Faculty
Brian Johnson, Ph.D., P.E.
University Distinguished Professor, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories Endowed Chair in Power Engineering, CSDS Director
Gauss-Johnson 201
208-885-6902
Campus: Moscow
Courses: Digital Logic, Logic Circuit Laboratory, Energy Systems I, Introduction to Power Systems, Power Systems Analysis, Power Electronic Circuits, Power Systems Planning and Resources, Symmetrical Components, Transients in Power Systems, Power System Protection and Relaying, Understanding Power Quality, Utility Applications of Power Electronics
Areas of Expertise: Power electronic applications for the control of power transmission and distribution systems, power system protection, power quality, superconductivity applications in transmission and distribution, energy storage systems, real time simulation of traffic systems and intelligent transportation systems
Jim Alves-Foss, Ph.D.
University Distinguished Professor
Janssen 225
208-885-5196
Campus: Moscow
Courses: Programming Languages, Network Security, Computer and Network Forensics, Programming Language Theory
Areas of Expertise: computer security, formal methods, design and analysis of high assurance systems, cryptographic protocol design, security policy engineering, multi-level secure systems and MILS architecture (Multiple Independent Levels of Security)
Yacine Chakhchoukh, Ph.D., P.E.
Associate Professor
Gauss-Johnson 213
208-885-1550
Campus: Moscow
Courses: Introduction to Power Systems, Power Systems Analysis
Areas of Expertise: Cyber-security for the smart grid, Power transmission and distribution systems, Phasor Measurement Units (PMUs) integration in the power systems, Power state estimation
Daniel Conte de Leon, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Acting Chair
Janssen 233
208-885-6520
Campus: Moscow
Courses: Introduction to Information Assurance, Applied Security Concepts
Areas of Expertise: Development of methods and tools for the design, construction and maintenance of safe and secure computing systems, critical infrastructure protection systems
Herbert Hess, Ph.D., P.E
Professor
Gauss-Johnson 205
208-885-4341
Campus: Moscow
Courses: Energy Systems I, Advanced Electronics
Areas of Expertise: Power electronics, Electric machines and drives, Power quality
Dakota Roberson, Ph.D., P.E.
Associate Professor
CAES 278
208-533-8120
Campus: Idaho Falls
Areas of Expertise: Power System Control (Wide-area damping using active power modulation such as HVDC, energy storage, etc., Detection and correction of latency in closed-loop controllers, Variable loop gain strategies, Coupling of distributed systems, Energy storage controller technology for smoothing, arbitrage, AGC, etc.), Statistical Signal Processing (Estimation/Detection Theory, Cramer-Rao Lower Bound, Saddlepoint Approximations and other high-order approximation techniques)
Dilshani Sarathchandra
Assistant Professor
Phinney Hall 114
208-885-6664
Campus: Moscow
Courses: Introduction to Sociology; Methods of Social Research; Responding to Risk; Science, Technology and Society; Quantitative Social Science Methods
Areas of Expertise: Science and technology studies; Science communication; Risk, judgment and decision-making; Health and medicine View Full Profile
Jia (Cindy) Song, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Janssen 340
208-885-1710
Campus: Moscow
Areas of Expertise: Cybersecurity, security issues in computer systems, software and networks, high assurance computing systems design, implementation and verification
