Thomas J. Overbye

11.0k citations

326 papers · 7.9k indexed · 2 hit papers · h-index 47

Impact in

Control and Systems Engineering top 0.2%
- Smart Grid Security and Resilience
- Microgrid Control and Optimization
- Power Systems Fault Detection
Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality top 0.2%
- Power System Reliability and Maintenance

Papers in

Control and Systems Engineering 116
- Smart Grid Security and Resilience 42
Electrical and Electronic Engineering 248
- Power System Optimization and Stability 135
- Optimal Power Flow Distribution 106
- Smart Grid Energy Management 44
- Electric Power System Optimization 34
- Power Systems and Technologies 32

Co-authors: James D. Weber Adam B. Birchfield Komal S. Shetye Joseph Euzebe Tate Ti Xu Christopher L. DeMarco R.P. Klump Katherine M. Rogers
Journals: IEEE Transactions on Power Systems (45 papers)IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid (7 papers)IEEE Power and Energy Magazine (4 papers)Energies (3 papers)American Scientist (3 papers)
Partner nations: United States South Korea Canada

In The Last Decade

Thomas J. Overbye

304 papers receiving 7.5k citations

Hit Papers

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Grid Structural Characteristics as Validation Criteria for Synthetic Networks 2016 · 491 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2016 IEEE Transactions on Power Systems
2010 Detecting False Data Injection Attacks on DC State Estimation

