{"id":263,"date":"2016-01-12T16:12:23","date_gmt":"2016-01-12T22:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.engineering.iastate.edu\/people\/profile\/dobson\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T20:01:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T01:01:29","slug":"dobson","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.engineering.iastate.edu\/people\/profile\/dobson\/","title":{"rendered":"Dobson, Ian"},"author":308,"template":"","affiliation":[4],"department":[1121,7],"group":[1266,1313,1254,1267,1297,1315],"interest":[1687,1690,1571,1561,1689,1688,1752],"class_list":["post-263","profile","type-profile","status-publish","hentry","affiliation-faculty","department-ece-faculty","department-ecpe","group-data-decisions-networks-autonomy","group-distribution-systems-and-smart-grid","group-ece-research-groups","group-energy-infrastructure","group-eprc","group-transmission","interest-applied-probability-and-statistics","interest-blackouts","interest-complex-systems","interest-data-analysis","interest-electric-power-systems","interest-nonlinear-systems","interest-resilience"],"firstname":"Ian","key_research_area":["Resilient Infrastructures"],"netid":"dobson","isu_title":"Professor [E CPE]","email":"dobson@iastate.edu","external_link":"","hide_isu_title":"1","nickname":"","info":"<h4 id=\"education-header\" class=\"dir-header\">Education<\/h4>\r\n<div>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Cornell University (1989)<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">B.A., Mathematics, Cambridge University (1978)<\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<h4 id=\"interest-header&quot;\" class=\"dir-header\">Research Areas<\/h4>\r\n<div>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><strong>Core Area(s):<\/strong><\/em> Electric power and energy systems, Systems and controls<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><strong>Department's Strategic Area(s):<\/strong><\/em> Energy infrastructure; data, decisions, networks &amp; autonomy<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/iandobson.ece.iastate.edu\/\">Additional Information<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<\/div>","middle_name":"","isu_office":"1117 Coover $ 2520 Osborn Dr. # Ames, IA 500111046","uid":[],"hide_isu_office":"0","lastname":"Dobson","publications":"<p><strong>Google Scholar Profile:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=icJvDNsAAAAJ&amp;hl=en\">https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=icJvDNsAAAAJ&amp;hl=en<\/a><\/p><p><strong>To View and Download Publications:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/iandobson.ece.iastate.edu\">http:\/\/iandobson.ece.iastate.edu<\/a><\/p><ul><li>M.R. Kelly-Gorham, P.D.H. Hines, I. Dobson, Ranking the impact of interdependencies on power system resilience using stratified sampling of utility data, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 2024.<\/li><li>K. Zhou, I. Dobson, Z. Wang, The most frequent N-k line outages occur in motifs that can improve contingency selection, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 2024<\/li><li>Y. Dai, M. Noebels, R. Preece, M. Panteli, I. Dobson, Risk assessment and mitigation of cascading failures using critical line sensitivities, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 2024.<\/li><li>B. Cheng, L. Nozick, I. Dobson, Investment planning for earthquake resilient electric power systems considering cascading outages, Earthquake Spectra, 2022.<\/li><li>I. Dobson, Models, metrics, and their formulas for typical electric power system resilience events, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 2023.<\/li><li>I. Dobson, S. Ekisheva, How long is a resilience event in a transmission system?: Metrics and models driven by utility data, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 2024<\/li><li>K. Zhou, J.R. Cruise, C.J. Dent, I. Dobson, L. Wehenkel, Z. Wang, A.L. Wilson, Bayesian estimates of transmission line outage rates that consider line dependencies, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 2021<\/li><li>N.K. Carrington I. Dobson, Z. Wang, Extracting resilience metrics from distribution utility data using outage and restore process statistics, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, \u00a02021.<\/li><li>K. Zhou, I. Dobson, Z. Wang, A. Roitershtein, A. P. Ghosh, A Markovian influence graph formed from utility line outage data to mitigate large cascades, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 2020.<\/li><li>A. Ahmad, I. Dobson, Towards using utility data to quantify how investments would have increased the wind resilience of distribution systems, \u00a0IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 2024.<\/li><\/ul>","user_image":{"ID":"17501","post_author":"2162","post_date":"2026-02-27 14:23:45","post_date_gmt":"2026-02-27 20:23:45","post_content":"","post_title":"Dobson, Ian 688","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"inherit","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"dobson-ian-688","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2026-02-27 14:23:56","post_modified_gmt":"2026-02-27 20:23:56","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":"263","guid":"https:\/\/www.engineering.iastate.edu\/people\/files\/2016\/01\/Dobson-Ian-688.jpg","menu_order":"0","post_type":"attachment","post_mime_type":"image\/jpeg","comment_count":"0","pod_item_id":"17501"},"user_title":"Sandbulte Professor of Engineering","phone_number":"515-294-0922","fax":"","office":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineering.iastate.edu\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineering.iastate.edu\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineering.iastate.edu\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineering.iastate.edu\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/308"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineering.iastate.edu\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17544,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineering.iastate.edu\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/263\/revisions\/17544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineering.iastate.edu\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"affiliation","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineering.iastate.edu\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/affiliation?post=263"},{"taxonomy":"department","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineering.iastate.edu\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/department?post=263"},{"taxonomy":"group","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineering.iastate.edu\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/group?post=263"},{"taxonomy":"interest","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineering.iastate.edu\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/interest?post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}