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Goodbye & Good Luck, Dr. Tomo Popovic

Dr. Tomo Popovic, Research Engineer for the Smart Grid Center for three years, will move on to another job overseas. While at the Smart Grid Center, Tomo was a part of several projects, most notably the Robust Adaptive Topology Control (RATC) project developing RATC toolset used in topology control for power grid contingency management. He

2014-2015 Tenneco Meritorious Teaching Award

Dr. Erick Moreno-Centeno, Assistant Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering and Smart Grid Collaborator, has been awarded the 2014-2015 Tenneco Meritorious Teaching Award by the TAMU College of Engineering. This award was given by Dr. M. Katherine Banks, vice chancellor and Dean of Engineering and Director of the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES), during the

QNRF Best Researcher of the Year Award

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

Aimone Wins Best Thesis in Undergraduate Research Scholars Program

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

May 28, 2015 Invited Seminar

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.  

Newly Appointed Holder of Lohman Professorship

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.

Paper Publication

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.

Paper Publication

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

2015-2016 Academic Excellence Award

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.

2015 Distinguished Achievement Award Recipient

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.