Sriram Prabhakara Rao
- Cybersecurity Analyst, CEM Research Institute
Contact Info
- Email: sriram.prabhakara@UND.edu
Office Address
Harrington Hall Room 213
243 Centennial Drive Stop 7165
Grand Forks, ND 58202-7165
Biography
Sriram Prabhakara Rao is a Research Engineer at the UND Center for Cybersecurity Research (C2SR), he is also working on his PhD at UND in Energy Engineering. His research focuses on energy security, specifically the integration of renewable energy systems, electric vehicle (EV) technologies, and cybersecurity for critical infrastructure.
Sriram’s work involves developing secure and scalable architectures for Virtual Power Plants (VPPs) and analyzing Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) technologies. He actively publishes on topics related to power grid resilience, hybrid energy storage, and the mitigation of cyber threats in IoT-based industrial systems.
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Energy Security & Grid Resilience
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Cybersecurity in Power Systems (SCADA, VPP, IoT)
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Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) Technology
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Virtual Power Plants (VPP)
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Renewable Energy Integration & Hybrid Energy Storage Systems (HESS)
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Smart Grid Technologies
Google Scholar Profile: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=seK1floAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Research Gate Profile: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sriram-Rao-2?ev=hdr_xprf
- M.Sc, Supply Chain Management, Neoma Business School, Rouen, France.
- B.Tech, Plastics Technology, CIPET, Chennai, India.
- Research Engineer I, University of North Dakota, May 2025 – Present
- Graduate Research Assistant, University of North Dakota, September 2023 – May 2025
- Graduate Research Scholar, University of North Dakota, February 2023 – April 2023
- Sourcing Engineer, ROBÉ MÉDICAL, May 2022
- Supply Chain Coordinator, Edgewell Personal Care, March 2022
- Cosmetic Regulatory Affairs Manager (Intern), Maison de Parfum Berry, October 2021 – March 2022
- Supply Chain Analyst (Intern), CESI, September 2020 – March 2021
- Quality Assurance Engineer, Amara Raja Group, July 2018 – May 2019
- Supply Chain Management Intern, D&M Enterprises and Machine Tools, June 2018