Dr. Haitham Abu-Rub, collaborator of the Smart Grid Center and Managing Director of the Smart Grid Center Extension in Qatar has been awarded the Best Researcher of the Year award by the Qatar National Research Foundation. This recognition was awarded for his 25 journal papers, 11 conference papers, 1 book and 4 patent disclosures published …
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Connor Aimone, a senior in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and minoring in mathematics at TAMU, won best thesis in the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) category for the Texas A&M University Undergraduate Research Scholars Program. His thesis work was completed under the mentorship of Dr. Le Xie, a Smart Grid Center …
Professor Carmen Lucia Tancredo Borges from Federal University of Rio de Janeiro will be speaking on Thursday May 28, 2015 in 236C WEB. The title of the talk is “Reliability Simulation Model Incorporating Renewable Energy Sources”. More info can be found at this link.
Dr. Miroslav Begovic, Advisory Board member of the Smart Grid Center, was appointed by Dr. M. Katherine Banks to be holder of the Caroline S. and Tommie Lohman ’59 Professorship in Engineering Education. Dr. Begovic will hold the professorship for three years.
Ahad Esmaeilian, PhD candidate, and co-authors, Drs. Tomo Popovic and Mladen Kezunovic, have a paper chosen for publication in the Electric Power Systems Research Journal. The title of the paper is “Transmission Line Relay Mis-operation Detection Based on Time-synchronized Field Data“. The paper can be viewed at this link.
Lead author Elias Gonzalez, doctorate student of Dr. Laszlo Kish and co-authors were Drs. Robert Balog and Laszlo Kish, Smart Grid Center collaborators, have a paper chosen for publication in Entropy. The title of the paper is “Resource Requirements and Speed versus Geometry of Unconditionally Secure Physical Key Exchanges“. More information can be found at …
Payman Dehghanian, one of Dr. Keznuovic’s PhD student, was awarded the TAMU 2015-2016 Academic Excellence Award: Herman F. Heep Scholarship and Achievement Fund. This is a 1-year scholarship for those who have shown outstanding academic achievement.
Dr. Haiyan Wang (ECEN), a Smart Grid Center collaborator, was awarded the 2015 Distinguished Achievement Award for Research. This award is given by Texas A&M University and the Association of Former Students to 24 members of the school’s faculty and staff. It highlights those who have exhibited the highest standard of excellence at Texas A&M University. …
A new project titled “Life-Cycle Management of Mission-Critical Systems through Certification, Commissioning, In-Service Maintenance, Remote Testing, and Risk Assessment” was recently approved for $1.2 million. The project will last 3 years starting on July 1, 2015. The life-cycle management of mission critical systems is particularly complex since it requires tools and methodologies that are not …
Payman Dehghanian and Po-Chen Chen, PhD candidates, were both recognized for being Outstanding Reviewers in 2014. This award is for those who have demonstrated exceptional review work in 2014. Payman was recognized for his work with the Elsevier Journal of Energy. Po-Chen Chen was recognized for his work with IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery.