University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Illinois Advanced Research Center at Singapore (Illinois ARCS)

Dr. Heng Chuan Tan

Dr. Heng Chuan Tan
Dr. Heng Chuan Tan

Dr. Heng Chuan Tan
Senior Research Scientist

Ph.D. in Electrical & Electronic Engineering from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Research Interest: 

Network and System Security, Critical Infrastructure Security

Research Grants:

  • Development of a Toolchain to Automate the Generation of IDS Rules. Funded by the National Research Foundation, Singapore (NRF) through Cyber Security Agency of Singapore (CSA), 2021-2022. [PI]

Selected Publications:

  • Lin, W., Tan, H. C., Chen, B., & Zhang, F. (2023, June). DNAttest: Digital-twin-based Non-intrusive Attestation under Transient Uncertainty. In 2023 53rd Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN) (pp. 376-388). IEEE.
  • Saifuddin, M. R., Wei, L., Tan, H. C., & Chen, B. (2022, September). Coordinated Network Attacks on Microgrid Dispatch Function: An EPIC Case Study. In European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (pp. 26-45). Cham: Springer International Publishing.
  • Tan, H. C., Cheh, C., & Chen, B. (2022, May). CoToRu: automatic generation of network intrusion detection rules from code. In IEEE INFOCOM 2022-IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (pp. 720-729). IEEE.
  • Tan, H. C., Mohanraj, V., Chen, B., Mashima, D., Nan, S. K. S., & Yang, A. (2021, October). An IEC 61850 MMS Traffic Parser for Customizable and Efficient Intrusion Detection. In 2021 IEEE International Conference on Communications, Control, and Computing Technologies for Smart Grids (SmartGridComm) (pp. 194-200). IEEE
  • Ye, Q., Tan, H. C., Mashima, D., Chen, B., & Kalbarczyk, Z. (2021). Position Paper: On Using Trusted Execution Environment to Secure COTS Devices for Accessing Industrial Control Systems (Version 1). TechRxiv. https://doi.org/10.36227/techrxiv.15147171.v1
  • Biswas, P. P., Li, Y., Tan, H. C., Mashima, D., & Chen, B. (2020, November). An attack-trace generating toolchain for cybersecurity study of IEC61850 based substations. In 2020 IEEE International Conference on Communications, Control, and Computing Technologies for Smart Grids (SmartGridComm) (pp. 1-7). IEEE.
  • Biswas, P. P., Tan, H. C., Zhu, Q., Li, Y., Mashima, D., & Chen, B. (2019, October). A synthesized dataset for cybersecurity study of IEC 61850 based substation. In 2019 IEEE International Conference on Communications, Control, and Computing Technologies for Smart Grids (SmartGridComm) (pp. 1-7). IEEE.
  • Tan, H. C., Cheh, C., Chen, B., & Mashima, D. (2019, May). Tabulating cybersecurity solutions for substations: Towards pragmatic design and planning. In 2019 IEEE Innovative Smart Grid Technologies-Asia (ISGT Asia) (pp. 1018-1023). IEEE.