Paul Hines

University of Vermont, College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences

Paul Hines is an Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering at the University of Vermont. He received the Ph.D. degree in Engineering and Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon U. in 2007 and the M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the U. of Washington in 2001. Formerly he worked as a Research Scientist at the US National Energy Technology Laboratory, for the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, where he studied interactions between nuclear power plants and transmission networks, for Alstom ESCA, where he designed a short-term load forecasting tool and for Black and Veatch, where he worked on substation design projects. His main research interests are in the areas of complex systems and networks, the control of cascading failures in power systems and energy system reliability.