Dr. Emma M. Stewart, is a respected power systems and critical infrastructure security specialist with expertise in electric distribution, renewable energy, modeling, and simulation, as well as operational cybersecurity. She holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and an M.Eng. degree in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering. Emma is currently the Chief Power Grid Scientist at Idaho National Labs and the Director of the Center for Securing the Digital Energy Transition. Emma also served as the Chief Scientist at the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA), where she led NRECA Research and the Co-Op Cyber Program. Her responsibilities included providing electric cooperatives with education, training, information sharing, incident support, technology integration, and R&D services.
Dr. Stewart's employment history also includes positions at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. At Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, she served as the Associate Program Leader for Cyber and Infrastructure Resilience, managing research on prevention and response to high consequence grid events such as wildfire and cyber-attack. At Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, she was the Deputy Group Leader in the Grid Integration Group and played a major role in developing the first micro-synchrophasor network in the US enabling the data to be used to prevent wildfire and equipment failure.
Throughout her career, Dr. Stewart has made significant contributions to the field of security of power systems, receiving patents for innovations in power distribution systems and data analytics, and truly works at the center of the clean energy, energy security and cybersecurity Venn diagram.
