On August 18, 2015 at the ECE Dinner, Payman Dehghanian was awarded the ‘Best PhD Student Award’ from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He received this award for his outstanding performance during his Ph.D. program. Payman’s graduate research supervisor is Dr. Mladen Kezunovic, Webb professor (ECE), Smart Grid Center Director. Congratulations Payman!
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B. Zhang, P. Dehghanian, and M. Kezunovic have a new conference paper titled, “Simulation of Weather Impacts on the Wholesale Electricity Market,” that is accepted for presentation at the 10th International Conference on Deregulated Electricity Market Issues in South Eastern Europe (DEMSEE ‘15). The conference will be held in Budapest, Hungary, this September. More info …
P. Dehghanian and M. Kezunovic have a new conference paper titled, “Impact Assessment of Power System Topology Control on System Reliability,” that is accepted for presentation at the IEEE Conference on Intelligent System Applications to Power Systems (ISAP). The conference will be held this September in Porto, Portugal. More info at link.
New research funding has been awarded to Dr. Jose Silva-Martinez (PI), Professor at ECE and Dr. Aydin Karsilayan (Co-PI), Associate Professor at ECE. The project is titled, “Single-Chip CMOS “Brain” for GaN/GaAs Power Amplifiers” and will go from April 2015 – September 2016. This research is funded by Sandia National Laboratories.
Dr. M. Kezunovic, E.E. Webb Professor, P.-C. Chen, A. Esmaeilian, and M. Tasdighi have a new conference paper that has been published in Proceeding 5th International Scientific and Technical Conference. The title of the paper is “Hierarchically Coordinated Protection: An Integrated Concept of Corrective, Predictive, and Inherently Adaptive Protection.” More information at this link.
Payman Dehghanian, Ph.D. candidate (ECE TAMU), is the recipient of the 2015 IEEE-Eta Kappa Nu Outstanding Young Professional Award. This Award is presented to an individual selected in a nation-wide search to recognize an exceptional young engineering professional for meritorious service in the interests of humankind, as well as for outstanding professional achievement. This award, …
Ahad Esmaeilian, Ph.D. candidate (ECE), is the recipient of the ConocoPhillips Fellowship 2015 that was awarded to support his research titled “Preventing Major Blackouts in Smart Electricity Grid Using Wide Area Synchrophasor Measurements”. His supervisor is Dr. Mladen Kezunovic, Eugene E. Webb professor. More information at this link.
Bei Zhang and Dr. Mladen Kezunovic had a paper recently accepted for publication by IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid. The paper is titled: “Impact on Power System Flexibility by Electric Vehicle Participation in Ramp Market.” More information at this link.
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 …
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 …