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Research

Refereed Journal Articles

  1. L. Souto, J. Yip, W.-Y. Wu, B. Austgen, E. Kutanoglu, J. Hasenbein, Z.-L. Yang, C.W. King, S. Santoso, 2022. Power system resilience to floods: Modeling, impact assessment, and mid-term mitigation strategies. International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems Volume 135, February 2022, 107545.
  2. J. Yip, V.C. Cunha, B. Austgen, S. Santoso, E. Kutanoglu, J.J. Hasenbein, 2024. Optimal Application of Mobile Substation Resources for Transmission System Restoration under Flood Events. IEEE Access vol. 12, pp. 23758-23781, 2024.

Refereed Journal Articles Submitted or Under Revision

  1. B. Austgen, E. Kutanoglu, J.J. Hasenbein, 2024. A two-stage stochastic programming model for electric substation flood mitigation prior to an imminent hurricane.
  2. B. Austgen, E. Kutanoglu, J.J. Hasenbein, S. Santoso, 2024. Comparison of two-stage models for flood mitigation of electrical substations.
  3. B. Bilir, E. Kutanoglu, J.J. Hasenbein, B. Austgen, M. Garcia, J.K. Skolfield, 2024. Enhancing Power Grid Resilience to Winter Storms with Equity Considerations.
  4. B. Austgen, M. Garcia, J. Yip, B. Arguello, B. Pierre, E. Kutanoglu, J. Hasenbein, S. Santoso, 2024. Three-stage optimization model to inform risk-averse investment in power system resilience to winter storms.
  5. B. Austgen, J.J. Hasenbein, E. Kutanoglu, 2024. On simplices with a given barycenter that are enclosed by the standard simplex.

Refereed Conference Proceedings

  1. B. Austgen, D. Hofheins, A. Holder, P. Upadhyay; Scheduling foundry production without mold inventory. 14th INFORMS Computing Society Conference; Richmond, VA, USA; January 11-13, 2015.
  2. B. Austgen, J. Hasenbein, E. Kutanoglu; Impacts of approximate power flow models on optimal flood mitigation in a stochastic program; IISE Annual Conference and Exposition 2021; Online; May 22-25, 2021.
  3. B. Austgen, J. Hasenbein, E. Kutanoglu; Comparison of linear power flow approximation models in the context of winter storm planning; IISE Annual Conference and Exposition 2022; Seattle, WA, USA; May, 21-24, 2022.
  4. A. Shukla, B. Austgen, E. Kutanoglu, J. Hasenbein; Budget allocation in optimizing power grid resilience to extreme weather: Hardening, preparation, or recovery? IISE Annual Conference and Exposition 2022; Seattle, WA, USA; May, 21-24, 2022.
  5. M. Garcia, B. Austgen, B. Pierre, J. Hasenbein, E. Kutanoglu; Risk-averse investment optimization for power system resilience to winter storms; IEEE PES T&D Conference and Exposition 2022; New Orleans, LA, USA; April 25-28, 2022.
  6. B. Austgen, M. Garcia, B. Pierre, J. Hasenbein, E. Kutanoglu; Winter storm scenario generation for power grids based on historical generator outages; IEEE PES T&D Conference and Exposition 2022; New Orleans, LA, USA; April 25-28, 2022.
  7. B. Austgen, S. Gupta, E. Kutanoglu, J. Hasenbein; Stochastic hurricane flood mitigation for power grid resilience; IEEE PES General Meeting 2022; Denver, CO, USA; July 17-21, 2022.

Technical Reports

  1. C.W. King, J.D. Rhodes, J. Zarnikau, E. Kutanoglu, B. Leibowicz, D. Niyogi, V. Rai, S. Santoso, D. Spence, S. Tompaidis, H. Zhu, E. Funkhouser, B. Austgen; The timeline and events of the Feburary 2021 Texas electric grid blackouts; The University of Texas at Austin Energy Institute.

