Pedro Barba

Senior Member of Technical Staff

(505) 284-3209

Biography

Pedro Barba is a Senior Member of Technical Staff in the Electric Power Systems Research Department at Sandia. His current research focuses on modeling traveling waves on transmission and distribution systems, and on optimization methods for energy storage systems. Before joining Sandia, he was a product design engineer at Delphi Automotive Systems, and then a power engineer at El Paso Electric. He served as Adjunct Professor at the College of Engineering and the College of Business Administration at The University of Texas at El Paso.

Research Interests

Electromagnetic transients in distribution systems
Optimization methods for grid energy storage systems

Education

PhD, Electrical Engineering, Michigan State University – 2006
MBA, Finance, The University of Texas at El Paso – 2011
Masters of Science, Electrical Engineering, Michigan State University – 2002
Bachelors of Science, Electrical Engineering, Monterrey Institute of Technology (ITESM) – 1995

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Publications

Matthew Reno, Miguel Jimenez Aparicio, Felipe Wilches-Bernal, Javier Hernandez Alvidrez, Armando Montoya, Pedro Barba, Jack Flicker, Andrew Dow, Ali Bidram, Sajay Paruthiyil, Rudy Montoya, Binod Poudel, Benjamin Reimer, Olga Lavrova, Milan Biswal, Frank Miyagishima, Christopher Carr, Shubhasmita Pati, Satish Ranade, Santiago Grijalva, Shuva Paul, (2022). Signal-Based Fast Tripping Protection Schemes for Electric Power Distribution System Resilience https://doi.org/10.2172/1890046 Publication ID: 80280

Felipe Wilches-Bernal, Ali Bidram, Matthew Reno, Javier Hernandez Alvidrez, Pedro Barba, Benjamin Reimer, Rudy Montoya, Christopher Carr, Olga Lavrova, (2021). A Survey of Traveling Wave Protection Schemes in Electric Power Systems IEEE Access https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3080234 Publication ID: 78665

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