Engineering Medal
Dr. Srikantha is the proud recipient of the 2022 Ontario Professional Engineers Association - Engineering Medal for Young Professional. This has been an incredible honour!
Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) Appointment
Dr. Srikantha has been awarded the Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in the area of Reliable and Secure Power Grid Systems. This award will be in effect from March 1, 2021. She has received the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) grant as well. More details are available
here.
Appointment as an Associate Editor
In May 2020, Dr. Srikantha has been appointed Associate Editor in IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid.
Successful Master's Thesis Defense
In April 2020, Junfei Wang successfully defended his Master's thesis entitled "Deep Learning on Smart Meter Data: Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring and Stealthy Black-Box Attacks" with publications in reputable IEEE Transactions and Conference venues. Great job Junfei for your hard work and many congratulations! He will be continuing his graduate studies in the RISE lab at York University.
Successful Master's Thesis Defense
In August 2019, Mithun Mallick successfully defended his Master's thesis entitled "Optimal Decentralized Coordiantion of Sources in Islanded and Grid-connected Microgrids" with publications in reputable IEEE Transactions and Conference venues. Great job Mithun for your hard work and many congratulations! We are sure that a bright future awaits you.
Ontario Graduate Scholarship
Samer El Kababji has received the Ontario Graduate Scholarship over the period of 2019-2020. This is a merit-based scholarship that encourages excellence in graduate studies in universities in Ontario. Congratulations Samer!
Outstanding Presentation Award
Samer El Kababji received the outstandng presentation award for his work on "Power Appliance Disaggregation Framework via Hidden Markov Model" in the Western Electrical and Computer Engineering Graduate Symposium in 2019. Congratulations Samer!
IEEE Signal Processing Magazine Cover
The May 2019 edition of IEEE Signal Processing Magazine features the article authored by Dr. Pirathayini Srikantha and Dr. Deepa Kundur entitled ``Intelligent Signal Processing and Coordination for the Adaptive Smart Grid" in the cover.
IEEE Transactions on SIPN Publication
Jingyuan Liu has co-authored with Dr. Srikantha the paper entitled ``Decentralized Topology Reconfiguration in Multiphase Distribution Networks" in IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks. This is Jingyuan's first transactions publication. Congratulations Jingyuan!
Grads to Watch
Dr. Deepa Kundur and Dr. Pirathayini Srikantha were featured in the
Engineering Grads to Watch article authored by Mr. Tyler Irving which was presented in the University of Toronto Engineering News.
Student Spotlight
An
interview was conducted by the Institute of Sustainable Energy at the University of Toronto regarding Dr. Srikantha's research, teaching style and her view on how the Hatch Graduate Scholarship for Sustainable Energy research has motivated and encouraged diversity in energy research.
ECE Awards Round-up
An
interview was held by ECE Awards round-up regarding the best poster award runner-up recognition Dr. Srikantha had received at the Ontario Celebration of Women Conference held in Guelph, ON.
Professional Engineers of Ontario
In an
article entitled "Shining a Spotlight on Engineers' Remarkable Achievements", a mention of Dr. Srikantha's work on power dispatch of distributed energy resources via bifurcation control has been included. This article can be found here.
Hatch Graduate Scholarship
Dr. Srikantha has been the recipient of the Hatch Graduate Scholarship for Sustainable Energy Research for three years (from 2013-2016).
2013-2014,
2014-2015,
2015-2016.
Best Paper Award Mentions
The paper entitled "Distributed Control for Reducing Carbon Footprint in the Residential Sector" published in proceedings of the Third IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (smartgridcomm) and co-authored by Dr. Srikantha is the recipient of the Best Paper Award. Mentions about this accolade can be found in this
link and the
ISS4E site.
