Thushara Gunda

Complex Systems Analyst

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Complex Systems Analyst

tgunda@sandia.gov

(505) 845-3440

Biography

Thushara Gunda is a Principal Member of Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories. Her research portfolio focuses on data-driven decision making in complex systems, including water resources, energy, and security domains. Leveraging insights from interdisciplinary perspective is a key distinguishing feature of Thushara’s work. Her research methods integrate techniques from data sciences, modeling and simulation, stakeholder engagement, open-source software development, and domain-specific practices.

Education

  • Ph.D. Environmental Engineering Vanderbilt University 2018
  • M.S. Environmental Engineering Vanderbilt University 2014
  • B.S. Environmental Sciences University of Virginia 2010
  • B.A. Environmental Thought & Practice University of Virginia 2010

Awards & Recognitions

Software

Media Highlights

Publications

Nicole Jackson, Thushara Gunda, Natalie Gayoso, Jal Desai, Andy Walker, (2022). Operations, maintenance, and cost considerations for PV+Storage in the United States https://doi.org/10.2172/1899420 Publication ID: 80437

Casey Doyle, Thushara Gunda, Michael Bernard, (2022). Grey Zone Test Range Social Model https://doi.org/10.2172/1898253 Publication ID: 80407

Michael Hopwood, Lekha Patel, Thushara Gunda, (2022). Classification of Photovoltaic Failures with Hidden Markov Modeling, an Unsupervised Statistical Approach Energies https://doi.org/10.3390/en15145104 Publication ID: 80937

Vincent Tidwell, Thushara Gunda, Mariah Caballero, Pei Xu, Xuesong Xu, Rich Bernknopf, Craig Broadbent, Len Malczynski, Jake Jacobson, (2022). Produced Water-Economic, Socio, Environmental Simulation Model (PW-ESEim) Model: Proof-of-Concept for Southeastern New Mexico https://doi.org/10.2172/1868149 Publication ID: 80758

Mariah Caballero, Thushara Gunda, Yolanda McDonald, (2022). Pollution in the Press: Employing Text Analytics to Understand Regional Water Quality Narratives Frontiers in Environmental Science https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2022.770812 Publication ID: 80694

Mariah Caballero, Thushara Gunda, Yolanda McDonald, (2022). Pollution in the Press: Employing Text Analytics to Understand Regional Water Quality Narratives Frontiers in Environmental Science https://doi.org/10.2172/1862777 Publication ID: 77971

Thushara Gunda, Stephen Ferencz, Priya Hora, Stephanie Kuzio, Kailey Wulfert, (2022). What is Water’s Role in a Carbon Neutral Future? A Summary of Findings from a Webinar Series https://doi.org/10.2172/1865260 Publication ID: 80692

Michael Hopwood, Thushara Gunda, (2022). Generation of Data-Driven Expected Energy Models for Photovoltaic Systems Applied Sciences (Switzerland) https://doi.org/10.3390/app12041872 Publication ID: 80488

Thushara Gunda, Susan Caskey, Adam Williams, Gabriel Birch, (2022). Revisiting Current Paradigms: Subject Matter Expert Views on High Consequence Facility Security Assessments Journal of Nuclear Materials Management https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1870453 Publication ID: 80567

Nicole Jackson, Thushara Gunda, (2021). Evaluation of extreme weather impacts on utility-scale photovoltaic plant performance in the United States Applied Energy https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2021.117508 Publication ID: 75449

Vincent Tidwell, Thushara Gunda, Michael Hightower, Pei Xu, Xuesong Xu, Bernknopf Bernknopf, Craig Broadbent, Len Malczynski, Jake Jacobson, (2021). Tool for Assessing the Economic, Societal and Environmental Tradeoffs in Oil & Gas Produced Water Management and Reuse https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1896576 Publication ID: 76597

Susan Caskey, Thushara Gunda, Adam Williams, Jamie Wingo, (2021). LEVERAGING RESILIENCE METRICS TO SUPPORT ANALYSIS OF SECURITY SYSTEMS https://doi.org/10.2172/1899272 Publication ID: 76599

Elizabeth Fleming Lindsley, Andrea Staid, Nicole Jackson, Thushara Gunda, (2021). Critical Infrastructure Decision-Making under Long-Term Climate Hazard Uncertainty https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1897700 Publication ID: 76758

