Hellen Maziku

Hellen Maziku serves as an Assistant Professor at Tennessee State University and is recognized as a former researcher at CREDC (Center for Resilient Electric Energy Delivery Systems or equivalent research center).

Her research expertise spans critical domains including:

• Cybersecurity for critical infrastructure
• Software-Defined Networking (SDN) applications
• Power system resilience and security modeling
• Robust Networked Control Systems for Electric Distribution Systems (EDS)

She has led significant investigations into security risk modeling for EDS using SDN architectures, with specific contributions to evaluating multi-controller security in SDN environments and developing resilience frameworks for IEC 61850-based substation communication protocols. Her work demonstrates strong interdisciplinary integration of network security principles with power grid operational requirements.