Mateo Daniel Roig Greidanus

• Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois Chicago, 2025. Dissertation: “Cyber-Physical Vulnerabilities and Resiliency of Power Electronics Systems.”
• M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), 2020.
• B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), 2018.

Professional experience

Dr. Roig Greidanus is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Mike Wiegers Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Kansas State University. His work sits at the intersection of power electronics, control, power systems, and cyber-physical security, with emphasis on resilient-by-design converter architectures that enable seamless integration of distributed energy resources (DERs) within critical power infrastructure. He combines theory with hardware experimentation, embedded control, and secure communication strategies to validate converter performance under both normal and adverse (fault/cyber-attack) conditions. His recent research includes development of a resilient solid-state power substation and multilevel cybersecurity for photovoltaic inverters with industry field tests, as well as collaborations on redesigned power-electronics control systems that integrate intrusion detection, digital twins, and blockchain. He also investigates the stability and robustness of networked power converters subject to communication delays and coordinated cyber-attacks, scalable architectures and spatio-temporal control schemes that span high-level supervisors to fast local controllers.

Research

Dr. Roig Greidanus’s research lies in resilient power electronics, cyber-physical security for renewable/DER systems, and networked converter control. Current and future directions include:

• Resilient-by-design power electronics: Converter architectures for DER integration under faults and cyber-attacks; theory validated with hardware prototypes and large-scale hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) experiments.
• Cyber-physical security for renewable energy: Multilevel cybersecurity frameworks for power converters; redesigned controls with integrated safeguards andcountermeasures—such as artificial intelligence (AI) for anomaly detection, digital twins, encryption, and blockchain.
• Networked converter control and scalability: Device- and system-level stability/robustness under communication delays and coordinated cyber-attacks; scalable spatio-temporal control from supervisory layers to fast local loops.
• Machine-learning–driven energy controllers: Applying AI at the grid edge for cyber-resilient power conversion; data-driven methods to classify and mitigate cyber-attack impacts on large power networks, with stability and economic analyses.

Academic highlights

Dr. Roig Greidanus received the UIC College of Engineering Exceptional Research Promise Award (2025) and the Exceptional Teaching Promise Award (2023). His work on side-channel noise intrusion in cascaded solid-state transformers was recognized as a Highlighted Letter in IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics (2024). He serves as a reviewer for leading journals, including IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, and IET Electric Power Applications, and has served on review committees such as IEEE ECCE 2025.