Megan Culler

Power Engineer/Researcher

Idaho National Laboratory

Megan Culler is a power engineer and researcher in the Infrastructure Security group at Idaho National Laboratory. Her work focuses on risk and resilience for power systems, with a concentration on cybersecurity and energy security needed for grid modernization challenges, which includes the increased penetration of renewable energy and inverter-based resources, transmission congestion and queuing delays, and increased digitization. Culler’s key contributions to these projects include modeling and simulation, risk analysis, training development, system design, and red-team analysis. She is the principle investigator and a technical lead for cybersecurity, cyber analytics, and inverter-based resource projects. She earned a B.S. in electrical engineering from Texas A&M, with a concentration in power systems, and minors in cybersecurity and computer science. She earned an M.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, with dual concentrations in power systems and cybersecurity.