Two Ph.D. students in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University were named exceptional reviewer for prestigious journals in the power engineering field.
Po-Chen Chen (above left) was named exceptional reviewer for the journal of IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery (PWRD), and Payman Dehghanian (right), was named exceptional reviewer for the Elsevier Journal of Energy. Both are students in the group of Dr. Mladen Kezunovic. The award is extremely significant since the recipients can only be nominated by editors.
Chen received his bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering from Polytechnic Institute of New York University in 2010 and 2012, respectively. He currently is pursuing his Ph.D. in electrical engineering at Texas A&M. His area of interest includes distributed generation, power system analysis, power system protection and control, voltage quality and stability studies and big data application for distribution system.
Dehghanian received his bachelor's degree from the University of Tehran in 2009, his master's degree from Sharif University of Technology in 2011, both in electrical engineering. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in electrical engineering at Texas A&M. His research interests include power system protection and control, power system reliability, asset management, maintenance scheduling, renewable integration and smart-grid applications.