Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Richland, Washington,
United States

Dr. Aditya Ashok is an Engineer in the Electricity Infrastructure Group in PNNL's Energy and Environment Directorate. He has been with the lab since February 2016. He received his bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the College of Engineering, Anna University, India, in 2008. He graduated from Iowa State University (ISU) with his doctoral degree in Electrical Engineering in 2017. His research interests include cybersecurity, cyber-physical security solutions for power grid applications, and testbed-based cybersecurity experimentation and validation. During his time at ISU, he was actively involved in the design and development of the PowerCyber SCADA security testbed to conduct Hardware-in-the-Loop attack-defense experiments and training exercises. Before joining PNNL, he interned at ABB Corporate Research in Switzerland, where he worked on industrial control system device forensics. He also interned at PNNL in 2015, where he worked on multiple projects related to cyber-physical security and testbeds.