Adam Birchfield

Educational Background

Ph.D, Electrical Engineering, Texas A&M University, 2018
M.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2016
B.E.E., Electrical Engineering, Auburn University, 2014

- Power system modeling
- Power system computational analysis
- Synthetic power grids and datasets
- Extreme event impacts on power systems
- Dynamics and stability of power systems

Thomas W. Powell ’62 and Powell Industries Inc. Fellowship, Texas A&M University
Grainger Power Engineering Award, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

A. B. Birchfield and T. J. Overbye, "Mosaic packing to visualize large-scale electric grid data," in IEEE Open Access Journal of Power and Energy, vol. 7, pp. 212-221, 2020.
R. H. Lee, K. S. Shetye, A. B. Birchfield, and T. J. Overbye, "Using detailed ground modeling to evaluate electric grid impacts of late-time high-altitude electromagnetic pulses (E3 HEMP)," IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 34, no. 2, pp. 1549-1557, Mar. 2019.
A. B. Birchfield, T. J. Overbye and K. R. Davis, "Educational Applications of Large Synthetic Power Grids," in IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 34, no. 1, pp. 765-772, Jan. 2019.
A. B. Birchfield and T. J. Overbye, "Techniques for drawing geographic one-line diagrams: Substation spacing and line routing," IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 33, no. 6, pp. 7269-7276, Nov. 2018.
A. B. Birchfield, T. Xu, and T. J. Overbye, "Power flow convergence and reactive power planning in the creation of large synthetic grids," IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 33, no. 6, pp. 6667-6674, Nov. 2018.
A. B. Birchfield, T. Xu, K. M. Gegner, K. S. Shetye, and T. J. Overbye, "Grid structural characteristics as validation criteria for synthetic networks," IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 32, no. 4, pp. 3258-3265, Jul. 2017.