Adam Williams, Thomas Adams, Jamie Wingo, Gabriel Birch, Susan Caskey, Elizabeth Fleming Lindsley, Thushara Gunda, (2021). Resilience-Based Performance Measures for Next-Generation Systems Security Engineering https://doi.org/10.2172/1891245 Publication ID: 76148

Thushara Gunda, (2021). Solar PV Technologies ? An Overview of Current and Emerging Research https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1894565 Publication ID: 76450

Nicole Jackson, Thushara Gunda, Andrea Staid, Samuel Gilletly, (2021). Extreme Weather Impacts on Energy Generation https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1888642 Publication ID: 75839

Susan Caskey, Thushara Gunda, Jamie Wingo, Adam Williams, (2021). Leveraging Resilience Metrics to Support Security System Analysis https://doi.org/10.1109/HST53381.2021.9619837 Publication ID: 75907

Andrea Staid, Elizabeth Fleming Lindsley, Thushara Gunda, Nicole Jackson, (2021). Critical Infrastructure Decision-Making under Long-Term Climate Hazard Uncertainty: The Need for an Integrated, Multidisciplinary Approach https://doi.org/10.2172/1820518 Publication ID: 75675

Michael Hopwood, Lekha Patel, Thushara Gunda, (2021). Probabilistic detection of high-dimension failures in complex systems: A case study of photovoltaics https://doi.org/10.2172/1886187 Publication ID: 75469

Adam Williams, Thomas Adams, Jamie Wingo, Gabriel Birch, Susan Caskey, Elizabeth Fleming Lindsley, Thushara Gunda, (2021). Resilience-Based Performance Measures for Next-Generation Systems Security Engineering https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCST49569.2021.9717388 Publication ID: 76011

Adam Williams, Gabriel Birch, Elizabeth Fleming Lindsley, Susan Caskey, Thushara Gunda, Jamie Wingo, Thomas Adams, Jami Stverak, (2021). Early Results from Applying a Multilayered Network Framework to Engineering Nuclear Security Systems https://doi.org/10.2172/1882473 Publication ID: 75272

Adam Williams, Gabriel Birch, Susan Caskey, Thushara Gunda, Thomas Adams, Jamie Wingo, Jami Stverak, (2021). Early Results from Applying a Multilayered Network Framework to Engineer Nuclear Security Systems https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1888710 Publication ID: 79638

Thushara Gunda, (2021). Extreme Weather Impacts on PV Performance https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1871412 Publication ID: 78705

Vincent Tidwell, Thushara Gunda, Michael Hightower, Pei Xu, Richard Bernknopf, Craig Broadbent, Len Malczynski, Jake Jacobson, (2021). Tool for Assessing the Economic, Societal and Environmental Tradeoffs in Oil/Gas Produced Water Management and Reuse https://doi.org/10.2172/1876609 Publication ID: 78990

Hector Mendoza, Michael Hopwood, Thushara Gunda, (2021). pvOps: Improving Operational Assessments through Data Fusion https://doi.org/10.1109/PVSC43889.2021.9518439 Publication ID: 78781

Hector Mendoza, Michael Hopwood, Thushara Gunda, (2021). pvOps: Improving Operational Assessments through Data Fusion https://doi.org/10.2172/1872704 Publication ID: 78807

Casey Doyle, Thushara Gunda, Asmeret Naugle, (2021). Hierarchical effects facilitate spreading processes on synthetic and empirical multilayer networks PLoS ONE https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0252266 Publication ID: 78840

Thushara Gunda, Munaf Aamir, Alexander Outkin, (2021). Increasing Integration of Data-driven Analyses in Operational Activities through Knowledge Management https://doi.org/10.2172/1870767 Publication ID: 78669

Adam Williams, Gabriel Birch, Susan Caskey, Thushara Gunda, Elizabeth Fleming Lindsley, Thomas Adams, Jamie Wingo, (2021). Insights for Systems Security Engineering from Multilayer Network Models https://doi.org/10.2172/1862186 Publication ID: 77936

