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Daisuke Mashima
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Daisuke Mashima

Associate Professor — ISTD Pillar, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)

I am an Associate Professor at the Information Systems Technology and Design (ISTD) Pillar of Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD). My research focuses on cybersecurity and cyber-physical systems security for smart city/nation infrastructure, including smart grid. I am also affiliated with iTrust at SUTD, leading energy-sector research and technology translation.

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ICS/OT Security Critical Infrastructure Cyber-physical Systems Smart Grid Smart City/Nation Body-machine Interface Cyber Range Digital Twins Honeypots ML/AI for Security Anomaly Detection Network Security Trusted Execution Environment Applied Crypto

About

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Current Position
  • Associate Professor, SUTD
  • Academic Program Director of MTD (Cybersecurity), SUTD
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    Major Services
  • IEEE SPS IFS-TC Member
  • IEEE ComSoc TWG-SGC Special Issues and Publications Officer
  • IEEE TIFS Associate Editor
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    Opening
  • PhD Student in CPS/OT Security

    • Research Projects & Funding

    2025–2027 Lead PI

    Safeguarding Monitoring-Control Loop of Body Machine Interface

    Funded by SUTD Kickstarter Initiative

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    2023–2027 Co-PI

    National Satellite of Excellence in Design Science and Technology for Secure Critical Infrastructure [NSoE DeST-SCI]: Phase II (Energy Sector)

    Funded by National Research Foundation, Singapore

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    2022–2023 Co-PI

    Automated Security Policy Generation for IIoT

    Funded by National Research Foundation, Singapore

    2022–2023 Lead PI

    CRaaS: Turn-key Cyber Range for Smart Grid Security Research on National Cybersecurity Laboratory

    Funded by National Cybersecurity R&D Lab (NCL)

    2021–2023 Co-PI

    Secure and Accountable Data Exchange for Trustworthy Distributed Energy Resources Integration

    Funded by National Research Foundation, Singapore

    2021–2022 Co-PI

    OctoBrain: A Privacy Preserving Edge-Cloud Collaborative Learning Solution for Lift Systems

    Funded by Singapore Cybersecurity Consortium

    2019–2022 Lead PI

    Automated Framework for Generating Cyber-physical Range for Smart Grid

    Funded by National Research Foundation, Singapore (NSoE_DeST-SCI2019-0005)

    2019–2021 Lead PI

    Managing the Privacy Risk in Smart Cities

    Funded by National Research Foundation, Singapore (NRF2019-ITS005-0015)

    2018–2020 Lead PI

    SPOTify: A High-Fidelity, Practical Smart Grid Honeypot for Gathering Threat Intelligence

    Funded by Singapore Cybersecurity Consortium

    Selected Publications

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    2026

    Drift-Aware Online Anomaly Detection in Smart Buildings via Temporal Variational Autoencoder Gradient Profile

    Tran L. T. Le, Heng Chuan Tan, Zhen Wei Ng, Zbigniew Kalbarczyk, David Yau, Daisuke Mashima, and Xin Lou

    ACM e-Energy 2026

    2026

    Position Paper: On the Feasibility of Physical-to-cyber Attack against sEMG-based Body-machine Interface

    Mausam Piyush Vora, Jason Soh, and Daisuke Mashima

    ACM CPSS 2026

    2026

    Toward Realistic and Efficient Cyber Deception

    Hind Alrubaish, Walid Aljoby, Ahmed Aldeek, Mohammed Alkubaish, and Daisuke Mashima

    IEEE Open Journal of the Computer Society, 2026 (In Press)

    2025

    Automated Generation of Configurable, High-fidelity, Smart Grid Honeynet

    Karim Chehab, Walid Aljoby, Bennet Ng, Muhammad M Roomi, Ertem Esiner, and Daisuke Mashima

    IEEE SmartGridComm 2025

    2025

    AutoPGT: LLM-Driven Automated Policy Generation for Securing Industrial Control Systems

    Rochelle Xenia M Santos, Ertem Esiner, Utku Tefek, Matthew Caeser, and Daisuke Mashima

    IEEE SmartGridComm 2025

    2025

    Survey of Moving Target Defense in Power Grids: Design Principles, Tradeoffs, and Future Directions

    Subhash Lakshminarayana, Yexiang Chen, Charalambos Konstantinou, Daisuke Mashima, and Anurag K. Srivastava

    IEEE Open Access Journal of Power and Energy (In Press) • ArXiv

    2024

    Cybersecurity for Modern Smart Grid Against Emerging Threats

    Daisuke Mashima, Yao Chen, Muhammad M. Roomi, Subhash Lakshminarayana, and Deming Chen

    Foundations and Trends in Privacy and Security, Vol. 5, No. 4, pp 189–285 • Link

    Survey
    2024

    On Practicality of Using ARM TrustZone Trusted Execution Environment for Securing Programmable Logic Controllers

    Zhiang Li, Daisuke Mashima, Wen Shei Ong, Ertem Esiner, Zbigniew Kalbarczyk, and Ee-Chien Chang

    ACM AsiaCCS 2024

    2023

    Message Authentication and Provenance Verification for Industrial Control Systems

    Ertem Esiner, Utku Tefek, Daisuke Mashima, Binbin Chen, Zbigniew Kalbarczyk, and David M. Nicol

    ACM Transactions on Cyber-physical Systems

    2023

    Towards Automated Generation of Smart Grid Cyber Range for Cybersecurity Experiments and Training

    Daisuke Mashima, Muhammad M. Roomi, Bennet Ng, Zbigniew Kalbarczyk, Suhail Hussain, and Ee-Chien Chang

    DSN 2023 (Industry Track)

    2022

    LoMoS: Less-online/More-offline Signatures for Extremely Time-critical Systems

    Ertem Esiner, Utku Tefek, Hasan S. M. Erol, Daisuke Mashima, et al.

    IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid 13(4), pp. 3214–3226 • Link

    2021

    vBump: Securing Ethernet-based Industrial Control System Networks with VLAN-based Traffic Aggregation

    Nils Ole Tippenhauer, Binbin Chen, Daisuke Mashima, and David Nicol

    CPSIoTSec 2021

    Best Paper Runner-up
    2017

    Artificial Command Delaying for Secure Substation Remote Control: Design and Implementation

    Daisuke Mashima, Prageeth Gunathilaka, and Binbin Chen

    IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid 10.1 (2017): 471–482

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    Teaching

    50.044
    System Security Singapore University of Technology and Design (2025)
    50.020
    Network Security Singapore University of Technology and Design (2024–)
    CS 5321
    Network Security National University of Singapore, School of Computing (2021–2024)

    Invited Talks & Lectures

    Recent highlights.

    2026

    Smart Grid Cyber Twin for Cybersecurity Evaluation, Training, Planning, and More

    Invited Talk at AESIEAP Technical Committee Meeting organized by Singapore Power, April 21, 2026.

    2026

    Critical Infrastructure Without Borders: Cybersecurity and Privacy in Interconnected Power Systems Across the Asia-Pacific Region

    Panel Discussion at the 20th Annual IFIP WG 11.10 International Conference on Critical Infrastructure Protection, March 16, 2026.

    2026

    Smart Grid Cyber Range for Cybersecurity Training, Experiment, and More

    Technical Talk at Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Februry 18, 2026. (Hosted by Mr. Kuldeep Singh Shivran)

    2025

    Cybersecurity for Smart Grid against Emerging Threats

    Invited Lecture at KFUPM, December 6, 2025. (Hosted by Prof. Suhail Hussain)

    2025

    Critical Infrastructure Cyber Ranges for Cybersecurity Research, Education, and Beyond

    Invited talk at University of Tokyo, August 5, 2025. (Hosted by Prof. Hideaki Ishii)

    Full List of Talks & Lectures →

    Awards & Patents

    Awards

    • 2019 IEEE PES Transactions on Smart Grid Best Reviewer Award
    • 2015 Silver Prize at ACM MobiCom 2015 App Contest
    • 2015 Fujitsu Laboratories President Special Award
    • 2015 Fujitsu Laboratories Standard Promotion Award
    • 2014 IEEE SmartGridComm 2014 Best Paper Award
    • 2013 Fujitsu Laboratories President Award

    Selected Patents

    • A Security Device and Method of Provenance Verification — SG 11202201142W, US 12177336
    • Message Authentication — SG 11202201199Y
    • Unmanned aerial vehicle operation systems — US 11572166
    • Residential and small and medium business demand response — US 9953285
    • Customer-centric energy usage data sharing — US 9767469
    • Energy Usage Data Management — EP 2871801 B1

    Full patent list →

    Academic Service

    Current highlights.

    Organizing Committee

    • Technical Co-chair of APPEEC 2026
    • Program Committee Co-chair of DCS-CI 2026
    • Program Committee Co-chair of IEEE RISK 2026
    • Symposium Co-chair of IEEE SmartGridComm 2026 (CPS Security and Privacy)
    • Program Co-chair of ACM CPSIoTSec 2026
    • Track Chair of IEEE Globecom 2026 SAC SGC
    • Program Committee Co-chair of IEEE WIFS 2026
    • General Co-chair of IEEE SmartGridComm 2027

    TPC & Editorial Board(Selected)

    • ACM AsiaCCS 2026
    • ACM CCS 2026
    • ACSAC 2026
    • NDSS 2027
    • DSN 2027
    • Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS)
    • Associate Editor, Intelligent Networking and Computing (iNECT)

    IEEE Technical Committee

    • IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) Information Forencics and Security Technical Committee (IFS-TC) Member
    • IEEE Communication Society Smart Grid Communications Technical Working Group (TWG-SGC) Special Issues and Publications Officer

    Education

    2006 – 2012

    Ph.D., Computer Science

    Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA

    Thesis: "Safeguarding Health Data with Enhanced Accountability and Patient Awareness" • Adviser: Prof. Mustaque Ahamad

    Previously

    M.S., Engineering & B.E., Engineering (Administration Engineering)

    Keio University, Japan

    Professional Experience

    07/2024 – Present

    Associate Professor

    Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), ISTD Pillar

    01/2022 – 07/2024

    Principal Research Scientist

    Illinois Advanced Research Center at Singapore (Illinois ARCS)

    06/2023 – 07/2024

    Adjunct Associate Professor

    National University of Singapore, School of Computing

    12/2015 – 12/2021

    Research Scientist / Senior Research Scientist

    Advanced Digital Sciences Center (ADSC), Singapore

    09/2012 – 12/2015

    Member of Research Staff

    Fujitsu Laboratories of America, Sunnyvale, CA