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. Brian also manages Sandia’s Advanced Grid Modeling Program, Wildfire Electric Grid Resilience Program , and the Consortium for Education and Research in Power and Energy System (CREPES). He holds a M.S.  and 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 protection,
• Power system dynamics,
• Electric grid stability,
• Power systems controls,
• Power system planning and operations,
• Renewable energy integration,
• Grid reliability and resilience,
• Climate change resilience,
• Threat modeling,
• Wildfire, smoke, and lightning modeling
• 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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