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David Malcolm Nicol

Professor

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Affiliations

The Grainger College of Engineering

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

David Malcolm Nicol is currently serving as an Electrical And Computer Engineering Professor at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

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computer science computer engineering systems engineering parallel computing distributed systems parallel programming computer security modeling and simulation information security scalability networked system design high performance computer architecture distributed simulations computer architecture communication security data security simulation infrastructure network simulation system safety systems modeling cyber-physical systems system software parallel processing parallel performance evaluation software analysis discrete-event simulation massively-parallel computing smart grid computational optimization telecommunication networks scientific computing control system security data privacy network security smart grid security internet traffic analysis system simulation applied mathematics wireless communications software simulation emulation technique system science large-scale simulations concurrency (computer science) parallel software attack simulation scada security security assessment petri net authentication protocol virtual machines access control secure computing performance modeling distributed computing virtual time alert preferences secure protocols security modelling distributed processing network virtualization intel paragon botnet detection network simulators dynamic remapping parallel discrete-event simulation time warp sequential simulation large scale networks background tcp traffic parallel disks telecommunications description language ides framework conservative synchronization worm detection bgp security security measurement security management simulation modelling security policy policy modeling civil engineering infrastructure security critical infrastructure protection

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Auto-Sgcr: Automated Generation of Smart Grid Cyber Range Using Iec 61850 Standard Models. IEEE Open Journal of the Industrial Electronics Society (2025)

Muhammad M. RoomiS. M. Suhail HussainEe-Chien ChangDavid M. NicolDaisuke Mashima

energy systemselectrical gridspower grid operationsstandard modelssystems modelingindustrial informaticssmart grid securitysystems engineeringelectric power systemspower system automationautomated generationelectric grid integrationcyber-physical systemselectrical engineeringsmart grid

Dpu-Lard: Dpu-Leveraged Attestation of Remote Devices for Security of Ot Networks. Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (2025)

William KozlowskiDeming ChenDavid M. Nicol

information securitydata securityoperating systemssecurity testing methoddpu-leveraged attestationembedded systemscomputer securitycommunication securitycomputer engineeringremote deviceshardware securityot networkshardware security solutionnetwork security

Reflection Test of Time: Rinse: The Real-Time Immersive Network Simulation Environment for Network Security Exercises. (2025)

David Nicol

network virtualizationcomputer scienceinformation securitynetworked system designnetwork simulationcomputer securitycommunication securitycomputer engineeringsystems engineeringtestbedvirtual realitymodeling and simulationreflection testnetwork security exercisessimulation infrastructure

Message Authentication and Provenance Verification for Industrial Control Systems. ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems (2023)

Ertem EsinerUtku TefekDaisuke MashimaBinbin ChenZbigniew KalbarczykDavid M. Nicol

information securitycomputer scienceindustrial control systemsdata securitysecure computingprovenance verificationembedded systemscomputer securitycommunication securitycomputer engineeringmessage authenticationformal verificationauthentication protocolsecure protocolsverification

Toward Common Weakness Enumerations in Industrial Control Systems. IEEE Security & Privacy (2023)

David M. NicolGregory ShannonMonika AkbarMatt BishopMichael ChaneyMatthew Luallen

computer scienceinformation securityindustrial control systemsdata securitydata privacycontrol system securitycomputer securitycommunication securityindustrial informaticssystem safetysystems engineeringinformation security managementcps securitycritical infrastructuresecurity controlscyber-physical systemssecurity studiesprivacy technical community

Connectivity Preserving Anonymization of Smart Grid Network Configurations. (2022)

David M. Nicol

information securitynetwork analysiscomputer sciencedata securitydata privacyprivacy-preserving communicationnetworked system designcomputer securitycommunication securitysmart grid securitydata anonymizationcloud computingremote service providerconnectivity preserving anonymizationanonymized coordinatessmart grid

CYBERSAGE: The Cyber Security Argument Graph Evaluation Tool. Empirical Software Engineering (2022)

William G. TempleYue WuCarmen ChehYuan LiBinbin ChenZbigniew T. KalbarczykWilliam H. SandersDavid Nicol

information securitycomputer sciencesoftware engineeringcyberattackscomputer securitycommunication securitycyber threat intelligencesoftware analysisattack graphcybernetics

