Alfan Presekal

About Me

• Assistant Professor of Resilient and Secure Cyber-Physical Intelligent System at Universitas Indonesia
• Postdoctoral researcher of Cyber Resilient Power Grids at Delft University of Technology.

Research Interests

• Cyber Security: attack graph, anomaly detection, intrusion detection system
• Artificial Intelligence: graph neural network, time series classification
• Cyber-Physical System: operational technology, smart grid, SCADA, internet of things

Educations

• PhD - Advanced Persistent Threat Detection and Correlation for Cyber-Physical Power Systems: Enhancing Resilience of Power Grid Operational Technologies, Delft University of Technology (2025). Dissertation
• MSc - Secure Software System (Computing), Imperial College London (2015)
• B.Eng - Computer Engineering, Universitas Indonesia (2014)

Selected Publications

Journal Publications

• H. Goyel, A. Presekal, P. Palensky, A. Ştefanov, “Anomaly Detection in Digital Substation Communication using Transformer-Based Distribution Fitting”, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid 2026.
• A. Presekal, A. Ştefanov, V. S. Rajkumar, I. Semertzis and P. Palensky, “Advanced Persistent Threat Kill Chain for Cyber-Physical Power Systems”, IEEE Access, vol. 12, pp. 177746-177771 2024.
• A. Presekal, M. Jorjani, V. Rajkumar, H. Goyel, N. Cibin, I. Semertzis, A. Ştefanov, and P. Palensky, “Cyber Security of HVDC Systems: A Review of Cyber Threats, Defense, and Testbeds”, IEEE Access, vol. 12, pp. 165756-165773 2024.
• I. Semertzis, A. Ştefanov, A. Presekal, B. Kruimer, J. L. R. Torres and P. Palensky, “Power System Stability Analysis From Cyber Attacks Perspective”, IEEE Access, vol. 12, pp. 113008-113035 2024.
• Y. Liu, H. Xie, A. Presekal, A. Stefanov and P. Palensky, “A GNN-Based Generative Model for Generating Synthetic Cyber-Physical Power System Topology”, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, vol. 14, no. 6, pp. 4968-4971, Nov. 2023.
• V. S. Rajkumar, A. Ştefanov, A. Presekal, P. Palensky and J. L. R. Torres, “Cyber attacks on power grids: Causes and propagation of cascading failures”, IEEE Access, vol. 11, pp. 103154-103176 2023.
• E. Ihsanto, J. Kurniawan, D. Husna, A. Presekal and K. Ramli, “Development and analysis of a zeta method for low-cost, camera-based iris recognition”, International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications, vol. 11, no. 7 2020.
• H. Pardede, K. Ramli, Y. Suryanto, N. Hayati and A. Presekal, “Speech enhancement for secure communication using coupled spectral subtraction and Wiener filter”, Electronics, vol. 8, no. 8, pp. 897, Aug. 2019.
• R. Harwahyu, A. Presekal and R. F. Sari, “Lorawan performance evaluation with optimized configuration”, Int. J. of Future Generation Communication and Networking, vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 51-68 2018.

Book Chapters

• A. Presekal, ‘Artificial intelligence in industrial control systems’, in Handbook of Power Electronics in Smart Grids and Intelligent Energy, Elsevier, 2026, pp.621-637.
• A. Presekal, V. Rajkumar, A. Ştefanov, K. Pan, and P. Palensky, ‘Cyberattacks on Power Systems’, in Chapter 15 - Book Smart Cyber-Physical Power Systems: Fundamental Concepts, Challenges, and Solutions, IEEE, 2025, pp.365-403.
• A. Presekal, A. Ştefanov, V. Rajkumar, and P. Palensky, ‘Anomaly Detection and Mitigation in Cyber-Physical Power Systems Based on Hybrid Deep Learning and Attack Graphs’, in Chapter 19 - Book Smart Cyber-Physical Power Systems, Volume 1: Fundamental Concepts, Challenges, and Solutions, IEEE, 2025, pp.505-537.

