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  • March 2024: Our paper, Deep Learning-Based Model Predictive Control for Automatic Window Operations in Winter, won a 2024 Best Paper Award by ASHRAE (the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers). 
  • Dec 2023: Our paper, Reinforcement learning for selective key applications in power systems: Recent advances and future challenges, was selected as one of the Top 5 papers in IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid in the past 3 years. 
  • Fall 2023: Our former Ph.D. student, Dr. Xin Chen, has started his tenure-track assistant professor position at Texas A&M. Congratulations, Xin! 
  • Fall 2023: Our former Ph.D. student, Dr. Yingying Li, has started her tenure-track assistant professor position at UIUC. Congratulations, Yingying! 
  • 07/2023: Starting July 1st, I will be appointed as Winokur Family Professor of Electrical Engineering and Applied Mathematics.
  • 04/2023: Dr. Xin Chen won the Best Research Award (one of two, out of over 100 participants) with the Grid Edge Grand Prize of $5,000 in the Ph.D. Dissertation Challenge in IEEE PES Grid Edge Technologies Conference and Exposition 2023.
  • 03/2023: Dr. Xin Chen's Ph.D. thesis, Distributed Data-Driven Decision-Making for Smart Sustainable Power Systems, was selected as one of the four outstanding doctoral dissertations (2020-2022) by IEEE PES PEEC. Xin will present his thesis at a two-hour panel session at the IEEE PES General Meeting 2023. Congratulations, Xin Chen!
  • 08/2022: I am honored to receive IFAC Manfred Thoma Medal, which recognizes the outstanding contributions of a young researcher and/or engineer under the age of 40 to the field of systems and control in its widest sense.