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1	Power Flow Modeling of the Impacts of Weather and Other Resiliency Hazards With a Focus on Transmission Planning Proceedings of the ... Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences ·Farnaz Safdarian, M. G. Iyer, H C Li, Thomas J. Overbye, مریم کده	2025	3
2	Building and validating a Large-Scale combined transmission & distribution synthetic electricity system of Texas International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems ·Carlos Mateo, Sergei P. Shevchenko, Tarek Elgindy, Adam B. Birchfield, Pablo Dueñas, Bryan Palmintier, Mohd Syafie Othman, Tomás Gómez San Román, Fernando de Cuadra, Thomas J. Overbye, Farnaz Safdarian, Rizal Bagus Prakoso	2024	2
3	ARPA-E Grid Optimization (GO) Competition Challenge 3 OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information) ·Stephen T. Elbert, Jesse Holzer, 任之, Richard P. O’Neill, Hans D. Mittelmann, Carleton Coffrin, A Leonard Lynn, Robert Parker, Tarek Elgindy, Elaine Hale, Bryan Palmintier, Terrence W. K. Mak, Thomas J. Overbye, Farnaz Safdarian, Christopher L. DeMarco, Scott Greene, Bernard C. Lesieutre, Jr Johnston RJ, HyungSeon Oh	2024	1
4	An Integrated Assessment of a G3 GMD Event on Large-Scale Power Grids: From Magnetometer Data to Geomagnetically Induced Current Analysis IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications ·Pooria Dehghanian, 成社斌, Justin Dyer, مریم کده, Adam B. Birchfield, Katherine Davis, Thomas J. Overbye	2023	1
5	Spatiotemporal Operational Emissions Associated With Light-, Medium-, and Heavy-Duty Transportation Electrification IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification ·優丞矢尾, Farnaz Safdarian, Rizal Bagus Prakoso, Zahid Pervaz, Mathias Kuhl, Thomas J. Overbye, Yanzhi Xu	2023	5
6	Transmission-and-Distribution Dynamic Co-Simulation Framework for Distributed Energy Resource Frequency Response IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid ·Wenbo Wang, Xin Fang, Hantao Cui, Fangxing Li, Mathias Kuhl, Thomas J. Overbye	2021	46
7	Cascading Failure Vulnerability Analysis in Interdependent Power Communication Networks IEEE Systems Journal ·Rachad Atat, Muhammad Ismail, Shady S. Refaat, Erchin Serpedin, Thomas J. Overbye	2021	11
8	Joint Detection and Localization of Stealth False Data Injection Attacks in Smart Grids Using Graph Neural Networks IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid ·Osman Boyaci, Mohammad Rasoul Narimani, Katherine Davis, Muhammad Ismail, Thomas J. Overbye, Erchin Serpedin	2021	88
9	Easy SimAuto (ESA): A Python Package that Simplifies Interacting with PowerWorld Simulator The Journal of Open Source Software ·دعاء محمد محمد توفيق, Zeyu Mao, Mathias Kuhl, Katherine Davis, Thomas J. Overbye	2020	15
10	Building Highly Detailed Synthetic Electric Grid Data Sets for Combined Transmission and Distribution Systems IEEE Open Access Journal of Power and Energy ·Adil H. Khan, 優丞矢尾, Adam B. Birchfield, Thomas J. Overbye, Tomás Gómez San Román, Carlos Mateo, 水青山, Reynita Ardiana Nursaid, Tarek Elgindy, Bryan Palmintier	2020	42
11	Mosaic Packing to Visualize Large-Scale Electric Grid Data IEEE Open Access Journal of Power and Energy ·Adam B. Birchfield, Thomas J. Overbye	2020	4
12	Stochastic Geometry-Based Model for Dynamic Allocation of Metering Equipment in Spatio-Temporal Expanding Power Grids IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid ·Rachad Atat, Muhammad Ismail, Mostafa F. Shaaban, Erchin Serpedin, Thomas J. Overbye	2019	19
13	Educational Applications of Large Synthetic Power Grids IEEE Transactions on Power Systems ·Adam B. Birchfield, Thomas J. Overbye, Katherine Davis	2018	26
14	Modeling, Tuning, and Validating System Dynamics in Synthetic Electric Grids IEEE Transactions on Power Systems ·Ti Xu, Adam B. Birchfield, Thomas J. Overbye	2018	75
15	Power Flow Convergence and Reactive Power Planning in the Creation of Large Synthetic Grids IEEE Transactions on Power Systems ·Adam B. Birchfield, Ti Xu, Thomas J. Overbye	2018	79
16	Using Detailed Ground Modeling to Evaluate Electric Grid Impacts of Late-Time High-Altitude Electromagnetic Pulses (E3 HEMP) IEEE Transactions on Power Systems ·佳子樋口, Komal S. Shetye, Adam B. Birchfield, Thomas J. Overbye	2018	15
17	A Comparison of Peak Electric Fields and GICs in the Pacific Northwest Using 1‐D and 3‐D Conductivity Space Weather ·J. L. Gannon, Adam B. Birchfield, Komal S. Shetye, Thomas J. Overbye	2017	24
18	A Metric-Based Validation Process to Assess the Realism of Synthetic Power Grids Energies ·Adam B. Birchfield, Freeman Dyson, Mir Hadi Athari, Ti Xu, Thomas J. Overbye, Anna Scaglione, Zhifang Wang	2017	52
19	Engineering resilient cyber-physical systems Thomas J. Overbye	2012	22
20	Power system visualization Dianli xitong zidonghua ·Thomas J. Overbye	2005	27

About Thomas J. Overbye

Thomas J. Overbye is a scholar working on Control and Systems Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Computational Mathematics, having authored 326 papers that have together received 7.9k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Power System Optimization and Stability (135 papers), Optimal Power Flow Distribution (106 papers), Smart Grid Energy Management (44 papers), Smart Grid Security and Resilience (42 papers), Power System Reliability and Maintenance (38 papers), Lightning and Electromagnetic Phenomena (36 papers), Electric Power System Optimization (34 papers) and Power Systems and Technologies (32 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Control and Systems Engineering (3.5k citations), Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality (989 citations), Electrical and Electronic Engineering (5.9k citations), Energy Engineering and Power Technology (155 citations) and Computer Networks and Communications (865 citations). Thomas J. Overbye has collaborated with scholars based in United States, South Korea and Canada. Frequent co-authors include James D. Weber, Adam B. Birchfield, Komal S. Shetye, Joseph Euzebe Tate, Ti Xu, Christopher L. DeMarco, R.P. Klump, Katherine M. Rogers, Kathleen M. Gegner and Sudipta Dutta. Their work appears in journals such as IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, IEEE Power and Energy Magazine, Energies and American Scientist.

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