Research Line Manager
Research Line Manager

Biography

Mark Rice is the group leader for the Energy Systems Resiliency group. Prior to serving as the group leader, he served as the team leader for the Cybersecurity Research team for several years and has been a researcher at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in the Energy and Environment Directorate since 2011. His research interests include control center applications, wide-area measurements and controls, power system modeling and analysis, and human decision-making.  As a cybersecurity researcher, he has been a principal investigator on power system research for more than 10 years and has conducted cybersecurity for energy delivery systems research for more than six years. He was a technical lead for PNNL’s involvement in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Rapid Attack Detection, Characterization Systems (RADICS) program, where he led efforts in data creation and tested new cyber sensors created by other institutions. He led analytics for the cyber-physical agile initiative, PACiFiC, and led the cyber physical testbed used for PNNL’s Control of Complex Systems Initiative.  Prior to joining PNNL, Rice  worked for Alstom Grid (on the E-terra platform, an energy management software) where he developed network applications (e.g., real-time applications, including state estimation and contingency analysis) for four years. He also was a research assistant at Arizona State University where he was focused on synchrophasor applications to power systems state estimation.

Research Interest

  • Control Center Applications
  • Wide Area Measurements and Controls
  • Power System Modeling and Analysis
  • Human-Computer Interaction

Education

  • PhD in electrical engineering, Arizona State University, 2007
  • MS in electrical engineering, Arizona State University, 2004
  • BS in electrical engineering (with honors), Kansas State University, 2003

Patents

Publications

2024

  • Jinsiwale R., M.J. Rice, M. Maharjan, P.T. Mana, and B. Hyder. 2024. Scalability of Real-time Distribution Models. PNNL-37021. Richland, WA: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Scalability of Real-time Distribution Models

2023

  • Bretas A., M.J. Rice, C.A. Bonebrake, C.H. Miller, A.D. McKinnon, and A.R. Vielma. 2023. "Towards Smart Grids Enhanced Situation Awareness: A Bi-Level Quasi-Static State Estimation Model." In 2023 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM), 1-5. Orlando, Florida:IEEE. PNNL-SA-174139. doi:10.1109/PESGM52003.2023.10252105

2022

  • McKinnon A.D., J. Heintz-Obradovich, M. Legatt, M.J. Rice, C.A. Bonebrake, A.R. Vielma, and A. Bretas. 2022. "User-Focused Tools to Enhance IT/OT Cyber Resilience within the Power Grid." In Resilience Week (RWS 2022), September 26-29, 2022, National Harbor, MD, 1-5. Piscataway, New Jersey:IEEE. PNNL-SA-174311. doi:10.1109/RWS55399.2022.9984026

2021

2019

  • Ashok A., S. Sridhar, T. Becejac, T.R. Rice, M. Engels, S.E. Harpool, and M.J. Rice, et al. 2019. "A Multi-level Fidelity Microgrid Testbed Model for Cybersecurity Experimentation." In 12th USENIX Workshop on Cyber Security Experimentation and Test (CSET 2019), August 12, Santa Clara, CA. Berkeley, California:USENIX Association. PNNL-SA-143817.
  • Ramachandran T., A.P. Reiman, S. Nandanoori, M.J. Rice, and S. Kundu. 2019. "Distribution System State Estimation in the Presence of High Solar Penetration." In American Controls Conference (ACC 2019), July 10-12, 2019, Philadelphia, PA, 3432-3437. Piscataway, New Jersey:IEEE. PNNL-SA-138831. doi:10.23919/ACC.2019.8814486

2018

  • Chen Y., P.V. Etingov, E.B. Fitzhenry, P. Sharma, T.B. Nguyen, Y.V. Makarov, and M.J. Rice, et al. 2018. "Bringing Probabilistic Analysis Capability from Planning to Operation." Control Engineering Practice 71. PNNL-SA-118424. doi:10.1016/j.conengprac.2017.06.006

2017

  • Sridhar S., A. Ashok, M.E. Mylrea, S. Pal, M.J. Rice, and S.G. Gourisetti. 2017. "A Testbed Environment for Buildings-to-Grid Cyber Resilience Research and Development." In Resilience Week (RWS 2017), September 18-22, 2017, Wilmington, Deleware, 12-17. Piscataway, New Jersey:IEEE. PNNL-SA-126405. doi:10.1109/RWEEK.2017.8088641

2016

  • Chen Y., P.V. Etingov, H. Ren, Z. Hou, M.J. Rice, and Y.V. Makarov. 2016. "A look-ahead probabilistic contingency analysis framework incorporating smart sampling techniques." In IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM 2016), July 17-21, 2016, Boston, MA. Piscataway, New Jersey:IEEE. PNNL-SA-114459. doi:10.1109/PESGM.2016.7741449
  • Palmer B.J., W.A. Perkins, Y. Chen, S. Jin, D. Callahan, K.A. Glass, and R. Diao, et al. 2016. "GridPACK™ : A Framework for Developing Power Grid Simulations on High-Performance Computing Platforms." International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications 30, no. 2:223-240. PNNL-SA-109336. doi:10.1177/1094342015607609
  • Skare P.M., H. Falk, M.J. Rice, and J. Winkel. 2016. "In the Face of Cybersecurity How the Common Information Model can be used." IEEE Power & Energy Magazine 14, no. 1:94-104. PNNL-SA-111523. doi:10.1109/MPE.2015.2485899

