Dr. Kate Davis is the Woods Family Career Development Professor and an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University. Dr. Davis’s work has pioneered significant enhancements to power system cyber-physical security by advancing cyber-physical modeling and analysis capabilities. Prior to joining Texas A&M in 2017, Dr. Davis was a Software Engineer and Senior Consultant for PowerWorld Corporation and with University of Illinois’s Information Trust Institute as a Research Scientist. Her expertise includes large scale modeling, analysis, and simulations of cyber-physical power system critical infrastructure, where she has particular interest in security-oriented control system analysis techniques. She also works to facilitate transition to practice of state-of-the-art cyber-physical situational awareness capabilities for power utilities. She was recognized as IEEE Senior Member (2018), received the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station Engineering Genesis Award (2019, 2024), and became a Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) Young Faculty Fellow (2021). She received the Texas A&M Dean of Engineering Excellence Award for Associate Professor (2024). Dr. Davis was named Research Leadership Fellow (2024) and ECE Faculty Impact Fellow (2024). She leads the Resilient Energy Systems Lab (RESLab), the cyber-physical emulation testbed created by her group, fully functional since 2020. She also serves as the TEES Smart Grid Center Assistant Director for Education. Dr. Davis is a licensed Professional Engineer in the State of Texas.
Education
- Ph. D. in Electrical Engineering, Power and Energy Systems, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, 2011
- M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Power and Energy Systems, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, 2009
- B.S. in Electrical Engineering, University of Texas, Austin 2007
Research Interests
Professor Kate Davis studies power system modeling, analysis, and control with a focus on data-driven, security-oriented techniques that consider the interdependencies of electrical and cyber infrastructures. Her research interest(s) include:
- Power Systems Operation and Control
- Power System Stability
- Power System Analysis by Computer Methods
- Power System Visualization
- Renewable Electric Energy Systems
- Smart Grid Cyber Security
- Cyber-Physical System Modeling
- Power System Geomagnetic Disturbance Modeling