Sandia Energy > Programs > Electric Grid > Advanced Grid Modeling > Staff > Brent G. Austgen Brent G. Austgen, Ph.D. Member of Technical Staff Contact Information Brent G. Austgen / 505-607-0199 Biography Brent G. Austgen is a Member of the Technical Staff in the Electric Power Systems Research Department at Sandia National Laboratories. He attained his Ph.D. degree (2024) and M.S. degree (2019) in operations research at The University of Texas at Austin and his B.S. degree (2014) in mathematics, electrical engineering, and computational science at the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. He previously held positions at Intel and Samsung, where he led computing platform enabling projects. Since entering graduate school, he has leveraged his computing and math optimization expertise to advance humanitarian analytics. His research is focused on the intersection of power systems planning and operation, climate change and extreme weather, and decision analytics and optimization. Education Ph.D., Operations Research & Industrial Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, 2024 M.S., Operations Research & Industrial Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, 2019 B.S., Mathematics, Electrical Engineering, & Computational Science, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, 2014 Google Scholar Brent G. Austgen