Kalyan Perumalla

DarkNet Cyber Resilience

DarkNet Cyber Resilience investigates the impacts of cyber stress and its thresholds of impact on alternative timing signals for the US national energy grid.

Advisors

Salutations to my kind preceptors from whom I learned the ABC’s of research, tenacity, hardwork, and integrity

Our new Cyber-Physical Security Assurance Framework based on Semi-Supervised Vetting applies the latest AI/ML and NLP technologies on hardware testbeds to advance the resilience of critical cyber-physical assets including electric grids and gas pipelines.

Postdoctoral Advisees

Pedigree that makes me proud in the lineage of knowledge generation and dissemination

Frontiers in Big Data - Networks

Dr. Perumalla is an Associate Editor for the international journal Frontiers in Big Data - Networks.

Co-advised Students

Students I co-advise(d) as committee member in their doctoral or master’s program

Deep CYBERIA

Deep CYBERIA is a novel system focused on Detecting Sensors Deeply Embedded in Cyber-Physical Systems via novel machine learning and passive/active/hybrid probing techniques on complex operational technology (OT) networks.

Doctoral Students

Persevering and creative minds whom I train in deep thought to reach the peak of their formal education

PADS'22 General Co-Chair

Dr. Perumalla served as a General Co-Chair of the ACM SIGSIM PADS'22 Conference.

Affiliations

List of Dr. Perumalla’s institutional affiliations

Professional Biography

Dr. Perumalla’s professional biography

Career In Brief

A brief sketch of Dr. Perumalla’s professional career path

Exascale Computing for the National Energy Grid

Exascale Computing for the Stochastic Grid Dynamics of the US national energy transmission network is a part of the Exascale Computing Project to tap the world’s largest supercomputer to solve the nation’s energy grid problems.

Areas of Interest

A list of Dr. Perumalla’s research interests

Sabbatical Guests

Faculty members I had the pleasure of serving as the host for their sabbaticals and performing joint research with them

ReveR-SES: Reversible Software Execution Systems

Reversible Software Execution Systems ReveR-SES is a paradigm shift in ultra-scale computing to address the outstanding scaling challenges by enabling an entirely new, orthogonal dimension to all aspects of traditional, forward-only computing.

ACM SIGSIM Chair

Dr. Perumalla is the elected Chair of ACM Special Interest Group on Simulation and Modeling (ACM SIGSIM), the worldwide professional body dedicated to all advanced areas in simulation and modeling.

ACM TOMACS

Dr. Perumalla is an Associate Editor with the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation (TOMACS), which provides a single archival source for the publication of high-quality research and developmental results in all phases of the modeling and simulation life cycle.

Graduate Interns

Highly motivated, disciplined and hardworking graduate students with whom I had the pleasure of learning advanced technologies together

Journal of Simulation

Dr. Perumalla is an Associate Editor with the Journal of Simulation (JOS), which aims to publish both articles and technical notes from researchers and practitioners active in the field of simulation.

NAERM

North American Energy Resilience Model provides the next generation planning infrastructure for the US national energy grid using a cloud-based real-time, interoperable, and federated modeling, simulation, and visualization technology.

Introduction to Reversible Computing

ISBN 978-1439873403, 1^st Edition | Chapman and Hall/CRC | Taylor&Francis | Amazon
One of the first books on the topic, it contains a compendium of both classical and recently developed results on reversible computing.

SIMULATION: Transactions of TSMSI

Dr. Perumalla is an Associate Editor with the SIMULATION: Transactions of The Society for Modeling and Simulation International, a refereed journal devoted to advancing the discipline and profession of modeling and simulation.

Computational Epidemiology

Global Pervasive Computational Epidemiology

ZeroIn

Our formulation of a new AI/ML-based, real-time computational framework aims to learn and flag defects in software as early as the time of commit in the developers’ repositories.

Graph Networks

Parallel/Distributed implementation (1000s of GPUs), Graph algorithms, Graph Generation on multiple GPUs, Community detection-based solutions

DES Grid

Discrete Event Modeling of the Electric Grid is a new non-equilibrium, transient analysis model and solver that is indispensable for new advancements in grids with high renewable penetration.

GEM Fellows

Fellows of the highly selective National GEM Consortium I had the privilege of hosting and mentoring through advanced research internships in my projects

AI ML Research

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Digital Twin Framework

Our novel Digital Twin Framework (DTF) is designed to improve resilience of critical infrastructure systems by continuously comparing the infrastructure state with automatically generated, AI/ML-based, real-time digital-twin simulation of the system.

EpiClone: Epidemiological Clonable Simulations

Cloned simulations of epidemiological outbreaks like COVID-19 can now rapidly evaluate millions of what-if scenarios at national and world scales, and efficiently exploit 1000s of GPUs.

Network Simulation

ISBN 978-1439873403 | Morgan & Claypool | Amazon
This book covers all concepts in modeling and simulating wired and wireless computer networks using parallel computing to reach Internet-scale simulations.

Undergraduate Interns

Brilliant undergraduate students who worked with me as interns in multiple projects over the years, some even winning us best paper awards

Intelligent Design of Structure for Function

Intelligent Design is a novel paradigm for automated, generalized, and optimized physical structural design of 3D geometry meeting a desired function.

CloneX

Cloned eXecution of simulations is a powerful decision-making system to incrementally evaluate millions of what-if scenarios and scale to 1000s of GPUs.

High School Interns

Powerful talent blossoms early, like these budding technologists I had the pleasure of mentoring before they went onto college and launching startups

Kensor: Coordinated Intelligence from Co-located Sensors

Kensor uncovers coordinated intelligence about normal and abnormal phenomena from multiple sensors co-located in close proximity in secure installations.

HELICS

HELICS is the first open-source software platform that co-simulates the nation’s power grid across transmission, distribution, and data communication systems.

Programming Teams

My associations in programming contests – team members I coached at Georgia Tech, and my own coach when I was a team member at UCF

BLOCKTRI: Parallel Block Tridiagonal Solver

Our Block Tridiagonal Solver is one of the fastest parallel solvers for scientific codes, written in FORTRAN and MPI using the block cyclic algorithm, and tested with plasma equilibrium simulations for fusion energy tokamaks and astrophysics applications.

NetWarp

NetWarp is a novel time-synchronized virtual machine(VM)-based parallel simulation framework that accurately lifts the devices and the network communications to a virtual time plane while retaining full fidelity.

IAS Fellowship

Duham Unversity Institute of Advanced Study Fellowship gathers together the world’s finest scholars and non-academics (such as intellectuals, artists, writers, journalists, policy makers, and politicians) from the full spectrum of science, social science, arts and humanities disciplines to address themes of global significance.

Rocks3D-HPC

Rocks3D-HPC is an efficient parallelization of the Rocks3D high-fidelity earth moving equipment simulation based on the Discrete Element Method implemented using FORTRAN, OpenMP multi-threading, and message passing interface (MPI) for high performance computing.

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