–Students’ Awards

  • Yingyi Tang, 2024 IEEE Power and Energy Society Outstanding Student Scholarship
  • Yitong Liu, 2023 IEEE Power and Energy Society Outstanding Student Scholarship
  • Alaa Selim, 2024 Entrepreneurship Fellowship
  • Soroush Vahedi, Eversource Clean Energy & Sustainability Innovation Program Fellowship, 2024
  • Alaa Selim, Eversource Clean Energy & Sustainability Innovation Program Fellowship, 2024
  • Yitong Liu, 2023 IEEE Transactions on Power Systems Outstanding Paper
  • Ketian Ye and Bendong Tan, Best Paper Award, IEEE Power and Engineering Society General Meeting, 2024
  • Soroush Vahedi, Best Paper Award, IEEE Power and Engineering Society General Meeting, 2024
  • Ankur Srivastava and Kharissa Moore, Best Paper Award, IEEE Power and Engineering Society General Meeting, 2024
  • Yingyi Tang, Next Gen Scholar GE Fellowship, 2024
  • Alaa Selim, Sikorsky Fellowship, 2024
  • Alaa Selim, NSF travel grant award for the Texas Power and Energy Conference 2024
  • Bendong Tan, Summer Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, 2024
  • Alaa Selim, IEEE-ECE Poster Competition Second Place Award, 2024
  • Soroush Vahedi, IEEE-ECE Poster Competition Third Place Award, 2024
  • Bendong Tan, 2023 IEEE PES Connecticut Chapter Outstanding Young Engineer Award
  • Bendong Tan, 2023 Excellent Reviewer Award from the Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy
  • Alaa Selim, 2023 IEEE PES Connecticut Chapter Outstanding Chapter Volunteer Award
  • Tong Su, 2023 IEEE Transactions on Power Systems Outstanding Reviewer
  • Bendong Tan, 2023 IEEE Transactions on Power Systems Outstanding Reviewer
  • Alaa Selim and Soroush Vahedi, Second Place in IEEE PES Ideathon 2023 competition
  • Yingqi Liang, Best Paper Award from 2023 IEEE IAS Industrial and Commercial Power System Asia Conference
  • Jinxian Zhang, Student Poster Award-Second Place at the 55th North American Power Symposium (NAPS) 2023
  • Soroush Vahedi, John Lof Leadership Academy 2023-2025
  • Alaa Selim, John Lof Leadership Academy 2023-2025
  • Alaa Selim, Future Climate Venture Studio Fellowship (Fall 2023)
  • Ketian Ye, 2023 IEEE PES Technical Committee Prize Paper Award
  • Tong Su, Best Paper Award, IEEE Power and Engineering Society General Meeting, 2023
  • Yitong Liu, Next Gen Scholar GE Fellowship, 2023
  • Haoyi Wang, IEEE-ECE Poster Competition Third Place Award, 2023
  • Haoyi Wang, Eversource Clean Energy & Sustainability Innovation Program Fellowship, 2023
  • Paul Zambrzycki, Eversource Clean Energy & Sustainability Innovation Program Fellowship, 2023
  • Bendong Tan, GE Fellowship for Excellence 2023-2024
  • Bendong Tan, Conference Participation Award at UConn with Cash Prize, 2023
  • Bendong Tan, Outstanding Reviewer from IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 2021 and 2022
  • Bendong Tan, Best Paper Award, IEEE Power and Engineering Society General Meeting, 2022
  • Bendong Tan, Best Paper Award, IEEE PES ISGT Aisa, 2022
  • Jason Philhower, IEEE PES Connecticut Chapter Outstanding Volunteer Award, 2022
  • Jinxian Zhang, Best Paper Award, 6th IEEE Conference on Energy Internet and Energy System Integration, 2022
  • Alaa Selim, Third Prize UConn ECE poster competition, 2022
  • Alaa Selim, Conference Participation Award at UConn with Cash Prize, 2022
  • Yansong Pei, GE Fellowship for Excellence 2023-2024
  • Yansong Pei, Best Paper Award, IEEE Power and Engineering Society General Meeting, 2022
  • Yansong Pei, Best Paper Award, 2021 IEEE Sustainable Power and Energy Conference
  • Bendong Tan, Outstanding Reviewer from IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 2021
  • Ketian Ye, Predoctoral Fellowship 2023
  • Ketian Ye, Best Paper Award, IEEE I&CPS Asia 2021
  • Ketian Ye, Best Paper Award, IEEE Power and Engineering Society General Meeting, 2021
  • Ketian Ye, College of Engineering Conference Travel Award, 2020
  • Bi Liu, Best Paper Award, IEEE Power and Engineering Society General Meeting, 2021

