Eduardo Cotilla-Sanchez

Eduardo Cotilla-Sanchez

Electrical Engineering professor at Oregon State University. Power system protection and resilience. Energy access. Inclusion. Rowing. (he/him/él)

Publications

Journal papers

Resilience in an Evolving Electrical Grid

Published in Energies, 2021

Recommended citation: Cicilio P, Glennon D, Mate A, Barnes A, Chalishazar V, Cotilla-Sanchez E, Vaagensmith B, Gentle J, Rieger C, Wies R, Kapourchali MH. "Resilience in an Evolving Electrical Grid" Energies, 14(3):694 (2021)

Transmission hosting capacity of distributed energy resources

Published in IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, 2020

Recommended citation: Cicilio P, Cotilla-Sanchez E, Vaagensmith B, Gentle J. "Transmission hosting capacity of distributed energy resources." IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy. 12(2):794-801 (2021)

Understanding the Impact of Decision Making on Robustness During Complex System Design: More Resilient Power Systems

Published in ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part B: Mechanical Engineering, 2019

Recommended citation: Piacenza JR, Faller KJ, Bozorgirad MA, Cotilla-Sanchez E, Hoyle C, Tumer IY. "Understanding the Impact of Decision Making on Robustness During Complex System Design: More Resilient Power Systems." ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part B: Mechanical Engineering, 6(2):021001 (2020)

An optimization framework for decision making in large, collaborative energy supply systems

Published in ASME Journal of Energy Resources Technology, 2016

Recommended citation: DuPont B, Azam R, Proper S, Cotilla-Sanchez E, Hoyle C, Piacenza J, Oryschchyn D, Zitney S, Bossart S. "An optimization framework for decision making in large, collaborative energy supply systems." ASME Journal of Energy Resources Technology. 138(5):051601 (2016) http://energyresources.asmedigitalcollection.asme.org/article.aspx?articleid=2484527

Conference papers

Podder S, Jackson D, Barajas-Ritchie A, Cotilla-Sanchez E, Cao Y, “Dynamic Modeling and Real-Time Simulation of Wave-to-Grid System,” in Proc. of the 50th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, Chicago, IL, 2024.

Hicks C, Whitener K, Cotilla-Sanchez E, “Voltage Regulation of Microgrid Inverters in Grid-Following and Grid-Forming Mode,” in Proc. of the 2024 International Conference on Smart Energy Systems and Technologies (SEST), Torino, Italy, 2024

Mabote T, Tabarez J, Barnes A, Mate A, Bent R, Cotilla-Sanchez E, “Developing Optimization-Based Inverter Models for Short Circuit Studies,” in Proc. of the 2023 IEEE International Conference on Environment and Electrical Engineering and 2023 IEEE Industrial and Commercial Power Systems Europe (EEEIC / I&CPS Europe), Madrid, Spain, 2023.

Boller M, Carapellese F, Brekken T, Cotilla-Sanchez E, “Hybrid Simulation of a Wave Energy Converter Power Take Off for Flicker and Power Quality Studies,” in Proc. of the 2023 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, Nashville, Tennessee, 2023.

Mabote T, Tabarez JE, Barnes AK, Mate A, Bent RW, Cotilla-Sanchez E, “Approximate Methods for Modeling Inverter Short-Circuit Contributions within Optimal Operation Problems,” in Proc. of the 23rd EEEIC International Conference on Environment and Electrical Engineering & 7th I&CPS Industrial and Commercial Power Systems Europe, Madrid, Spain, 2023.

Weinmann R, Brekken T, Cotilla-Sanchez E, “Impacts of Remedial Action Schemes on Power System Resilience after Large-Scale Earthquakes,” in Proc. of the 2023 International Conference on Smart Energy Systems and Technologies (SEST), Mugla, Turkey, 2023.

Barajas-Ritchie A, Jackson D, Cotilla-Sanchez E, Cao Y, “Open-Source Steady-State Models for Integration of Wave Energy Converter into Microgrids,” in Proc. of the International Conference on Future Energy Solutions, Vaasa, Finland, 2023

Mabote T, Badesa L, Cotilla-Sanchez E, “Enhancing Resilience During Islanding Events Through Price-Responsive Loads,” in Proc. of the 2022 International Conference on Smart Energy Systems and Technologies (SEST), Eindhoven, Netherlands, 2022.

Mate A, Barnes A, Morley S, Friz-Trillo J, Cotilla-Sanchez E, Blake S, “Relaxation Based Modeling of GMD Induced Cascading Failures in PowerModelsGMD.jl,” in Proc. of the 53rd North American Power Symposium (NAPS), 2021.

Lassetter A, Cotilla-Sanchez E, Kim J, “Using Critical Slowing Down Features to Enhance Performance of Artificial Neural Networks for Time-Domain Power System Data,” in Proc. of the 9th International Conference on Smart Energy Grid Engineering (SEGE), Oshawa, Canada, 2021.

