Pietro MS defense
Pietro Minerva successfully defended his MS Thesis
Tuesday, July 30, 2024
Mr. Pietro Minerva successfully defended his MS thesis on July 29, 2024. He joined IPEG lab in August 2023 . IPEG lab wishes him the best of luck in his career and next chapter…
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Prof. Shadmand awarded 2024 IEEE J. David Irwin Early Career Award
Sunday, July 14, 2024
Prof. Shadmand is awarded the 2024 IEEE J. David Irwin Early Career Award for his outstanding contribution in “resiliency and cybersecurity of power electronics dominated grids”.   More about the award can be…
Matt Baker PhD defense
Dr. Matt Baker successfully defended his Ph.D. Dissertation
Friday, July 12, 2024
Dr. Matt Baker (former IPEG PhD candidate) successfully defended his PhD dissertation on July 11th, 2024. He joined IPEG lab in Fall 2018. IPEG lab wishes him the best of luck in his…
US DOE project 2
Prof. Shadmand will serve as Principal Investigator for Development of PKC and PUF-Based Authentication and Secret Key Establishment in Smart Grid funded by U.S. Department of Energy
Wednesday, March 13, 2024
IPEG Research lab to investigate the security vulnerabilities of existing standards by integrating authentication, secret key establishment, and encryption-based secure communication mechanisms with existing standards for reliable authentication and communication between smart grid…
Silva preliminary exam
Silvanus D'silva successfully passed his PhD preliminary examination.
Tuesday, March 5, 2024
Silvanus Dsilva, PhD candidate of the IPEG Lab, successfully passed his PhD dissertation preliminary exam on March 5th, 2024. Title of his Presentation: Advancing Resilience in Clusters of Grid-Forming and Grid-Following Inverters
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Prof. Shadmand gives invited Distinguished Webinar on Empowering Power Electronics Dominated Grid Resilience and Cybersecurity
Monday, February 5, 2024
Prof. Shadmand will give an invited Distinguished Webinar on Empowering Power Electronics Dominated Grid Resilience and Cybersecurity in Center for Cybersecurity Research, University of North Dakota. Abstract of Talk: Frequency and voltage regulation…
SGRE 2024
Prof. Shadmand and Dr. Farooq attended the 4th International Conference on Smart Grid and Renewable Energy (SGRE 2024), Doha, Qatar from Jan 8-10, 2024.
Friday, January 19, 2024
Prof. Shadmand and Dr. Farooq attended the 4th International Conference on Smart Grid and Renewable Energy (SGRE 2024), Doha, Qatar from Jan 8-10, 2024. During the conference, Dr. Farooq presented three papers discussing…
Farooq PhD defense
Dr. Muhammad Farooq Umar successfully defended his Ph.D. Dissertation
Wednesday, December 13, 2023
Dr. Muhammad Farooq Umar (former IPEG PhD candidate) successfully defended his PhD dissertation on December 11th, 2023. He joined IPEG lab in Fall 2019. IPEG lab wishes him the best of luck in…
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Prof. Shadmand will serve as Co-organizer for Special Session on "Next generation grid-forming inverters – from microgrids to transmission systems" at the 18th IEEE CPE-POWERENG 2024 Conference, June 24 - 26, 2024 – GDYNIA, Poland.
Friday, December 1, 2023
Prof. Shadmand will serve as the Co-organizer for a Special Program titled “Next generation grid-forming inverters – from microgrids to transmission systems” at the 18th International Conference on Compatibility, Power Electronics and Power…
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Prof. Shadmand presented the plans for 50th IEEE IECON conference to be held in Chicago from Nov 3-6, 2024.
Friday, December 1, 2023
Prof. Shadmand attended 49th IEEE IECON 2023 in Singapore. During the Gala Dinner, he presented the plans for the 50th IEEE IECON 2024 in Chicago. Prof. Shadmand is serving as General Chair of…
DOE
Prof. Shadmand will serve as Co-Principal Investigator for development of cyber-secure and resilient grid of microgrids funded by U.S. Department of Energy.
