Adam Summers

Member of Technical Staff

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Member of Technical Staff

asummer@sandia.gov

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Biography

Adam K. Summers is a Senior Member of the Technical Staff in the Electric Power Systems Research Department at Sandia National Laboratories. He holds a Master’s in electrical engineering from The University of New Mexico focused on electric power systems. He is a Member of IEEE and Sigma XI. His research interests and expertise include power system modeling, machine learning, real-time simulations, power system resilience, power system protection, and renewable energy integration.

Education

  • Masters of Science, Electrical Engineering, University of New Mexico
  • Bachelors of Science, Electrical Engineering, University of New Mexico
  • Bachelors of Arts, Economics, University of New Mexico

Publications

Shamina Hossain-McKenzie, Nicholas Jacobs, Adam Summers, Bryan Kolaczkowski, Christopher Goes, Raymond Fasano, Zeyu Mao, Leen Al Homoud, Kate Davis, Thomas Overbye, (2022). Harmonized Automatic Relay Mitigation of Nefarious Intentional Events (HARMONIE) – Special Protection Scheme (SPS) https://doi.org/10.2172/1890265 Publication ID: 80308

Shamina Hossain-McKenzie, Adrian Chavez, Nicholas Jacobs, Christian Jones, Adam Summers, Brian Wright, (2022). Securing Inverter Communication: Proactive Intrusion Detection and Mitigation System to Tap, Analyze, and Act https://doi.org/10.2172/1861984 Publication ID: 80582

Adam Summers, Trupal Patel, Ronald Matthews, Matthew Reno, (2022). Prediction of Relay Settings in an Adaptive Protection System 2022 IEEE Power and Energy Society Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference, ISGT 2022 https://doi.org/10.1109/ISGT50606.2022.9817483 Publication ID: 75428

Binod Poudel, Ali Bidram, Matthew Reno, Adam Summers, (2022). Zonal Machine Learning-Based Protection for Distribution Systems IEEE Access https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3184865 Publication ID: 80843

Shamina Hossain-McKenzie, Daniel Calzada, Christopher Goes, Nicholas Jacobs, Adam Summers, Katherine Davis, Hanyue Li, Zeyu Mao, Thomas Overbye, Komal Shetye, (2021). Adaptive, Cyber-Physical Special Protection Schemes to Defend the Electric Grid Against Predictable and Unpredictable Disturbances https://doi.org/10.2172/1893607 Publication ID: 76353

Adrian Chavez, Patricia Cordeiro, Gary Huang, Panayioti Kitsos, Trevor La Pay, Austin Short, Adam Summers, (2021). Named Data Networking for DER Cybersecurity https://doi.org/10.2172/1820522 Publication ID: 75681

Shamina Hossain-McKenzie, Daniel Calzada, Christopher Goes, Nicholas Jacobs, Adam Summers, Katherine Davis, Hanyue Li, Zeyu Mao, Thomas Overbye, Komal Shetye, (2021). Adaptive, Cyber-Physical Special Protection Schemes to Defend the Electric Grid Against Predictable and Unpredictable Disturbances https://doi.org/10.1109/RWS52686.2021.9611801 Publication ID: 75992

Jay Johnson, Louis Jencka, Timothy Ortiz, Christian Jones, Adrian Chavez, Brian Wright, Adam Summers, (2021). Design Considerations for Distributed Energy Resource Honeypots and Canaries https://doi.org/10.2172/1821540 Publication ID: 75774

Jay Johnson, Matthew Reno, Rachid Darbali-Zamora, Adam Summers, (2021). Power Hardware-in-the-Loop Research at Sandia National Laboratories: Devices-to-Systems https://doi.org/10.2172/1881705 Publication ID: 79705

Adam Summers, Ronald Matthews, Trupal Patel, Matthew Reno, (2021). Power System Protection Parameter Sensitivity Analysis with Integrated Inverter Based Resources Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference https://doi.org/10.1109/PVSC43889.2021.9518534 Publication ID: 78240

Adam Summers, Ronald Matthews, Trupal Patel, Matthew Reno, (2021). Power System Protection Parameter Sensitivity Analysis with Integrated Inverter Based Resources https://doi.org/10.1109/PVSC43889.2021.9518534 Publication ID: 78863

Nicholas Jacobs, Shamina Hossain-McKenzie, Adam Summers, (2021). Modeling data flows with network calculus in cyber-physical systems: Enabling feature analysis for anomaly detection applications Information (Switzerland) https://doi.org/10.3390/info12060255 Publication ID: 78911

Binod Poudel, Daniel Garcia, Ali Bidram, Matthew Reno, Adam Summers, (2021). Circuit Topology Estimation in an Adaptive Protection System 2020 52nd North American Power Symposium, NAPS 2020 https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1805338 Publication ID: 73958

