Awards/Honors 2022-2023

Faculty Awards

John Chandy was recognized as a co-recipient of  the 2023 AAUP Service Excellence Award.

Peter Willett was elected to the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering.

Yaakov Bar-Shalom received the Pioneer Award from the IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society .

Bahram Javidi is ranked 55th and Yaakov Bar-Shalom is ranked 78th nationally on the 2023 Edition of Research.com’s ranking of top scientists in the field of Electronics and Electrical Engineering (https://research.com/scientists-rankings/electronics-and-electrical-engineering).  Shengli Zhou and Peter Willett are also ranked in the top 400.  Bahram Javidi, Yaakov Bar-Shalom, Peter Willett, and Krishna Pattipati  are also ranked among the top scientists in the field of Computer Science. Prof. Javidi was also recognized with their Electronics and Electrical Engineering Leader Award for 2023.

Marten van Dijk received the 2023 Edward J. McCluskey Technical Achievement Award from the IEEE Computer Society for contributions to oblivious and encrypted computation.

Abhishek Dutta has been recognized on the AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Annual List for his outstanding technical achievements with long lasting contribution and impact in the field of multimedia.

Junbo Zhao has had several accomplishments this year including:

• Recognized by the IEEE Power and Energy Society with the Outstanding Young Engineer Award. The society selects one engineer worldwide to receive this prestigious award.
• Prof Zhao also received IEEE PES Connecticut chapter 2022 Outstanding Engineer Award. 
• Received accolades for his service to journals by receiving the 2022 IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering Excellent Editor Award, the 2022 Outstanding AE Award from IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, and the 2022 Outstanding Associate Editor Award from CSEE Journal of Power and Energy Systems.
• Had two papers recognized on the IEEE Transactions on Power Systems’ list of 2022 Outstanding papers: One as first author, on the paper, “Roles of Dynamic State Estimation in Power System Modeling, Monitoring and Operation,” and secondly as a contributor on the paper entitled “Data-driven Optimal Power Flow: A Physics-Informed Machine Learning Approach.” 
• Named one of the three co-recipients of 2023 AAUP Excellence in Research and Creativity Award –Early Career.
• Received the highly cited paper award from the International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems for his paper “A rough set-based bio-inspired fault diagnosis method for electrical substations“, as well as  co-author on highly cited paper (top 1% of citations) by Web of Science for  “A novel hybrid short-term load forecasting method of smart grid using MLR and LSTM neural network,” in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, and co-author on highly cited paper “Planning-Oriented Resilience Assessment and Enhancement of Integrated Electricity-gas System Considering Multi-type Natural Disasters“, in Applied Energy.

Graduate Student Awards

Bendong Tan (below left) and Yansong Pei (below right), both Ph.D. students under the supervision of Prof. Junbo Zhao, received two Best Paper Awards from the 2022 IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES) General Meeting. Yansong Pei contributed to a winning paper entitled “Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning for Realistic Distribution System Voltage Control using PV Inverters” and Bendong Tan contributed to “Explainable Bayesian Neural Network for Probabilistic Transient Stability Analysis Considering Wind Energy“. The IEEE PES General Meeting is the largest annual conference for IEEE PES and each year, only about 30 papers out of more than 1500 submissions are selected to be the best conference paper. IEEE PES is the second largest society among all IEEE societies.

Previous Years’ Awards

2021-2022

2020-2021

2019-2020

2018-2019

2017-2018

2016-2017