Call for Papers

Cybersecurity and privacy are an important pillar of energy systems. Modernized energy systems, including smart grid, distributed/renewable energy resources, EV-charging infrastructure, smart homes, and smart buildings, have been facing a number of cybersecurity attacks. On the other hand, extensive data collection from such systems are calling for stronger privacy protection.

ACM Workshop on Cybersecurity and Privacy of Energy Systems (EnergySP) serves as an interdisciplinary forum between the energy systems and cybersecurity/privacy communities for ACM SIGEnergy and SIGSAC. The venue of EnergySP will rotate between ACM eEnergy and AsiaCCS on a biennially basis. We aim to bring together diverse experts from the cybersecurity and privacy areas as well as from those from the energy sector to establish cross-disciplinary exchanges of knowledge and insights to tackle the critical challenges in securing our energy future and providing privacy assurance to energy applications.

We encourage researchers and experts in the field of cybersecurity energy systems to take the opportunity to use this workshop to share their work and open the discussion of new ideas on this evolving topic.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Cryptographic systems, secure key management, authentication, provenance, and access control for energy systems
• Cybersecurity of distributed energy resources and IoT devices
• Security analysis of energy management systems and grid controlling systems
• Industry standardization of secure energy management and control protocols
• Detection, prevention, and mitigation of cyber attacks and system anomalies in smart energy systems
• Cloud/Edge security for smart energy systems
• Machine/Deep learning and artificial intelligence approaches for security and privacy in smart energy systems
• Threat intelligence collection and analysis for smart energy systems
• Deception technologies for smart energy systems
• Moving target defense for smart energy systems
• Digital twins and testbeds for security and privacy risk assessment of smart energy systems
• SCADA and legacy system security
• Security by design and verification tools for smart energy systems
• Cyber attack and defense case studies on smart energy systems
• Human factors aspects in cybersecurity and privacy in smart energy systems
• Privacy-preserving energy systems and applications
• Privacy protection of energy data collection and sharing
• Blockchain-based secure energy systems
• Legal aspects and compliance of smart energy systems
• Economics of cybersecurity in energy systems

We also welcome position and SoK papers on the topics of energy systems cybersecurity and privacy.

Submission format:

We invite papers with 4-6 pages in 9-point ACM proceedings template with double-column format (excluding references) and unlimited number of pages for appendices and references. The submission is not anonymous.

Accepted papers will appear as a part of proceedings of ACM eEnergy '26 in ACM digital library.

Workshop Co-Chairs

Sid Chi-Kin Chau
CSIRO
sid.chau@csiro.au
Yuhong Liu
Santa Clara University
yhliu@scu.edu
Daisuke Mashima
Singapore University of Technology and Design
daisuke_mashima@sutd.edu.sg
Jun Yan
Concordia University
jun.yan@concordia.ca