Paymen Dehghanian, a Ph.D. candidate at the ECE, received the 2016 IEEE Industry Application Society (IAS) Electrical Safety Prevention through Design Student Engineering Education Initiative Award, for the 3rd year in a row. His previous awards were received in 2014 in San Diego, CA, and in 2015 in Louisville, Kentucky. This year he will be presenting the “weather-driven …
Awards, Scholarships
Ahad Esmaeilian, a Ph.D. candidate at ECE, has been selected to present his submission for the IAS Electrical Safety Committee Electrical Safety Prevention. He will be presenting the “Impact of Major Power Grid Blackouts Prevention on Electrical Safety” at the IEEE IAS Electrical Safety Workshop on March 7-11, 2016 in Jacksonville, Florida. This student program awards talented and promising students who …
Payman Dehghanian, research assistant and Ph.D. Candidate at ECE, was awarded recently the “2nd Best Poster Award” in the IEEE Industry Application Society (IAS) Annual Meeting on Oct. 21, 2015. The conference was held in Addison, Dallas, Texas from Oct. 17-22nd. The Annual Meeting has a long tradition of providing an international forum for experts to present …
Benjamin Wiseman, an undergraduate student at ECE, was awarded a continuing student scholarship from the College of Engineering named the Alice & Earl Nye ‘59 Scholarship. Benjamin is working with Dr. Le Xie, Associate Professor (ECE), on power systems research.
Xinbo Geng, a graduate student at ECE, has received the Outstanding M.S. Student Award from the College of Engineering. Xinbo works with Dr. Le Xie, Associate Professor (ECE), and his research interests include electricity market, demand response and data analytics for power systems.
Payman Dehganian, a Ph.D. candidate (ECE) won the TAMU Graduate & Professional Student Council Travel Award. Payman is one of 7 students selected out of 120 applicants campus-wide. Using this award, he will compete in the IEEE Metrocon Competition among the Electrical Engineers in Dallas on October 22nd, 2015. The title of his presentation is …
Professor Xi Zhang and Jingqing Wang, his Ph.D. student, won the prestigious Best Paper Award at the IEEE GLOBECOM 2014 conference held in Austin, TX, U.S.A., during December 8-12, 2014. Their paper was titled “3D Percolation Theory-Based Exposure-Path Prevention for Optimal Power-Coverage Tradeoff in Clustered Wireless Camera Sensor Networks”. Read more >