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Dakota Roberson is an associate professor of electrical and computer Engineering at ¹û¶³´«Ã½Â鶹Éç. He is an associate of the Center for Advanced Energy Studies where he directs a research team focused on electrical grid security and stability. He is also a nuclear engineering affiliate faculty and holds a joint appointment with the Idaho National Laboratory in the National and Homeland Security directorate. Professor Roberson is a senior technical advisor to the U.S. air force chief scientist and a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and he recently served as a white house fellow at the U.S. Department of Defense and as a member of the Defense Science Board.

His engineering courses include power system stability, automation, estimation/detection theory and advanced classical control. His courses are designed in part to prepare students for careers in critical infrastructure security and modernization. Prior to joining the ¹û¶³´«Ã½Â鶹Éç, he was with Sandia National Laboratories.

Professor Roberson’s current research interests are in demand-side control of distributed assets and aggregation, critical infrastructure security, global energy supply chains, modern concepts of deterrence and cyberweapon nonproliferation. As a member of the DSB, Roberson studied DoD dependencies on critical infrastructure and new dimensions of conflict, including the use of proxies, resources, foreign aid, infrastructure and state-owned entities for nations to impose their political will. Technological advances, state-based predatory lending, intellectual property theft, and influence/coercion through AI and deepfakes, for example, all present new dimensions of conflict worthy of investigation, as well.

• Council on Foreign Relations Term Member
• Senior Technical Advisor to the U.S. Air Force Chief Scientist
• White House Fellow, 2019-20
• Former Member of the Defense Science Board
• Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
• Member of the IEEE Power and Energy Society
• District Director, Tau Beta Pi (The Engineering Honor Society)

• 2022 Distinguished Under 40 Award, Greater Idaho Falls Chamber of Commerce
• 2022 National Science Foundation Innovation-Corps (NSF I-Corps) award
• Named among the Top Innovators for Cybersecurity Research by Public Utilities Fortnightly Magazine, 2020
• R&D 100 Award Finalist
• Winner of the 2016 Fisher Innovation Challenge
• Nicholson Power Systems Engineering Fellowship

• D. Roberson and J. F. O'Brien, “Variable Loop Gain Using Excessive Regeneration Detection for a Delayed Wide-Area Control System”, US Patent No.: 10,355,485 B2, U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, Jul. 16, 2019
• J. C. Bell, N. Kharadia, and D. Roberson, “Fuel Supply Chains in the Western Interconnect: Evaluating Availability During Extreme Weather Events," The Electricity Journal, vol. 33, Jan. 2020
• D. Roberson and J. F. O'Brien, “Asymmetric Dual Sensor Latency in Distributed Control," IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 34, pp. 4533-4541, Nov. 2019
• A. Al Rashdan and D. Roberson, “A Frequency Domain Control Perspective on Xenon Resistance for Load Following of Thermal Nuclear Reactors," IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, vol. 66, pp. 2034-2041, Sep. 2019
• D. Roberson and J. F. O'Brien, “Variable loop gain using excessive regeneration detection for a delayed wide-area control system," IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, vol. 9, pp. 6623-6632, Nov. 2018
• D. Roberson and J. F. O'Brien, “Loop Shaping of a Wide-Area Damping Controller Using HVDC," IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 32, pp. 2354-2361, May 2017