ISUW 2024 Speaker

Faruk Kazi received his Ph.D. degree from Systems & Control Engineering of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, in 2009. He is currently a Professor and Dean of Research &Development at VJTI, Mumbai, India. He works in the domain of cyber-physical systems and critical infrastructure security. His research interests include SCADA security, Industrial Control System(ICS) and Operational Technology(OT) security. He is working as Chair of WG-3 (Digital Architecture and Cyber Security) of India Smart Grid Forum (ISGF), PPP initiative of Ministry of Power, Government of India. He also works as a consultant with Tata Consulting Engineers (TCE) for Smart Grid projects. He was invited as a visiting research scholar at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, EPFL, Switzerland and Tufts University, Boston, USA. He has delivered invited talks and presented his research work at MIT USA, SUPELEC, CNRS, Paris(France), Budapest (Hungary), Florence (Italy) and Japan. He has published more than 90research papers in various international journals & conferences. He has received project funding from ISRO, BARC, DRDO and DST for his various research projects. He has also secured project funding and in-kind support from industries like Siemens, Emerson, L&T (Electrical &Automation),L&T Infotech and CISCO for test-bed on security of cyber physical systems.