-Dr. Zhao’s Awards

  • IET Fellow, Class of 2024
  • 2024 IEEE CT Section Outstanding Early Career Academic Member Award for “outstanding contributions to the development of advanced estimation, control and machine learning techniques for electrical power energy system reliability and resiliency”.
  • 2024 Gulf Research Program Early-Career Research Fellowship of National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
  • Early Career Outstanding Engineer recognition for attending the 2024 US National Academy of Engineering Symposium, one of the 100 invitees across all engineering fields
  • 2024 IEEE PES Technical Committee Distinguished Individual Service Award
  • Recognized by IEEE PES in celebration of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month’s 2024 theme of “Advancing Leaders Through Innovation.”
  • Chaired the IEEE PES Connecticut Chapter to win the 2023 IEEE PES High Performing Chapter Award
  • Chaired the technical report “State Estimation for Integrated Energy Systems: Motivations, Advances, and Challenges”-TR118 to win the 2024 IEEE PES Technical Committee Working Group Recognition Award for Outstanding Technical Report.
  • Chaired the technical report “Behind-The-Meter Distributed Energy Resources: Estimation, Uncertainty Quantification, and Control” to win the 2024 IEEE PES Technical Committee Working Group Recognition Award for Outstanding Technical Report.
  • 2024 IEEE PES Technical Committee Working Group Recognition Award for Outstanding Technical Report-Member of the “Application of spatio-temporal data-driven and machine learning algorithms for security assessment“
  • 2023 IEEE PES Technical Committee Prize Paper Award
  • 2023 Outstanding Associate Editor from the flagship journal IEEE Transactions on Power Systems.
  • 2023 Best Paper Award from International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems-only 5 papers are selected out of the 1500 publications in the past 2 years.
  • Chaired the IEEE Task Force on Power System Dynamic State and Parameter Estimation to win the prestigious 2023 IEEE PES Outstanding Working Group for Outstanding Technical Report Award (Society Level)
  • 2023 AAUP Research Excellence Award-Early Career.
  • 2022 IEEE PES Outstanding Young Engineer Award (Society Level) with the citation “For developments in robust dynamic state and parameter estimation, physics-informed learning and uncertainty quantification, and cybersecurity for power systems”.
  • 2022 Best Paper Award from International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems-only 5 papers are selected out of the 1500 publications in the past 2 years.
  • 2022 Outstanding Associate Editor Award from the Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy
  • 2022 Excellent Young Subject Editor Award for CSEE Journal of Power and Energy Systems
  • 2022 IEEE PES Connecticut Chapter Outstanding Engineer Award with the citation: For outstanding contributions to the research and development of advanced grid modernization technologies for renewable energy integration and electric reliability and resilience.
  • 2022 Best Paper from IEEE Transactions on Power Systems “Data-driven Optimal Power Flow: A Physics-Informed Machine Learning Approach”. Only 5 papers out of the past about 1500 publications were selected for this recognition.
  • 2022 Best Paper from IEEE Transactions on Power Systems “Roles of Dynamic State Estimation in Power System Modeling, Monitoring and Operation”. Only 5 papers out of the past about 1500 publications were selected for this recognition.
  • 2022 Outstanding Associate Editor from the flagship journal IEEE Transactions on Power Systems.
  • 2022 Special Achievement Award from the UConn Provost office.
  • 2022 Excellent Editor Award from IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering
  • 2022 Excellent Young Subject Editor Award for significant contribution to CSEE Journal of Power and Energy Systems
  • 2021 Best Paper of IEEE Transactions on Power Systems for the work “Power System Dynamic State Estimation: Motivations, Definitions, Methodologies and Future Work“.
  • 2022 IEEE PES Technical Committee Working Group Recognition Award for Outstanding Technical Report for the technical report “Power System Dynamic State and Parameter Estimation-Transition to Power Electronics-Dominated Clean Energy Systems”.
  • 2021 IEEE PES Outstanding Volunteer Award for dedicated volunteer service to promote activities, increase visibility and number of members, and educate the next generation of power engineering students.
  • 2021 Excellent Young Subject Editor Award for CSEE Journal of Power and Energy Systems
  • Two Best Paper Awards, IEEE Power and Engineering Society General Meeting, 2021.
  • Best Young Scientist Award at 2021 International Conference on Energy, Electrical and Power Engineering.
  • 6 journal publications as the Top 1% Highly Cited Publications by Thomson Reuters Web of Science.
  • 2020 Best Paper Award, Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy.
  • 2020 Excellent Associate Editor Award, Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy.
  • 2020 IEEE PES Outstanding Power Engineer Award for contributions to PES Mississippi Chapter.
  • 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023 World’s Top 2% Scientists released by Stanford University.
  • Research Excellence Award, ECE department at Mississippi State University.
  • Top 3 Associate Editor award, IEEE Transactions Smart Grid, 2020.
  • Best Paper Award, IEEE Power and Engineering Society General Meeting, 2020.
  • Best Paper Award, IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies, Asia, 2019.
  • Best reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 2019.
  • Best reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 2018, 2019.
  • Outstanding reviewer, International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems, 2017.
  • Second Prize award for student poster contest, IEEE PES GM 2016.