Monday, November 27, 2023
IPEG Research lab to investigate cybersecurity and resiliency of grid of microgrids. The project entitled “2MC: Midwest Center for Microgrid Cybersecurity” is selected for funding by U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for $2.5 Million (2024-2026).…
Dr Morcos
Dr. Morcos Metry from Texas A&M University at Qatar visited the IPEG lab
Tuesday, November 14, 2023
Dr. Morcos Metry from Texas A&M University at Qatar visited the IPEG lab on Nov 10, 2023. IPEG lab researchers presented their research projects on power electronics dominated grids.
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7 papers of IPEG researchers presented at the IEEE ECCE 2023 Conference in Nashville, TN!
Tuesday, November 14, 2023
Dr. Shadmand and 3 IPEG researchers Silvanus D’silva, Muhammad Farooq Umar, and Amirhosein Gohari Nazari attended the Energy Conversion Congress and Expo (ECCE 2023) in Nashville, TN and presented 7 papers. The 7…
PES-GM
IPEG researcher Amirhosein Gohari Nazari attended the IEEE Power and Energy General Meeting to present his paper in Orlando, FL, USA!
Sunday, August 20, 2023
IPEG researcher Amirhosein Gohari Nazari attended the power and energy general meeting in Orlando to present the paper entitled “Optimal synchronization of grid-forming inverters in multiple point of coupling in reconfiguring grid“. This…
Alireza
IPEG Ph.D. student Alireza Zare is doing an internship at SIMPLIS Technologies during Summer 2023
Saturday, June 3, 2023
Alireza Zare is doing an internship during the summer of 2023 at SIMPLIS Technologies. He will be working on power electronics module development.
Matt award
Matthew Baker was awarded the College of Engineering Graduate Award for Exceptional Teaching Promise in 2023 Spring semester
Saturday, June 3, 2023
Matthew Baker was awarded the College of Engineering Graduate Award for Exceptional Teaching Promise at the conclusion of the 2023 Spring semester. This award celebrates excellent teaching assistants and highlights graduate students expected to have significant teaching…
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Prof. Shadmand will serve as Technical Program Co-Chair of the 4th International Conference of Smart Grid and Renewable Energy (SGRE24).
Friday, June 2, 2023
Prof. Shadmand will serve as the Technical Program Co-Chair at the 4th International Conference of Smart Grid and Renewable Energy 2024 (SGRE 24). Conference info link: https://www.sgre-qa.org/ Call for Papers and submission instructions:…
Matt preliminary exam
Matthew Baker successfully passed his PhD preliminary examination.
Thursday, March 30, 2023
Matthew Baker, PhD candidate of the IPEG Lab, successfully passed his PhD dissertation preliminary exam on March 30th, 2023. Title of his Presentation: Real-time AI-based Anomaly Detection and Classification in Modern Power System
APEC group photo
2 papers of IPEG researchers presented at the IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC 2023)!
Monday, March 27, 2023
IPEG researchers Silvanus D’silva and Alireza Zare attended the IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC 2023). They presented 2 papers at APEC 2023 as the most recent research outcomes of IPEG…
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4 papers of IPEG researchers presented at the IEEE Power and Energy Conference at Illinois (PECI 2023)!
Tuesday, March 7, 2023
IPEG researchers Hamideh Alvand,  Silvanus D’silva, Matthew Baker and Asef Zadehgol-Mohammadi attended the IEEE Power and Energy Conference at Illinois (PECI 2023). They presented 4 papers at PECI 2023 as the most recent…
US DOE project
Prof. Shadmand will serve as Co-Principle Investigator for Development of next-generation cybersecure solid state substation funded by U.S. Department of Energy
Tuesday, December 6, 2022
Prof. Shadmand (Co-PI) in collaboration with Prof. Mazumder (PI) will develop a resilient, next-generation solid-state power substation, integrating cybersecurity considerations to improve adoptability. This project is funded by U.S. Department of Energy (Award…
Farooq preliminary exam
Muhammad Farooq Umar successfully passed his PhD preliminary examination.
