Research Theme

Digital Twinning for Industrial Control Systems

This theme develops fidelity-aware digital twins that bridge engineered control code, physical process models, and experimental testbeds. Our work spans formal verification, real-system validation, and runtime conformance checking. We also leverage agentic testing frameworks for CPS that allow autonomous evaluation of system resilience, enabling verification and mitigation synthesis across realistic testbeds. Together, these efforts establish a principled foundation for trustworthy experimentation and security in cyber-physical infrastructure.

Digital Twinning for Industrial Control Systems

Funded Projects

Featured Publications

ICSTracker: Backtracking Intrusions in Modern Industrial Control Systems

Md Raihan Ahmed, Jainta Paul, Levi Taiji Li, et al.

2025 55th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN)2025

SPHERE CPS Enclave: A Reconfigurable Testbed for Industrial Control System Security Experimentation

Luis Garcia, Jelena Mirkovic, David Balenson, et al.

Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE 16th International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (with CPS-IoT Week 2025)2025

HyTwin: Hybrid Program Semantics for Digital Twin-Based Security Interventions in Industrial Control Systems

Jainta Paul, Stefan Mitsch, Luis Garcia

NASA Formal Methods Symposium2025

HyPLC: Hybrid programmable logic controller program translation for verification

Luis Garcia, Stefan Mitsch, Andr{\'e} Platzer

Proceedings of the 10th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems2019

Related Publications

Collaborative Research: FMitF: Track I: A Formal Verification and Implementation Stack for Programmable Logic Controllers

NSF Award Number 2425711. Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering2023

Towards Cross-Physical-Domain Threat Inference for Industrial Control System Defense Adaptation

Proceedings of the 2024 Workshop on Re-design Industrial Control Systems with Security2023

Collaborative Research: FMitF: Track I: A Formal Verification and Implementation Stack for Programmable Logic Controllers

NSF Award Number 2220312. Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering2022

Modeling Human-Cyber Interactions in Safety-Critical Cyber-Physical/Industrial Control Systems

2022 IEEE 19th International Conference on Mobile Ad Hoc and Smart Systems (MASS)2022

$\{$PAtt$\}$: Physics-based Attestation of Control Systems

22nd International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID 2019)2019

Tell Me More Than Just Assembly! Reversing Cyber-Physical Execution Semantics of Embedded IoT Controller Software Binaries

2019 49th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN)2019

Power grid safety control via fine-grained multi-persona programmable logic controllers

2017 IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm)2017

Theme Overview

Active Projects
2
Completed Projects
1
Publications
12
Funding Agencies
NSF Mid-Scale RINSF FMitFDARPA