• Ph.D. in Engineering, Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, 2006.
• Laurea in Mathematics, Universita' di Pisa, Italy, 1996.
• Employment:
  • Postdoctoral Research Associate, EECS, University of California at Berkeley, 2007-2011.
  • Researcher, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR) Pisa, Italy, 1996-2001.

Research Interests:

Cyber security of critical infrastructures, situational awareness, smart grid.

Selected Recent Publications:

A. Giani, E. Bitar, M. Garcia, M. McQueen, P. Khargonekar, and K. Poolla,
Smart Grid Data Integrity Attacks,
IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, vol. 4, n.3, p. 1244 - 1253, September 2013.
DOI:10.1109/TSG.2013.2245.155

A. Giani, M. McQueen, E. Bitar, P. Khargonekar, K. Poolla,
Smart Grid Data Integrity Attacks: Characterizations and Countermeasures
IEEE SmartGridComm, Brussels, October 2011
DOI: 10.1109/SmartGridComm.2011.6102324

E. Bitar, A. Giani, D. Varagnolo, P. Khargonekar, K. Poolla, P. Varaiya,
Optimal Contracts for Wind Power Producers in Electricity Markets
49th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2010
DOI: 10.1109/CDC.2010.5717453