Awards/Honors 2023-2024
The UConn ECE Department is ranked 46th nationally in the 2023 Research.com ranking of top universities in the field of Electronics and Electrical Engineering.
Faculty Honors and Awards
The late Peter Luh, along with his former graduate students and research professors Bing Yan and Mikhail Bragin, were part of a team that received the IEEE PES PSOPE Technical Committee Outstanding Technical Report Award for the “Security Constrained Unit Commitment for Electricity Market: Modeling, Solution Methodology and Future Challenges” report.
Graduate Student Awards
Yitong Liu, an advisee of Junbo Zhao, received the prestigious 2023 IEEE PES Outstanding Student Scholarship award.
Only 6 are selected around the world for this highly competitive process! Yitong has a strong background in power engineering and her research topics include power flow analysis and optimal operation of microgrids. She has published 5 papers in high-quality journals, including two in IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, one in IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, and one in IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications. She has presented at many international conferences related to electric power engineering. Two of the conferences won Best Paper Awards, such as 2022 IEEE 5th International Electrical and Energy Conference and 2020 IEEE 3rd Student Conference on Electric Machines and Systems.
Undergraduate Student Awards
Winners of the FIRST Robotics and FIRST Tech Challenge Scholarship for 2023-2024: Karan Rana and Ayush Patel
Fellowships
| Alaa Selim | Future Climate Venture Studio Fellowship |
| Matt Maceskar | Krishna Pattipati Fellowship |
| Benjamin Brown | Peter Willett Fellowship |
| Qian Yang & Shanglin Zhou | Vijaya Raghavan Fellowship |
| Aalvee Kausani | GE Excellence Fellowship |
| Bendong Tan | GE Excellence Fellowship |
| Yansong Pei | GE Excellence Fellowship |
| Kalinath Katuri | GE Excellence Fellowship |
| Nina Stefanovic | GE Excellence Fellowship (deferred from 21-22) |
| Yitong Liu | GE Next Generation Fellowship |
| Mohamadamin Rajabinezhad | GE Next Generation Fellowship |
| Gregory Aschenbrenner | GE Next Generation Fellowship |
| Jacques Goosen | GE Inclusion and Equity Fellowship |
| Keshawn Smith | GE Inclusion and Equity Fellowship |
| Tashfiq Kashem | Summer Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship |
| Adnan Mohammad | Summer Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship |
| Rakesh Joshi | Summer Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship |
| Abdul Almalki | Summer Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship |
| Yuting Sun | Summer Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship |
| Jianghua Wu | Summer Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship |
| Alaa Selim | Eversource Fellowship |
| Usman Ali | Synchrony Fellowship |
TA Awards
| Fall 2023 | TBD |
| Spring 2024 | TBD |
