Payman Dehghanian, a Ph.D. candidate at ECE, has been awarded with the Roland and Margaret Prove Southerland Aggie Leader Scholarship for the 2016-2017 academic school year. This award recognizes his participation and leadership in campus and community organizations at Texas A&M University.
Payman, who is the current leader of the Texas A&M Student Branch Joint Chapter of the IEEE PELS-PES-IAS, is a doctoral candidate and a graduate research assistant in Dr. Mladen Kezunovic’s research group at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University. His research interests include power system protection and control, power system reliability, asset management, maintenance scheduling, renewable integration and smart grid applications. Among many awards, he is a recipient of the 2015 IEEE Region 5 Outstanding Individual Award. Payman is the chair of the inaugural Smart Grid Student Symposium to be held at Texas A&M University on April 29th, 2016.