Page • Sandia’s threat modeling work focuses on characterizing the wide-ranging impacts from natural hazards on our infrastructure sectors. Threats serve as the key input to resilience analysis, and accurate assessment of system performance depends on a knowledge of what is likely to go wrong when a disruption occurs. The threats are...
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Thushara Gunda
Staff Page • Complex Systems Analyst. Biography Thushara Gunda is a Principal Member of Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories. Her research portfolio focuses on data-driven decision making in complex systems, including water resources, energy, and security domains. Leveraging insights from interdisciplinary perspective is a key distinguishing feature of Thushara’s work. Her research...
Tim Riley
Staff Page • CEP, CSP, PMP. Biography Timothy G. (Tim) Riley began his professional journey as a helicopter crew chief in the U.S. Air Force and has been passionate about all things that fly or rotate ever since. Following his military service, Tim went on to enjoy an incredible 23-year career in NASA’s...
Timotius Oentung
Staff Page • R&D S&E, Cybersecurity. Biography Timotius Oentung currently works as a Research and Development (R&D) Software and Engineering (S&E) staff member for the Resilient Energy and Distributed System Integration (RDSI) organization. Prior to joining Sandia, he graduated with an MS in Cybersecurity and Privacy from the University of Central Florida with...
Todd Monson
Staff Page • Physicist. Biography Todd Monson is a Principal Member of the Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories, where for the past fifteen years his research has focused primarily on the synthesis and characterization of ferromagnetic and ferroelectric nanomaterials for energy related applications. Todd holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in physics from...
Tools
Page • Tools Browse select computational codes, data sets, models, software, tools, and toolkits from Sandia National Laboratories' energy programs Arctic Science & Security For software developed at Sandia that covers a variety of applications related to research in the Arctic, please visit the Arctic Software page. Search licensable technologies, patents, applications, and...
Tower-based power systems
Page • Tower-based power systems Solar Tower One Commissioned in 1978, the original 200-foot Solar Tower at the National Solar Thermal Test Facility provides 218 computer-controlled heliostats to reflect concentrated solar energy onto the tower, producing a total thermal capacity of 6 megawatts and peak flux up to 300 watts per square...
Transformer Resilience and Advanced Components Peer Review
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Transportation & Fuels
Page • Transportation & Fuels Advancing affordable, available, and efficient energy use for America’s energy future Foundational physical and computational research at Sandia helps to accelerate innovation in transportation and fuels. Our research programs span multiple transportation modes, including passenger automobiles, heavy-duty freight, off-road machinery, marine, rail, and aviation, while also investigating...
Travis Anderson
Staff Page • Chemist. Biography Travis M. Anderson is a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories. He received his B.S degree in Chemistry from Mercer University in 1997 and his Ph.D. degree in Inorganic Chemistry from Emory University in 2002. His research interests include synthetic inorganic chemistry, battery materials...
Tu Nguyen
Staff Page • Electrical Engineer, Analytics & Controls Lead. Biography Tu A. Nguyen is a Principal Member of the Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories. He is also a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and an editor of IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy. He received his B.S...
Two Sandia researchers elected to National Academy of Engineering
News Article, April 15, 2024 • Tina Nenoff and Babu Chalamala recognized for contributions to engineering Two Sandia National Laboratories researchers, Tina Nenoff and Babu Chalamala, have been elected as members of the prestigious National Academy of Engineering. They are among the 114 new members and 21 international members to be inducted as the class of 2024....
Two Sandians honored with 2024 Women in Tech Award
News Article, June 27, 2024 • Two Sandia National Laboratories employees have been honored with the 2024 New Mexico Women in Tech Award from the New Mexico Technology Council. The award recognizes remarkable women who drive innovation and excellence in their tech field and inspire and empower others to pursue careers in the tech industry. Mary Monson If...
