ECE students awarded DEED Student Research Grants

ECE master’s student Bhavesh Shinde and Ph.D. student Shiyuan Wang have been awarded $5,000 American Public Power Association (APPA)'s Demonstration of Energy & Efficiency Development (DEED) Research Grant Scholarships. Shiyuan will work on the project “Event Detection and Classification in Power Grids Using Machine Learning and Synchrophasor Technology” with the Municipal Electric Power Association of Virginia, while Bhavesh will work on the project "Advanced Artificial Intelligence for Online Power System Stability Surveillance” with the City of Manassas Department of Electric Utilities. Shiyuan and Bhavesh work in the GW SmartGrid Lab and are advised by Dr. Payman Dehghanian (ECE), who nominated them for the scholarships