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Awards, Scholarships

US Ignite Application Summit Participant- Payman Dehghanian

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

New NSF Grant- Dr. Guofei Gu

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

CREDC Student Scholarship Winner- Payman Dehghanian

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!  

Outstanding Young Engineering Award from IEEE PES- Dr. Xie

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

Love of Learning Award Recipient

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!

Montgomery Award Recipient

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,

NSF Workshop Travel Grant

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>

NSF CRISP Grant to Peacock, Rosenheim and Goldberg

TAMU researchers Walter Gillis Peacock (Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning and the Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center), Nathanael Rosenheim (Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center and Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning), and Dan Goldberg (Geography; Computer Science & Engineering), have been awarded a grant for a NSF sponsored project on Critical Infrastructure Systems and Communities (CRISP). The

IEEE PWRD Exceptional Editor Nominee – Po-Chen Chen

Po-Chen Chen, P.h.D. candidate (Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE) has just been nominated as one of the IEEE Exceptional Reviewers of 2016. Exceptional reviewers are those recommended by editors for special recognition due to their exceptional review work. Po-Chen is supervised by Dr. Mladen Kezunovic, E.E. Webb Professor and director of the Smart Grid Center. A

Four Undergraduate Students Receive Scholarships from IEEE Power & Energy Society

Four undergraduate students at Texas A&M have been awarded scholarships from the IEEE Power & Energy Society. The IEEE PES Scholarship Plus Initiative recognizes highly qualified electrical engineering undergraduate students with multi-year scholarships and assists in connecting them with relevant and meaningful career experiences. The recipients of the scholarship include Benjamin Jack, Donald Okoye, Kevin Dwyer, and