Ph.D. candidate Payman Dehghanian has been selected as a recipient of the $2500 Global Scholarship from the International Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering (AACE). Congratulations Payman! More news on this can be found here>
Awards, Scholarships
Dr. Zenon Medina-Cetina, a SGC collaborator, received the Kenneth L. Clinton Award for his work as the lead of the Yucatan Initiative Project at Texas A&M. Some of the multidisciplinary and bi-national research projects include coastal dynamics, early warning systems, logistics, aquifers, energy harvesting, agro-biodiversity, animal science, water quality and agriculture production efficiency, among others. Medina-Cetina’s …
Department of Energy (DOE) announced an award of $7.5 million for a joint U.S.-India five-year project that will help advance the development of the power grid. The Indian Ministry of Science and Technology and industry partners will match DOE’s commitment, bringing the total commitment to $30 million. The U.S.-India collAborative for smart diStribution System wIth …
Ph.D. candidate Payman Dehghanian will be attending the upcoming US Ignite Application Summit in Austin, Texas on June 26-28, 2017. Payman has been selected as a recipient of a travel stipend of $750 to defray travel expenses associated with your participation in the Summit and co-located events, made possible by funding from the National Science Foundation. More …
Dr. Guofei Gu, collaborator of the SGC, is leading a newly awarded project that received a grant of $3M from the NSF for researching collaboratively how enterprise, cloud and data-center networks are securely built and managed. The project will yield a new security system, Software-Defined Infrastructure Security OS (S2OS), which encapsulates security capabilities at both the host …
Ph.D. candidate Payman Dehghanian has been selected as a recipient of the 2017 “Cyber Resilient Energy Delivery Consortium (CREDC)” Student Scholarship to attend the Summer School to be held June 12-16, 2017. The Scholarship will cover his lodging and registration to the summer school. Congratulations Payman!
Dr. Le Xie, associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University, has been awarded the 2017 Outstanding Young Engineering Award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Power & Energy Society (PES) for his contribution to the power systems analytics research and leadership in big data. The …
Ph.D. candidate Ahad Esmaeilian has been selected as a recipient of the 2017 Love of Learning Award by the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi. Ahad was selected as one of the $500 award recipients due to his superior academic record and career ambitions. Congratulations Ahad!
Ph.D. candidate Payman Dehghanian has been selected as a recipient of the 2017 Montgomery Award. Students eligible for the Montgomery Award are student leaders making major contributions to the academic opportunities and quality of life of their fellow graduate students here at Texas A&M. Whether through demonstrated leadership in international students groups or service organizations, …
Title: “BD Spokes: SPOKE: SOUTH: Collaborative: Smart Grids Big Data” PI: Mladen Kezunovic (ECE) Co-PIs: Dilma Da Silva (CSE), P. R. Kumar (ECE), and Le Xie (ECE) at TAMU and Dr. Zoran Obradovic from Temple University and Santiago Grijalva from GaTech. Amount: $49,950 Project end date: August 31st, 2020. More information can be found here>