Dr. Dehghanian wins DOE award

Dr. Payman Dehghanian and his team won the Tier I, Silver ($50,000) award in the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) first “Electricity Industry Technology and Practices Innovation Challenge.” Through the challenge, the DOE tapped into American ingenuity for ideas on how to make the nation’s electric grid stronger and more resilient. The proposal submitted by Dr. Dehghanian’s team seeks to design next-generation sensors for the power grid, a technology-to-market solution that enables a paradigm shift from “sensing-only” devices to “sensing and actuating” devices embedded with advanced signal processing and machine learning analytics. Their project aims to enhance the power grid’s online situational awareness and resilience to extremes.