Robert J. Thomas
Professor, Electrical and
Computer Engineering
428 Phillips Hall
Phone: 607/255-5083
E-mail: rjt1@cornell.edu
B.S.E.E. 1968, M.S.E.E. 1969, Ph.D. 1973 (Wayne State)
Biography
Robert J.
Thomas currently holds the position of Professor of Electrical Engineering at Cornell University. During the 1979-1980 academic year he spent his sabbatical leave with the U.S. Department
of Energy Office of Electric Energy Systems (EES) in Washington, D.C. In 1987 and 1988 he was on
assignment from Cornell University to the National Science Foundation
as the first Program Director for the Power Systems Program in the Engineering
Directorate's Division of Electrical Systems Engineering (ESE). He is the author of over 100 technical
papers, and two book chapters. He
has been a member of the IEEE United States Activity Board's Energy Policy
Committee since 1991 and was the committee’s Chair from 1997-1998. He was a member of the IEEE Technology
Policy Council, has served as the IEEE-USA Vice President for Technology
Policy, and has been a member of several university, government and industry
advisory Boards or Panels. His
current technical research interests are broadly in the areas of analysis and
control of nonlinear continuous and discrete time systems with applications to
large-scale electric power systems.
He is the founding Director of the11 university member National Science
Foundation Industry/University Cooperative Research Center, PSerc
( Power Systems Engineering Research Center), a Center focused on problems of
restructuring of the electric power industry. He was a member of the USDOE Secretary's
Power Outage Study Team (POST) and is a founding member of the Coalition for
Electric Reliability Solutions (CERTS) Management Steering Committee
(MSC). He is a member of Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, Sigma Xi, ASEE and a Fellow of the IEEE.
Research Interests
Current research interests
are broadly in the areas of analysis and control of nonlinear continuous and
discrete-time systems with applications to large-scale electric-utility systems
and electromechanical-drive systems. Current projects include research into
large-scale electric-utility voltage-instability problems and into applications
of neural networks to a variety of power-system problems. I am also involved in
researching concurrent design techniques and the use of multimedia in instruction.
Current Research Projects
Information Pending.
Selected Publications
Last
Updated: February 20, 2001
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