Brian J. Pierre Ph.D.

Brian J. Pierre Ph.D.

Manager, Electric Power Systems Research Department

Contact Information

Brian Pierre / 505-284-7955

Biography

Dr. Brian J. Pierre is the Manager of the Electric Power Systems Research Department at Sandia National Laboratories. He also manages Sandia’s Advanced Grid Modeling Program. He holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Arizona State University focused on electric power systems. He has prior experience at the NASA Glenn Research Center and Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories. He is a Senior Member of IEEE. He received an R&D 100 award in 2017, and was awarded the 2020 IEEE Albuquerque Section Outstanding Young Engineer award “for the development of algorithms and software tools to co-optimize grid resilience and reliability.” The department focuses on:

• power system modeling,
• power system dynamics,
• grid stability,
• power system planning and operations,
• power system protection,
• renewable energy integration,
• threat modeling,
• grid reliability and resilience,
• power systems controls,
• grid optimization and electricity markets,
• grid applied artificial intelligence and machine learning,
• data analytics applied to the electric grid.

Education

• Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Emphasis in Power Systems, Arizona State University
• Masters of Science, Electrical Engineering, Emphasis in Power Systems, Arizona State University
• Bachelors of Science, Electrical Engineering, Minor in Applied Mathematics, Boise State University

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