU, I was associated with CyLab and ABLE. I received a Masters in Computer Science and Engineering from National Institute of Technology. I was part of the organising committee of Critical Infrastructure Security Showdown (CISS) (Industrial CTF-games) four times where independent attack teams design and launch attacks on operational water treatment while defence teams protect the plant passively and raise alarms upon attack detection. My work also supported Crossed Swords exercise and Locked Shields organised by NATO which brought together technical experts, Cyber Commands' members, Special Forces operators and military police.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Securing Convergent Ultra-large Scale Infrastructures
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Computer ScienceDates
01/09/2024 to 31/08/2029
Resilience and Safety to attack in ICS and CPS
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Computer ScienceDates
01/09/2023 to 31/08/2026
Bristol Cyber Defence Exercise on Critical National Infrastructure
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Department of Computer ScienceDates
01/05/2023 to 30/09/2023
Publications
Recent publications
31/07/2023A Digital Forensic Taxonomy For Programmable Logic Controller Data Artefacts
2023 IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops (EuroS&PW)
Super Detector: An Ensemble Approach for Anomaly Detection in Industrial Control Systems
the 16th International Conference on Critical Information Infrastructures Security (CRITIS 2021)
Teaching
1. Resilient Socio-technical Infrastructures: Students learn about approaches to keep large socio-technical infrastructures in operation when they operate in partially-trusted settings and even when parts of the infrastructure are compromised, e.g., inclusion of malicious human actors, software or hardware. They will gain hands-on experience of analysing resilience of realistic scale systems in the Bristol Cyber Security Testbed.