| B.E.E. 1959 (Cornell),
M.S. 1961 (Cornell), Ph.D. 1962 (Cornell) James S. Thorp
joined the faculty at Virginia Tech in 2004. He is the Hugh C. and
Ethel C. Kelly Professor and Department Head. He was the Charles
N. Mellowes Professor in Engineering and Director of the School
of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University from
1994-01. He was on the faculty at Cornell from 1962-2004. 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 is currently a member
of the Editorial Board. He was Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions
on Circuits and Systems from 1985-87., 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 and Phasor Measurement
Units. 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.
Selected Publications:
- Birman, K.P.; Chen, J.; Hopkinson, K.; Thomas, R.J.; Thorp,
J.; Vanrenesse, R.; Vogels, W.; “Overcoming Communications
Challenges in Software for Monitoring and Controlling Power Systems”,
Proceedings of the IEEE Volume 93, Issue 5, May 2005 Page(s):1028
- 1041
- Jie Chen, Timothy D. Mount, James S. Thorp , Robert J. Thomas,
“Location-Based Scheduling and Pricing for Energy and Reserves:
A Responsive Reserve Market Proposal”, Accepted for publication
in Special issue on competitive electricity market of Journal
of Decision Support System. October 2005
- Coury, D.V.; Thorp, J.S.; Hopkinson, K.M.; Birman, K.P., “An
agent-based current differential relay for use with a utility
intranet”, Power Delivery, IEEE Transactions on , Volume:
17 Issue: 1 , Jan. 2002, Page(s): 47 -53
- Wang, H.; Thorp, J.S., “Optimal locations for protection
system enhancement: a simulation of cascading outages”,
Power Delivery, IEEE Transactions on , Volume: 16 Issue: 4 , Oct.
2001, Page(s): 528 –533
- 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.
- The Role of the Protection System in Major Disturbances in Power
Systems”(with Jie Chen) in The Internet as a Large-Scale
Complex System, Oxford University Press, 2004
- “Agent Technology Applied to Protection of Power Systems”(with
Xiaoru Wang, Kenneth Hopkinson, Denis Coury, and Renan Giovanini)
in Autonomous Systems and Intelligent Agents in Power System
Control and Operation, C Rehtanz, ed, Springer, 2003
- Toomey, D.; Schulze, W.; Schuler, R.; Thomas, R.; Thorp, J.;
“Reliability, Electric Power, and Public Versus Private
Goods: A New Look at the Role of Markets”, System Sciences,
2005. HICSS '05. Proceedings of the 38th Annual Hawaii International
Conference on 03-06 Jan. 2005 Page(s):58b - 58b
- James S. Thorp, Xiaoru Wang, Kenneth H. Hopkinson, Denis V.
Coury , Renan Giovanini, “Agent Technology Applied To The
Protection Of Power Systems”, Securing Critical Infrastructures,
Grenoble, October 2004
- James S Thorp, “Cluster Computing: A Tool for Looking
Before Leaping”, Electricity Transmission in Deregulated
Markets: Challenges, Opportunities, and Necessary R&D Agenda,
Carnegie Mellon, December 15-16, 2004
- Jie Chen, J S. Thorp, Timothy D. Mount “TITLE”,
Proceedings of the 36th Annual Hawaii International Conference
on System Sciences, January 2004 won best paper in Complex Systems
Track
- Giovanini, R.; Coury, D.V.; Hopkinson, K.M.; Thorp, J.S.;”A
primary and backup cooperative protection system based on wide
area agents “Transmission and Distribution Conference and
Exposition: Latin America, 2004 IEEE/PES 8-11 Nov. 2004 Page(s):428
- 434
- Jie Chen, J S. Thorp, Robert J. Thomas, Timothy D. Mount, “Locational
Pricing and Scheduling for an Intergrated Energy-Reserve Market”,
Proceedings of the 36th Annual Hawaii International Conference
on System Sciences, January 2003
- Chen,J. and Thorp, J S “A Reliability Study Of Transmission
System Protection Via A Hidden Failure Dc Load Flow Model”
Fifth International Conference On Power System Management And
Control (PSMC), April 17, 2002, London
- Dobson, I. Chen J., Thorp, J.S. Carreras, B.A.; Newman, D.E.;
“Examining criticality of blackouts in power system models
with cascading events”, Proceedings of the 35th Annual Hawaii
International Conference on System Sciences, January 2002
- Huang, Liling, Parashar, Manu, Phadke A.G , Thorp, J S “Effects
Of Electromechanical Wave Propagtion On Protection Systems, Power
Systems and Communication Systems Infrastructures for the Future,
Bejing October 2002
- X. R. Wang, K. M. Hopkinson, J. S. Thorp, R. Giovanini, K.
Birman, D. Coury, “Developing an Agent-based Backup Protection
System for Transmission Networks”, , Power Systems and Communication
Systems Infrastructures for the Future, Bejing October 2002
- Coury, D.V.; Thorp, J.S.; Hopkinson, K.M.; Birman, K.P., “Improving
the Protection of EHV Teed Feeders Using Local Agents”,
Seventh International Conference on Developments in Power System
Protection, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2001, pp527-530
- Parashar, M. Thorp, J.S. “Continuum AC Power Flow Modeling
of Large Scale Power Systems “IASTED International Conference
on Power and Energy Systems (PES2001), November 2001, Tampa, Florida
- Coury, D.V.; Thorp, J.S.; Hopkinson, K.M.; Birman, K.P.; “Agent
technology applied to adaptive relay setting for multi-terminal
lines”, Power Engineering Society Summer Meeting, 2000.
IEEE , Volume: 2 , 16-20 July 2000 , Page(s): 1196 -1201 vol.
2
- Koeunyi Bae; KyungSoo Han; Thorp, J.S.; “Nodal-price
dependent, dual-mode transmission line protection strategy “,
System Sciences, 2000. Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Hawaii International
Conference on , Jan 4-7, 2000 , Page(s): 1330 -1337
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