Nicholas Jacobs, Adam Summers, Shamina Hossain-McKenzie, Daniel Calzada, Hanyue Li, Zeyu Mao, Chris Goes, Katherine Davis, Komal Shetye, (2021). Next-Generation Relay Voting Scheme Design Leveraging Consensus Algorithms 2021 IEEE Power and Energy Conference at Illinois, PECI 2021 https://doi.org/10.1109/PECI51586.2021.9435201 Publication ID: 77385

Binod Poudel, Daniel Garcia, Ali Bidram, Matthew Reno, Adam Summers, (2021). Circuit Topology Estimation in an Adaptive Protection System https://doi.org/10.2172/1862901 Publication ID: 77999

Shamina Hossain-McKenzie, Adrian Chavez, Nicholas Jacobs, C. Jones, Adam Summers, Brian Wright, (2021). Proactive Intrusion Detection and Mitigation System: Case Study on Packet Replay Attacks in Distributed Energy Resource Systems 2021 IEEE Power and Energy Conference at Illinois, PECI 2021 https://doi.org/10.2172/1860305 Publication ID: 77798

Christian Jones, Adrian Chavez, Shamina Hossain-McKenzie, Nicholas Jacobs, Adam Summers, Brian Wright, (2021). Unsupervised Online Anomaly Detection to Identify Cyber-Attacks on Internet Connected Photovoltaic System Inverters https://doi.org/10.1109/PECI51586.2021.9435234 Publication ID: 77572

Nicholas Jacobs, Adam Summers, Shamina Hossain-McKenzie, Daniel Calzada, Hanyue Li, Zeyu Mao, Christopher Goes, Katherine Davis, Komal Shetye, (2021). Next-Generation Relay Voting Scheme Design Leveraging Consensus Algorithms https://doi.org/10.2172/1860603 Publication ID: 77814

Christine Lai, Adrian Chavez, Christian Jones, Nicholas Jacobs, Shamina Hossain-McKenzie, Jay Johnson, Adam Summers, (2021). Review of Intrusion Detection Methods and Tools for Distributed Energy Resources https://doi.org/10.2172/1769265 Publication ID: 77220

Shamina Hossain-McKenzie, Adrian Chavez, Nicholas Jacobs, Christian Jones, Adam Summers, Brian Wright, (2021). Proactive Intrusion Detection and Mitigation System: Case Study on Packet Replay Attacks in Distributed Energy Resource Systems https://doi.org/10.1109/PECI51586.2021.9435231 Publication ID: 77286

Ronald Matthews JR, Adam Summers, Matthew Reno, (2021). An Algorithm for Placement of Directional and Nondirectional Protection Elements in a Fully Protected Network https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1854667 Publication ID: 74993

Adam Summers, Jay Johnson, Rachid Darbali-Zamora, Clifford Hansen, Jithendar Anandan, Chad Showalter, (2020). A comparison of der voltage regulation technologies using real-time simulations Energies https://doi.org/10.3390/en13143562 Publication ID: 73541

Javier Hernandez, Nicholas Gurule, Matthew Reno, Jack Flicker, Adam Summers, Abraham Ellis, (2020). Method to Interface Grid-Forming Inverters into Power Hardware in the Loop Setups https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1807390 Publication ID: 73741

Javier Hernandez, Nicholas Gurule, Matthew Reno, Jack Flicker, Adam Summers, Abraham Ellis, (2020). Method to Interface Grid-Forming Inverters into Power Hardware in the Loop Setups https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1807393 Publication ID: 73744

Nicholas Jacobs, Shamina Hossain-McKenzie, Adam Summers, C. Jones, Brian Wright, Adrian Chavez, (2020). Cyber-physical observability for the electric grid 2020 IEEE Texas Power and Energy Conference, TPEC 2020 https://doi.org/10.1109/TPEC48276.2020.9042494 Publication ID: 70700

Nicholas Jacobs, Shamina Hossain-McKenzie, Adam Summers, Christian Jones, Brian Wright, Adrian Chavez, (2020). Cyber-Physical Observability for the Electric Grid https://doi.org/10.1109/TPEC48276.2020.9042494 Publication ID: 72300

Ronald Matthews, Matthew Reno, Adam Summers, (2019). A graph theory method for identification of a minimum breakpoint set for directional relay coordination Electronics (Switzerland) https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics8121376 Publication ID: 65458

Javier Hernandez, Nicholas Gurule, Adam Summers, Matthew Reno, Jack Flicker, Abraham Ellis, (2019). Method to Interface Grid-Forming Inverters into Power Hardware in the Loop https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1643258 Publication ID: 66247

Javier Hernandez Alvidrez, Adam Summers, Matthew Reno, Jack Flicker, Nataraj Pragallapati, (2019). Simulation of Grid-Forming Inverter Dynamic Models using a Power Hardware-in-the-Loop Testbed https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1640955 Publication ID: 69393