Lassetter A, Cotilla-Sanchez E, “Exponential Modeling of Equipment Degradation in the Grid for More Reliable Contingency Analysis,” in Proc. of the Smart Energy Systems and Technology Conference (SEST), Vaasa, Finland, 2021.

De Silva S, Kim S, Cotilla-Sanchez E, Hagan T, “Mitigation of GPS Spoofing Attacks on PMUs via Multi-Period Sparse Error Correction,” in Proc. of the IEEE PES General Meeting, Washington, DC, USA, July 2021.

Mate A, Hagan T, Brekken T, Cotilla-Sanchez E, von Jouanne A, Zhang J, Huo C, Chalishazar V, Fox I, Bass B, “Impacts of Earthquakes on Electrical Grid Resiliency,” in Proc. of the 57th IEEE Industrial and Commercial Power System Conference, April 2021.

De Silva S, Kim J, Cotilla-Sanchez E, “Data Driven Sparse Error Correction for PMU Measurements under GPS Spoofing Attacks,” in Proc. of the IEEE Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference (ISGT) North America, 2021.

Senaratne D, Kim J, Cotilla-Sanchez E, “Spatio-Temporal Frequency Domain Analysis of PMU Data for Unsupervised Event Detection,” in Proc. of the IEEE Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference (ISGT) North America, 2021.

Cicilio P, Swartz L, Vaagensmith B, Rieger C, Gentle J, Cotilla-Sanchez E, McJunkin T, “Electrical Grid Resilience Framework with Uncertainty,” Power Systems Computation Conference (PSCC 2020), Porto, Portugal, 2020.

Gulan K, Cotilla-Sanchez E, Cao Y, “Charging Analysis of Ground Support Vehicles in an Electrified Airport,” in Proc. of the IEEE Transportation Electrification Conference & Expo (ITEC), Novi, Michigan, 2019.

Mate A, Cotilla-Sanchez E, “Rapid Method for Generation Prioritization during System Restoration with Renewable Resources,” in Proc. of the IEEE Industrial and Commercial Power System Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, 2019.

Liu X, Wallace S, Zhao X, Cotilla-Sanchez E, Bass R, “Episodic detection of spoofed data in synchrophasor measurement streams,” in Proc. of the Tenth International Green and Sustainable Computing Conference (IGSC), 2019.

Berrios J, Wallace S, Zhao X, Cotilla-Sanchez E, Bass B, “Generator Event Detection from Synchrophasor Data Using a Two-Step Time-Series Machine Learning Algorithm,” in Proc. of the 9th International Green and Sustainable Computing Conference (IGSC), Pittsburgh, PA, 2018.

S. De Silva, T. Hagan, J. Kim, E. Cotilla-Sanchez, “Sparse Error Correction for PMU Data under GPS Spoofing Attacks,” in Proc. of the IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing (GlobalSIP), 2018.

V. Chalishazar, B. Johnson, T. Brekken, E. Cotilla-Sanchez, “Augmenting the Traditional Bus-Branch Model for Seismic Resilience Analysis,” in Proc. of the IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), Portland, OR, USA, 2018.

Cicilio P, Cotilla-Sanchez E, “Dynamic Composite Load Model Priority Placement Based on Electrical Centrality,” in Proc. of the IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, Portland, OR, 2018.

K. Dieter et al., “Power System Spoof Detection with a Hybrid Hardware/Software Benchmarking Framework,” in Proc. of the IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, Portland, OR, USA, 2018.

B. McCamish et al., “Event Detection Using Correlation within Arrays of Streaming PMU Data,” in Proc. of the IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, Portland, OR, USA, 2018.

P. Henneaux, E. Ciapessoni, D. Cirio, E. Cotilla-Sanchez, R. Diao, I. Dobson, A. Gaikwad, S. Miller, M. Papic, A. Pitto, J. Qi, N. Samaan, G. Sansavini, S. Uppalapati, R. Yao, “Benchmarking Quasi-Steady State Cascading Outage Analysis Methodologies,” in Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Probabilistic Methods Applied to Power Systems (PMAPS), Boise, ID, USA, 2018.

C. Huo, E. Cotilla-Sanchez, “A Power-Balanced Clustering Algorithm to Improve Electrical Infrastructure Resiliency,” in Proc. of the 20th Power Systems Computation Conference (PSCC), Dublin, Ireland, 2018.

C. Lassetter, E. Cotilla-Sanchez, J. Kim, “Learning Schemes for Power System Protection,” in Proc. of the 51st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), Waikoloa Village, HI, USA, 2018.

Tray K, Cicilio P, Brekken T, Cotilla-Sanchez E, “Dynamic Composite Load Signature Detection and Classification using Supervised Learning over Disturbance Data,” in Proc. of the IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition Technical Program Committee, Cincinnati, OH, 2017.

J. Jiang, X. Zhao, S. Wallace, E. Cotilla-Sanchez, R. Bass, “Mining PMU Data Streams to Improve Electric Power System Resilience,” in Proc. of the 4th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Big Data Computing, Applications and Technologies (BDCAT), Austin, TX, USA, 2017.

