Vivek Kumar Singh

Urban Energy Modeller/Climate

National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)

Dr. Vivek Kumar Singh is a Senior Researcher for the Cybersecurity Research Center within National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). He leads technology commercialization projects, including collaborations with industry vendors and initiatives focused on developing cybersecurity tools and technologies to secure distributed energy resources (DERs). Vivek is working on developing secure AI algorithms with privacy preserving methods to develop anomaly detection and mitigation approaches for the power grid. He worked at Idaho National Laboratory in the Power and Energy Systems group in the year 2020-2021. He is also involved in proposal writing and development with internal partners and partners from other national laboratories. His research interests include cyber-physical security for smart grid, wide-area monitoring, protection, and control (WAMPAC), hybrid energy storage systems, AI security, and cyber-physical federation testbeds. He has received awards from the US Army Research Laboratory, North American SynchroPhasor Initiative (NASPI), and Iowa State University. He has published research papers, patents, software disclosure records (SDRs), and featured in several media articles. He received awards at Resilience Week 2018-2020, and the 2020 Texas Power & Energy Conference (TPEC).