Honors and Awards
Post-graduation Period
Fellow, Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), 2024
National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 2024
2022 ISC Distinguished Investigator Award, Missouri S&T Intelligent Systems Center (ISC), 2023
IEEE Saint Louis Section Outstanding Research and Scholarship Award, 2022
2020-2021 Outstanding Teaching Commendation, Missouri S&T, 2021
2021-2022 Dean's Scholar Award, College of Engineering and Computing of Missouri S&T, 2021
Faculty Excellence Award, Missouri S&T, 2020
University of Missouri System President’s Award for Career Excellence - Early Career, University of Missouri System, 2020
Faculty External Recognition Award, Missouri S&T, 2019
Research Acceleration Award, College of Engineering and Computing of Missouri S&T, 2019
DARPA Young Faculty Award, 2018
NACPPA Outstanding Service Award, North America Chinese Power Professional Association (NACPPA), 2015
MISO Outstanding Achievement Award, MISO, 2015
MISO Outstanding Achievement Award, MISO, 2012
2012 IEEE Twin Cities Section Outstanding Engineer Award, IEEE, 2012
Marquis Who's Who in America, 2012-2013 (67th Edition)
Nominee for IEEE Power and Energy Society Prize Paper Award, IEEE, 2011
Nominee for TAM Award, Midwest ISO, 2011
Marquis Who's Who in Science and Engineering, 2011-2012 (11th Edition)
PhD Period
Chancellor’s Honor---Extraordinary Professional Promise in 2009, UTK, 2009
2nd Prize in Student Poster Contest in 2009 IEEE PES Power System Conference and Exposition (PSCE), IEEE PES, 2009
MS Period
2004' Excellent Graduate Thesis of Jiangsu Province, by Department of Education of Jiangsu Province, China, 2004
Excellent Graduate Thesis Award, Southeast University, 2003
(Team member of ) Second prize for Science and Technology Progress Award, by Electric Power Company of Jiangsu Province, China in 2003
Rockwell Automation Scholarship, by Rockwell Automation, 2002
NARI-Southeast University Thesis Fund, by NARI Company, China, 2002
Second Class Graduate Student Fellowship, Southeast University, 2001
Undergraduate Period
Excellent Undergraduate Thesis Award, Southeast University, June 2000
2nd Prize for Electronic Circuit Design Contest of Southeast University, Southeast University, 1999
1st Prize for China National Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling, Department of Education, China, 1998
2nd Place for Computer Programming Skill Contest (C language) of Jiangsu Province, Department of Education of Jiangsu Province, China, 1998
NARI Scholarship, by NARI Company, China, 1998
First Class Fellowship & Excellent Student Scholarships, Southeast University, 1997~2000
Group Awards
Second prize award winner of the Phase Four competition of the Hydropower Operations Optimization (H2Os) Prize, which is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Water Power Technologies Office (WPTO), October 2023.
Prize award winner of the Phase 1 competition of the Digitizing Utilities Prize, which is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Electricity (OE), March 2023.
Runner up and prize award winner of the Phase Three competition of the Hydropower Operations Optimization (H2Os) Prize, which is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Water Power Technologies Office (WPTO), January 2023.
Prize award winner of the Phase Two competition of the Hydropower Operations Optimization (H2Os) Prize, which is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Water Power Technologies Office (WPTO), September 2022.
Prize award winner of the Phase One competition of the Hydropower Operations Optimization (H2Os) Prize, which is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Water Power Technologies Office (WPTO), July 2022.
Best Conference Paper of 2021 IEEE PES General Meeting (top 10%): Waqas ur Rehman, Rui Bo, Hossein Mehdipourpicha, Jonathan Kimball, "Sizing Energy Storage System for Energy Arbitrage in Extreme Fast Charging Station", 2021 IEEE PES General Meeting.
Best Conference Paper of 2020 IEEE PES General Meeting (top 10%): Hossein Mehdipourpicha, Rui Bo, "Risk-constrained Bi-level Optimization for Virtual Bidder Bidding Strategy in Day-Ahead Electricity Markets", 2020 IEEE PES General Meeting, Montreal Canada
Faculty Advisor of Student Awards
Waqas ur Rehman received 2022-2023 Dean’s PhD Scholar Award from College of Engineering and Computing of Missouri University of Science and Technology.
Oroghene (Snapps) Oboreh-Snapps received 2021-2022 Dean's Graduate Educator Awards from College of Engineering and Computing of Missouri University of Science and Technology.
Waqas ur Rehman won the first place with $200 cash prize in the 2022 Missouri S&T Graduate Poster Contest, out of 28 contestants (poster title "Multi-layered Framework for Energy Management of Extreme Fast Charging Stations for Electric Vehicles").
Waqas ur Rehman won the second prize in the Student Poster Contest in 2021 IEEE PES General Meeting (Based on this paper: Waqas ur Rehman, Rui Bo, Hossein Mehdipourpicha, Jonathan Kimball, "Sizing Energy Storage System for Energy Arbitrage in Extreme Fast Charging Station", 2021 IEEE PES General Meeting).