Dr. Mladen Kezunovic, the Eugene E. Webb Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been named a Fellow by CIGRE, the International Council on Large Electrical Systems.
The CIGRE Fellow is a new award that recognizes sustained contributions to CIGRE technical activities.
Kezunovic, who is also the director of the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station’s Smart Grid Center, was cited for the award for outstanding and sustained contributions in system protection and to the technical mission of CIGRE. He currently serves as the site director of the Power Engineering Research Center (PSerc), and before joining Texas A&M in 1986 he worked for Westinghouse Electric Corp.
Kezunovic has published more than 450 papers in journals and conference proceedings and was invited to give more than 100 lectures worldwide and is listed as a distinguished speaker of the IEEE PES. While at Texas A&M he has been the principal investigator on more than 100 research projects and supervised more than 40 graduate students.