Conference and Proceeding Publications

• A. Presekal, V. Rajkumar, H. Goyel, N. Cibin, P. Palensky, J. Godefrooi, A. Ştefanov, “Enhancing Brownfield Digital Substation Cyber Security with HMAC Authentication,” 2026 IEEE PES International Meeting (PES IM), 2026.
• I. Semertzis, H. Goyel, V. S. Rajkumar, A. Presekal, A. Ştefanov and P. Palensky, “Towards Real-Time Distinction of Power System Faults and Cyber Attacks on Digital Substations Using Cyber-Physical Event Correlation,” 2024 12th Workshop on Modeling and Simulation of Cyber-Physical Energy Systems (MSCPES), Hong Kong, China, 2024, pp. 1-6.
• A. Presekal, A. Ştefanov, V. S. Rajkumar and P. Palensky, “Cyber Forensic Analysis for Operational Technology Using Graph-Based Deep Learning,” 2023 IEEE International Conference on Communications, Control, and Computing Technologies for Smart Grids (SmartGridComm), Glasgow, United Kingdom, 2023, pp. 1-7.
• V. S. Rajkumar, M. Tealane, A. Ştefanov, A. Presekal and P. Palensky, “Cyber Attacks on Power System Automation and Protection and Impact Analysis,” 2020 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Europe (ISGT-Europe), The Hague, Netherlands, 2020, pp. 247-254.

Public research project report

• F. Perez, J. Castellanos, S. Anhaus, A. Presekal, M. Jorjaniand A. Stefanov, “HVDC-WISE D3.3: Protection Concepts”, Zenodo, Mar. 2025.

Research Project

• Cooperative Cyber Protection for Modern Power Grids (COCOON). June 2024 - 2025. Project funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 101120221.
• Vulnerabilities of Protection concepts for AC/DC Architectures on the Cyber Events/Cyber Attacks (WP3) - HVDC-WISE. August 2023 - July 2024. HVDC-WISE is supported by the European Union’s Horizon Europe program under agreement 101075424. UK Research and Innovation funding for HVDC-WISE is provided under the UK government’s Horizon Europe funding guarantee [grant no. 10041877 & 10051113].
• Security, Privacy, Identity, Trust, Engagement NetworkPlus (SPRITE+). 2026-2027. Project title: Bridging the Compliance Gap: AI-Driven Privacy Implementation in Indonesia’s Mobile-First Economy. Project value 20,000 GBP.
• Program Enhancing Quality Education for International University Impacts and Recognition (EQUITY Q1). 2025-2026. Project title: Artificial Intelligence-Based Cyber Attack Detection on Communication Networks in Cyber-Physical Systems via Digital Twin Modeling. Grant No. PKS-122/UN2.R3/HKP.05.00/2025. Value 100 million IDR.
• Faculty of Engineering Universitas Indonesia Publication Seed Funding Grant (FT UI Seed Funding). 2025. Project title: Cyber Attack Detection in Mobile Telecommunication Networks Using Artificial Intelligence Based on Kolmogorov-Smirnov Patterns and Fourier Transform. Grant No. PKS-3706/UN2.F4.D/PPM.00.00/2025. Value 50 million IDR.
• Control Room of The Future (CRoF), part of Electrical Sustainable Power Lab (ESP Lab), TU Delft (ESP Lab). January 2020 - 2025.

Invited Talks and Presentations

• Securing Smart Grids Critical Infrastructure, National Cyber and Crypto Agency (BSSN), Deputy for Economic Cyber and Crypto Security. Indonesia, 24th February 2026.
• Securing SCADA Operational Technology, Hacktrace, CyberWolves Con 2025. Indonesia, 11th September 2025.
• National Infrastructure Security Gaps, Hacktrace Cyberwolves. Online, October 2025. Video
• Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Threat Detection in Cyber-Physical Energy System, Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia. Bandung, Indonesia, 24th April 2025.
• Enhancing Grid Resilient using Cyber Protection, HVDC-WISE project. Online, 21st March 2025.

Journal and Article Reviewer Experiences

• IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid - Q1, since 2024
• IEEE Internet of Things Journal - Q1, since 2024
• IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics - Q1, since 2025
• IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering - Q1, since 2022
• IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery - Q1, since 2024
• IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine - Q1, since 2023
• Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (EAAI) - Q1, since 2023
• Sustainable Energy, Grids and Networks (SEGAN) - Q1, since 2023
• Reliability Engineering & System Safety - Q1, since 2025
• IEEE Access - Q1, since 2022
• Nature Scientific Report - Q1, since 2024
• EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking - Q2, since 2024
• Signal, Image and Video Processing - Springer - Q2, since 2024
• Journal of Engineering - SJR, since 2024

Conference and Proceeding Reviewer Eperiences

• 12th Workshop on Modeling and Simulation of Cyber-Physical Energy Systems, Online Workshop, May 13, 2024.
• IEEE SmartGridComm 2023, Glasgow, Scotland, UK, Nov. 2023.
• 11th Workshop on Modeling and Simulation of Cyber-Physical Energy Systems, San Antonio, Texas, USA, May 9, 2023.