ECE welcomes Dr. Payman Dehghanian

The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering welcomes Dr. Payman Dehghanian. He officially joined ECE on January 1 as an assistant professor.  Dr. Dehghanian earned his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Texas A&M University in 2017.  He conducts research on power systems engineering, and his specific areas of interest are: power system reliability assessments and asset management tools; distribution automation distributed generations; power system resilience enhancement; weather-driven modeling; and electrical cybersecurity.  Dr. Dehghanian was named the 2016 Best Engineering Graduate Student in the State of Texas (awarded by Texas Engineering Foundation Board of Trustees), and he received the 2015 IEEE-HKN Outstanding Young Electrical Engineer Award (awarded by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering’s Educational Activities Board).  In 2016 and 2017, the Global Power and Energy Academic and Professional Community also selected him as a “World Top 20 Young Scholars for Next Generation of Research in Electric Power Systems.”