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Developing an AI-Powered Zero-Trust Cybersecurity Framework for Malware Prevention in Nuclear Power Plants

10:00–10:20AM EST

Sajedul Talukkder (Southern Illinois Univ.), Palash Kumar Bhowmik (INL), Piyush Sabharwall (INL), Syed Bahauddin Alam (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

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Towards a Cyber-Physical Testbed for Cybersecurity Research in Nuclear Environments

10:20–10:40AM EST

Vasileios Theos (Purdue), Konstantinos Gkouliaras (Purdue), True Miller (Purdue), Brian Jowers (Purdue), Stylianos Chatzidakis (Purdue)

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Simulating Quantum Key Distribution for Nuclear Reactor Communications with NuQKD

10:40–11:00AM EST

Konstantinos Gkouliaras (Purdue), Vasileios Theos (Purdue), Philip G. Evans (ORNL), Stylianos Chatzidakis (Purdue)

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Adversarial AI Threats on Digitization of Nuclear Power Plants

11:00–11:20AM EST

Kishor Datta Gupta (Clark Atlanta Univ.), Sajedul Talukder (Southern Illinois Univ.), Syed Bahauddin Alam (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

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