Milos Manic

Milos Manic is a professor with the Virginia Commonwealth University Computer Science Department and Director of the VCU Cybersecurity Center.

He has completed more than 50 research grants in artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) in cyber and energy and intelligent controls.

Manic has:

• Written more than 200 refereed articles.
• Given more than 50 invited talks around the world.
• Written more than 200 refereed articles in international journals, books, and conferences.
• Attained several U.S. patents.
• Won the 2018 R&D 100 Award for Autonomic Intelligent Cyber Sensor (AICS), one of top 100 science and technology worldwide innovations in 2018. 

Manic is an inductee of U.S. National Academy of Inventors (senior class of 2023, member class of 2019), and a Fellow of Commonwealth Cyber Initiative. He holds Joint Appointment with Idaho National laboratory.

He is an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) (Industrial Electronics Society) IES President (2024-2025), after serving in multiple IES officer positions, IEEE Fellow (for contributions to machine learning based cybersecurity in critical infrastructures), recipient of IEEE IES 2019 Anthony J. Hornfeck Service Award, 2012 J. David Irwin Early Career Award, 2017 (Industrial Electronics Magazine)  IEM Best Paper Award, associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, IEEE Open Journal of Industrial Electronics Society, and IEEE IES Senior Life AdCom member. 

He served as AE of Trans. on Industrial Electronics, was a founding chair of IEEE IES Technical Committee on Resilience and Security in Industry, and was a General Chair of IEEE ICIT 2023, IEEE Industrial Electronics Society 2018 (record breaking, with more than 1,100 participants), IEEE Human System Interactions (HSI) 2019.