Publications
Bipin Paudel, George Amariucai, Alireza Zare, Mohammad Shadmand, Robust Detection in Power Systems: Iterative Reinforcement Learning Based Adversarial Training, Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON 2024).
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Bishwas Mandal, George Amariucai, Shuangqing Wei, Optimizing Privacy and Utility Tradeoffs for Group Interests Through Harmonization, The 2024 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2024), IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (IEEE WCCI 2024).
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Bishwas Mandal, George Amariucai, Shuangqing Wei, Initial Exploration of Zero-Shot Privacy Utility Tradeoffs in Tabular Data Using GPT-4, The 2024 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2024), IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (IEEE WCCI 2024).
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Current and Previous Funded Projects
Investigators: Bala Natarajan (PI), George T Amariucai, Husain Aziz, Jason Bergtold, Anil Pahwa, Vaishali Sharda.
Title of grant: RII Track-1: Adaptive and Resilient Infrastructures driven by Social Equity (ARISE)
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Dates: 06/2022 – 05/2027
Total dollar amount: $4,254,690
Role on project: Co-PI.
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Investigators: Bala Natarajan (PI), Anil Pahwa, Jason Bergtold, George Amariucai, Marcellus Caldas, Angela Park
Title of grant: Stakeholder-guided holistic, Adaptive Framework for enhancing community Energy Resilience (SAFER)
Funding Agency: Department of Energy (DoE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
Dates: 01/2023 – 12/2024
Total dollar amount: $796,699
Role on project: Co-PI.
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Investigators: Hyung Jin Kim (PI), George T Amariucai, Bala Natarajan.
Title of grant: SCC-PG: Pilot Study and Workshop For Enhancing Rural-to-Urban Disaster Resilience by Integrating Social, Spatial and Digital Networks
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Dates: 10/2020 – 09/2021
Total dollar amount: $149,813
Role on project: Co-PI.
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Investigators: George T Amariucai(KSU PI).
Title of grant: Multi-layer Cybersecurity and Situational Awareness to Enhance Resiliency in Qatar’s Power Grid
Funding Agency: Qatar Foundation, sub-award from Texas A&M University
Dates: 08/2020 – 07/2024
Total dollar amount: $113,721
Role on project: PI.
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Investigators: Eugene Vasserman (PI), Arslan Munir, George T. Amariucai, Scott DeLoach, Daniel Andresen.
Title of grant: CyberCorps SFS Renewal: Strengthening the National Cybersecurity Workforce
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Dates: 01/2021 – 12/2025
Total dollar amount: $3,000,262
Role on project: Co-PI.
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Investigators: Mohammad Shadmand (KSU PI), George T Amariucai.
Title of grant: Enabling Cybersecurity Situational Awareness and Resilience in Distribution Grids Through Smart Devices and Deep Learning
Funding Agency: Qatar Foundation, sub-award from Texas A&M University
Dates: 04/2020 – 03/2022
Total dollar amount: $248,143
Role on project: Co-PI.
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Investigators: Behrooz Mirafzal (PI), George T Amariucai, Mohammad Shadmand, Homgyu Wu
Title of grant: MRI: Development of Grid of Nanogrids (GNG) Testbed
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Dates: 01/2020 – 12/2022
Total dollar amount: $892,007
Role on project: Co-PI.
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Investigators: George T Amariucai
Title of grant: INSuRE 3.0: INSuRing the Effectiveness of Tomorrow's Cybersecurity Workforce Today
Funding Agency: National Security Agency (NSA), sub-award from Purdue University
Dates: 08/2018 – 08/2019
Total dollar amount: $12,000
Role on project: PI.
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Investigators: Daji Qiao (PI), George T Amariucai, Yong Guan, Douglas Jacobson
Title of grant: I-EN: IoT Event Emulation Environment (IoTE3) based on Cyber-Physical Integration
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Dates: 08/2017 – 07/2020
Total dollar amount: $498,077
Role on project: Co-PI.
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Investigators: Yong Guan (PI), George T Amariucai, Ann Smiley-Oyen, Daji Qiao
Title of grant: SBE: Small: Continuous Human-User Authentication by Induced Procedural Visual-Motor Biometrics
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Dates: 08/2016 – 07/2019
Total dollar amount: $499,493
Role on project: Co-PI, initiator.
Investigators: George T Amariucai (PI), Yong Guan, Daji Qiao, Akhilesh Tyagi, Morris Chang.
Title of grant: Community-Based, Context-Aware Transparent and Continuous Authentication for Combat Environments
Funding Agency: National Security Agency (NSA)
Dates: 09/2015 – 09/2017
Total dollar amount: $295,263
Role on project: PI, coordinator.
Investigators: Yong Guan (PI), George T Amariucai.
Title of grant: TWC:Small:Time-Advantage-based Key Establishment Protocols for Low-Cost Wireless Networked Systems
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Dates: 08/2015 – 07/2018
Total dollar amount: $499,411
Role on project: Co-PI.
Investigators: Shuangqing Wei (Louisiana State University) (PI), George T Amariucai, Jing Deng (University of North Carolina at Greensboro).
Title of grant: CCF:Small:Security in Dynamic Environments: Harvesting Network Randomness and Diversity
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Dates: 08/2013 – 07/2016
Total dollar amount: $480,000 (split evenly)
Role on project: Co-PI, main investigator for ISU.
Investigators: George T Amariucai (PI), Thomas Daniels
Title of grant: Facilitating Hybrid and Flipped Classes in ECpE via a Library of Cross-Cutting Learning Modules
Funding Agency: ISU Online Learning Innovation Hub, President’s Flipped Classroom Initiative
Dates: 01/2015 – 08/2015
Total dollar amount: $26,462
Role on project: PI
Investigators: George T Amariucai
Title of grant: Course development Grant
Funding Agency: ISU Engineering/LAS Online Learning
Dates: 04/2012 – 08/2013
Total dollar amount: $6000
Role on project: PI
Investigators: George T Amariucai
Title of grant: : Facilitating cooperative learning in a competitive environment in the flipped classroom
Funding Agency: Techstarter/ ISU ITS
Dates: 03/2015
Total dollar amount: $3000
Role on project: PI