Thomas Overbye

Professional

Professional Societies

  1. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
  2. Membership grade: Fellow
  3. IEEE Central Illinois Section Treasurer, 1992-1998
  4. Secretary, Power Engineering Education Research Subcommittee, 2001-2003
  5. Chair, IEEE PES Walter Fee Award Committee, 2001-2005
  6. Vice Chair, Power Engineering Education Research Subcommittee, 2003-2005
  7. Chair, Power Engineering Education Research Subcommittee, 2005-2007
  8. Chair, IEEE PES Software Engineering Working Group, 2004-2006
  9. Society memberships: Power Engineering (PES), 1983-present, member of several committees, subcommittees and working groups; Computer Society, 1999-present
  10. Paper reviews: Transactions on Power Systems; Transactions on Circuits and Systems; Transactions on Automatic Control; Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS); Power System Computational Conference (PSCC)
  11. National Science Foundation-Proposal reviews, 1994 – present
  12. Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences Mini-track Chair, 2000-2003, 2004-2005
  13. 14th Power Systems Computation Conference (PSCC) Technical Committee, 2001-2002
  14. 15th Power Systems Computation Conference (PSCC) Technical Committee, 2004-2005
  15. Sigma Xi Distinguished Lecturer, 2001-2003
  16. Electric Power Components and Systems Journal, Editorial Board, 2002 – 2015
  17. 16th Power Systems Computation Conference (PSCC) Technical Committee, 2007-2008
  18. IREP – Bulk Power Systems Dynamics and Control – VII Symposium, Organizing Committee, 2007, 2013
  19. Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Track Co-Chair, 2009-present

Federal and State

  1. U.S. Department of Energy Power Outage Study Team, Fall 1999. Investigated utility outages in the Mid-Atlantic and New England areas as part of a team formed by the U.S. Secretary of Energy.
  2. 2001 Governor’s Conference on Energy and the Illinois Environment, Planning Committee
  3. Testified before Illinois General Assembly Electric Utility Deregulation Committee, March 2001
  4. U.S. Department of Energy National Transmission Grid Study, co-authored one of six issues paper and participated in development of final report, 2001-2002
  5. Led on-site investigation team for U.S. Department of Energy August 14th 2003 Blackout Investigation, Fall 2003.
  6. NERC Climate Change Task Force, 2009-2010
  7. NERC Geomagnetic Disturbance Task Force, 2012-2015

Scholarly Activities

  1. Chair, US National Academies Study on the Next Generation Grid, 2013-2016
  2. Member, US National Academies Study on Enhancing the Robustness of the Nation’s Electric Power Transmission and Distribution (T&D) System, 2016-2018

Conferences Organized or Chaired

  1. Organizer of National Energy Supergrid Workshop, Palo Alto, CA, November 6-8, 2002
  2. Member of organizing committee for the National Academy of Engineering 2003 Japan-America Frontiers of Engineering Symposium (JAFOE), Irvine, CA, November 20-22, 2003
  3. Organizer of SuperGrid II Workshop, Urbana, IL, October 25-27, 2004
  4. Organizer of Power System Visualization Workshop, Hosted at TVA, Chattanooga, TN, March 28, 2007