Ujjwol Tamrakar
Staff Page • Electrical Engineer. Biography Ujjwol Tamrakar received the B.E. degree in Electrical Engineering from Tribhuvan University, Nepal, in 2011, and the M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from South Dakota State University (SDSU), Brookings, SD, USA, in 2015. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from SDSU in 2020 and is currently...
Ultrafast beam-steering breakthrough at Sandia Labs
News Article, March 28, 2023 • In a major breakthrough in the fields of nanophotonics and ultrafast optics, a Sandia National Laboratories research team has demonstrated the ability to dynamically steer light pulses from conventional, so-called incoherent light sources. This ability to control light using a semiconductor device could allow low-power, relatively inexpensive sources like LEDs...
Using SimAutoWrapper with Python and PowerWorld
Page • A one-day class for those familiar with Power World and with power system dynamics experience on any platform. Date Wednesday, June 17th, 2026 8:00am – 5:00pm Location Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM Building 6585 Rm 111/112 Cost Free Space is limited to 40 people Register by email to rguttro@sandia.gov no...
Using the power of the sun to roast green chile
News Article, July 7, 2022 • Greener approach to a New Mexican staple opens possibilities for sustainable food roasting Sandia National Laboratories engineer Kenneth Armijo, who grew up on a chile farm in Sabinal, located between Albuquerque and Socorro, New Mexico, thought there was a “greener” way to roast green chile. The results of his experiments...
Using words to look for glitches
News Article, December 3, 2025 • Large language models as a tool to improve electric grid security Georgios Fragkos presenting his paper at the conference. Detecting anomalies in the electric grid using artificial intelligence could be an effective way to improve the grid’s security and performance. Anomalies, or glitches, can happen in the grid due to...
Using X-ray science to hit hydrogen storage targets
News Article, November 7, 2023 • Using soft X-ray techniques available through Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source (ALS), a Sandia team including Mark Allendorf and Farid El Gabaly with collaborators from the Hydrogen Materials Advanced Research Consortium (HyMARC) are probing the chemistry of promising hydrogen storage materials to understand how they absorb and release hydrogen. The...
Valerio De Angelis
Staff Page • Chemical Engineer, System Integration Lead. Biography Dr. De Angelis joined Sandia in 2020 to work on battery modeling, system integration, advanced manufacturing, and long-term energy storage. He is co-founder of batteryarchive.org, the first public repository for easy visualization and comparison of lithium-ion battery degradation data across institutions. Before joining Sandia...
Vehicle Technologies
Page • Sandia’s vehicle research supports electrification technologies, automation, and advanced combustion technologies for all transportation modes. Advanced combustion engine research at Sandia emphasizes the use of optical and laser diagnostics to discover fundamental processes that lead to increased engine efficiency and reduced emissions. Our battery research enhances battery safety, battery diagnostics,...
Vermont Public Utility Commission Energy Storage Systems Workshops
Page • Presented by: Vermont Public Utility Commission,U.S. DOE Office of Electricity Energy Storage Program,and Sandia National Laboratories Energy storage is the key to unleashing the power of renewables; relieving generation, transmission, and distribution demands; and hastening the transition to a decarbonized future. Vermont Public Utility Commission Staff & Stakeholders were invited...
Victoria Obrien
Staff Page • Electrical Engineer. Biography Victoria Obrien is a Senior Member of Technical Staff in the Electric Grid Security and Communications Department at Sandia National Laboratories. She obtained a B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Texas Tech University in 2020, 2021, and 2023, respectively. Her research interests include the cybersecurity...
Video: Validating models for safety codes and standards
News Article, May 10, 2024 • Earlier this year, a test series at Sandia collected data to validate the models used for hydrogen safety codes and standards. Go behind the scenes with the research team who ran the test with partners from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and support from US DOE Office of Energy Efficiency...
Vincent Neary
Staff Page • Science and Engineering Research and Development. Biography Vincent Neary is the marine renewable energy technologies lead for the Hydrodynamic Energy Systems Program at Sandia National Laboratories. He has spent the last ten years working on a wide-range of topics in marine renewable energy, including modeling and measuring tidal and wave...
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