Tuesday, December 6, 2022
Muhammad Farooq Umar, PhD candidate of the IPEG Lab, successfully passed his PhD dissertation preliminary exam on December 5th, 2022. Title of his Presentation: Enforced Coherent Dynamic Interaction of Grid-forming Inverters in Low…
Ahmad PhD defense
Dr. Ahmad Khan successfully defended his Ph.D. Dissertation
Monday, November 7, 2022
Dr. Ahmad Khan (former IPEG PhD candidate) successfully defended his PhD dissertation on November 4th, 2022. He joined IPEG lab in Fall 2018. IPEG lab wishes him the best of luck in his…
Hassan MS defense
Hassan Althuwaini successfully defended his MS Thesis
Tuesday, October 25, 2022
Mr. Hassan Althuwaini successfully defended his MS thesis on October 21st, 2022. He joined IPEG lab in Spring 2021. IPEG lab wishes him the best of luck in his career and next chapter…
Mohsen PhD defense
Dr. Mohsen Hosseinzadehtaher successfully defended his Ph.D. Dissertation
Tuesday, October 25, 2022
Dr. Mohsen Hosseinzadehtaher (former IPEG PhD candidate) successfully defended his PhD dissertation on October 19th, 2022. He joined IPEG lab in Fall 2018. He will be joining Quanta Technologies as Senior Engineer in December…
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IPEG researcher presents at the IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Expo 2022 (ECCE 2022) in Detroit, MI, USA.
Monday, October 17, 2022
IPEG researcher Hassan Althuwaini attended the IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Expo 2022 (ECCE 2022) in Detroit, MI, USA in person. He presented his most recent paper at ECCE 2022 as the most…
Dr Abda
Dr. Mohamed Abdallah from HBKU, Qatar Visited IPEG Lab for Research Collaboration
Thursday, October 13, 2022
Dr. Mohamed Abdallah, Associate Professor at Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar visited IPEG Lab on September 26th and 27th, 2022.
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IPEG lab research on PEDG and related intelligent power electronics interfaces is highlighted in the dSPACE News Article!
Tuesday, May 10, 2022
IPEG lab research on power electronics dominated grid (PEDG) and related intelligence power electronics-based interfaces is highlighted in the dSPACE News Article. The PEDG will be integrated with communication infrastructures and the Internet…
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The IPEG lab members gathered together to celebrate the end of Spring 2022
Tuesday, May 10, 2022
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IPEG Ph.D. Student Muhammad Farooq Umar is doing an internship at G&W Electric Co. during Summer 2022.
Sunday, May 1, 2022
Muhammad Farooq Umar is doing an internship during the summer of 2022 at G&W Electric Co. He will be working on smart grid automation and high renewable energy integration with the grid.
Matt
IPEG Ph.D. Student Matt Baker is doing an internship at Sandia National Laboratory during Summer 2022.
Tuesday, April 12, 2022
Matt Baker, the IPEG Ph.D. student, works as an intern at Sandia National Laboratory during Summer 2022.
Amin
IPEG Ph.D. candidate Amin Y. Fard is doing an internship at Intel Corporation.
Tuesday, April 12, 2022
Amin Y. Fard, the IPEG Ph.D. candidate, works as an intern at Intel Corporation starting in Summer 2022.
Ahmad
Ahmad Khan successfully passed his Ph.D. dissertation preliminary examination!
Tuesday, April 5, 2022
Ahmad Khan, Ph.D. candidate of the IPEG lab successfully passed his Ph.D. dissertation preliminary examination on 04.05.2022. The title of his presentation was, “Intrusion Detection System and Corrective Actions for Modern Power System”.…
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4 papers of IPEG researchers presented at the 3rd International Conference on Smart Grid and Renewable Energy (SGRE 2022)!
Monday, April 4, 2022
Prof. Shadmand and two IPEG researchers, Silvanus D’silva and Muhammad F. Umar attended the 3rd International Conference on Smart Grid and Renewable Energy (SGRE 2022) in person. Silvanus and Farooq presented 4 papers…
Farooq + Brevann
Two IPEG researchers’ papers got recognition as highly cited papers in recent issue of IEEE JESTIE.