Adam Williams, Gabriel Birch, Susan Caskey, Elizabeth Fleming Lindsley, Thushara Gunda, Thomas Adams, Jamie Wingo, (2021). Insights for Systems Security Engineering from Multilayer Network Models https://doi.org/10.1002/j.2334-5837.2021.00838.x Publication ID: 77867

Clifford Hansen, Dirk Jordan, Michael Deceglie, Thushara Gunda, Hector Mendoza, Matt Muller, William Vining, (2021). Data Cleaning for Degradation Analyses https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1854657 Publication ID: 76820

Clifford Hansen, Dirk Jordan, Michael Deceglie, Thushara Gunda, Michael Hopwood, Hector Mendoza, Matt Muller, William Vining, (2021). Data Cleaning for Degradation Analyses https://doi.org/10.2172/1845618 Publication ID: 76821

Vincent Tidwell, Thushara Gunda, Natalie Gayoso, (2021). Importance of Plant-Level Characteristics for Assessment of Water-Related Threats to Electric Power Sector https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1847224 Publication ID: 77341

Adam Williams, Gabriel Birch, Susan Caskey, Thushara Gunda, Jamie Wingo, Thomas Adams, (2021). A Complex Systems Approach to Develop a Multilayer Network Model for High Consequence Facility Security Springer Proceedings in Complexity https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1770850 Publication ID: 73017

Mariah Caballero, Thushara Gunda, Yolanda McDonald, Jonathan Gilligan, (2020). Pollution in the Press: Employing Text Analytics to Understand Regional Water Quality Narratives https://doi.org/10.2172/1884097 Publication ID: 71786

Michael Hopwood, Hector Mendoza, Thushara Gunda, (2020). Generating actionable information through the fusion of text and timeseries data: A case study of extreme weather effects at Photovoltaic plants https://doi.org/10.2172/1889019 Publication ID: 71803

Thushara Gunda, Armida Carbajal, Danielle Sanchez, (2020). Extending Theory-Guided Data Science to Consider Social Science Domains https://doi.org/10.2172/1829562 Publication ID: 71558

Benjamin Anker, Thushara Gunda, (2020). Analyzing Newspaper Articles: Opportunities Strategies and Risks https://doi.org/10.2172/1830051 Publication ID: 71615

Andrew Padilla, Stacy Timmons, Thushara Gunda, Jeri Graham, (2020). Using Publish-Subscribe Methodology to Improve Water Data Sharing https://doi.org/10.2172/1832695 Publication ID: 71892

Nicole Jackson, Thushara Gunda, Andrea Staid, (2020). Weather Impacts On Utility-Scale Photovoltaic Plant Performance https://doi.org/10.2172/1833151 Publication ID: 71928

Thushara Gunda, (2020). Fusing Diverse Datasets with Machine Learning to Inform System State Conditions: An Application for Photovoltaic Plants https://doi.org/10.2172/1825606 Publication ID: 71205

Thushara Gunda, Katherine Klise, (2020). A Nexus Approach to Systems Resilience https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1825982 Publication ID: 71235

Thushara Gunda, (2020). An Interdisciplinary Approach to Tackling Water Resource Issues in the 21st Century https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1826443 Publication ID: 71275

Thushara Gunda, (2020). NM Technical Working Group: Balancing Standards Development with User Priorities and Platform Needs https://doi.org/10.2172/1831349 Publication ID: 71419

Danielle Sanchez, Holly Eagleston, Benjamin Anker, La Jenkins, Thushara Gunda, (2020). Not All Disasters are Created Equal: Evaluating Differences in Fire and Hurricane Media Coverage https://doi.org/10.2172/1830963 Publication ID: 71059

Clifford Hansen, Dirk Jordan, Michael Deceglie, Thushara Gunda, Hector Mendoza, Matt Muller, William Vining, (2020). Data Cleaning for Degradation Analyses https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1821842 Publication ID: 74963

Vincent Tidwell, Thushara Gunda, Natalie Gayoso, (2020). Water Atlas Extension https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1818431 Publication ID: 74713

Vincent Tidwell, Thushara Gunda, Natalie Gayoso, (2020). Importance of Plant-Level Characteristics for Assessment of Water-Related Threats to Electric Power Sector https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1807657 Publication ID: 74015