2015

  • Chen Y., K.R. Glaesemann, M.J. Rice, and Z. Huang. 2015. "Integrated State Estimation and Contingency Analysis Software Implementation using High Performance Computing Techniques." In 9th IFAC Symposium on Control of Power and Energy Systems (CPES 2015), December 9-11, 2015, New Delhi, India. IFLAC-PapersOnLine, edited by S Mishra, 48, 227-232. Amsterdam:Elsevier. PNNL-SA-109573. doi:10.1016/j.ifacol.2015.12.382
  • Chen Y., M.J. Rice, K.R. Glaesemann, and Z. Huang. 2015. "Sub-second State Estimation Implementation and its Evaluation with Real Data." In Proceedings of the IEEE Power & Energy General Meeting, July 26-30, 2015, Denver, Colorado. Piscataway, New Jersey:Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. PNNL-SA-106859. doi:10.1109/PESGM.2015.7285996
  • Chen Y., P.V. Etingov, E.B. Fitzhenry, P. Sharma, T.B. Nguyen, Y.V. Makarov, and M.J. Rice, et al. 2015. "A Framework to Support the Fusion of Operation and Planning." In Proceedings of 9th IFAC Symposium on Control of Power and Energy Systems (CPES 2015), December 9-11, 2015, New Delhi, India. IFAC-PapersOnLine, 48, 427-432. Amsterdam:Elsevier. PNNL-SA-106843. doi:10.1016/j.ifacol.2015.12.416

2014

  • Chen Y., S. Jin, M.J. Rice, and Z. Huang. 2014. "Parallel State Estimation Assessment with Practical Data." In IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting (PES), July 27-31, 2014. Vancouver, BC. Piscataway, New Jersey:Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. PNNL-SA-99881. doi:10.1109/PESMG.2013.6672742
  • Gibson T.D., S. Ciraci, P. Sharma, C.H. Allwardt, M.J. Rice, and B.A. Akyol. 2014. "An integrated security framework for GOSS power grid analytics platform." In 44th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2014), June 23-26, 2014, Atlanta, Georgia, 786-791. Piscataway, New Jersey:IEEE. PNNL-SA-102082.

2013

  • Chen Y., S. Jin, M.J. Rice, and Z. Huang. 2013. "Parallel State Estimation Assessment with Practical Data." In IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting (PES), July 21-25, 2013, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 1-5. Piscataway, New Jersey:Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. PNNL-SA-92478. doi:10.1109/PESMG.2013.6672742
  • Rice M.J., Z. Huang, Y. Chen, C.H. Allwardt, and P.S. Mackey. 2013. "Alleviating Contingency Violations through Visual Analytics and Suggested Actions." In IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting (PES 2013), July 21-25, 2013, Vancouver, BC. Piscataway, New Jersey:IEEE. PNNL-SA-92477. doi:10.1109/PESMG.2013.6672738

2012

  • Chen Y., Z. Huang, and M.J. Rice. 2012. "Evaluation of Counter-Based Dynamic Load Balancing Schemes for Massive Contingency Analysis on Over 10,000 Cores." In SC Companion: High Performance Computing, Networking and Analysis (SCC 2012), November 10-16, 2012, Salt Lake City, UT, 341-346. Los Alamitos, California:IEEE Computer Society. PNNL-SA-90849. doi:10.1109/SC.Companion.2012.53
  • Chen Y., Z. Huang, Y. Liu, M.J. Rice, and S. Jin. 2012. "Computational Challenges for Power System Operation." In Proceedings of the 45th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences(HICSS), January 4-7, 2012, Maui, Hawaii, edited by RH Sprague, Jr., 2141-2150. Los Alamitos, California:IEEE Computing Society. PNNL-SA-80664. doi:10.1109/HICSS.2012.171
  • Elbert S.T., K. Kalsi, M. Vlachopoulou, M.J. Rice, K.R. Glaesemann, and N. Zhou. 2012. "Advanced Computational Methods for Security Constrained Financial Transmission Rights: Structure and Parallelism." In 8th Power Plant and Power Systems Control Symposium, September 2-5, 2012, Toulouse, France, edited by M Fadel and S Caux, 8, 506-511. Winterthur:International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC). PNNL-SA-84861. doi:10.3182/20120902-4-FR-2032.00089
  • Halappanavar M., Y. Chen, R.D. Adolf, D.J. Haglin, Z. Huang, and M.J. Rice. 2012. "Towards Efficient N - x Contingency Selection Using Group Betweenness Centrality." In SC Companion: High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SCC 2012), November 10-16, 2012, Salt Lake City, UT, 273 - 282. Piscataway, New Jersey:Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. PNNL-SA-90395. doi:10.1109/SC.Companion.2012.45
  • Jin S., Y. Chen, M.J. Rice, Y. Liu, and I. Gorton. 2012. "A Testbed for Deploying Distributed State Estimation in Power Grid." In 2012 IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, July 22-26, 2012, San Diego, California, 1-7. Piscataway, New Jersey:Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. PNNL-SA-84535. doi:10.1109/PESGM.2012.6345456
  • Liu Y., W. Jiang, S. Jin, M.J. Rice, and Y. Chen. 2012. "Distributing Power Grid State Estimation on HPC Clusters A System Architecture Prototype." In IEEE 26th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium Workshops & PhD Forum (IPDPSW 2012), May 21-25, 2012, Shanghai, China, 1467-1476. Los Alamitos, California:IEEE Computer Society. PNNL-SA-83180. doi:10.1109/IPDPSW.2012.183