Mathias Ekstedt

Mathias Ekstedt is Professor of Industrial Information and Control Systems at KTH RoyalInstitute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. He received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. from the Royal Institute of Technology in 1999 and 2004 respectively.

Mathias' research interests include information security and cybersecurity in combination with software and systems architecture modeling and analysis. In particular the research is applied in the power industry and information systems related to physical process monitoring and control, such as SCADA and Industrial Control Systems. Much of the research revolves around developing formalisms for analyzing security vulnerabilities of system-of-systems architectures trough the means of probabilistic attack/defense graphs. A corenerstone in this work is the Meta Attack Language (MAL).

Mathias is the  co-founder and director for KTH Master programme in Cybersecurity, a member of the Trust Working Group in the Digital Futures research center, and a faculty member of the Center for Cyber Defense and Information Security (CDIS).

Mathias is a co-founder of foreseeti, a company developing a cybersecurity analysis software product, that was acquired by Google in 2022.

Organizationally he is a member of the Software Systems Architecture and Security (SSAS) research group within the Division of Network and Systems Engineering (NSE) at the Department of Computer Science in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at KTH.

Commitment in larger projects

Ongoing

Co-PI in the SSF project CHAINS (Consistent Hardening and Analysis of Software Supply Chains)

CO-PI in the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB) centre RICS (Resilient Information and Control Systems)

Finished

Work pacakge leader in the EU ERA-Net project HONOR (Holistic flexibility market integration of cross sectoral energy sources)

Co-inititator of the EU H2020 project SOCCRATES (SOC & CSIRT Response to Attacks & Threats based on attack defense graphs Evaluation Systems)

Project leader for Threat modeling for digitalized power systems within the Swedish Centre for Smart Grids and Energy Storage (SweGRIDS)

Work package leader in EU FP7 project SEGRID (Security of smart electricity grids)

Project supervisor for Cybersecurity for future Power System Operation within the Swedish Centre for Smart Grids and Energy Storage (SweGRIDS)

Work package leader in EU ERA-Net project SALVAGE (Cyber-phySicAl security for Low-VoltAGE grids)

Technical coordinator EU FP7 project VIKING (Vital Infrastructure, Networks, Information and Control Systems Management)

Manger of the program IT Applications in Power System Operation and Control within the Swedish Centre of Excellence in Electric Power Engineering (EKC2)

Ph.D. student supervison

Ongoing
Sandor Berglund. Main supervisor
Yekatierina Churakova. Main supervisor
Engla Rencelj Ling. Main supervisor
Viktor Engström. Main supervisor
Zeshan Naseer. Co-supervisor
Nikolaos Kakouros. Co-supervisor

Finished
Waldo Rocha-Flores. Main supervisor.
Hannes Holm. Main supervisor
Teodor Sommestad. Main supervisor.
Per Närman. Main supervisor.
Margus Välja. Co-supervisor
Markus Buschle. Co-supervisor.
Johan König. Co-supervisor.
Zhu Kun. Co-supervisor.
Enrique Silva. Co-supervisor.
Leonel Plazaola. Co-supervisor.
Magnus Gammelgård. Co-supervisor.

Post Docs

Ongoing
Yacine Anser

Finished
Zeeshan Afzal
Ashish Dwivedi
Giuseppe Nebbione
Wojciech Widel
Preetam Mukheerje