Michael Hopwood, Hector Mendoza, Thushara Gunda, (2020). Generating actionable information through the fusion of text and timeseries data: A case study of extreme weather effects at Photovoltaic plants https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1811807 Publication ID: 74283

Adam Williams, Gabriel Birch, Thushara Gunda, Susan Caskey, Jamie Wingo, Thomas Adams, (2020). A Complex Systems Approach to Develop a Multilayer Network Model for High Consequence Facility Security (Slides) https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1809209 Publication ID: 74152

Susan Caskey, Adam Williams, Shannon Abbott, Thushara Gunda, (2020). Malicious Threat Anticipation using an Adaptive Complex Systems Approach https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1807444 Publication ID: 73802

Adam Williams, Gabriel Birch, Susan Caskey, Thushara Gunda, Thomas Adams, Jamie Wingo, Jami Stverak, (2020). Empirical Insights for a Multi-Layered Network Complex Systems Model for Engineering Nuclear Security Systems https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1798420 Publication ID: 73831

Adam Williams, Gabriel Birch, Thushara Gunda, Susan Caskey, Jamie Wingo, Thomas Adams, Jami Stverak, (2020). Empirical Insights for a Multi-Layered Network Complex Systems Model for Engineering Nuclear Security Systems-Slides https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1804854 Publication ID: 73914

Susan Caskey, Thushara Gunda, Adam Williams, (2020). Malicious Threat Anticipation using an Adaptive Complex Systems Approach https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1805034 Publication ID: 73937

Michael Hopwood, Thushara Gunda, Hubert Seigneur, Joseph Walters, (2020). An assessment of the value of principal component analysis for photovoltaic IV trace classification of physically-induced failures https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1807364 Publication ID: 73709

Thushara Gunda, (2020). Inverter Faults & Failures: Common modes & patterns https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1767382 Publication ID: 72735

Clifford Hansen, Dirk Jordan, Michael Deceglie, Matt Muller, Thushara Gunda, William Vining, (2020). Data Cleaning for Degradation Analyses https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1767884 Publication ID: 72746

Michael Hopwood, Thushara Gunda, Hubert Seigneur, Joseph Walters, (2020). Neural Network-Based Classification of String-Level IV Curves from Physically-Induced Failures of Photovoltaic Modules IEEE Access https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3021577 Publication ID: 70980

Nicole Jackson, Thushara Gunda, (2020). Multi-site assessment of extreme weather impacts on PV plant performance and reliability https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1761296 Publication ID: 70742

Thushara Gunda, Vincent Tidwell, Sam Fernald, Yining Bai, (2019). Reduced and Earlier Snowmelt Runoff Impacts Traditional Irrigation Systems Journal of Contemporary Water Research & Education https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1936-704X.2019.03318.x Publication ID: 70868

Nicole Jackson, Thushara Gunda, (2019). Reusing Operations & Maintenance Records: Moving from Reactive to Proactive Management of Solar Photovoltaic Sites https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1643576 Publication ID: 66551

Thushara Gunda, May Cai, (2019). Foresee the Future: Using Machine Learning Climate and Site Characteristics to Predict Solar Plant Generation https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1643055 Publication ID: 66020

Thushara Gunda, (2019). Leveraging Empirical Data to Characterize PV O&M Issues https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1645991 Publication ID: 65032

Thushara Gunda, (2019). Leveraging Date Science & Machine Learning to Characterize PV O&M Issues https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1645929 Publication ID: 64845

Ke Ding, Thushara Gunda, George Hornberger, (2019). Prominent Influence of Socioeconomic and Governance Factors on the Food-Energy-Water Nexus in sub-Saharan Africa Earth’s Future https://doi.org/10.1029/2019EF001184 Publication ID: 66233

Thushara Gunda, (2019). MORE THAN A TICKETING SYSTEM: O&M DATABASES AS AN ANALYTICAL TOOL https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1641525 Publication ID: 70325

Asmeret Naugle, Thushara Gunda, Casey Doyle, (2019). Barriers to Adoption of Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1641413 Publication ID: 70155

Thushara Gunda, Christian Jones, (2019). Data-Driven Analysis of PV Failures from O&M Records https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1645685 Publication ID: 70162

