Megan Culler is a power engineer and researcher in the Infrastructure Security group of Idaho National Laboratory’s National and Homeland Security Directorate. Culler contributes to multiple projects primarily funded by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) offices and Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (CESER) offices. 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.

Culler has previously worked for the Cybercore organization at INL as a graduate fellow, and gained experience from internships in controls system cybersecurity at ExxonMobil Research and Engineering, power systems at ExxonMobil Baton Rouge Refinery, and sensors and data processing at Sandia National Laboratories. 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 a M.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, with dual concentrations in power systems and cybersecurity. Culler’s work has been shared through peer-reviewed publications, invited presentations, conferences, panels, and more.