Books & Book Chapters

  • Hui Lin, “Cyber-Physical Security and Resilience for Smart Grids and Renewable Energy,” Wiley, appears in 2026.
  • Hui Lin, “Domain-Specific Security Approaches for Cyber-Physical Systems,” in System Dependability and Analytics, Springer, 2022.

Journals & Magazines

  • Bibek Shrestha, Hui Lin, “Data-Centric Edge Computing to Defend Power Grids Against IoT-Based Attacks,” IEEE Computer Special Issues on Cybersecurity for the Smart Grid, May 2020.
  • Hui Lin*, Homa Alemzadeh*, Zbigniew Kalbarczyk, and Ravishankar K. Iyer, “Challenges and Opportunities in the Detection of Safety-Critical Cyberphysical Attacks,” in Computer, vol. 53, no. 3, pp. 26-37, March 2020, doi: 10.1109/MC.2019.2915045 (*co-first authors).
  • Hui Lin, Zbigniew Kalbarczyk, and Ravishankar K. Iyer, “RAINCOAT: RAndomization of Network Communication in Power Grid Cyber INfrastructure to Mislead Attackers,” in IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, September 14, 2019, doi: 10.1109/TSG.2018.2870362 (impact factor 10.486).
  • Hui Lin, Chen Chen, Jianhui Wang, Junjian Qi, Dong Jin, Zbigniew Kalbarczyk, Ravishankar K. Iyer, “Self-Healing Attack-Resilient PMU Network for Power System Operation,” in IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, May, 2018, doi: 10.1109/TSG.2016.2593021 (impact factor 10.486). (invited to present at INFORMS 2016 Annual Meeting)
  • Hui Lin, Adam Slagell, Zbigniew Kalbarczyk, Peter W. Sauer, and Ravishankar K. Iyer, “Runtime Semantic Security Analysis to Detect and Mitigate Control-related Attacks in Power Grids,” in IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, January, 2018, doi:10.1109/TSG.2016.2547742 (impact factor 10.486).
  • Hui Lin and Gyungho Lee, “Micro-architecture support for integrity measurement on dynamic instruction trace,” in Journal of Information Security 1, no. 01 (2010): 1.
  • Gyungho Lee, Yixin Shi, and Hui Lin, “Indirect Branch Validation Unit,” Microprocessors and Microsystems 33, no. 7 (2009): 461-468.

