Students' Awards:

Md. Abul Hasnat: Paper selected as one of the Best Conference Papers at the IEEE PES General Meeting 2022. Paper title "Power System State Recovery using Local and Global Smoothness of its Graph Signals". The IEEE PES General Meeting is the flagship conference in Power Engineering field, which in 2022 selected about 40 out of more than 800 papers for their Best Conference Paper program.

Upama Nakarmi, Second Place Poster Award 16th Annual Graduate Student Research Competition, Texas Tech University, 2017. Poster Title: Energy Aware Pricing Policies for Charging Infrastructures in a Smart City of Integrated Infrastructures.

Sraddhanjali Acharya and Sonali Sen, First Place Poster Award TTU’s Annual Graduate Research Poster Competition Texas Tech University, 2017. Poster Title: Analysis of Tradeoffs between Mesh and Radial Topologies for Smart Grids’ Communication Networks using SDN.

Dr. Naeini's Awards and Recognitions:

Elevated to IEEE Senior Member, 2020.

Texas Tech University Alumni Association New Faculty Award (University-wide Award), Texas Tech University, 2017.

Travel Award- $1500: NSF Early-Career Investigators Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems in Smart Cities, 2015.

Passed with distinction Award for PhD dissertation, University of New Mexico, June, 2014.

Best Poster Award, Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), Basic Research Technical Review Meeting, July 2013. Poster title: "Stochastic dynamics of cascading failures in Electric-cyber infrastructures."

Outstanding Gradute Student Award, School of Engineering (SOE), University of New Mexico, May 2013.

Full member of Sigma Xi, the scientific research society, May 2013.

IEEE Outstanding Graduate Student Award, IEEE Region 6 (Albuquerque section), May 2012.

Second Place Award in Graduate Collegiate Technical Poster Competition, WE12 National Conference, Poster title: "Role of Communication and Control Irregularities in Power-Grid Cascading Failures", November, 2012.

Graduated with distinction, Amirkabir University of Technology, 2009.