Katherine Davis

Dr. Katherine Davis

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Kate Davis is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University. She received her Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Texas, Austin. She received her Master of Science Degree and Ph. D. from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Power and Energy Systems, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She is a Senior Member of IEEE, the faculty advisor of the Texas A&M University Student Chapters of IEEE-PES-PELS-IAS and HKN, and a licensed Professional Engineer in the state of Texas.

Office: WEB 214H, Wisenbaker Engineering Building
College Station, Texas, 77843-3128
Office Hours:  TBD 
Phone: 979-458-5093
Email: katedavis@tamu.edu
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Vision

Dr. Davis’s research group is called the Cyber-Physical Modeling and Analysis (CPMA) team.  Our vision is cohesive, comprehensive cyber-physical modeling and analysis for secure and resilient future power systems and their coupled critical infrastructures.

Mission Statement

CPMA team focuses on protecting society against a wide range of threats to critical cyber-physical energy infrastructure through improved modeling, situational awareness, analysis, and response, and by efforts to ensure the integrity of the entire control loop by securing and verifying the information flows and the process flows, from monitoring to analysis to control.

Prospective Collaborators and Students

Our research interests involve large-scale modeling, analysis, and simulations of cyber-physical power system critical infrastructure, especially security-oriented control system analysis techniques.

Highly motivated prospective graduate students and post-docs are always encouraged to apply.

CPMA team is always interested in industry, government, and academic partners working with us in research and/or demonstration and development, outreach, technology transition. To find out more, you are encouraged to contact Dr. Davis at katedavis@tamu.edu.  CPMA team welcomes collaboration on the difficult challenges in cyber-physical-human system modeling and analysis.

For graduate school admission, please apply to the Texas A&M graduate program. Then, please contact katedavis@tamu.edu with the following information:

Some of our research projects are described below.

CyPRES

A next-generation secure energy management system that would enable stakeholders across energy industrial control domains to better prepare, mitigate, repair, and recover from cyber-related threats

SCORE

A secure end-to-end system for managing the energy system, communications, security, modeling and analytics, and response that is fully cyber-physical

 

DEFENDA

An efficient and robust FDI attack detection mechanism via deep neural network (DNN) architectures

 

Bio-Power

Investigating the potential of ecosystems to provide new robust design and operating principles for power grids.

 

SL-PWR

A self-sufficient low cost model to improve resilience in the wildfire response of critical power system infrastructure.

News

  • [01/09/2025] Smart Grid Center Cyber Defense and Response Barn Raising Workshop Held on December 9, 2024. Full news story here.
  • [09/14/2024] Dr. Davis recently hosted a EPG group dinner! Inviting all faculty, staff and their families. Here’s a picture from the evening
  • [08/26/2024] Congratulations to Dr. Davis and her team for receiving the Research Leadership Fellows Award! Dr. Davis and her team will be awarded $75,000 to support their research. Learn More
  • [2/28/2024] Webinar: Opportunities for Scalable Cyber-Physical Optimal Response in Power Systems on 2/28/24  Video
  • [11/20/2023] ERCOT-SGC Student Power Engineering Information Session Full news story here.
  • [5/19/2023] Strategic Holistic Intrusion Defense in Power Systems (SHIELD) Workshop 2023
    Full news story here.
  • [4/28/2023] Energy and Power Research Day Full news story here.
  • [10/06/2022] Pursuing greater resilience through nature-inspired power grids. Full news story here.
  • [5/25/2022] Protecting the power grid through cyber-physical threat response. Full news story here.
  • [04/21/2022] Department of Energy- DOE Announces $12 Million to Enhance Cybersecurity of America’s Energy Systems. The relevant information can be viewed here.
  • [06/24/2021] Organizing Committee for “Innovative Early-Career Engineers Selected to Participate in NAE’s 2021 US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium“. The press release can be viewed here
  • [09/29/2020] Drawing on principles from bio designed systems such as the food web will help scientists build more resilience into the electrical power grid. – ASME. The relevant information can be viewed here.