Date: 11 April 2025, Friday
Time: 4:30 pm
Venue: Room FYW-3316, City University of Hong Kong
Zoom Meeting ID: 899 0158 1173
Password: 123456
Speaker: Mr Shiyong Zhu, City University of Hong Kong
Cybersecurity of Multiagent Systems: Susceptibility Against Defense and Trade-offs with Privacy Guarantees
Mr Shiyong Zhu, City University of Hong Kong
Abstract: Abstract: Cybersecurity has in recent years emerged as a paramount concern in the design and operation of industrial systems and civil infrastructures, due mainly to their susceptibility to malicious cyber-attacks which take advantage of the vulnerability of communication networks and IT devices. This seminar will present several control-theoretic perspectives on the cybersecurity of multiagent systems, with particular emphasis on the system susceptibility against defenders, and tradeoffs between security and privacy. The analytical results provide several theoretically grounded yet practical indicators for both attackers and defenders to weigh the pros and cons subject to, e.g., agent dynamics, strongly controllable subspaces, weakly observable subspaces, network topologies, and privacy levels.
Speaker’s Bio: Shiyong Zhu is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree with the Department of Electrical Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. His current research interests are cybersecurity and privacy of cyber-physical systems, and explicit computation for the minimal control nodes over networks. From the PhD study, he has held the visiting student positions with Princeton University, USA, Lund University, Sweden, and the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan.
Mr. Zhu is a recipient of Outstanding Thesis Award from the International Consortium of Chinese Mathematicians (ICCM), the Chinese Association of Automation (CAA), and Jiangsu Province, China. He is also an invited Reviewer of the Mathematical Reviews of the American Mathematical Society.
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