Adam Birchfield

Educational Background

Ph.D, Electrical Engineering, Texas A&M University – 2018
M.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign – 2016
B.E.E., Electrical Engineering, Auburn University – 2014

- Power system modeling
- Power system computational analysis
- Synthetic power grids and datasets
- Extreme event impacts on power systems
- Dynamics and stability of power systems

National Science Foundation CAREER Award – 2025
Thomas W. Powell ’62 and Powell Industries Inc. Fellowship, Texas A&M University
Grainger Power Engineering Award, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

J. Baek and A. B. Birchfield, “Dynamic performance design and validation in large, IBR-heavy synthetic grids,” Energies, vol. 18, no. 15, pp. 1-22, Jul. 2025.
L. Lowery and A. B. Birchfield, “Voltage stability in plausible non-uniform geomagnetic disturbances,” IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 2025.
A. B. Birchfield and Y. Abu-Khalifa, “Structural characterisation for the synthesis of large-scale combined electric–gas networks,” IET Energy Systems Integration, vol. 6, no. S1, pp. 816-827, Sept. 2024.
A. B. Birchfield, T. J. Overbye and K. R. Davis, "Educational Applications of Large Synthetic Power Grids," in IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 34, no. 1, pp. 765-772, Jan. 2019.
A. B. Birchfield, T. Xu, K. M. Gegner, K. S. Shetye, and T. J. Overbye, "Grid structural characteristics as validation criteria for synthetic networks," IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 32, no. 4, pp. 3258-3265, Jul. 2017.