Mariana Hentea of MH Engineering

Securing our energy grid is of the highest critical importance, as many recent events have demonstrated. In this session, Mariana Hentea will be introducing to energy professionals, engineers, etc., about the design, implementation, and maintenance of a security program for distributed energy resources (DERs), smart grid, and industrial control systems. Anyone who is involved with DERs and provides security, should be up to date and strive to maintain current understanding of the specific requirements of industrial control systems and real-time constrained applications for power systems. Mariana will touch upon many topics in this regard.

Biography:

Mariana has a Ph.D. in Computer Science, MS in Computer Science, MS in Computer Engineering, B.S. in Electrical Engineering, as well as a CISSP certification by ISC2 .

Mariana has held leadership positions with education institutions, private and government organizations; done Research & Development for projects designing and implementing new technologies and services in telecommunications (ATM broadband services, Voice over IP, broadband services, home networking, residential gateway, phone services, wireless applications, network management), information security assurance, real-time and embedded systems, manufacturing automation, and intelligent process control. She has also participated in curriculum development for undergraduate programs in Computer Science, Information Systems, Information Technology, and Engineering Technology; ABET accreditation; done standards development for ATM broadband services, DSL network management, and Smart Grid. 

She has published papers in a broad spectrum of computer software and engineering applications for smart grid, telecommunications, steel, and chemical industries. Conducted research and published chapters and papers in Security (Smart grid, Industrial Control Systems), Networking, Network Management, Quality of Service, Multimedia Systems in Telemedicine, Wireless Applications, Intelligent Systems and Artificial Intelligence techniques (Artificial Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic, Expert Systems, Data Mining, Intelligent Agents) for different applications in Process Control, Network Management, Information Security Management, Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems, and Risk Management. 
Developed and taught courses for CS, IT, and ET programs in Security and Networking. 

She is a member of IEEE P2030 Standard Writing Group for Smart Grid, IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Control Systems Society, IEEE Power & Energy Society, IEEE Standards Association, ISC2, ISSA.