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.