[UCI-Calit2] 10/24 Presentation - Privacy in the Smart Grid: Two New Challenges

[Shellie Nazarenus]

Title:  Privacy in the Smart Grid: Two New Challenges

 

Speaker: Lalitha Sankar, Ph.D., Princeton University

 

Date: Monday, October 24, 2011

 

Time: 11 am

 

Location: Colloquium Room, 2430 Engineering Hall, UC Irvine

 

Abstract: Two new privacy challenges in the smart grid are presented.
First, at the transmission level of the network, a novel problem of
competitive privacy is introduced which captures the conflicting
interests of collaboration and competition amongst regional energy
operators (RTOs) that are interested in estimating the state in a
distributed fashion. Second, at the end-user level, the deployment of
smart meters leads to the problem of managing the tradeoff between
guaranteed privacy to the consumer and utility (benefit) to both
consumers and electricity providers. Using the theory of rate
distortion, a utility-privacy framework is presented for both problems
to quantify precisely the tradeoff between the utility of either
cooperating for distributed state estimation or using smart meters and
the resulting privacy leakage.

 

The talk is based on joint work with Soummya Kar, Soheil Mohajer, S. Raj
Rajagopalan, Ravi Tandon, and H. Vincent Poor.

 

Speaker's Biography: Lalitha Sankar received the B.Tech degree from the
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, the M.S. degree from the
University of Maryland, and the Ph.D degree from Rutgers University in
2007. Prior to her doctoral studies, she was a Senior Member of
Technical Staff at AT&T Shannon Laboratories. Following her doctorate,
Dr. Sankar was a recipient of a three year Science and Technology
Teaching Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Council on Science and
Technology at Princeton University. She is currently a Research Scholar
at Princeton University. Her research interests include wireless
communications, information privacy and secrecy, and network information
theory. For her doctoral work, she received the 2007-2008 Electrical
Engineering Academic Achievement Award from Rutgers University.

 

Host: Anima Anandkumar, assistant professor, UCI Electrical Engineering
and Computer Science

 

This event is free and open to the public.

 

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