Adam Hahn

Adam Hahn serves as an Assistant Professor and WSU Site Lead for CREDC in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Washington State University. His role focuses on advancing cybersecurity research for critical energy infrastructure through academic leadership and collaborative projects.

His educational background includes:

• M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Iowa State University (2006)
• Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Iowa State University (2013)

Dr. Hahn's research centers on cyber-physical systems security for power grids, with emphasis on intrusion detection tailored to energy systems, quantitative risk modeling for cyber threats, comprehensive vulnerability assessment frameworks, and resilient secure system architectures. His work addresses real-world challenges in grid cybersecurity through experimental testbed development and resiliency metrics.

Prior to academia, he served as a Senior Information Security Engineer at MITRE Corporation, conducting federal cybersecurity assessments and leading CPS security research. Current leadership includes CREDC Site Lead responsibilities and projects like Continuous Security Monitoring Protocols for Energy Delivery Systems and Metrics for Measuring Grid Cyber Resiliency.

He actively develops experimental infrastructure including the Cyber Physical Resiliency Experimentation and Assessment testbed and Real-Time Co-Simulation platforms for microgrid security analysis, contributing to tools like CyPhyR and the Security Monitoring Evaluation Tool.