Tuesday, March 8, 2022
Muhammad Farooq Umar’s paper entitled “Grid-interactive inverter with Resonance Suppression based on Adaptive Predictive Control in Weak Grid Conditions” is marked as the highly cited article in the Jan 2022 issue of Journal…
Dr. Shadmand
The director of IPEG lab, Prof. Shadmand is among the top 2% researchers in his field.
Monday, February 7, 2022
According to the recent report published by research publishing company Elsevier, Prof. Shadmand, the director of IPEG research lab is among the top 2% researchers in his field. The Elsevier study was published…
Matt
IPEG Ph.D. Student Matt Baker is doing an internship at Electric Power Research Institute, Inc. (EPRI) during Spring 2022.
Tuesday, January 4, 2022
Matt Baker, the IPEG Ph.D. student, works as an intern at the Electric Power Research Institute, Inc. (EPRI) during Spring 2022. The IPEG lab wishes him the best during this adventure.
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Prof. Shadmand serves as the organizer and co-chair of a special session in 3rd International Conference of Smart Grid and Renewable Energy (SGRE22).
Wednesday, November 17, 2021
Prof. Shadmand serves as the organizer and co-chair of the Special Section on “Control Resilience, Cybersecurity, and Situational Awareness of Smart Grid”, at the 3rd International Conference of Smart Grid and Renewable Energy…
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Prof. Shadmand serves as guest editor of Special Section in IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Industrial Electronics
Wednesday, November 17, 2021
Prof. Shadmand serves as guest editor of Special Section on Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning Applications in Smart Inverters, IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Industrial Electronics. The aim of this…
Testbed
The IPEG laboratory is developing a real-world replica of a power-electronics-dominated grid (PEDG)!
Thursday, October 14, 2021
The IPEG research associates, under Prof. Shadmand’s guidance, are developing a real-world replica of the power-electronics-dominated grid (PEDG), with multiple distributed energy resources to investigate realistic scenarios on the cyber and physical layers…
Combo
5 IPEG research associates are presenting their research outcomes in 3 IEEE major conferences this week!
Wednesday, October 13, 2021
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IPEG Ph.D. Student Mohsen Hosseinzadehtaher is doing an internship at Quanta Technology during Fall and Spring of 2021.
Thursday, September 30, 2021
Mohsen Hosseinzadehtaher, the IPEG Ph.D. student works as an intern at Quanta Technology during the Fall and Spring of 2021.
Invited talk
Prof. Shadmand gives invited talk on control resilience and cybersecurity of power electronics in ECCE 2021
Monday, September 20, 2021
Prof. Shadmand will give an invited talk on control resilience and cybersecurity of power electronics in ECCE 2021 on October 13th, 2021. The existence of numerous smart devices in power electronics dominated grids…
Amin
Amin Y. Fard successfully passed his Ph.D. dissertation preliminary examination!
Friday, September 10, 2021
Amin Y. Fard, Ph.D. candidate of the IPEG lab successfully passed his Ph.D. dissertation preliminary examination on 09.10.2021. The title of his presentation was, “Coordinated Multi-agent Distributed Control for Power Electronics Dominated Grid.”…
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Mohsen Hosseinzadehtaher successfully passed his Ph.D. dissertation preliminary examination!
Friday, July 16, 2021
Mohsen Hosseinzadehtaher, Ph.D. candidate of the IPEG lab successfully passed his Ph.D. dissertation preliminary examination on 07.16.2021. The title of his presentation was, “Resilient Operation of Active Distribution Networks via Self-learning Smart Devices.”…
Matt Baker
IPEG Ph.D. Student Matt Baker is doing an internship at Sandia National Laboratory during Summer 2021.
Thursday, May 20, 2021
Matt Baker, the IPEG Ph.D. student, works as an intern at Sandia National Laboratory during Summer 2021.
Ahmad Khan
IPEG Ph.D. Student Ahmad Khan is doing an internship at Siemens during Summer and Fall 2021.
Thursday, May 20, 2021
Ahmad Khan, the IPEG Ph.D. student works as an intern at Siemens during the Summer and Fall of 2021.