P. Cicilio, E. Cotilla-Sanchez, M. Mueller-Stoffels, “Improved Reliability and Resiliency of Nome, Alaska’s Microgrid Utilizing Composite Load Modeling and Energy Storage,” in Proc. of the IEEE/PES Transmission and Distribution Conference and Exposition (T&D), 2018.

V. Chalishazar, C. Huo, I. Fox, T. Hagan, E. Cotilla-Sanchez, A. von Jouanne, J. Zhang, T. Brekken, B. Bass, “Modeling Power System Buses Using Performance Based Earthquake Engineering Methods,” in Proc. of the IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, Chicago, IL, 2017.

P. Patapanchala, C. Huo, R. Bobba, E. Cotilla-Sanchez, “Exploring security metrics for electric grid infrastructures leveraging attack graphs,” in Proc. of the IEEE Conference on Technologies for Sustainability (SusTech), Phoenix, AZ, 2016.

E. Hogan, E. Cotilla-Sanchez, M. Halappanavar, S. Wang, P. Mackey, P. Hines, Z. Huang, “On Clustering Techniques for the Analysis of Electric Power Grids,” in Proc. of the 3rd International Workshop on High Performance Computing, Networking and Analytics for the Power Grid, Denver, 2013.

G. Ghanavati, P. Hines, T. Lakoba, E. Cotilla-Sanchez, “Calculation of the Autocorrelation Function of the Stochastic Single Machine Infinite Bus System,” in Proc. of the North American Power Symposium, 2013.

J. Song, E. Cotilla-Sanchez, T. Brekken, “Load modeling methodologies for cascading outage simulation considering power system stability”, in Proc. of the IEEE Conference on Technologies for Sustainability, Portland, OR, 2013.

S. Safdar, B. Hamdaoui, E. Cotilla-Sanchez, M. Guizani. A Survey on Communication Infrastructure for Micro-grids. The 9th International Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC), Cagliari, Italia, 2013

J. Song, T. Brekken, E. Cotilla-Sanchez, A. von Jouanne, J. Davison. Optimal Placement of Energy Storage and Demand Response in the Pacific Northwest. Proc. of the IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, Vancouver, Canada, 2013

P. Hines, I. Dobson, E. Cotilla-Sanchez and M. Eppstein. “Dual Graph” and “Random Chemistry” Methods for Cascading Failure Analysis. Proceedings of the 46th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Maui, 2013

R. Fitzmaurice, E. Cotilla-Sanchez and P. Hines. Evaluating the Impact of Modeling Assumptions for Cascading Failure Simulation. Proc. of the IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, San Diego, 2012.

C. Parmer, E. Cotilla-Sanchez, H. Thornquist and P. Hines. Developing a Dynamic Model of Cascading Failure for High Performance Computing using Trilinos. Proc. of the 1st International Workshop on High Performance Computing, Networking and Analytics for the Power Grid, Seattle, 2011.

P. Hines, E. Cotilla-Sanchez, B. O’Hara and C. Danforth. Estimating Dynamic Instability Risk by Measuring Critical Slowing Down. Proc. of the IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, Detroit, 2011.

P. Hines, E. Cotilla-Sanchez and S. Blumsack. Topological Models and Critical Slowing Down: Two Approaches to Power System Blackout Risk Analysis. Proceedings of the 44th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Kauai, 2011.

P. Hines, S. Blumsack, E. Cotilla Sanchez and C. Barrows. The Topological and Electrical Structure of Power Grids. Proceedings of the 43rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Kauai, 2010.

S. Blumsack, P. Hines, M. Patel, C. Barrows and E. Cotilla Sanchez. Defining Power Network Zones from Measures of Electrical Distance. Proc. of the IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, Calgary, 2009.

Other publications

P. Hines, B. O’Hara, E. Cotilla-Sanchez and C. Danforth. Cascading Failures: Extreme Properties of Large Blackouts in the Electric Grid. SIAM Mathematics Awareness Month essay. 2011.

E. Cotilla-Sanchez. Big Data and Energy Systems: Efficient Computational Methods for the Dynamic Analysis of Electric Power Infrastructure. Ph.D. Dissertation for the University of Vermont Electrical Engineering Department.

E. Cotilla-Sanchez. A Complex Network Approach to Analyzing the Structure and Dynamics of Power Grids. Master’s Thesis for the University of Vermont Electrical Engineering Department.

Press

Hackster.io. A Load-Oscillating Attack from Compromised Smart Meters Could Cause a Blackout, Say Researchers.

AAAS EurekAlert! OSU research shows how hackers can target smart meters to destabilize electricity grid.

American Public Power Association. Study Highlights Hacker Vulnerabilities Created by Smart Meters.

KGW8. OSU researches ways to modernize hydroelectric power and energy storage.

Science Magazine. What Keeps the Power On?

US News and World Report. It’s Hard to Bring Down the Electric Grid.

Science Daily. Why It’s Hard to Crash the Electric Grid.