21 Jul 2026
Dr. Fran Li received the 2026 IEEE PES Roy Billinton Power System Reliability Award and the IEEE PES Prize Paper Award! Congratulations to Dr. Li and his co-authors!
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14 Jul 2026
Chenchen Li defended her dissertation on July 14th. Her topic is “Toward Affordability, Vulnerability, and Economic Efficiency in Power System Planning and Operation”. Congratulations to Dr. Chenchen Li!
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13 May 2026
Vince Wilson, advised by Dr. Fran Li, received the 2026 Handong Gui Outstanding Graduate Research Assistant Award in power systems. Congratulations to Vince Wilson!
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30 Apr 2026
Chenchen Li received the EECS Outstanding Graduate Research Assistants Award. Congratulations to Chenchen Li!
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16 Apr 2026
Dr. Fran Li received the Moses E. & Mayme Brooks Distinguished Professor award at the Tickle College of Engineering Annual Award Banquet. Congratulations to Dr. Fran Li!
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07 Apr 2026
Vince Wilson defended his dissertation on April 7th. His topic is “Control and Optimization of Heterogeneous Flexible Demand and Generation Resources for Grid Support”. Congratulations to Dr. Vince Wilson!
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12 Dec 2025
Four group members were hooded by Dr. Li at the Fall 2025 commencement ceremony, followed by a joyful group celebration.
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03 Nov 2025
Haoyuan Sun defended his dissertation on Nov 3. His topic is “Natural Oscillation Cancellation and Sinusoidal Waveform Processing”. Congratulations to Dr. Haoyuan Sun!
11 Jul 2025
Jingzi Liu defended her dissertation on July 11. Her topic is “Data-driven Solutions for Power Systems During Energy Transition”. Congratulations to Dr. Jingzi Liu!
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27 Jun 2025
Mishal Alonize defended his dissertation on Jun. 27. His topic is “Assessment of Wind Power Integration into the Synthetic Electric Grid of Saudi Arabia”. Congratulations to Dr. Mishal Alonize!
03 Apr 2025
Jinning Wang defended his dissertation on Apr. 03. His topic is “Large-Scale Interoperable Modeling and Simulation of Electric Power Systems”. Congratulations to Dr. Jinning Wang!
02 Feb 2025
LTB AMS v1, an open-source power system scheduling modeling framework was released by Jinning.
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01 Dec 2024
Dr. Fran Li, Dr. Jin Zhao, and Dr. Qiwei Zhang co-authored a Nature Energy paper on “weather vulnerability of power systems” !
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08 Apr 2024
Dr. Fran Li and Dr. Qingxin received the Best Paper award at International Journal of Electric Power and Energy. Congratulations!
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05 Apr 2024
Helia Zandi defended her dissertation on April 5th. Her topic is “Scalable Cloud-Based Load Management System, Learning Models, and Optimization Framework for Connected Communities.” Congratulations to Dr. Zandi!
6 March 2024
Dr. Li Named New Director of CURENT! Congratulations!
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15 December 2023
Buxin She successfully defended his PhD dissertation and graduated. Congratulations to Dr. Buxin She!
19 Oct 2023
Jinning Wang received a Graduate Student Paper Award at the 55th Annual North American Power Symposium. Congratulations!
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11 August 2023
Xiaofei Wang successfully defended his PhD dissertation and graduated. Congratulations to Dr. Xiaofei Wang!
17 July 2023
Nicholas Parsly has earned his MS degree and graduated. Congratulations!
03 August 2022
Qiwei Zhang successfully defended his PhD dissertation and graduated. Congratulations to Dr. Qiwei Zhang!
10 April 2022
Xiaofei Wang received the EECS Outstanding Graduate Research Assistants Award. Congratulations!
25 May 2022
We held a summer cookout party at Tyson Park.
22 May 2022
Nicholas West has earned his MS degree and graduated. Congratulations!
12 May 2022
Qiwei Zhang received the Outstanding Graduate Research Assistants Award. Congratulations!
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12 May 2022
Dr. Fran Li received The Gonzalez Family Award for Excellence in Teaching. Congratulations!
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17 November 2021
IEEE Workshop on Machine Learning for Power held online!
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19 June 2021
We held a “Beat the Virus” and farewell party! Congratulations to Hantao Cui, Mariana Kamel for earning their Ph.D. degrees, and Ian Schomer for earning his MS degree!
22 May 2021
Dr. Hantao Cui to join ECE-Oklahoma State University as an assistant professor. Congratulations!
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21 January 2021
The latest IEEE newsletter features Dr. Li and the IEEE OAJPE journal which he serves as the Editor-In-Chief (EIC). Congratulations!
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1 December 2020
Wei Feng successfully defended his PhD dissertation and graduated. Congratulations to Dr. Wei Feng!
14 October 2020
CURENT LTB was Selected as 2020 R&D 100 Award Recipient! Congratulations!
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21 September 2020
DCNNN Project was honored as a R&D 100 Finalist! Congratulations!
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10 July 2020
Our paper ‘Adjustable and distributionally robust chance-constrained economic dispatch considering wind power uncertainty’ received the Best Paper Award (among all 2019 papers) issued by Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy (MPCE, IF=3.090)
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17 March 2020
Dr. Li was Appointed Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Journal! Congratulations!
EECS News
20 November 2019
Haoyu (Harry) Yuan and Dr. Li have received the IEEE PES Technical Committee Prize Paper Award! Congratulations!
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20 November 2019
Our paper ‘Interval optimization based operating strategy for gas-electricity integrated energy systems considering demand response and wind uncertainty’ received the Highly Cited Paper Award from the journal Applied Energy!
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12 December 2019
Qingxing, Cody, and Evan graduated. Congratulations!
26 November 2019
Several Alumni of ENLITEN received Highly Cited Paper Award. Congratulations!
Highly Cited Paper
26 November 2019
Several Alumni of ENLITEN received Prize Paper Award. Congratulations!
Prize Paper Award
5 July 2019
Qingxin Shi successfully defended his dissertation. Congratulations to Dr. Shi.
Defense of a Ph.D. Dissertation
6 May 2019
Our paper “Achieving 100x Acceleration for N-1 Contingency Screening with Uncertain Scenarios using Deep Convolutional Neural Network” has been published by the IEEE Transactions on Power Systems.
Congratulations to the authors.
Full text on IEEExplore
16 April 2019
Qingxin Shi received the UT Chancellor’s Citation Award for Extraordinary Professional Promise. Congratulations to Qingxin Shi.
List of awardees
21 February 2019
Our paper “Thermostatic Load Control for System Frequency Regulation Considering Daily Demand Profile and Progressive Recovery” has been accepted by the IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid.
Congratulations to Qingxin Shi and the coauthors.
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15 November 2018
Hantao Cui has successfully defended his PhD dissertation “Large-Scale Simulation of Modern Electric Power Systems”. Congratulations to Dr. Hantao Cui.