Prof. Junbo Zhao received the 2021 Best Paper Award from the IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, the flagship journal in the power and energy field, as first author on the paper, “Power System Dynamic State Estimation: Motivations, Definitions, Methodologies and Future Work,”. This work has received more than 235 citations according to Google Scholar and been categorized as the Highly Cited Paper according to Web of Science since March 2021, i.e., the top 1% based on the number of citations received when compared to other papers published in the same field in the same year.

 

Graduate Student Awards

Yansong Pei, a Ph.D. student under the supervision of Prof. Junbo Zhao, was the first author of the paper “Data-Driven Distribution System Coordinated PV Inverter Control Using Deep Reinforcement Learning” which received the 2021 IEEE Sustainable Power and Energy Conference Best Paper Award. This is a collaborative work with National Renewable Energy Lab under the support by Department of Energy. Only 20 papers out of more than 1000 papers are selected for this award.

Bendong Tan, a Ph.D. student under the supervision of Prof. Junbo Zhao, received the 2021 Outstanding Reviewer Award from the IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, the flagship journal in the power and energy field. He was recognized by his outstanding reviews with high quality and timeliness.

Leila Chebbo, a Ph.D. student advised by Prof. Ali Bazzi, received the 2nd place Presentation Award during the NASA RETHi Annual Review Meeting at Purdue University.

 

Fellowships