URI professor receives $500K grant to combat cyberattacks

HUI LIN, assistant professor of engineering at the University of Rhode Island, was recently awarded a $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to help develop programs designed to disrupt cyberattacks. He and his team received the five-year grant for their “CAREER: PARP: Mislead Physical-Disruption Attacks by Preemptive Anti-Reconnaissance for Power Grids’ Cyber-Physical Infrastructures” project.