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David Malcolm Nicol

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UIUC

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The Grainger College of Engineering

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Electrical & Computer Engineering

David Malcolm Nicol is currently serving as an Electrical And Computer Engineering Professor at Uiuc.

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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 civil engineering policy modeling simulation modelling security management security measurement security policy 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

electric grid integrationsystems engineeringelectrical gridscyber-physical systemssystems modelingsmart grid securitypower grid operationssmart gridindustrial informaticsautomated generationenergy systemspower system automationstandard modelselectrical engineeringelectric power systems

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

computer securitycommunication securitydata securityremote devicesembedded systemshardware securitydpu-leveraged attestationot networkscomputer engineeringnetwork securityhardware security solutionsecurity testing methodinformation securityoperating systems

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

David Nicol

simulation infrastructurecomputer securitytestbedsystems engineeringnetworked system designcommunication securitynetwork simulationcomputer sciencecomputer engineeringreflection testinformation securitynetwork virtualizationmodeling and simulationnetwork security exercisesvirtual reality

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

Ertem EsinerUtku TefekDaisuke MashimaBinbin ChenZbigniew KalbarczykDavid M. Nicol

computer securitymessage authenticationcommunication securitydata securityprovenance verificationverificationauthentication protocolembedded systemssecure computingcomputer sciencesecure protocolscomputer engineeringinformation securityindustrial control systemsformal verification

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

David M. NicolGregory ShannonMonika AkbarMatt BishopMichael ChaneyMatthew Luallen

computer securitysecurity controlssystems engineeringcommunication securitydata securitycyber-physical systemscritical infrastructurecomputer scienceinformation security managementcontrol system securityindustrial informaticsindustrial control systemsinformation securitydata privacyprivacy technical communitysecurity studiessystem safetycps security

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

David M. Nicol

remote service providercomputer securityconnectivity preserving anonymizationcloud computingnetwork analysiscommunication securitynetworked system designdata securitysmart grid securitycomputer sciencesmart gridprivacy-preserving communicationdata anonymizationinformation securitydata privacyanonymized coordinates

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

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

computer securitycommunication securitycyberattackscomputer sciencecyberneticsattack graphcyber threat intelligenceinformation securitysoftware engineeringsoftware analysis

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

Hoang Hai NguyenKartik PalaniDavid M. Nicol

rare event estimationcomputer sciencereliability engineeringprobabilistic verificationsystem safetymaximum weightsamplinguncertainty quantificationmodeling and simulationsystems engineeringapplied probabilitycomputational statisticshigh-dimensional statisticsimportance samplingdiscrete-event simulationdependability modellingcomputational optimizationmaximum weight minimizationmonte carlo sampling

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 securityhigh message throughputsystems engineeringcommunication securitycryptographycyber-physical systemsauthentication protocoldelay requirementscomputer sciencedigital signature schemecontrol system securityindustrial informaticscomputer engineeringinformation securityscalabilityformal verificationdigital signatures

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

Vignesh BabuDavid Nicol

hardware emulationdistributed systemstypical emulationsystem softwarehigh performance computer architectureruntime systemsembedded systemscomputer architecturecomputer sciencecomputer engineeringhardware virtualizationvirtual machinesnetwork emulationvirtual timemicroarchitectureprogram analysisemulation techniqueoperating systems

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David Malcolm Nicol

Professor

UIUC

Affiliations

The Grainger College of Engineering

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Electrical & Computer Engineering

David Malcolm Nicol is currently serving as an Electrical And Computer Engineering Professor at Uiuc.

Honors

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UIUC

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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

computer securitycommunication securitycyberattackscomputer sciencecyberneticsattack graphcyber threat intelligenceinformation securitysoftware engineeringsoftware analysis

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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