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14262
World Ranking
2597
National Ranking
992

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2003 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For technical contributions to the modeling, simulation, and dynamic analysis of power systems and for leadership in power engineering education and research.
  • 1993 - IEEE Fellow For leadership in electric power engineering education and for contributions to the theory of electric power system dynamic modeling and stability.

Overview

Peter W. Sauer is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields with a strong emphasis on engineering and medicine, particularly within electrical and electronic engineering, control and systems engineering, cognitive neuroscience, radiology, nuclear medicine, and imaging, as well as sociology and political science.

The main topics of their work include microgrid control and optimization, smart grid security and resilience, smart grid energy management, social acceptance of renewable energy, energy and environment impacts, water-energy-food nexus studies, and muscle activation and electromyography studies.

Their body of recent publications reflects this multidisciplinary focus, including:

  • Controller hardware in the loop testing of microgrid secondary frequency control schemes (2020, Electric Power Systems Research)
  • Can renewable energy work for rural societies? Exploring productive use, institutions, support systems, and trust for solar electricity in the Navajo Nation (2023, Energy Research & Social Science)
  • Deep learning and session-specific rapid recalibration for dynamic hand gesture recognition from EMG (2022, Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology)
  • The Need for Teaching Place-Based Contextualization for Sustainable Power System Infrastructure Design (2021, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems)
  • Contextual Challenges in using DERs to Advance Remote Electrification (2022, Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences)

Frequent coauthors contributing to the research include Abhiroop Chattopadhyay, Ann-Perry Witmer, Olaoluwapo Ajala, Alejandro D. Domínguez-García, and Siddhartha Nigam.

Key publication venues where Peter W. Sauer has contributed include IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Energy Research & Social Science, Electric Power Systems Research, Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, and the Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.

Their work in electrical power system dynamic modeling and stability has been recognized with appointments and honors such as the IEEE Fellow designation received in 1993 for leadership in electric power engineering education and contributions to the theory of power system stability. They were also named a Member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2003 for technical contributions to the modeling, simulation, and dynamic analysis of power systems as well as leadership in power engineering education and research.

Best Publications

  • Power System Dynamics and Stability: With Synchrophasor Measurement and Power System Toolbox

    Peter W Sauer;Joe H Chow;M A Pai

  • Power System Dynamics and Stability

    Peter W. Sauer;M. A. Pai

  • Uncertainty Management in the Unit Commitment Problem

    P.A. Ruiz;C.R. Philbrick;E. Zak;K.W. Cheung

  • Power system steady-state stability and the load-flow Jacobian

    P.W. Sauer;M.A. Pai

  • Power System Dynamics and Stability: With Synchrophasor Measurement and Power System Toolbox 2e: With Synchrophasor Measurement and Power System Toolbox

    Peter W. Sauer;M. A. Pai;Joe H. Chow

  • Is strong modal resonance a precursor to power system oscillations

    I. Dobson;J. Zhang;S. Greene;H. Engdahl

  • Power System Toolbox

    Peter W. Sauer;M. A. Pai;Joe H. Chow

  • Dynamic aspects of voltage/power characteristics (multimachine power systems)

    C. Rajagopalan;B.C. Lesieutre;P.W. Sauer;M.A. Pai

  • A Cyber-Physical Modeling and Assessment Framework for Power Grid Infrastructures

    Katherine R. Davis;Charles M. Davis;Saman A. Zonouz;Rakesh B. Bobba

  • Wind power day-ahead uncertainty management through stochastic unit commitment policies

    Pablo A. Ruiz;C. Russ Philbrick;Peter W. Sauer

  • Technical challenges of computing available transfer capability (ATC) in electric power systems

    P.W. Sauer

  • Optimal Tap Setting of Voltage Regulation Transformers Using Batch Reinforcement Learning

    Hanchen Xu;Alejandro D. Dominguez-Garcia;Peter W. Sauer

  • Enhancement of linear ATC calculations by the incorporation of reactive power flows

    S. Grijalva;P.W. Sauer;J.D. Weber

  • Runtime Semantic Security Analysis to Detect and Mitigate Control-Related Attacks in Power Grids

    Hui Lin;Adam Slagell;Zbigniew T. Kalbarczyk;Peter W. Sauer

  • A user-friendly simulation program for teaching power system operations

    T.J. Overbye;P.W. Sauer;C.M. Marzinzik;G. Gross

  • Relationships between voltage and angle stability of power systems

    C.D. Vournas;P.W. Sauer;M.A. Pai

  • Measurement-Based Estimation of Linear Sensitivity Distribution Factors and Applications

    Yu Christine Chen;Alejandro D. Dominguez-Garcia;Peter W. Sauer

  • Measurement-Based Estimation of the Power Flow Jacobian Matrix

    Yu Christine Chen;Jianhui Wang;Alejandro D. Dominguez-Garcia;Peter W. Sauer

  • An integral manifold approach to reduced order dynamic modeling of synchronous machines

    P.W. Sauer;S. Ahmed-Zaid;P.V. Kokotovic

  • Stability Limited Load Supply and Interchange Capability

    P. W. Sauer;K. D. Demaree;M. A. Pai

  • On The Formulation of Power Distribution Factors for Linear Load Flow Methods

    P. W. Sauer

  • Data-Driven Voltage Regulation in Radial Power Distribution Systems

    Hanchen Xu;Alejandro D. Dominguez-Garcia;Venugopal V. Veeravalli;Peter W. Sauer

Frequent Co-Authors

M.A. Pai
M.A. Pai University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Alejandro D. Dominguez-Garcia
Alejandro D. Dominguez-Garcia University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Thomas J. Overbye
Thomas J. Overbye Texas A&M University
George Gross
George Gross University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Joe H. Chow
Joe H. Chow Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Bernard C. Lesieutre
Bernard C. Lesieutre University of Wisconsin–Madison
Jonathan W. Kimball
Jonathan W. Kimball Missouri University of Science and Technology
Vijay Vittal
Vijay Vittal Arizona State University
Costas Vournas
Costas Vournas National Technical University of Athens
Ian Dobson
Ian Dobson Iowa State University

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