Conferences

  • Jennifer Rogers, Hui Lin, and Yan (Lindsay) Sun, “Prediction-based Data Augmentation for Smart Grid Line Outage Detection,” in Proceedings of the 2024 North American Power Symposium (NAPS), El Paso, TX, USA, 2024, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/NAPS61145.2024.10741749.
  • Zheng Hu, Hui Lin, Yanfeng Qu, Dong Jin, “Leveraging Compact Data Accumulator to Enable In-Network Anomaly Detection in Programmable Switches for Power Grids,” in Proceedings of the 2024 IEEE International Conference on Communications, Control, and Computing Technologies for Smart Grids (SmartGridComm’ 24), Oslo, Norway, 2024, pp. 548-554, doi: 10.1109/SmartGridComm60555.2024.10738074.
  • Zhiyao He, Yanfeng Qu, Gong Chen, Reuben Samson Raj, Hui Lin, Dong Jin, “Towards Secure and Resilient Synchrophasor Networks Using P4 Programmable Switches,” in Proceedings of 2024 IEEE Green Technologies Conference (GreenTech), Springdale, AR, USA, 2024, pp. 17-21, doi: 10.1109/GreenTech58819.2024.10520393.
  • Zheng Hu, Hui Lin, Luke Waind, Yanfeng Qu, Gong Chen and Dong Jin, “Industrial Network Protocol Security Enhancement Using Programmable Switches,” in Proceedings of the 2023 IEEE International Conference on Communications, Control, and Computing Technologies for Smart Grids (SmartGridComm’ 23), Glasgow, United Kingdom, 2023, pp. 1-7, doi: 10.1109/SmartGridComm57358.2023.10333874.
  • Sayeb Mohammad Tadvin, Dong Jin, and Hui Lin, “HELICSAuto: Automating the Development of Cyber-Physical Co-Simulation Framework for Smart Grids,” in Proceedings of the 2023 ACM SIGSIM Conference on Principles of Advanced Discrete Simulation (SIGSIM-PADS ’23), June 21-23, 2023.
  • Jennifer Rogers, William Danilczyk, Hui Lin, and Yan (Lindsay) Sun, “Learning from Future: Prediction-based Data Augmentation to Enhance Power Grids Fault Detection,” in Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Smart Energy Grid Engineering (SEGE 2023), August 13-15, 2023.
  • Gabriel De Pace, Hui Lin, and Yan (Lindsay) Sun, “A Real Time Physics-Based Industrial Control System Honeynet Architecture for the Smart Grid,” in Proceeding of the 8th International Conference on Information and Network Technologies (ICINT 23), May 19-20, 2023.
  • Hui Lin and Yan (Lindsay) Sun, “EleGNN: Electrical-Model-Guided Graph Neural Networks for Power Distribution System State Estimation,” in Proceedings of The 2022 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM)¸ Dec 8th, 2022.
  • Hui Lin, Bibek Shrestha, and Yih-Chun Hu, “Cyber-Physical Testbed: Case Study to Evaluate Anti-Reconnaissance Approaches on Power Grids’ Cyber-Physical Infrastructures,” in Proceedings of Learning from Authoritative Security Experiment Results (LASER) Workshop, Feb 24th, 2020.
  • Hui Lin, Jianing Zhuang, Yih-Chun Hu, Huayu Zhou, “DefRec: Establishing Physical Function Virtualization to Disrupt Reconnaissance of Power Grids’ Cyber-Physical Infrastructures,” in Proceedings of Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium, Feb 24th-26th, 2020, DOI:10.14722/ndss.2020.24365.
  • Ye Niu, Abdullah Al-Mamun, Hui Lin, Tonglin Li, Yi Zhao, Dongfang Zhao, “Toward Scalable Analysis of Multidimensional Scientific Data: A Case Study of Electrode Arrays,” in Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData), December 10th-13th, 2018.
  • Hui Lin, Zbigniew Kalbarczyk, and Ravishankar K. Iyer, “Impact of Malicious SCADA Commands on Power Grids’ Dynamic Responses,” in Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE International Conference on Communications, Control, and Computing Technologies for Smart Grids (SmartGridComm), October 29th, 2018.
  • Hui Lin, “SDN-based In-network Honeypot: Preemptively Disrupt and Mislead Attacks in IoT Networks,” in Proceedings of the first International Workshop on Security and Privacy for the Internet-of-Things (IoTSec ’18), April 17th, 2018.
  • Esther Amullen*, Hui Lin*, Zbigniew Kalbarczyk, and Lee Keel, “Multi-agent System for Detecting False Data Injection Attacks Against the Power Grid,” in Proceedings of the Second Annual Industrial Control System Security Workshop (ICSS ’16) (*co-first authors), December 6th, 2016, pp 38-44.
  • Hui Lin, Xinshu Dong, Rui Tan, Ravishankar K. Iyer, and Zbigniew Kalbarczyk, “Software Defined Networking for Smart Grid Resilience,” poster at the Workshop on Science of Security through Software-Defined Networking (SoSSDN), June 16-17th, 2016.
  • Dong (Kevin) Jin, Jiaqi Yan, Xin Liu, Christopher Hannon, Hui Lin, Zbigniew Kalbarczyk, Ravishankar Iyer, Chen Chen, Jianhui Wang, and Cheol Won Lee, “Towards a Secure and Resilient Industrial Control System with Software-Defined Networking,” poster at the Workshop on Science of Security through Software-Defined Networking (SoSSDN), June 16-17th, 2016 (best poster award).
  • Hui Lin, Homa Alemzadeh, Daniel Chen, Zbigniew Kalbarczyk, and Ravishankar K. Iyer, “Safety-critical Cyber-physical Attacks: Analysis, Detection, and Mitigation,” in Proceedings of the Symposium and Bootcamp on the Science of Security (HotSos ’16), doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2898375.2898391.
  • Xinshu Dong, Hui Lin, Rui Tan, Ravishankar K. Iyer, and Zbigniew T. Kalbarczyk, “Software-Defined Networking for Smart Grid Resilience: Opportunities and Challenges,” in Proceedings of ACM AsiaCCS Workshop on Cyber-Physical System Security, April 2015.
  • Hui Lin, Adam Slagell, Zbigniew Kalbarczyk, and Ravishankar K. Iyer, “Semantic Security Analysis of SCADA Networks to Detect Malicious Control Commands in Power Grids (Poster),” in Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Security of Information and Networks (SIN ’14), September, 2014.
  • Hui Lin, Adam Slagell, Zbigniew Kalbarczyk, Peter Sauer, and Ravishankar K. Iyer, “Semantic Security Analysis of SCADA Networks to Detect Malicious Control Commands in Power Grids,” in Proceeding of ACM CCS Smart Energy Grid Security Workshop, Berlin, Germany, Nov., 2013.
  • Hui Lin, Adam Slagell, Catello Di Martino, Zbigniew Kalbarczyk, and Ravishankar K. Iyer, “Adapting Bro into SCADA: Building a Specification-based Intrusion Detection System for the DNP3 Protocol,” In Proceeding of 8th Cyber Security & Information Intelligence Research Workshop (CSIIRW ’12)
    • , Oak Ridge National Lab, Jan., 2013. (Third Place, Best Paper Award).
  • Hui Lin, Md. Sajjad Rahaman, and Masud H Chowdhury, “Microarchitecture Support for Interconnect Power-aware Instruction Permutation,” in Proceeding of The IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), 2010.
  • Jing Jin and Hui Lin, “License Management Scheme for Learning Resources Delivery in P2P Networks,” in the Proceeding of 2006 International Conference on Parallel & Distributed Processing Techniques & Applications (PDPTA’06), June 26~29, 2006, Nevada, USA.

Technical Report

  • Xinshu Dong, Hui Lin, Rui Tan, Ravishankar K. Iyer, and Zbigniew Kalbarczyk, “Software-Defined Networking for Smart Grid Resilience: Opportunities and Challenges,” Coordinated Science Laboratory technical report UILU-ENG-15-2203, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, February 2015.
  • Hui Lin, Adam Slagell, Zbigniew Kalbarczyk, and Ravishankar K. Iyer, “Using a Specification-based Intrusion Detection System to Extend the DNP3 Protocol with Security Functionalities,” Coordinated Science Laboratory technical report UILU-ENG-12-2207, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, November 2012.