Nicholas Gurule, Javier Hernandez Alvidrez, Matthew Reno, Adam Summers, Sigifredo Gonzalez, Jack Flicker, (2019). Grid-forming Inverter Experimental Testing of Fault Current Contributions https://doi.org/10.1109/PVSC40753.2019.8980892 Publication ID: 69394

Javier Hernandez Alvidrez, Adam Summers, Matthew Reno, Jack Flicker, (2019). Simulation of Grid-Forming Inverters (GFMIs) Dynamic Models using a Power Hardware-in-the-Loop Testbed https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1640965 Publication ID: 69411

Adam Summers, Javier Hernandez Alvidrez, Rachid Darbali-Zamora, Matthew Reno, Jay Johnson, Nicholas Gurule, (2019). Comparison of Ideal Transformer Method and Damping Impedance Method for PV Power-Hardware-In-The-Loop Experiments https://doi.org/10.1109/PVSC40753.2019.8980690 Publication ID: 69163

Rachid Darbali-Zamora, Javier Hernandez Alvidrez, Adam Summers, Nicholas Gurule, Matthew Reno, Jay Johnson, (2019). Distribution Feeder Fault Comparison Utilizing a Real-Time Power Hardware-in-the-Loop Approach for Photovoltaic System Applications Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference https://doi.org/10.1109/PVSC40753.2019.8980944 Publication ID: 69198

Rachid Darbali-Zamora, Javier Hernandez Alvidrez, Adam Summers, Nicholas Gurule, Matthew Reno, Jay Johnson, (2019). Distribution Feeder Fault Comparison Utilizing a Real-Time Power Hardware-in-the-Loop Approach for Photovoltaic System Applications https://doi.org/10.1109/PVSC40753.2019.8980944 Publication ID: 69206

Nicholas Gurule, Javier Hernandez Alvidrez, Matthew Reno, Adam Summers, Sigifredo Gonzalez, Jack Flicker, (2019). Grid-forming Inverter Experimental Testing of Fault Current Contributions https://doi.org/10.1109/PVSC40753.2019.8980892 Publication ID: 69331

Adam Summers, Javier Hernandez Alvidrez, Rachid Darbali-Zamora, Matthew Reno, Jay Johnson, Nicholas Gurule, (2019). Comparison of Ideal Transformer Method and Damping Impedance Method for PV Power-Hardware-In-The-Loop Experiments https://doi.org/10.1109/PVSC40753.2019.8980690 Publication ID: 69084

Adrian Chavez, Christine Lai, Nicholas Jacobs, Shamina Hossain-McKenzie, Christian Jones, Jay Johnson, Adam Summers, (2019). Hybrid Intrusion Detection System Design for Distributed Energy Resources https://doi.org/10.1109/CyberPELS.2019.8925064 Publication ID: 68251

Adrian Chavez, Shamina Hossain-McKenzie, Christian Jones, Jay Johnson, Christine Lai, Nicholas Jacobs, Adam Summers, (2019). Hybrid Intrusion Detection System Design for Distributed Energy Resource Systems https://doi.org/10.1109/CyberPELS.2019.8925064 Publication ID: 68342

Javier Hernandez-Alvidrez, Adam Summers, Nataraj Pragallapati, Matthew Reno, Satish Ranade, Jay Johnson, Sukumar Brahma, Jimmy Quiroz, (2018). PV-Inverter Dynamic Model Validation and Comparison under Fault Scenarios Using a Power Hardware-in-the-Loop Testbed 2018 IEEE 7th World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion, WCPEC 2018 – A Joint Conference of 45th IEEE PVSC, 28th PVSEC and 34th EU PVSEC https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1526425 Publication ID: 62561

Ross Guttromson, Ian Gravagne, Jonathan Berg, Jonathan White, Felipe Wilches-Bernal, Adam Summers, David Schoenwald, (2018). Use and Testing of a Wind Turbine for the Supply of Balancing Reserves and Wide-Area Grid Stability https://doi.org/10.2172/1489627 Publication ID: 62948

Javier Alvidrez, Adam Summers, Nataraj Pragallapati, Matthew Reno, Satish Ranade, Jay Johnson, Sukumar Brahma, Jimmy Quiroz, (2018). PV-Inverter Dynamic Model Validation and Comparison Under Fault Scenarios Using a Power Hardware-in-the-Loop Testbed https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1526428 Publication ID: 62564

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Patents & Trademarks

  • Digital Twin Advanced Distribution Management Systems (ADMS) and Methods. Non-Provisional Patent Application Number 17/193175
  • Proactive Intrusion Detection and Mitigation System. Non-Provisional Patent Application Number 17/217702
  • Systems and Methods for Interfacing a Grid Forming Inverter to a Power Hardware-in-the-Loop Testbed. Provisional Patent Application Number 63/184701