Ioannis Zografopoulos

Ioannis Zografopoulos is an Assistant Professor in the Engineering Department at the College of Science and Mathematics, University of Massachusetts Boston. He leads the Infrastructure Cybersecurity and Resilience Laboratory (ICARUS), focusing on cybersecurity for critical energy infrastructure.

• Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, KAUST (2023)
• M.Sc., Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Thessaly (2015)
• B.Eng. and M.Eng., Computer, Communications, & Network Engineering, University of Thessaly (2014)

His research spans cyber-physical systems security, embedded systems for distributed energy resources, and real-time simulation for grid resilience. Recent work includes securing 6G-enabled smart grids and firmware attack detection in microgrids.

Key publication keywords: Power Systems, Cybersecurity, IoT Security, Renewable Energy Integration, Industrial Control Systems. Subfields include grid resilience, firmware attacks, hardware-assisted detection, and behind-the-meter DERs.

Scientific Awards:

• IEEE Senior Member (2025)
• Outstanding Reviewer, IEEE Open Access Journal of Power and Energy (2025)
• 1st Place - CSAW-HMR (2022)
• Black Hat USA Scholarship (2022)

Zografopoulos mentors students in the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation's IDS Student Fellows Program and contributes to IEEE standards and technical reports.