Project
Prof. Shadmand will serve as Co-Principle Investigator for development of an RTS and HIL testbed project at the UIC.
Friday, May 14, 2021
Prof. Shadmand (Co-PI) in collaboration with Prof. Mazumder (PI) and 3 other ECE faculties at UIC (Prof. Partin-Vaisband (Co-PI), Prof. Trivedi (Co-PI), Prof. He (Co-PI)) awarded a project to develop “Real-time-simulation and hardware-in-the-loop…
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IPEG Ph.D. Students Silvanus D’Silva and Anas Karaki developing microgrid testbed at TEES Smart Grid Center – Qatar.
Thursday, May 13, 2021
IPEG Ph.D. Students Anas Karaki and Silvanus D’silva are visiting TEES Smart Grid Center – Qatar from January 2021 – August 2021. They are developing a hardware microgrid testbed with advanced control functionality…
SGRE 2022
Prof. Shadmand will serve as the technical program co-chair of the 3rd International Conference on Smart Grid and Renewable Energy (SGRE 2022).
Friday, April 23, 2021
Prof. Shadmand is selected to serve as the technical program co-chair of the 3rd International Conference on Smart Grid and Renewable Energy (SGRE 2022), which will be held 15-17 February 2022 at Doha…
PEDG 2021
Six IPEG PhD students are going to present their latest research outcomes under Prof. Shadmand's supervision in the 2021 IEEE 12th International Symposium on Power Electronics for Distributed Generation Systems (PEDG 2021)!
Friday, April 23, 2021
We are delighted to announce that six Ph.D. students of the IPEG research lab under Prof. Shadmand’s supervision are going to present their latest research outcomes in the 2021 IEEE 12th International Symposium…
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Brevann Nun successfully defended his M.Sc. thesis!
Thursday, April 8, 2021
Brevann Nun, a member of the IPEG research lab successfully defended his M.Sc. thesis! A summary of his M.Sc. research under Prof. Shadmand’s supervision is as follows: Brevann’s thesis proposes a rank-based model…
Best paper certificate
IPEG PhD student Matthew Baker and Sarthak Jain, the hardware development engineer at Amazon Lab126, won the prestigious Best Paper Award of the annual IEEE Power and Energy Conference at Illinois (PECI) 2021 under Prof. Shadmand's supervision!
Thursday, April 8, 2021
The paper entitled, “GaN-based High-Frequency Power Electronic Interfaces: Challenges, Opportunities, and Research Roadmap” prepared by Matthew Baker, PhD student at the IPEG, and his co-author from Amazon Lab 126, Sarthak Jain, won the…
APEC 2021
Brevann Nun, the IPEG graduate student, is awarded the competitive APEC 2021 Student Attendance Support!
Thursday, March 18, 2021
Brevann Nun, the IPEG graduate student, is selected by PSMA (Power Sources Manufacturers Association) Industry-Education Committee as a recipient of the APEC 2021 Student Attendance Support.   This opportunity will help Brevann to…
Towards Intelligent Power Electronics-Dominated Grid via Machine Learning Techniques
Omar H. Abu-Rub, a researcher from Georgia Institute of Technology in collaboration with IPEG Ph.D. students, Amin Y. Fard, Muhammad Farooq Umar, and Mohsen Hosseinzadehtaher under Prof. Shadmand’s supervision have published an article in the IEEE Power Electronics Magazine
Wednesday, March 17, 2021
Omar H. Abu-Rub, a researcher from Georgia Institute of Technology in collaboration with Amin Y. Fard, Muhammad Farooq Umar, and Mohsen Hosseinzadehtaher, IPEG Ph.D. students under the supervision of Prof. Shadmand, have published…
On the Stability of the Power Electronics-Dominated Grid
IPEG Ph.D. students, Ahmad Khan and Mohsen Hosseinzadehtaher under Prof. Shadmand's supervision have published an article in the IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine
Wednesday, March 17, 2021
Ahmad Khan and Mohsen Hosseinzadehtaher, IPEG Ph.D. students under the supervision of Prof. Shadmand have published an article entitled, “On the Stability of the Power Electronics-Dominated Grid: A New Energy Paradigm” in the…
PV Magazine
One of the recent articles of IPEG PhD student, Ahmad Khan, is featured in the March 2021's issue of PV Magazine
Friday, March 12, 2021
The paper entitled, “Intrusion Detection for Cybersecurity of Power Electronics Dominated Grids: Inverters PQ Set-Points Manipulation” presented at the 2020 IEEE CyberPELS (CyberPELS) by IPEG Ph.D. students Ahmad Khan and Mohsen Hosseinzadehtaher under…
PEDG 2021
Prof. Shadmand will serve as a member of organizing committee and the Financial Chair of the 2021 IEEE 12th International Symposium on Power Electronics for Distributed Generation Systems (PEDG 2021)
Friday, September 25, 2020
Prof. Shadmand is selected to serve the scientific community as a member of the organizing committee of the 2021 IEEE 12th International Symposium on Power Electronics for Distributed Generation Systems (PEDG 2021) as…
NSF
Prof. Shadmand will serve as Principle Investigator for a U.S. National Science Foundation Collaborative Project.
