Thomas Overbye

Dr. Thomas Overbye

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[Curriculum Vitae]

  • Professor and holder of the O’Donnell Foundation Chair III, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University
  • Director of TEES Smart Grid Center
  • Member of National Academy of Engineering
  • Faculty Advisor, Christian Engineering Leaders, a Texas A&M University student organization

Office: 308C, Wisenbaker Engineering Building
College Station, Texas, 77843-3128
Phone: 979-458-5001
Email: overbye@tamu.edu
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Announcements and News

  • At the TEES Advisory Board meeting on November 14, 2024, Dr. Overbye was a panelist on the panel “The Quest Towards Energy Transition – Are We Getting There?”, moderated by Dr. Stratos Pistikopoulos. He discussed the critical role of smart grids, power systems, and infrastructure in the electrification and energy transition era.
  • Dr. Overbye recently served as a moderator for a panel discussion titled “Powering Progress: Reconciling Energy Capacity with Digital Growth” at the Innovation Forward (IF2024) event. The panel addressed Texas’s role as a leader in energy innovation. See highlights from the event. For more details on the event, click here
  • The DOE just announced funding for the 3-year project titled, “Research, Development and Demonstration of a Natural Hazard and Large Language Model Enhanced Electric Grid Planning Tool” led by Dr. Overbye! Read more about it here
  • Dr. Overbye just wrapped up a webinar on, Updated Developments on the Application of Weather and Other Environmental Inputs in Power System. If you did not get a chance to attend, you can view the recording and learn more here
  • Congratulations to Dr. Safdarian and her team on getting their paper accepted for the 58th Hawaii International Conference on Science Sciences (HICSS), happening in January 2025! Read their paper here
  • Another EPG dinner is in the books! Thank you to Dr. Davis for hosting the EPG group, including faculty, staff and their families. EPG_dinner_Fall2024
  • New session of our regular 3-day course titled “Primer on the Planning and Operation of Large-Scale Electric Girds” just concluded! Learn more about it here
  • Check out this news story about how the Aurora Borealis can impact our grid! Katie Satterlee highlights Dr. Overbye and his team’s work on mitigating its effects.View
  • Diana Wallison and her team just presented a poster titled “Framework for Heavy Duty Truck Electrification Integration using Large-Scale Combined Transmission and Distribution Grid Models” at the 2024 Power and Energy Society General Meeting in Seattle, Washington! View the poster here
  • Congratulations to Dr. Safdarian and Ms. Wallison for having their paper be accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification!
  • Click here to learn more about what Dr. Overbye had to say about the lessons learned from Hurricane Beryl and its impact on our electric grid.
  • To provide an in-depth coverage of power system analysis using PowerWorld; Dr. Overbye directed an in-person short course titled “Energizing Electric Grid Analysis with PowerWorld Simulator” from April 30 to May 2, 2024, at the CIR. View
  • Dr. Overbye hosted the end-of-semester Energy & Power Group Spring Dinner on April 27, 2024, for all faculty, staff, students, and their families. The photos can be found here.

