Tamara Becejac, a Ph.D. candidate at ECE, has been selected among the five grant recipients nation wide, to participate in the IEEE Women in Engineering International Leadership Conference. Tamara was 1 of 12 strong candidates for this travel grant. The grant will cover the cost of her travels to the conference held in May 2016. She …
Awards, Scholarships
Payman Dehghanian and Ahad Esmaeilian, both Ph.D candidates at ECE, have been granted by the American Public Power Association to receive student research grants to work on different project titles with Bryan Texas Utilities. Ahad will be working on the project titled, “Application of Intelligent Methods to Estimate Power Outages on Distribution System”. Payman will be …
Payman Dehghanian, a Ph.D. candidate at ECE, has been awarded with the Roland and Margaret Prove Southerland Aggie Leader Scholarship for the 2016-2017 academic school year. This award recognizes his participation and leadership in campus and community organizations at Texas A&M University. Payman, who is the current leader of the Texas A&M Student Branch Joint Chapter of the IEEE …
As a Golden Key member, Ahad Esmaeilian, a Ph.D. candidate at ECE, has been chosen to receive the 2015 Research Grant of $2,500. Ahad was chosen by the Golden Key Board of Directors, the Volunteer Leadership, and Headquarters Staff, to receive this scholarship . This award is supporting Ahad’s research titled “Application of Synchrophasor System to Prevent …
Dr. P.R. Kumar, professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University, has received the prestigious IEEE INFOCOM Achievement Award at the IEEE INFOCOM conference. Kumar is the Engineering Chair in Computer Engineering, and received the award “for contributions to the scaling laws of wireless networks.” Read More >
Payman Dehghanian, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University, has been named the recipient of the IEEE Region 5 Outstanding Individual Award, for the second year in a row. Dehghanian will receive the award at the 2016 IEEE Region 5 Annual Conference during the awards banquet on …
Dr. Mladen Kezunovic is the lead PI for a new project that was just give a seed grant. The Project title is “Detection, Classification, and Mitigation of Cybersecurity Attacks on Synchrophasor Systems.” Other Co-PI’s working with Dr. Kezunovic on this project will be, Dr. Jyh-Charn (Steve) Liu, Dr. Dilma Da Silva and Dr. Guofei Gu. Their …
Ahad Esmaeilian, a Ph.D. candidate at ECE, has received a grant from the Association of Former Students and the Office of Graduate and Professional Studies to travel to the NASPI International Synchrophasor Symposium. At this conference, on March 22-24, 2016, Ahad will be presenting his paper on, “Testing, evaluation and troubleshooting tools for life-cycle management of synchrophasor …
The Qatar National Research Foundation will be awarding PI, Dr. Mladen Kezunovic (Professor,ECE, TAMU, Director, SGC), as well as Co-PI, Dr. Haitham Abu-Rub (Professor, ECE, TAMU-Qatar, Managing Director, SGC-Qatar), a grant for their research on “Integration of Solar Generation and Electrical Vehicles Into The Smart Grid”. Starting on February 1, 2016, Texas A&M University at Qatar …
Tamara Becejac and Payman Dehghanian were both awarded the TAMU International Student Scholarship. The scholarship was awarded to each of them for their scholastic accomplishments and academic excellence. Tamara Becejac and Payman Dehghanian are both Ph.D. graduate students supervised by Dr. Mladen Kezunovic, E. E. Webb Professor at ECE and Director of Smart Grid Center.