Álvaro A. Cárdenas

7.9k total citations · 5 hit papers
128 papers, 4.5k citations indexed

About

Álvaro A. Cárdenas is a scholar working on Control and Systems Engineering, Computer Networks and Communications and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Álvaro A. Cárdenas has authored 128 papers receiving a total of 4.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 79 papers in Control and Systems Engineering, 61 papers in Computer Networks and Communications and 34 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Álvaro A. Cárdenas's work include Smart Grid Security and Resilience (77 papers), Network Security and Intrusion Detection (47 papers) and Information and Cyber Security (19 papers). Álvaro A. Cárdenas is often cited by papers focused on Smart Grid Security and Resilience (77 papers), Network Security and Intrusion Detection (47 papers) and Information and Cyber Security (19 papers). Álvaro A. Cárdenas collaborates with scholars based in United States, Colombia and Japan. Álvaro A. Cárdenas's co-authors include Shankar Sastry, Saurabh Amin, Jairo Giraldo, Junia Valente, John S. Baras, Yu‐Lun Huang, Chi-Yen Huang, Henrik Sandberg, Mustafa Amir Faisal and Justin Ruths and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Access, IEEE Communications Magazine and ACM Computing Surveys.

In The Last Decade

Álvaro A. Cárdenas

124 papers receiving 4.4k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Secure Control: Towards Survivable Cyber-Physical Systems

2008 596 citations Álvaro A. Cárdenas, Saurabh Amin et al. profile →
Attacks against process control systems

2011 500 citations Álvaro A. Cárdenas, Saurabh Amin et al. profile →
Research challenges for the security of control systems

2008 393 citations Álvaro A. Cárdenas, Saurabh Amin et al. USENIX Security Symposium profile →
A Survey of Physics-Based Attack Detection in Cyber-Physical Systems

2018 344 citations Jairo Giraldo, David Urbina et al. ACM Computing Surveys profile →
Limiting the Impact of Stealthy Attacks on Industrial Control Systems

2016 228 citations David Urbina, Jairo Giraldo et al. profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Álvaro A. Cárdenas United States	29	2.9k	2.4k	1.4k	962	930	128	4.5k
Manimaran Govindarasu United States	32	2.6k 0.9×	3.0k 1.3×	912 0.7×	776 0.8×	1.7k 1.8×	202	4.7k
David Tipper United States	29	1.4k 0.5×	3.2k 1.4×	910 0.7×	553 0.6×	2.3k 2.5×	185	4.8k
Aditya P. Mathur United States	38	1.3k 0.5×	2.1k 0.9×	1.7k 1.2×	1.9k 2.0×	311 0.3×	160	5.0k
Heejo Lee South Korea	27	777 0.3×	2.8k 1.2×	1.6k 1.2×	1.0k 1.1×	425 0.5×	123	3.9k
Mourad Debbabi Canada	37	851 0.3×	2.7k 1.2×	2.1k 1.5×	2.0k 2.1×	714 0.8×	304	5.2k
Ruilong Deng China	37	3.0k 1.0×	2.9k 1.2×	857 0.6×	694 0.7×	3.6k 3.9×	141	5.9k
Gaoqi Liang China	23	2.3k 0.8×	1.3k 0.5×	637 0.5×	806 0.8×	1.7k 1.8×	57	3.4k
Abdun Naser Mahmood Australia	29	1.0k 0.4×	2.3k 1.0×	2.0k 1.5×	763 0.8×	569 0.6×	81	3.7k
Fengji Luo Australia	39	3.4k 1.2×	1.5k 0.6×	967 0.7×	1.1k 1.2×	4.7k 5.1×	143	6.8k
Ing-Ray Chen United States	36	880 0.3×	4.8k 2.0×	1.5k 1.1×	1.8k 1.9×	984 1.1×	181	6.0k

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Ukkusuri, Satish V., et al.. (2025). Cybersecurity for Next-Generation Road Transportation: A Review. 3(2). 1–42. 1 indexed citations

Saxena, Neetesh, et al.. (2022). Smart Grid Cyber-Physical Situational Awareness of Complex Operational Technology Attacks: A Review. ACM Computing Surveys. 55(10). 1–36. 92 indexed citations

Saxena, Neetesh, Álvaro A. Cárdenas, Raheem Beyah, et al.. (2020). Introduction to the Special Issue on User-Centric Security and Safety for CPS. ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems. 4(3). 1–2. 1 indexed citations

Huang, Bing, Álvaro A. Cárdenas, & Ross Baldick. (2019). Not Everything is Dark and Gloomy: Power Grid Protections Against IoT Demand Attacks. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 1115–1132. 29 indexed citations

Holmes, Jennifer S., et al.. (2019). Paramilitary Violence in Colombia: A Multilevel Negative Binomial Analysis. Defence and Peace Economics. 32(2). 193–219. 7 indexed citations

Cárdenas, Álvaro A., et al.. (2019). IEC 60870-5-104 Network Characterization of a Large-Scale Operational Power Grid. 236–241. 12 indexed citations

Wool, Avishai, et al.. (2018). Temporal Phase Shifts in SCADA Networks. 84–89. 9 indexed citations

Holmes, Jennifer S., et al.. (2018). Identifying Municipal Risk Factors for Leftist Guerrilla Violence in Colombia. Peace Economics Peace Science and Public Policy. 24(2). 5 indexed citations

Cárdenas, Álvaro A., et al.. (2017). Optimal risk management in critical infrastructures against cyber-adversaries. 2017 IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA). 2027–2032. 3 indexed citations

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Urbina, David, Jairo Giraldo, Álvaro A. Cárdenas, et al.. (2016). Limiting the Impact of Stealthy Attacks on Industrial Control Systems. 1092–1105. 228 indexed citations breakdown →

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Amin, Saurabh, et al.. (2015). Game Theoretic Models of Electricity Theft Detection in Smart Utility Networks. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 7 indexed citations

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Berthier, Robin, David Urbina, Álvaro A. Cárdenas, et al.. (2014). On the practicality of detecting anomalies with encrypted traffic in AMI. 890–895. 12 indexed citations

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Cárdenas, Álvaro A., Saurabh Amin, Galina Schwartz, Roy Dong, & Shankar Sastry. (2012). A game theory model for electricity theft detection and privacy-aware control in AMI systems. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 1830–1837. 13 indexed citations

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Chen, Yan, et al.. (2011). Proceedings of the 4th ACM workshop on Security and artificial intelligence. 22(3). 121–4. 1 indexed citations

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Cárdenas, Álvaro A., Svetlana Radosavac, Jens Großklags, John Chuang, & Chris Jay Hoofnagle. (2009). An Economic Map of Cybercrime. SSRN Electronic Journal. 13 indexed citations

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Cárdenas, Álvaro A., Saurabh Amin, & Shankar Sastry. (2008). Research challenges for the security of control systems. USENIX Security Symposium. 6. 393 indexed citations breakdown →

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Cárdenas, Álvaro A., Saurabh Amin, & Shankar Sastry. (2008). Secure Control: Towards Survivable Cyber-Physical Systems. 495–500. 596 indexed citations breakdown →

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Barreno, Marco, Álvaro A. Cárdenas, & J. D. Tygar. (2007). Optimal ROC Curve for a Combination of Classifiers. Neural Information Processing Systems. 20. 57–64. 33 indexed citations

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Cárdenas, Álvaro A. & John S. Baras. (2006). Evaluation of classifiers: Practical considerations for security applications. National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 10 indexed citations

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Cárdenas, Álvaro A., et al.. (2004). Cross-Layered Security Analysis of Wireless Ad Hoc Networks. Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC). 2 indexed citations

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