Daisuke MASHIMA was a Principal Research Scientist at Illinois Advanced Research Center at Singapore (Illinois ARCS) where, under multiple competitive research grants, he led research and development on cyber-physical systems security and resilience with particular emphasis on smart grid and smart city systems. He also worked as an Adjunct Associate Professor at the National University of Singapore. Previously, he was a researcher at Fujitsu Research of America, working on security and privacy in smart energy and IoT systems as well as standardization of OpenADR. He received his PhD degree in Computer Science from the College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology in 2012.

His research interest spans over industrial control systems/cyber-physical systems security and resilience, network security, deception technologies (e.g., honeypots), enabling technologies for smart grid and smart nation, as well as development and application of digital twins for critical infrastructure cybersecurity research and education. He was involved in the organizing committee of multiple international academic conferences, including ACM AsiaCCS, ACM CPSS, IEEE SmartGridComm, IEEE PES ISGT, and so forth. He is also serving as an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security since 2023.