Payman Dehghanian, a Ph.D. candidate in the ECE, has been awarded a scholarship from the Association of Energy Engineers (AEE) Lone Star Local Chapter. The scholarship. A few months ago, Payman was also awarded the Association of Energy Engineers (AEE) National scholarship. Payman is supervised by Dr. Mladen Kezunovic, E.E. Webb Professor and director of the …
Awards, Scholarships
Dr. Peng Li, professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and SGC collaborator, has received a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) to help find revolutionary solutions that will enable more energy-efficient computing. Li received nearly $500,000 for this 3 year project. The goal of the program is to …
Ahad Esmaeilian, a Ph.D. candidate in the ECE, has been recognized as one of North American SynchroPhasor Initiative (NASPI) Outstanding Graduate Students for 2016. Ahad Esmaeilian’s supervisor is Dr. Mladen Kezunovic, E.E. Webb Professor and director of the Smart Grid Center. Congratulations Ahad!
Dr. B. Don Russell, SGC Collaborator and Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University, has received the Philip Sporn Award from the International Council on Large Electric Systems (CIGRE) for cumulative career contributions to the advancement of large high voltage electric systems in the United States. Russell is the first Texas A&M …
Bei Adele Zhang, a senior Ph.D. candidate (ECE), is a winner of the Christa U. Pandey ‘84 Fellowship in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. The fellowship is $1,400 for the period of September 1, 2016 through May 31, 2017 to aid Adele in her current project “Integration of Solar Generation and Electrical Vehicles into the Electricity …
Dr. Mladen Kezunovic, director of TEES’ Smart Grid Center and Eugene E. Webb Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M has been granted an extension on one of his NSF projects. The project “The Use of Big Data for Outage management in Distribution Systems” has been extended for one year starting …
A 3-year collaborative research titled “Smart Grids Big Data” has been awarded a total of $1,000,000 by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Big Data (BD) Spokes Program. The main objective of this project is to develop an organization, the Smart Grids BD Spoke that creates a open access BD infrastructure enabling collaboration and innovation in …
Tatjana Dokic, a Ph.D. candidate, has received the Electrical and Computer Engineering Graduate Student Travel Grant valued at $1,000 to give a tutorial at the Grid of the Future Symposium in Philadelphia from October 30th- November 1st. Congratulations, Tatjana! The tutorial is titled “Big Data Uses in the Utility Industry” by M. Kezunovic, T. Dokic, and Z. Obradovic. More …
Ahad Esmaeilian, a Ph.D. candidate, has been chosen as the 2nd Best PhD Student among ALL Electrical and Computer Engineering students of Texas A&M University due to his outstanding performance in the past year. Congratulations! Esmaeilian is supervised by Dr. Mladen Kezunovic, Eugene E. Webb Professor at ECE, Texas A&M, and Director, TEES Smart Grid Center.
The Graduate Student Presentation Grant ($750) funded by the Association of Former Students and the Office of Graduate and Professional Studies at Texas A&M was awarded to Payman Dehghanian, Doctoral Candidate at the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE). Payman is going to present his research results at the International Conference on Probabilistic Methods …