Tuesday, September 1, 2020
Prof. Shadmand (PI) at UIC in collaboration with Prof. Livani (PI) and Prof. Ben-Idris (Co-PI) at the University of Nevada Reno awarded a U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) project to develop data-driven situational awareness for the resilient…
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Prof. Shadmand, the director of IPEG research lab, is selected to serve as the "associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics".
Monday, August 10, 2020
We are delighted to announce that Prof. Shadmand is selected to serve the power electronics scientific community as the associate editor (AE) of the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics since August 2020.
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PEAS Ph.D. Student Mohsen Hosseinzadehtaher received the prestigious best paper award from 2019 International IEEE Conference on Smart Grid and Renewable Energy
Tuesday, November 19, 2019
PEAS Ph.D. Student Mohsen Hosseinzadehtaher received the prestigious best paper award from 2019 International IEEE Conference on Smart Grid and Renewable Energy for his paper co-authored with Ph.D. students Ahmad Khan, Matt Baker and Dr. Mohammad Shadmand. Their paper proposed novel self-healing predictive control scheme…
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Ph.D. Student Mitchell Easley received the prestigious best paper award
Wednesday, November 6, 2019
Ph.D. Student Mitchell Easley received the prestigious best paper award from 2019 IEEE Technologies on Homeland Security Conference organized by MIT Lincoln Laboratory and Raytheon for his paper co-authored with Ph.D. student Amin Y. Fard and Dr. Mohammad Shadmand on cyber-security analytics of power distribution system…
IAS
Prof. Shadmand, the director of IPEG research lab is selected to serve as the "associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications".
Thursday, August 15, 2019
It is our honor to announce that Prof. Shadmand, the director of the IPEG research lab, is selected to serve the scientific community as an associate editor (AE) for the IEEE Transactions on…
Zucker
IPEG Ph.D. candidates A. Khan, M. Hosseinzadehtaher, A. Y. Fard and Prof. Shadmand awarded IEEE IAS Zucker Student-Faculty Grant.
Thursday, August 1, 2019
Today, research has been focusing on transportation applications electrification. This recent trend is driven by the push toward clean energy utilization, the aim to attain optimized performance, and the maturity of the technology.…
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Two IPEG researcher visited Smart Grid Center at Texas A&M University - Qatar.
Monday, July 8, 2019
Two IPEG lab researchers, Michelle Easley and Amin Y. Fard visited Smart Grid Center at Texas A&M University at Qatar to work on mutual projects between IPEG and Smart Grid Center.
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Dr. Shadmand and his Ph.D. students Amin Yousefzadeh Fard and Ahmad Khan participated in 2019 PV Systems Symposium
Friday, May 17, 2019
Dr. Shadmand and his Ph.D. students Amin Yousefzadeh Fard and Ahmad Khan participated in 2019 PV Systems Symposium organized by Sandia National Laboratories and Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) in Albuquerque, New Mexico. This three-day workshop examined the technical challenges and opportunities…