Welcome to my webpage! I am an Associate Professor in the School of Engineering at the University of Warwick in the UK. I am associated with the Connected Systems Lab research group.
The easiest way to reach me is by e-mail:
Subhash DOT Lakshminarayana AT warwick DOT ac DOT uk
I am always looking for highly motivated students to pursue a PhD in the field of cyber-physical system security. If you are interested, please send me an e-mail for more details.
Research Interests
My research applies machine learning, optimization, and control-based methods in three broad application areas:
- Security of Cyber-Physical Systems (Power Grids/Transportation systems)
- Smart grid Optimization and Control
- Wireless Communications and Signal Processing.
A link to my google scholar page can be found here.
Awards
- Top 5 papers published in IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid for 2021 [Paper Link]
- "Best Conference Paper Candidates on Integration of Renewable & Intermittent Resources" at IEEE Power Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM) - 2015 [Paper Link]
- Best 50 Papers at Globecom-2014 (50 out of 2171 papers) [Paper Link]
- EUTOPIA Young-Leader Academy (a UK-European academic alliance), 2022
Professional Services
• Member of UK's Smart Secure Electricity Systems (SSES) ``Security Working Group” (headed by UK Department of Energy Security and Net Zero - DESNZ)
• IEEE ComSoc Technical Committee on Smart Grid Communications - Newsletter Editor
• Associate Editor, IEEE Internet of Things Journal (2023-Present)
• Associate Editor, IET Smart Grid journal (2020-Present)
• Symposium Co-chair, "Privacy and Security" track at IEEE Smartgridcomm 2024
• Track Chair for the Smart Grid Networks and Power Line Communications at IEEE International Conference of Communications (ICC) 2024.
• Workshop co-chair IEEE Smartgridcomm 2023
• Publicity chair for IEEE Smartgridcomm 2022
• Technical Program Committee member: ACM e-Energy 2024, 2023, IEEE SmartGridComm 2019-2023, ISGT Asia 2022, IEEE ICC-2023, Globecom 2016-2022, WiOpt 2015-2023.
Projects
[G1] EPSRC Impact Accelerator Grant and Warwick Policy Support Grant, Dec. 2023 – Aug. 2024
• Role: Principal Investigator, Funding Body: University of Warwick
[G2] Local Energy Markets for Distributed Energy Resources Management using Resilient and Private Reinforcement Learning Control, Jan. 2024 – June 2025
• Role: Co-Investigator, Funding Body: King Abdullah University of Science and Technology Opportunity Fund Program
[G3] CLADDED: A Cross-LAyered Data-Driven System for Electric Vehicle Charging Stations Attack Detection, Apr. 2022 – Feb. 2023
• Role: Co-Investigator, Funding Body: Innovate-UK CyberASAP program
[G4] Power-SPRINT: Power Grid IoT System Protection and Resilience using Intelligent Edge, Oct. 2021 – Mar. 2023
• Role: Principal Investigator, Funding Body: PETRAS National Centre of Excellence for Cybersecurity of IoT Systems, UK (EPSRC-funded body)
[G5] DIOR: Deep Intelligent Optical and Radio Communication Networks, Aug. 2021 - Jul. 2025
• Role: Co-Investigator, Funding Body: Horizon 2020, MSCA-RISE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE)
[G6] WALL-EE -Wide-area Adaptive control in InteLLigent cyber-physical power systems exploiting dEEP reinforcement learning, Oct. 2021 - Aug. 2025
• Role: Joint Principal Investigator, EUTOPIA Co-Tutelle Program (funds an international Ph.D. student between Warwick and ENSEA, Paris).