Rate My Professor Subhash Lakshminarayana

Dr. Subhash Lakshminarayana is an Associate Professor in the School of Engineering at the University of Warwick, a position he has held since September 2018. Prior to joining Warwick, he worked as a research scientist at Illinois at Singapore, a research center established by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and held postdoctoral researcher appointments at Princeton University, USA, and the Singapore University of Technology and Design. He received his PhD in Wireless Communications from the Department of Telecommunications at École Supérieure d'Électricité (Supélec), Paris, France. A Senior Member of the IEEE, Lakshminarayana is affiliated with the University of Warwick's Connected Systems Group. He has secured more than £1 million in research funding from EPSRC, Innovate UK, PETRAS, and Horizon Europe, serving as Principal Investigator on projects such as Power-SPRINT: Power Grid IoT System Protection and Resilience using Intelligent Edge (2021–2023) and an Innovate UK Knowledge Transfer Partnership with National Grid (2026–2029).

Lakshminarayana's research focuses on the security of cyber-physical systems, particularly power grids and electrified transportation systems, power grid optimization and control, wireless communications, and signal processing. Key publications include "Uncovering Load-Altering Attacks Against N-1 Secure Power Grids: A Rare-Event Sampling Approach" (IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 2024), "Charge Manipulation Attacks Against Smart Electric Vehicle Charging Stations and Deep Learning-based Detection Mechanisms" (IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 2024), "A Deep-Learning based Approach for Securing the Power Grid Against Load-Altering Threats by IoT-Enabled Devices" (IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2023), "Analysis of IoT-Enabled Load-Altering Attacks Using the Theory of Second-Order Systems" (IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 2021), and "Data-Driven False Data Injection Attacks Against Power Grids: A Random-Matrix Approach" (IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 2021). His work has garnered significant recognition, including the Best Paper Award at IEEE SmartGridComm 2024, Top 5 papers published in IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid for 2021, Best Conference Papers on Integration of Renewable & Intermittent Resources at IEEE PESGM 2015, and selection among the Best 50 Papers at Globecom 2014 (out of 2171). He serves as Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid and IET Smart Grid, Secretary and Newsletter Editor for the IEEE ComSoc Technical Committee on Smart Grid Communications, and member of the UK's Smart Secure Electricity Systems Security Working Group.