Yair Amir

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Affiliation

JHU Whiting School of Engineering, Baltimore, MD, USA

Topic

Power Grid,Denial Of Service,Cascading Failures,Load Shedding,Power System,Relay Protection,Threat Model,5-minute Intervals,Activity Messages,Aftermath Of Disasters,Artificial Intelligence Systems,Attack Scenarios,Attack Success,Attack Surface,Average Latency,Base Case,Cascade Model,Catastrophic Events,Center For Control,Circuit Breaker,Clock Synchronization,Communication Failure,Communication Nodes,Communication Rounds,Continuous Access,Control System,Critical Infrastructure,Critical Load,Current Time Step,Data Center,Disruption Of Services,Disruptive Effects,Distributed Artificial Intelligence,Distribution System,Effective Framework,Effects Of Extreme Events,Efficiency Factor,Electric Vehicles,Energy Market,Extreme Events,Failures In Power Grids,False Data Injection,Feedback Loop,Fragility Curves,Geographic Information System,Green State,Heat Transfer,Hourly Data,Hurricane,IEEE Standard,

Biography

Yair Amir received the BS and MS degrees from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, in 1985 and 1990, respectively, and the PhD degree from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, in 1995. He is currently with the Department of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, where he served as an assistant professor since 1995, an associate professor since 2000, and a professor since 2004. Prior to his PhD, he gained extensive experience building C3I systems. He is a creator of the Spread and Secure Spread messaging toolkits, the Backhand and Wackamole clustering projects, the Spines overlay network platform, and the SMesh wireless mesh network. He has been a member of the program committees of the IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (1999, 2002, and 2005-2007), the ACM Conference on Principles of Distributed Computing (2001), and the International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (2001, 2003, and 2005). He is a member of the ACM, the IEEE, and the IEEE Computer Society.