Dr. Paul Moses

Dr. Paul Moses, assistant professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Oklahoma, is a member of the OK NSF EPSCoR Track-1 RII Award titled Socially Sustainable Solutions for Water, Carbon, and Infrastructure Resilience in Oklahoma. The $20 million research project is a social science-led, multi-disciplinary collaboration among social, physical, biological, engineering, and computational scientists. More than thirty researchers from across the state are working together on the project, which began July 1, 2020.

Dr. Moses's research supports the OK NSF EPSCoR project's Focus Area 4: Sustainable Water and Energy Infrastructure (SI). His research within the focus area addresses electrical power generation, transmission, and distribution infrastructure and its resiliency and interdependencies in conjunction with other critical infrastructure such as transportation and water in Oklahoma. Dr. Moses's research will assist in carrying out high fidelity grid simulations with dynamic modeling to understand failure modes and contingencies coupled with severe weather and natural disasters, including the effects of volatile renewable energy sources. 

The SI focus area's primary goal is to develop an aggregated resilience model to characterize the influence of diverse stakeholders’ decision-making behavior on the functions of interdependent infrastructure systems. Through the development of this model, the SI focus area will advance understanding of the ways in which Oklahoma’s interdependent water and energy infrastructures interact with severe weather, S2S extremes (pluvial events and droughts), carbon cycle patterns (changing land use and increased frequency and scope of wildfires), and water management/reuse patterns (both surface and subsurface, requiring siting and sizing including increases in storage and pipeline capacities). This understanding will facilitate the development of an array of solution options for enhancing the state's infrastructure resilience that span the project focus areas (weather, water, and carbon/land use), enabling socially sustainable solutions.

Dr. Moses's Research Interests

• Power quality and stability of power systems and electrical machines
• Insulation systems in transformers and rotating machines
• Nonlinear electromagnetic disturbances
• Dynamic modeling of power systems and electromagnetic devices
• Marine power and energy systems
• Smart grid distribution systems

Learn more about the OK NSF EPSCoR research project.

Pictured (right): The Laboratory for Electrical Energy and Power Systems (LEEPS) at OU