Paul Griffioen

Contact Information

Email: griffioen@berkeley.edu
University of California, Berkeley
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Cory Hall 545K
2626 Hearst Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94720

Academic Positions

University of California, Berkeley

• Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
• September 2022 - present (working with Murat Arcak)

Education

• Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, August 2022 (co-advised by Bruno Sinopoli and Bruce H. Krogh)
• M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, May 2018
• B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering (with honors), Calvin College, May 2016

Research Interests

I am a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley, working with Murat Arcak. My research interests include the modeling, analysis, and design of high-performance cyber-physical systems that ensure safety while operating under computational constraints. My research interests also include the modeling, analysis, and design of active detection techniques and response mechanisms for ensuring resilient and secure cyber-physical systems.

• Google Scholar Profile
• Curriculum Vitae

Publications

1. P. Griffioen and M. Arcak, "Data-Driven Reachability Analysis for Gaussian Process State Space Models," in 2023 IEEE 62nd Conference on Decision and Control (CDC). IEEE, 2023, pp. 4100–4105.
2. P. Griffioen, A. Devonport, and M. Arcak, "Probabilistic Invariance for Gaussian Process State Space Models," in Learning for Dynamics and Control. PMLR, 2023, pp. 458–468.
3. P. Griffioen, "Resilient Cyber-Physical Systems," Ph.D. dissertation, Carnegie Mellon University, August 2022.
4. P. Griffioen, R. Romagnoli, B. H. Krogh, and B. Sinopoli, "Reducing Attack Opportunities Through Decentralized Event-Triggered Control," in IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, 2022.
5. P. Griffioen, B. H. Krogh, and B. Sinopoli, "Ensuring Resilience Against Stealthy Attacks on Cyber-Physical Systems," in IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2022.
6. P. Griffioen, R. Romagnoli, B. H. Krogh, and B. Sinopoli, "Reducing Attack Vulnerabilities Through Decentralized Event-Triggered Control," in 2021 IEEE 60th Conference on Decision and Control (CDC). IEEE, 2021, pp. 5715–5722.
7. P. Griffioen, R. Romagnoli, B. H. Krogh, and B. Sinopoli, "Resilient Control in the Presence of Man-in-the-Middle Attacks," in 2021 American Control Conference (ACC). IEEE, 2021, pp. 4553–4560.
8. P. Griffioen, S. Weerakkody, and B. Sinopoli, "A Moving Target Defense for Securing Cyber-Physical Systems," in IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, May 2021, vol. 66, no. 5, pp. 2016–2031.
9. P. Griffioen and B. Sinopoli, "Assessing Risks and Modeling Threats in the Internet of Things," arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.07771, 2021.
10. P. Griffioen, R. Romagnoli, B. H. Krogh, and B. Sinopoli, "Decentralized Event-Triggered Control in the Presence of Adversaries," in 2020 IEEE 59th Conference on Decision and Control (CDC). IEEE, 2020, pp. 3236–3242.
11. R. Romagnoli, P. Griffioen, B. H. Krogh, and B. Sinopoli, "Software Rejuvenation Under Persistent Attacks in Constrained Environments," in 21st IFAC World Congress. IFAC, 2020, vol. 53, no. 2, pp. 4088–4094.
12. P. Griffioen, R. Romagnoli, B. H. Krogh, and B. Sinopoli, "Secure Networked Control for Decentralized Systems via Software Rejuvenation," in 2020 American Control Conference (ACC). IEEE, 2020, pp. 1266–1273.
13. P. Griffioen, R. Romagnoli, B. H. Krogh, and B. Sinopoli, "Secure Networked Control via Software Rejuvenation," in 2019 IEEE 58th Conference on Decision and Control (CDC). IEEE, 2019, pp. 3878–3884.
14. P. Griffioen, S. Weerakkody, and B. Sinopoli, "An Optimal Design of a Moving Target Defense for Attack Detection in Control Systems," in 2019 American Control Conference (ACC). IEEE, 2019, pp. 4527–4534.
15. P. Griffioen, S. Weerakkody, B. Sinopoli, O. Ozel, and Y. Mo, "A Tutorial on Detecting Security Attacks on Cyber-Physical Systems," in 2019 18th European Control Conference (ECC). IEEE, 2019, pp. 979–984.
16. S. Mohan, M. Asplund, G. Bloom, A.-R. Sadeghi, A. Ibrahim, N. Salajageh, P. Griffioen, and B. Sinopoli, "Special Session: The Future of IoT Security," in 2018 International Conference on Embedded Software (EMSOFT). IEEE, 2018, pp. 1–7.
17. S. Weerakkody, O. Ozel, P. Griffioen, and B. Sinopoli, "Active Detection for Exposing Intelligent Attacks in Control Systems," in 2017 IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA). IEEE, 2017, pp. 1306–1312.
18. K. D. Donohue and P. M. Griffioen, "Computational Strategy for Accelerating Robust Sound Source Detection in Dynamic Scenes," in IEEE SOUTHEASTCON 2014. IEEE, 2014, pp. 1–8.

