Lead PI & Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University, College Station
Dr. Katherine Davis is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University. Dr. Davis has worked for the past 12 years on advancing cyber physical modeling and analysis capabilities in power systems. Prior to joining Texas A&M, Dr. Davis was a Software Engineer and Senior Consultant for PowerWorld Corporation. Dr. Davis was then with University of Illinois’s Information Trust Institute as a Research Scientist. Her expertise includes large scale modeling, analysis, and simulations of cyber-physical critical infrastructure, where she has particular interest in security-oriented control system analysis techniques. She founded kaedago Inc. in 2016 to facilitate transition to practice of state-of-the-art cyber-physical situational awareness capabilities for power utilities. She joined TAMU in July 2017.
Research
- Operation and Control of Power Systems
- Interactions between Computer Networks and Power Networks
- Security-oriented Cyber-physical Analysis Techniques
- Data-driven and Model-based Coupled Infrastructure Analysis and Simulation
- Cyber-Physical Situational Awareness (CyPSA)
Education
- Ph.D, Electrical Engineering, Power and Energy Systems, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2011
- M.S. Electrical Engineering, Power and Energy Systems, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2009
- B.S. Electrical Engineering, High Honors, University of Texas at Austin, 2007