  • Congratulations to Dr. Overbye and his research group for presenting papers at the IEEE Kansas Power and Energy Conference (KPEC), held on April 25-26, 2024, in Manhattan, KS. You can access the papers here
  • The Energy & Power Research Day was held in person at the Center for Infrastructure(CIR) on April 23, 2024. Dr. Overbye chaired this event. More
  • Dr. Overbye just wrapped up an insightful in-person short course titled “Electric Grid Dynamics and Stability” at the CIR from April 9 to 11, 2024. View
  • On April 8, 2024, North America will experience a total solar eclipse that will pass over areas with high levels of solar generation. This video shows a visualization of the simulated impact of this event on the US solar PV generation. The simulations and visualizations were done using PowerWorld Simulator Version 23 with the solar generation based on EIA 860 information. View Video
  • Exciting update! From March 19 to 21, 2024, we hosted a dynamic in-person short course on “Fundamentals of Electric Transmission Planning” at the CIR, led by Dr. Overbye. View
  • Dr. Overbye and his research group presented a paper at the Proc. 56th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), held in January 2023.View
  • Congratulations to Wei Trinh and Yijing Liu for passing their PhD defense. They both did an excellent job! Congratulations! Photos can be found here.
  • Recently, Dr. Overbye hosted the EPG Spring Celebration for all faculty, staff, students, and their families. The photos can be found here.
  • Students and supervisors celebrated a successful Texas Power & Energy Conference (TPEC) at Dr. Davis’ house. The photos can be viewed here.
  • Dr. Overbye and his research group have presented papers at the Texas Power & Energy Conference (TPEC) conference that was held at Texas A&M University. The papers are available here
  • Dr. Overbye helped in the instruction for an in-person short course titled “Primer on the Planning and Operation of Large-Scale Electric Grids” from January 30 to February 1, 2024, at the CIR. View
  • Dr. Overbye helped in the instruction for an in-person short course titled “Electric Grid Impacts of Geomagnetic Disturbances” from November 1 to 2, 2023, at the CIR. View
  • Dr. Overbye helped in the instruction for an in-person short course titled “Primer on the Planning and Operation of Large-Scale Electric Grids” from October 24 to 26, 2023, at the CIR. View
  • Recently Dr. Overbye’s group celebrated Iyke Idehen as he embarks on his next adventure. Iyke has been such a valuable member of our team and he will always be part of our family.  We wish him all the best! The photos can be viewed here.
  • Talk titled “Enhancing the Resilience and Sustainability of Large-Scale Electric Grids” was presented by Dr. Overbye at University of Wisconsin-Madison, January 24, 2022. The relevant presentation slides and information on other presentations can be viewed here.
  • For the last 27 years top electric energy system researchers have met in January at the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) for the Electric Energy Systems Track.  And since 2017 these high quality HICSS papers have been available open access. Dr. Overbye’s paper is available to view here.  If you’d like to view all HICSS 2022 papers click here.
  • Recently Dr. Overbye’s group celebrated Komal Shetye as she embarks on her next adventure. She has been such a valuable member of our team and she will always be part of our family.  We wish her all the best! The photos can be viewed here.
  • Recently Dr. Overbye hosted NAPS Celebration Party in December 2021.The photos can be viewed here.
  • Dr. Overbye recently hosted Thanksgiving celebration for the students and the staff members in November 2021.The photos can be viewed here.
  • Webinar titled “High Altitude Electromagnetic Pulse (HEMP) E3 Impacts on Large-Scale Electric Grids” was presented on December 1, 2021. More >
  • Dr. Overbye and his research group have recently presented papers at the 2021 North American Power Symposium (NAPS 2021) hosted at Texas A&M University on November 14 – 16, 2021. The papers can be found here, here, here and here. Photos of the event can be found here. Thank you to our amazing speakers, sponsors and volunteers for making NAPS 2021 a great, in-person success!
  • The HICSS paper titled, “Stability Considerations for a Synchronous Interconnection of the North American Eastern and Western Electric Grids: was accepted for the Proc. 55th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. View
  • Dr. Overbye and his research group have recently presented papers at the Kansas Power and Energy Conference (KPEC) conference that was held on April 19-20, 2021.  The papers are available here and here.
  • Dr. Overbye and his research group have recently presented six papers at the 2020 North American Power Symposium (NAPS 2020) conference that was held on April 11-14, 2021.  The papers are available here, here, here, here, here and here.
  • Dr. Overbye and his research group have recently presented papers at the IEEE Power and Energy Conference at Illinois (PECI) that was held on April 1-2, 2021. The papers are available here and here.
  • News in the TAMU College of Engineering titled “Overbye creates first-of-its-kind Texas Magnetometer Network” was posted on October 28, 2020. More can be found here.
  • The paper titled “Building Highly Detailed Synthetic Electric Grid Data Sets for Combined Transmission and Distribution Systems” was accepted for publication in the IEEE Open Access Journal of Power and Energy.
  • Re-elected leader of the Energy and Power Group (EPG) at Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University. More on the EPG faculty and activities can be found here.
  • Tutorial titled “Power System Application of Measurement-Based Modal Analysis” for the Power Systems Engineering Research Center (PSERC) was held on July 28, 2020. The presentation slides and information on other presentations can be viewed here.
  • Cecilia Klauber’s Ph.D. defense was on July 16, 2020. More information on current graduate students and alumni is posted here.
  • Keynote speech titled “Enhancing Electric Grid Innovation Through the Use of Highly Detailed Synthetic Grids” was presented virtually at Kansas Power & Energy Conference (KPEC 2020), July 2020. The relevant presentation slides and information on other presentations can be viewed here.
  • Collaborative project titled “Generating Value from Detailed, Realistic Synthetic Electric Grids” was funded by Power Systems Engineering Research Center (PSERC). The project period is from July 1, 2020 through August 31, 2022. More details are posted here.
  • White paper titled “Technologies for Transmission Grid Operations” has been commissioned by DOE’s Transmission Reliability in collaboration with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). Leads: Thomas Overbye, TAMU, and Anjan Bose, WSU. The timeframe is June 2020 – July 2021.
  • Webinar titled “New Developments in the Visualization of Wide-Area Electric Grid Information” was presented at 3 P.M. CDT on June 24, 2020. More > 
  • Talk titled “Electric Grid Modeling and Data Challenges Associated with Machine Learning Applications” was presented at Forging Connections between Machine Learning, Data Science, & Power Systems Research Workshop in Alexandria, VA, on March 5-6, 2020. The relevant presentation slides and information on other presentations can be viewed here.
  • The fourth Texas Power and Energy Conference (TPEC) run successfully by students was held at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas, on February 6-7, 2020. More >
  • For recognizing his exceptional record as a researcher and educator, Dr. Overbye was appointed to hold the Erle Nye ’59 Chair Professorship for Engineering Excellence in the College of Engineering of Texas A&M University effective January 1, 2020. More >