Faculty Profile
James Thorp
Department: ECE
Title: Charles N. Mellowes Professor in Engineering Emeritus
Personal Web Site:
http://people.ece.cornell.edu/thorp
Degrees earned:
B.E.E. Cornell University 1956
M.S. Cornell University 1961
Ph.D. Cornell University 1962
Address:
Office:
428 Phillips Hall
Ithaca, NY, 14853
Office Phone: (607) 255-3347
Biography:
James S. Thorp joined the faculty at Cornell in 1962.His research interests include 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. 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:
Professor Thorp is now the Department Head and the Hugh P. and Ethel C. Kelly Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering at Virginia Tech. His new website can be found at: http://www.ecpe.vt.edu/faculty/thorp.html
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