Brent G. Austgen

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Member of Technical Staff

bgaustg@sandia.gov

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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, 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

Publications

  • Austgen, B., Garcia, M.J., Pierre, B.J., Kutanoglu, E., Hasenbein, J., & Hasenbein, J. (2022). Winter Storm Scenario Generation Based on Historical Generator Outages [Conference Poster]. https://doi.org/10.2172/2002383 Publication ID: 110464
  • Garcia, M.J., Austgen, B., Pierre, B.J., Kutanoglu, E., Hasenbein, J., & Hasenbein, J. (2022). Risk-Averse Investment Optimization for Power System Resilience to Winter Storms [Conference Poster]. https://doi.org/10.2172/2002529 Publication ID: 111032
  • Austgen, B., Garcia, M.J., Pierre, B.J., Kutanoglu, E., Hasenbein, J., & Hasenbein, J. (2022). Risk-Averse Investment Optimization for Power Grid Resilience to Winter Storms [Conference Poster]. https://doi.org/10.2172/2003104 Publication ID: 111840
  • Garcia, M.J., Austgen, B., Pierre, B.J., Hasenbein, J., Kutanoglu, E., & Kutanoglu, E. (2022). Risk-Averse Investment Optimization for Power System Resilience to Winter Storms [Conference Paper]. Proceedings of the IEEE Power Engineering Society Transmission and Distribution Conference. https://doi.org/10.1109/TD43745.2022.9816875 Publication ID: 76315
  • Austgen, B., Garcia, M.J., Pierre, B.J., Hasenbein, J., Kutanoglu, E., & Kutanoglu, E. (2022). Winter Storm Scenario Generation for Power Grids Based on Historical Generator Outages [Conference Paper]. Proceedings of the IEEE Power Engineering Society Transmission and Distribution Conference. https://doi.org/10.1109/TD43745.2022.9816863 Publication ID: 76317
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