Conference Presentations

  1. B. Austgen, E. Kutanoglu, J. Hasenbein; Optimized reinforcement of an electric power grid prior to imminent hurricane landfall; 2020 INFORMS Annual Meeting; Online; November 7-13, 2020.
  2. B. Austgen; Decision-making for major power grid contingencies; Sandia National Laboratories Summer 2021 New Mexico Intern Symposium; Online; July 26-29, 2021.
  3. B. Austgen, E. Kutanoglu, J. Hasenbein; Development of realistic natural hazard contingencies for synthetic power grids; 2021 INFORMS Annual Meeting; Anaheim, CA, USA; October 24-27, 2021.
  4. W.-Y. Wu, Z.-L. Yang, B. Austgen, S. Tabassum, E. Kutanoglu, J. Hasenbein, C. King, S. Santoso; Incorporating hurricane forecasts into WRF-Hydro for ensemble generation; AGU Fall Meeting 2021; New Orleans, LA, USA; December 13-17, 2021.
  5. E. Kutanoglu, W.-Y. Wu, S. Tabassum, A. Skukla, Z.-L. Yang, C. King, S. Santoso, B. Austgen, J. Hasenbein, J. Yip; Closing the gap from uncertainty quantification to decision making: Integration prediction-optimization modeling of the critical infrastructure flood resilience; AGU Fall Meeting 2021; New Orleans, LA, USA; December 13-17, 2021.
  6. E. Kutanoglu, W.-Y. Wu, S. Tabassum, A. Skukla, Z.-L. Yang, C. King, S. Santoso, B. Austgen, J. Hasenbein, J. Yip; Integrated intelligence for electric grid resilience using storm surge and inland flood models; AGU Fall Meeting 2021; New Orleans, LA, USA; December 13-17, 2021.
  7. B. Austgen, E. Kutanoglu, J. Hasenbein; A performance-constrained stochastic power flow model for flood resilience planning; 2022 INFORMS Annual Meeting; Indianapolis, IN, USA; October 16-19, 2022.
  8. Z.-L. Yang, E. Kutanoglu, S. Santoso, J. Hasenbein, S. Tabassum, J. Yip, B. Austgen, C. King; Integrated decision support for adapting the power grid to climate change: Resilient infrastructure planning via transdisciplinary modeling; AGU Fall Meeting 2022; Chicago, IL, USA; December 12-16, 2022.
  9. B. Austgen, E. Kutanoglu, J.J. Hasenbein, J. Yip, S. Santoso, M. Garcia, B. Arguello, B. Pierre; Risk-averse Three-stage Investment Optimization to Improve Power System Resilience to Winter Storms; 2023 INFORMS Annual Meeting; Phoenix, AZ, USA; October 15-18, 2023.

Poster Presentations

  1. B. Austgen, J. Yip, B.J. Pierre, E. Kutanoglu, S. Santoso; Critical node identification vulnerability modeling and topology optimization for the electric grid; UT Austin’s Spring 2021 Sandia Day; Online; April 8, 2021.
  2. B. Austgen, A. Shukla, E. Kutanoglu, J. Hasenbein; An end-to-end framework for informing hurricane resilience in critical infrastructure; TACCSTER 2021; Online; September 23-24, 2021.
  3. B. Austgen, A. Shukla, Z.-L. Yang, S. Santoso, E. Kutanoglu, J. Hasenbein; Integrated short- and mid-term flood resilience optimization for power grids; The University of Texas Energy Institute: Fueling a Sustainable Energy Transition Project Review; Austin, TX, USA; October 26, 2021.
  4. B. Austgen, E. Kutanoglu, S. Santoso, Z.-L. Yang, J. Hasenbein, C. King, A. Shukla, S. Tabassum, W.-Y. Wu, J. Yip, W. Kim, B. Bilir, B. Sahin, K.Y. Kim, L. Souto, G. Toplu Tutay, S. Gupta; Defending the electricity infrastructure against extreme weather events, now and in the future; The University of Texas Energy Institute: Fueling a Sustainable Energy Transition Program Review; Austin, TX, USA; October 26, 2021.
  5. B. Austgen, M. Garcia, B. Pierre, E. Kutanoglu, J. Hasenbein; Risk-averse investment optimization for power grid resilience to winter storms UT Austin’s Spring 2022 Sandia Day Austin, TX, USA; March 31, 2022.