Awards and Experience
Awards and Licensing
2024 Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in Resilient and Stable Zero-Emission Electric Power Grids
2023 Rubin & So Foundation Faculty Scholar Award from TISED McGill.
2022 Best Papers Award in IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting 2022 (Top 5% among ~800 accepted papers)
2020 IEEE Senior Membership
2020 Professional Engineer in Ontario
2019 Best Papers Award in IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting 2019 (Top 5% among ~800 accepted papers)
2018 IEEE Women in Engineering Best Paper Award (the second prize) in 2018 IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical & Computer Engineering (CCECE)
2017 Peter Silvester Award at McGill University
Before 2016 (selected)
Jacobs Fellowship at Cornell University
Outstanding Graduates of Zhejiang University
Outstanding Graduation Thesis of Zhejiang University
Chinese National Scholarship
First-class Excellent Student Scholarship of Zhejiang University
Fung Scholarship by Li & Fung Group
International Exchange Award of Zhejiang University
Student Honors and Awards
2024/04 Mohan Du (PhD student) received the FRQNT Postdoctoral Scholarship for 2024-2027. He ranked 1st among 18 applications within the committee.
2024/04 Mahsa Ebadat Parast (PhD student) received the FRQNT Postdoctoral Scholarship for 2024-2028. She ranked 4th among 18 applications within the committee.
2023/04 Rongpeng Liu (Postdoctoral Associate) received the FRQNT Postdoctoral Scholarship for 2023-2025. He ranked 2nd among 8 applications within the committee.
2023/04 Sawsan Sayed (PhD student) received the FRQNT Doctoral Scholarship for 2023-2027. She ranked 8th among 25 applications within the committee.
2023/1 Mingqiu Du (PhD student) was among the finalists of Grid Edge Technologies Dissertation Prize Challenge to be held at the IEEE PES Grid Edge Technologies Conference and Exposition 2023.
2022/6 Xiaoting Wang (PhD student) received the FRQNT Doctoral Scholarship for 2022-2024. She ranked 4th among 22 applications within the committee.
2022/5 Dr. Georgia Pierrou received the prestigious D. W. Ambridge McGill Convocation Prize for 2022 (1-2 recipients per year from all Master and Ph. D. graduates in physical sciences and engineering).
2021/10 Georgia Pierrou (PhD student) is selected as one of the 25 Green Talents hosted by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (25 awardees out of 467 applicants).
2021/7 Mingqiu Du (PhD student) got McGill's PGSS Travel Award for the 2021 IEEE PES General Meeting.
2021/7 Ilias Zenelis (PhD student) got McGill's PGSS Travel Award for the 2021 IEEE PES General Meeting.
2020/6 Jinpeng Guo (PhD student) got the Student Travel Award for the 2020 IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA)
2020/2 Georgia Pierrou (PhD student) was among the 12 finalists in the Quebec Association for the Production of Renewable Energy (AQPER) student contest 2020 (14% success rate)
2020/1 Ilias Zenelis (PhD student) received the Hellenic Scholarships Foundation Fellowship
2019/2 Georgia Pierrou (PhD student) received the Hellenic Scholarships Foundation Fellowship
2017/9 Georgia Pierrou (PhD student) received the Stavros S. Niarchos Foundation Fellowship
Editorship
2019-present Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Power Systems
2019-present Associate Editor for IEEE Power Engineering Letters
2017-present Guest Associate Editor for International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems
2019-present Associate Editor for IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution
2019-2021 Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs
2021-2022 Guest Associate Editor, A special issue on IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems
Teaching
At McGill
ECSE 361/362 Fundamentals of Power Engineering 2016 W, 2018 W, 2019 W, 2020 W, 2020F
ECSE 461 Electric Machinery 2018 W, 2019 W, 2019 F, 2021 W, 2021F, 2022W
ECSE 688/522 Nonlinear Phenomena in Power Systems Dynamics 2018 Fall, 2019 F, 2021W, 2022W
Before joining McGill (at Cornell)
TA for ECE 4110: Random Signals in Communications and Signal Processing 2014 Fall
Teaching Assistant for ECE 4510: Electric Power Systems I 2012 Fall
Grader for ECE 5960: Advanced Topics in ECE 2012 Spring
Grader for ECE 2200: Signals and Systems 2011 Spring
Work Experience
Summer 2014 Research Aide at Argonne National Laboratory