UMass Boston

• Electric grid security and resilience with the integration of renewable and distributed energy resources
• Cyberphysical systems and Internet-of-Things (IoT)
• Hardware security and embedded systems security
• Industrial system and critical infrastructure security
• Real-time controller- and hardware-in-the-loop simulation

• Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, 2023
• M.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Thessaly, Greece
• B.Eng. and M.Eng. in Computer, Communications, & Network Engineering, University of Thessaly, Greece

Selected Publications

Journals

• I. Zografopoulos, C. Konstantinou. "Event-Triggered Islanding in Inverter-Based Grids". In: Elsevier Electric Power Systems Research, vol. 243, pp. 111472 ,2025.
• I. Zografopoulos et al. "Cyber-Physical Interdependence for Power System Operation and Control". In: IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 2025.
• A. Srivastava, J. Zhao, H. Zhu, F. Ding, S. Lei, I. Zografopoulos et al. "Distribution System Behind-the-Meter DERs: Estimation, Uncertainty Quantification, and Control". In: IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 40, pp. 1060 - 1077, 2024.
• I. Zografopoulos, N. D. Hatziargyriou, C. Konstantinou. "Distributed Energy Resources Cybersecurity Outlook: Vulnerabilities, Attacks, Impacts, and Mitigations". In: IEEE Systems Journal, 2023.
• I. Zografopoulos, A. P. Kuruvila, K. Basu, C. Konstantinou. "Timeseries-based Detection and Impact Analysis of Firmware Attacks in Microgrids". In: Energy Reports, vol. 8, pp. 11221-11234, 2022.
• I. Zografopoulos, C. Konstantinou. "Detection of Malicious Attacks in Autonomous Cyber-Physical Inverter-Based Microgrids". In: IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, vol. 18, no. 9, pp. 5815-5826, 2021.
• A. P. Kuruvila, I. Zografopoulos, K. Basu, C. Konstantinou, "Hardware-Assisted Detection of Firmware Attacks in Inverter-Based Cyberphysical Microgrids". In: International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems, vol. 132, pp. 107150-107164, 2021.
• C. Xenofontos, I. Zografopoulos, C. Konstantinou, A. Jolfaei, M. K. Khan, K. K. R. Choo, "Consumer, Commercial and Industrial IoT (In)Security: Attack Taxonomy and Case Studies". In: IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol.9(1), pp. 199-221, 2021.
• I. Zografopoulos, J. Ospina, X. Liu, C. Konstantinou, "Cyberphysical Energy Systems Security: Threat Modeling, Risk Assessment, Resources, Metrics, and Case Studies". In: IEEE Access, vol. 9, pp. 29775-29818, 2021.
• A. Sayghe, Y. Hu, I. Zografopoulos, X. Liu, R. G. Dutta, Y. Jin, C. Konstantinou, "A Survey of Machine Learning Methods for Detecting False Data Injection Attacks in Power Systems". In: IET Smart Grid, vol. 3(5), pp. 581-595, 2020.

Conferences

• K. Katuri, I. Zografopoulos, H. T. Nguyen, C. Konstantinou. "Experimental Impact Analysis of Cyberattacks in Power Systems using Digital Real-Time Testbeds". In: 2023 IEEE PowerTech Belgrade. IEEE, 2023.
• I. Shafkat, I. Zografopoulos, Md T. Hossain, S. Badsha, C. Konstantinou. "A resource allocation scheme for energy demand management in 6G-enabled smart grid". In: 2023 IEEE Power & Energy Society Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference (ISGT), pp. 1-5. IEEE, 2023.
• I. Zografopoulos, P. Karamichailidis, A. T. Procopiou, F. Teng, G. C. Konstantopoulos, C. Konstantinou. "Mitigation of Cyberattacks through Battery Storage for Stable Microgrid Operation". In: IEEE International Conference on Communications, Control, and Computing Technologies for Smart Grids, pp. 238-244, 2022.
• S. Rath, I. Zografopoulos, P. P. Vergara, V. C. Nikolaidis, C. Konstantinou."Behind Closed Doors: Process-level Rootkit Attacks in Cyber-physical Microgrid Systems". In: IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting, pp. 1-10, 2022.
• S. Rath, I. Zografopoulos, C. Konstantinou."Stealthy Rootkit Attacks on Cyber-Physical Microgrids". In: Proceedings of the Twelfth ACM International Conference on Future Energy Systems (e-Energy '21), pp. 294–295, 2021.
• I. Zografopoulos and C. Konstantinou,"DERauth: A Battery-based Authentication Scheme for Distributed Energy Resources". In: IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI), pp. 560-567, 2020.
• I. Zografopoulos, J. Ospina, and C. Konstantinou,"Harness the Power of DERs for Secure Communications in Electric Energy Systems". In: IEEE 38th International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), 2020.

Workshops

• I. Zografopoulos, C. Konstantinou, N. G. Tsoutsos, D. Zhu, R. Broadwater,"Security Assessment and Impact Analysis of Cyberattacks in Integrated T&D Power Systems". In: 9th Workshop on Modeling and Simulation of Cyber-Physical Energy Systems, pp. 1-7, 2021.
• J. Ospina, I. Zografopoulos, X. Liu, C. Konstantinou, "DEMO: Trustworthy Cyberphysical Energy Systems: Time-Delay Attacks in a Real-Time Co-Simulation Environment". In: 2020 Joint Workshop on CPS&IoT Security and Privacy (CPSIoTSec), pp. 69, 2020.

Professor Zografopoulos received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in 2023. Prior, he graduated with B.Eng. and M.Eng. degrees in Computer, Communications, and Network Engineering, and an M.Sc. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece, in 2014 and 2015, respectively.

He is the Chair of IEEE PES Task Force on Resilient and Secure Large-Scale Energy Internet Systems.

Furthermore, he is an IEEE and IEEE PES Senior Member, an IET member, and has served as a reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, IEEE Systems Journal, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security, IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, IEEE Access, IEEE SmartGridComm, IET Smart Grid, IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution, and other IEEE and ACM conferences and journals.

Achievements and Awards

• Outstanding Reviewer for IEEE Open Access Journal of Power and Energy, Feb 2025
• IEEE Senior Member Elevation, Jan 2025
• Briefing presentation at Black Hat, Nov 2023
• Tutorial presentation at IEEE SmartGridComm, Oct 2023
• 1^st at Cyber Security Awareness Week - Hack My Robot Challenge (CSAW-HMR), Nov 2022
• Finalist at Cyber Security Awareness Week - Capture The Flag (CSAW-CTF), Nov 2022
• Black Hat USA scholarship, Aug 2022
• 1^st place at Cyber Security Awareness Week - Embedded Security Challenge (CSAW-ESC) in USA/Canada and MENA regions, Nov 2021

Miscellaneous

Media Coverage

• Simple Hardware to Defend Microgrid Attacks, KAUST Discovery, 2022.
• Blocking Microgrid Cyberattacks to Keep the Power Flowing, KAUST Discovery, 2022.
• Detection of Malicious Attacks in Autonomous Cyber-Physical Inverter-Based Microgrids, YouTube video, 2022.

Contribution to IEEE Task Force Reports

• IEEE Technical report: Cyber-Physical Interdependence for Power System Operation and Control, 2023.
• IEEE Technical report: Behind-The-Meter Distributed Energy Resources: Estimation, Uncertainty Quantification, and Control, 2023.