Exploiting Monotonicity and Symmetry for Efficient Simulation of Highly Dependable Systems. (2022)

Hoang Hai NguyenKartik PalaniDavid M. Nicol

high-dimensional statisticsrare event estimationprobabilistic verificationmodeling and simulationcomputer sciencesamplingapplied probabilityimportance samplingcomputational optimizationsystem safetyuncertainty quantificationreliability engineeringmonte carlo samplingcomputational statisticsdependability modellingdiscrete-event simulationsystems engineeringmaximum weight minimizationmaximum weight

LOMOS: Less-Online/More-Offline Signatures for Extremely Time-Critical Systems. IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid (2022)

Ertem EsinerUtku TefekHasan S. M. ErolDaisuke MashimaBinbin ChenYih-Chun HuZbigniew KalbarczykDavid M. Nicol

computer scienceinformation securityhigh message throughputscalabilitycontrol system securitycomputer securitycommunication securityindustrial informaticscomputer engineeringsystems engineeringdigital signature schemeformal verificationdigital signaturesauthentication protocoldelay requirementscyber-physical systemscryptography

Mechanisms for Precise Virtual Time Advancement in Network Emulation. ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation (2022)

Vignesh BabuDavid Nicol

system softwarecomputer sciencehardware virtualizationcomputer architecturetypical emulationoperating systemsembedded systemsvirtual machinescomputer engineeringdistributed systemsmicroarchitectureemulation techniqueruntime systemsprogram analysishardware emulationhigh performance computer architecturevirtual timenetwork emulation

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David Malcolm Nicol

Professor

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Affiliations

The Grainger College of Engineering

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

David Malcolm Nicol is currently serving as an Electrical And Computer Engineering Professor at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Honors

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Experiences

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David Malcolm Nicol

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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Notable Scholarly Works

Notable Federal Grants

Collaborators

Auto-Sgcr: Automated Generation of Smart Grid Cyber Range Using Iec 61850 Standard Models. IEEE Open Journal of the Industrial Electronics Society (2025)

Muhammad M. RoomiS. M. Suhail HussainEe-Chien ChangDavid M. NicolDaisuke Mashima

Dpu-Lard: Dpu-Leveraged Attestation of Remote Devices for Security of Ot Networks. Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (2025)

William KozlowskiDeming ChenDavid M. Nicol

Reflection Test of Time: Rinse: The Real-Time Immersive Network Simulation Environment for Network Security Exercises. (2025)

David Nicol

Message Authentication and Provenance Verification for Industrial Control Systems. ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems (2023)

Ertem EsinerUtku TefekDaisuke MashimaBinbin ChenZbigniew KalbarczykDavid M. Nicol

Toward Common Weakness Enumerations in Industrial Control Systems. IEEE Security & Privacy (2023)

David M. NicolGregory ShannonMonika AkbarMatt BishopMichael ChaneyMatthew Luallen

Connectivity Preserving Anonymization of Smart Grid Network Configurations. (2022)

David M. Nicol

CYBERSAGE: The Cyber Security Argument Graph Evaluation Tool. Empirical Software Engineering (2022)

William G. TempleYue WuCarmen ChehYuan LiBinbin ChenZbigniew T. KalbarczykWilliam H. SandersDavid Nicol

information securitycomputer sciencesoftware engineeringcyberattackscomputer securitycommunication securitycyber threat intelligencesoftware analysisattack graphcybernetics

Exploiting Monotonicity and Symmetry for Efficient Simulation of Highly Dependable Systems. (2022)

Hoang Hai NguyenKartik PalaniDavid M. Nicol

LOMOS: Less-Online/More-Offline Signatures for Extremely Time-Critical Systems. IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid (2022)

Ertem EsinerUtku TefekHasan S. M. ErolDaisuke MashimaBinbin ChenYih-Chun HuZbigniew KalbarczykDavid M. Nicol

Mechanisms for Precise Virtual Time Advancement in Network Emulation. ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation (2022)

Vignesh BabuDavid Nicol

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