Amanda Wachtel

Principal Member of Technical Staff

(505) 844-1962

Biography

Amanda Wachtel is a principal member of technical staff in the Mathematical Analysis and Decision Sciences Department at Sandia National Laboratories. Her primary research areas include resilience, system-of-systems modeling and simulation, and developing analytical capabilities for DoD, DOE, defense energy, and community applications. She developed the initial prototype of the Resilient Node Cluster Analysis Tool (ReNCAT) to assess critical infrastructure within cities and find concentrated areas of resources capable of providing services during grid outages, and continues to lead analysis efforts in this area. ReNCAT has been used to help areas such as New Orleans and Puerto Rico identify potential locations for microgrids and backup generation to increase resilience. Amanda was awarded Sandia’s Up and Coming Innovator award in 2017 and is passionate about advancing capabilities to help communities and organizations understand and increase resilience. She has been a leader in Sandia’s energy and infrastructure resilience framework and in tailoring that framework for specific applications.

Education

Masters of Science in Computation for Design and Optimization, Massachusetts Institute of Technology – 2013
Bachelors of Science in Mathematics, The University of Alabama – 2010

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Publications

Amanda Wachtel, Darryl Melander, Cynthia Bresloff, Robert Broderick, Matthew Lave, (2022). EGRASS-DCAT-ReNCAT trifecta: progress update and next steps [Slides] https://doi.org/10.2172/1891186 Publication ID: 80271

Amanda Wachtel, Darryl Melander, Olga Hart, (2022). ReNCAT: The Resilient Node Cluster Analysis Tool https://doi.org/10.2172/1880920 Publication ID: 80067

Amanda Wachtel, Darryl Melander, Robert Jeffers, (2022). Measuring Societal Infrastructure Service Burden https://doi.org/10.2172/1846088 Publication ID: 80479

Saeid Charani Shandiz, Greg Foliente, Behzad Rismanchi, Amanda Wachtel, Robert Jeffers, (2020). Resilience framework and metrics for energy master planning of communities Energy https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2020.117856 Publication ID: 73239

Amanda Wachtel, Robert Jeffers, (2019). Overview of Resilience Planning Framework https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1645917 Publication ID: 64792

Robert Jeffers, Andrea Staid, Michael Baca, Frank Currie, William Fogleman, Sean DeRosa, Amanda Wachtel, Alexander Outkin, (2018). Analysis of Microgrid Locations Benefitting Community Resilience for Puerto Rico https://doi.org/10.2172/1481633 Publication ID: 59345

Amanda Wachtel, Robert Jeffers, Craig Lawton, (2018). Overview of Resilience Planning Framework https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1569121 Publication ID: 59238

Amanda Wachtel, (2018). Defense Energy https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1513345 Publication ID: 62028

Matthew Hoffman, Amanda Wachtel, John Gauthier, Karina Munoz-Ramos, Jessica Turnley, April Nelson, Ann Speed, Craig Lawton, Robert Kittinger, (2017). Modeling Human-Technology Interactive Effects in Systems of Systems (SoS) https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1486991 Publication ID: 54619

Jessica Turnley, Amanda Wachtel, Karina Munoz-Ramos, Matthew Hoffman, John Gauthier, Ann Speed, Robert Kittinger, (2017). Modeling human-technology interaction as a sociotechnical system of systems 2017 12th System of Systems Engineering Conference, SoSE 2017 https://doi.org/10.1109/SYSOSE.2017.7994934 Publication ID: 54300

Amanda Wachtel, (2017). Using Sociotechnical Modeling to Inform Focus of Human Factors Studies https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1455337 Publication ID: 56803

Amanda Wachtel, (2017). Modeling Human-Technology Interaction as a Sociotechnical System of Systems https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1455366 Publication ID: 56818

Jessica Turnley, Amanda Wachtel, Karina Munoz-Ramos, Matthew Hoffman, John Gauthier, Ann Speed, Robert Kittinger, (2017). Modeling Human-Technology Interaction as a Sociotechnical System of Systems https://doi.org/10.1109/SYSOSE.2017.7994934 Publication ID: 56277

Amanda Wachtel, (2016). Exploring Human-Technology Interaction in Layered Security Military Applications https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39399-5_23 Publication ID: 51105

Amanda Wachtel, Matthew Hoffman, Craig Lawton, Ann Speed, John Gauthier, Robert Kittinger, (2016). Exploring human-technology interaction in layered security military applications Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39399-5_23 Publication ID: 48489

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