JAMES
S. THORP
428
Phillips Hall
Phone: (607) 255-3347
E-mail: jst6@cornell.edu
B.E.E.
1959 (Cornell), M.S. 1961 (Cornell), Ph.D. 1962 (Cornell)
James S. Thorp joined the faculty at Cornell in 1962. He was named the Charles N. Mellowes Professor in Engineering in 1994, was Director of the School from 1994-01, and was Associate Director from 1991-94. Thorp was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1996, and was elected Fellow of the IEEE in 1989 “for contributions to development of digital techniques for power system protection.”
Professor Thorp was Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery (Power System Relaying) from 1998-01, and was Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems from 1985-87. He was a Faculty Intern at the American Electric Power Service Corporation in 1976, and was an Overseas Fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge, England in 1988. He is a member of the IEEE Power System Relaying Committee, CIGRE, Eta Kappa Nu, Tau Beta Pi, and Sigma Xi.
Research
Interests:
Professor
Thorp is interested in the protection and control of large-scale-power
systems including algorithms for digital protection, adaptive
relaying, and real-time control of power systems using measurements
obtained from microprocessor relays. In addition, he studies the
complicated dynamical behavior of power systems including the
generation of "fractals"
by such systems, and the mechanisms of cascading disturbances.
Current Research Projects:
Impact of Protection System on Reliability (Power Systems Engineering Research Center, PSerc)
Formulation of Prescriptive Approaches to Prevention of Cascading Network Failures (EPRI/DOE)
Electromechanical Wave Propagation in Large
Electric Power Systems (National Science Foundation)
Selected
Publications:
H. Wang and J. S. Thorp, “Optimal Locations for Protection System Enhancement: A simulation of Cascading Outages,” IEEE Trans. on Power Delivery, Power System Relaying (submitted September 2000).
M. Parashar, J. S. Thorp, and C. E. Seyler, “Large Scale Power Systems as a Distributed Continuum,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems (submitted June 2000).
J. Chen, J. S. Thorp, and M. Parashar, “Analysis of Electric Power System Disturbance Data,” Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-34), Maui, Hawaii, January 2001.
D. V. Coury, J. S. Thorp, K. M. Hopkinson, and K. P. Birman, “Agent Technology Applied to Adaptive Relay Setting for Multi-Terminal Lines,” IEEE Power Engineering Society Summer Meeting, Seattle, Washington, July 2000.
C-W Liu and J. S. Thorp, “New Methods for Computing Power System Dynamic Response for Real-Time Transient Stability Prediction”, IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems I: Fund. Theory & Appl., Vol. 47, No. 3, March 2000, pp. 324-337.
K. Bae, K Han, J. S. Thorp, “Nodal-Price Dependent, Dual-Mode Transmission Line Protection Strategy,” Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-33), Maui, Hawaii, January 2000.
A.G. Phadke, S.H. Horowitz, and J.S. Thorp, "Aspects of Power System Protection in the Post-Restructuring Era," Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-32), Maui, Hawaii, January 7, 1999.
J S Thorp and A. G. Phadke, “Protecting Power Systems in the Post-Restructuring Era, IEEE Computer Applications in Power, Vol. 12, No. 1, January 1999, pp. 33-37.
K. Bae and J.S. Thorp, “An Importance Sampling Application: 179 Bus WSCC System Under Voltage Based Hidden Failures and Relay Misoperations,” Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-31), January 7, 1998.
Y.C. Wang, S.G. Adams, J.S. Thorp, N.C. MacDonald, P. Hartwell and F. Bertsch, "Chaos in MEMS, Parameter Estimation and Its Potential Application," IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems I: Fund. Theory & Appl. Vol. 45, No. 10, October 1998, pp. 1013-20.
J.S. Thorp, C.E. Seyler and A. G. Phadke, “Electromechanical Wave Propagation in Large Electric Power Systems,” IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems I: Fund. Theory & Appl. Vol. 45, No. 6, June 1998, pp. 614-22.
D.J. Sobiski and J.S. Thorp, “PDMA-2: The Feedback Kalman Filter and Simultaneous Multiple Access of a Single Channel,” IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems I: Fund. Theory & Appl., Vol. 45, No. 2, February 1998, pp. 142-49.
D.J. Sobiski and J.S. Thorp, “PDMA-1: “Chaotic Communication via the Extended Kalman Filter,” IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems I: Fund. Theory & Appl., Vol. 45, No. 2, February 1998, pp. 194-97.
J.S. Thorp, C.E. Seyler, M. Parashar and A.G. Phadke, “The Large Scale Electric Power System as a Distributed Continuum,” IEEE PES Letters, Vol. 18, No. 1, August 1997, pp. 49-50.
M. Akke and J. S. Thorp, “Some Improvements in
the Three-Phase Differential Equation Algorithm for Fast
Transmission Line Protection,” PES Summer Meeting, Berlin, Germany,
July 23, 1997.
Last Updated August 20, 2001