C. Jones, William Hobbs, Cara Libby, Thushara Gunda, Babak Hamzavy, (2019). Predicting Photovoltaic Module Series Resistance based on Indoor-Aging Tests and Thermal Cycling Cumulative Exposure Estimates Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference https://doi.org/10.1109/PVSC40753.2019.8981189 Publication ID: 69137

Thushara Gunda, V. Tidwell, (2019). A Uniform Practice for Conceptualizing and Communicating Food-Energy-Water Nexus Studies Earth’s Future https://doi.org/10.1029/2019EF001150 Publication ID: 68455

Vincent Tidwell, Thushara Gunda, (2019). Satisfying Thirsty Power: The Energy-Water Nexus https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1640624 Publication ID: 68863

Thushara Gunda, (2019). Leveraging Data Science and Machine Learning to Characterize and Improve PV O&M https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1644949 Publication ID: 68210

Vincent Tidwell, Thushara Gunda, Rebecca Jeffers, (2019). Water Atlas Extension https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1639757 Publication ID: 68056

Thushara Gunda, (2019). Water Management for Unconventional Oil and Gas Development in the Permian Basin: Methods for understanding the links between stakeholder behavior and public perception https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1601545 Publication ID: 67023

Thushara Gunda, (2019). Sociocultural Feedbacks Influence Community Resilience During Water-Scarce Periods https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1592337 Publication ID: 64313

Thushara Gunda, (2019). More than a Ticketing System: O&M Databases as an Analytical Tool https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1581877 Publication ID: 64161

Thushara Gunda, (2018). Leveraging Data Science and Machine Learning to Characterize PV O&M Issues https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1573558 Publication ID: 60020

Thushara Gunda, (2018). Distributions: A Tool for Characterizing Failures https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1592681 Publication ID: 59776

Thushara Gunda, Vincent Tidwell, (2018). Dynamic Sociocultural Feedbacks Influence Acequia Response During Water Scarcity https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1593574 Publication ID: 59582

Robert Kuether, Brooke Allensworth, Adam Backer, Elton Chen, Remi Dingreville, Eric Forrest, Robert Knepper, Alexander Tappan, Michael Marquez, Jonathan Vasiliauskas, Stephen Rupper, Michael Grant, Lauren Atencio, Tyler Hipple, Danae Maes, Jerilyn Timlin, Tian Ma, Rudy Garcia, Forest Danford, Laura Patrizi, Jennifer Galasso, Timothy Draelos, Thushara Gunda, Otoniel Venezuela, Wesley Brooks, Stephen Anthony, Bryan Carson, Michael Reeves, Matthew Roach, Erin Maines, Judith Lavin, Shaun Whetten, Laura Swiler, (2018). Posters for AA/CE Reception https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1592652 Publication ID: 59884

Thushara Gunda, (2018). Modeling (Resilient) Communities https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1562352 Publication ID: 58832

Thushara Gunda, (2018). Evolution of Water Narratives in Local US Newspapers: A Case Study of Utah and Georgia https://doi.org/10.2172/1467781 Publication ID: 63822

Daniel Villa, Joshua New, William Peplinski, Thushara Gunda, Gerald Gallegos, Mark Adams, Aaron Garrett, (2018). Reducing Building Energy Modeling Workloads Through Automated Calibration https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1582548 Publication ID: 63947

Thushara Gunda, (2018). Characterization of Water-Related Narratives in Local US Newspapers https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1532830 Publication ID: 62964

Thushara Gunda, B. Turner, Vincent Tidwell, (2018). The Influential Role of Sociocultural Feedbacks on Community-Managed Irrigation System Behaviors During Times of Water Stress Water Resources Research https://doi.org/10.1002/2017WR021223 Publication ID: 61189

Thushara Gunda, Vincent Tidwell, (2018). Partner Capabilities https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1882111 Publication ID: 60963

Thushara Gunda, (2018). Using Qualitative Analyses in Socio-Hydrological Research https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1501970 Publication ID: 61121

Thushara Gunda, Vincent Tidwell, (2016). Waste Not Want Not: Role of Waste Generation Management and Treatment in Food-Energy-Water Nexus Interactions https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1413400 Publication ID: 48096

Vincent Tidwell, Thushara Gunda, (2016). Critical role of waste in governing nexus interactions https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1420795 Publication ID: 47736

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