Brent G. Austgen

Member of Technical Staff

(505) 607-0199

Biography

Brent G. Austgen is a Member of the Technical Staff in the Electric Power Systems Research Department at Sandia National Laboratories. He attained his Ph.D. degree (2024) and M.S. degree (2019) in operations research at The University of Texas at Austin and his B.S. degree (2014) in mathematics, electrical engineering, and computational science at the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. He previously held positions at Intel and Samsung, where he led computing platform enabling projects. Since entering graduate school, he has leveraged his computing and math optimization expertise to advance humanitarian analytics. His research is focused on the intersection of power systems planning and operation, climate change and extreme weather, and decision analytics and optimization.

Education

Ph.D., Operations Research & Industrial Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, 2024
M.S., Operations Research & Industrial Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, 2019
B.S., Mathematics, Electrical Engineering, & Computational Science, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, 2014

Publications

Manuel Garcia, Brent Austgen, Brian Pierre, John Hasenbein, Erhan Kutanoglu, (2022). Risk-Averse Investment Optimization for Power System Resilience to Winter Storms Proceedings of the IEEE Power Engineering Society Transmission and Distribution Conference https://doi.org/10.1109/TD43745.2022.9816875 Publication ID: 76315

Brent Austgen, Manuel Garcia, Brian Pierre, John Hasenbein, Erhan Kutanoglu, (2022). Winter Storm Scenario Generation for Power Grids Based on Historical Generator Outages Proceedings of the IEEE Power Engineering Society Transmission and Distribution Conference https://doi.org/10.1109/TD43745.2022.9816863 Publication ID: 76317

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