Honors & Awards

Award Received by Dr. Ying Zhang 

2025 OSU CEAT Excellent Scholar Award (the only junior-level faculty awardee)

2025 Top 5 Reviewers of the IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid (IEEE TSG)

2024 Runner-up of the DOE American-Made Challenges Competition: Data-Driven Distributed Solar Visibility Prize 

2024 IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting Best Paper Award

2024 IEEE Power and Energy Society Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference Best Paper Award

2023 IEEE Power and Energy Society 2020-2022 Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award

2022 MSU Faculty Excellence Grant

2020 Frederick E. Terman Award for Graduate Students, Southern Methodist University

2020 Appointee of Moody Dissertation Fellowship, Southern Methodist University

2017 Merit Graduate in Shandong Province

2017 Excellent Master's Thesis Award, Shandong University   

2015 The Second Prize in the National Mathematical Modeling Contest, Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China

2016 & 2015 Merit Scholarship, Shandong University                                                      

2014 Fellowship for Merit Graduates, Shandong University

2014 Outstanding Undergraduates in Shandong Province                                                                      

2013 National Scholarship for Highest Academic Distinction, Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China

2011 National Scholarship for Highest Academic Distinction, Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China

2011-2013 Merit Scholarship, Shandong University

Award Received by Lab Students

2025 IEEE PES General Meeting Best Student Poster, Zaid Mahmood 

2025 OSU Graduate Research Excellence Award, Zaid Mahmood 

2025 OSU ECE Outstanding Graduate Student Award, Sungjoo Chung 

2025 OSU CEAT Dean's Outstanding Graduate Student Award, Sungjoo Chung

Runner-up of the 2024 American-Made Challenges Competition, team member, Yuanshuo Zhang

2024 Dr. Ramakumar Family Energy Scholarship, Yuanshuo Zhang

2024 Dr. Ramakumar Family Energy Scholarship, Sungjoo Chung

2024 IEEE PES General Meeting Best Student Poster Prize, Sungjoo Chung

2024 IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES) General Meeting Best Paper, Sungjoo Chung

Best in Group Award in OSU 2nd CEAT Graduate Student Research Symposium, Sungjoo Chung

2024 Miller Undergraduate Research Scholarship, Luke Dwayne Cardiel