Prof. Shadmand awarded 2024 IEEE J. David Irwin Early Career Award

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 found here: https://www.ieee-ies.org/about/awards/awards-info/192-j-david-irwin-early-career-award

This award recognizes a young researcher who has made significant contributions to the advancement of the industrial electronics field and is within his/her first 10 years of professional experience from the date of his/her last academic degree. The awardee is selected based on the technical importance of the contribution, subject matter, originality, and prospects for future success.

Dr. Mohammad B. Shadmand has made significant contributions to the advancement of industrial electronics, particularly in enhancing the resilience and cybersecurity of Power Electronics-Dominated Grids (PEDG). Through an innovative research program, Dr. Shadmand has pioneered the integration of self-learning power electronics, intrusion detection systems, and advanced resilient control schemes to address critical challenges of next generation power grid dominated by inverters. He has authored many publications with more than 160 journal and conference papers, all refereed, and 3 book chapters in total. Dr. Shadmand has supervised or is currently supervising 20 Ph.D. and M.S. students.

Related Citation to this contribution:

1. M. Hosseinzadehtaher, A. Zare, A. Khan, M. F. Umar, S. D’silva and M. B. Shadmand, “AI-based Technique to Enhance Transient Response and Resiliency of Power Electronic Dominated Grids via Grid-Following Inverters,” in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, April 2023..
2. S. D’silva, A. Zare, M. B. Shadmand, S. Bayhan and H. Abu-Rub, “Towards Resiliency Enhancement of Network of Grid-Forming and Grid-Following Inverters,” in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, April 2023.
3. M. Ez Eddin, M. Massoudi, H. Abu-Rub, M. B. Shadmand, and M. Abdallah, “Optimum Partition of Power Systems Using Singular Value Decomposition and Affinity Propagation,” IEEE Transactions on Power System, January 2024.
4. A. Gohari, H. Althuwaini, and M. B. Shadmand, “Optimal Utilization of Battery Sources in Cascaded Multilevel Inverter by Coordinated Sequence Selection,” IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, Accepted for publication, December 2023.
5. I. Poonahela, A. Krama, S. Bayhan, U. Fesli, M. B. Shadmand, H. Abu-Rub, M. Begovic “Hierarchical Model Predictive Droop Control for Voltage and Frequency Restoration in AC Microgrids,” IEEE Open Journal of the Industrial Electronics Society, vol. 4, pp. 85-97, 2023.
6. M. F. Umar, M. Hosseinzadehtaher, and M. B. Shadmand, “Enabling Aggregation of Heterogenous Grid-Forming Inverters via Enclaved Homogenization,” in IEEE Access, vol. 10, pp. 94765-94777, 2022.
7. A. Khan, M. B. Shadmand, and S. K. Mazumder, “Intrusion Detection System for Multi-Layer-Controlled Power Electronics-Dominated Grid,” in IEEE Access, vol. 10, pp. 98329-98347, 2022.
8. B. Nun, M. F. Umar, A. Karaki, M. B. Shadmand, S. Bayhan, and H. Abu-Rub, “Rank-based Predictive Control for Community Microgrids with Dynamic Topology and Multiple Points of Common Coupling,” in IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Industrial Electronics, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 144-155, Jan. 2022.
9. M. Easley, M. B. Shadmand, and H. Abu-Rub, “Computationally-Efficient Optimal Control of Cascaded Multilevel Inverters with Power Balancing Capability for Energy Storage Systems,” in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 68, no. 12, pp. 12285-12295, Dec. 2021.
10. A. Khan, M. Hosseinzadehtaher, M. B. Shadmand, S. Bayhan, and H. Abu-Rub “On Stability of Power Electronics Dominated Grid” in IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine, vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 65-78, Dec. 2020.