Teaching

• Teaching assistant for 18-771/24-771: Linear Systems, Fall 2019, Carnegie Mellon University (instructor: Soummya Kar)
• Teaching assistant for 18-771/24-771: Linear Systems, Fall 2018, Carnegie Mellon University (instructor: Soummya Kar)
• Tutor and calculus help session instructor, Calvin College, Fall 2013 - Spring 2014

Service

• Program committee member for the 8th IFAC Conference on Analysis and Design of Hybrid Systems Repeatability Evaluation (ADHS-RE)
• Organizer for the 4th Workshop on Computation-Aware Algorithmic Design for Cyber-Physical Systems (CAADCPS)
• Session chair at the 4th Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Monterey Training Workshop on Computational Issues in Nonlinear Control: Topics at the Intersection of Deep Learning and Computational Nonlinear Control
• Session chair at the 3rd Workshop on Computation-Aware Algorithmic Design for Cyber-Physical Systems (CAADCPS)
• Organizer for the DREAM/CPAR Seminar at the University of California, Berkeley
• Technical program committee member for the 2021 IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Systems (ICAS)
• Organizer and session chair of the invited session "Cyber-Physical System Security" at the 2020 IEEE 59th Conference on Decision and Control (CDC)
• Volunteer at Cyber-Physical Systems Week 2017 (registration desk)
• Reviewer for the following journals and conferences:

Journals

• IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (TAC)
• IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems (TCNS)
• Automatica
• IEEE Control Systems Letters (L-CSS)
• Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems
• Asian Journal of Control
• IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoT-J)
• IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking (TGCN)
• IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (T-ASE)
• IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (TSMC)
• IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC)
• IEEE Access
• IEEE Systems Journal (ISJ)
• IEEE Sensors Journal
• Information Sciences
• Applied Sciences

Conferences

• IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) (2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024)
• American Control Conference (ACC) (2019, 2022, 2023, 2024)
• European Control Conference (ECC) (2024)
• ACM/IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS) (2021)
• IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Systems (ICAS) (2021)
• IEEE SoutheastCon (2014)

Presentations

• "Probabilistic Invariance and Data-Driven Reachability for Gaussian Process State Space Models," ConVeY Seminar, Technical University of Munich, 2023.
• "Data-Driven Reachability Analysis for Gaussian Process State Space Models," 4th Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Monterey Training Workshop on Computational Issues in Nonlinear Control: Topics at the Intersection of Deep Learning and Computational Nonlinear Control, 2023.
• "Data-Driven Reachability and Invariance for Gaussian Process State Space Models," 3rd Workshop on Computation-Aware Algorithmic Design for Cyber-Physical Systems (CAADCPS), 2023.
• "Secure Networked Control via Software Rejuvenation," 8th Midwest Workshop on Control and and Game Theory (MWCGT), 2019.
• "Active Detection of Integrity Attacks in Control Systems," Cybersecurity Center for Secure Evolvable Energy Delivery Systems (SEEDS) Industry Engagement Meeting, 2018.

Projects

• "Computation-Aware Algorithmic Design for Cyber-Physical Systems," University of California, Santa Cruz, sponsored by the National Science Foundation (2022-2024)
• "YOLO Transition to Navy Systems," Software Engineering Institute, sponsored by the Office of Naval Research (2020-2021)
• "Resilience Analysis and Design of IoT-based Smart Infrastructures," Risk and Regulatory Services Innovation Center at Carnegie Mellon University, sponsored by PricewaterhouseCoopers (2017-2018)

Miscellaneous

Workshops and Competitions:

• NextProf Nexus 2022
• Department of Energy's 2019 Cyberforce Competition

Fellowships:

• PricewaterhouseCoopers Presidential Fellowship (2017-2018)
• Carnegie Institute of Technology Dean's Fellow (2016-2017)

Memberships:

• IEEE
• IEEE-HKN
• IEEE Control Systems Society
• IEEE Young Professionals