Ahmed Fawaz is a Ph.D candidate at the Coordinated Science Laboratory (CSL), University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. He received his B.E. in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2011 from the American University of Beirut. Currently, he is working on trust issues in monitoring data during cyber incidents and intrusion resilience in the future smart grid through automated response and recovery using control theory, game theory, hybrid systems and machine learning.