WiMNet former Ph.D. students Saleh Soltan and Varun Gupta, current Ph.D. student Tingjun Chen, and former M.S. student Steven Alfano received four awards from the Department of Electrical Engineering: Saleh received the Jury Award – “Established in 1991, this award is presented to…
Andy (Lianghua) Xu, a WiMNet Lab B.S./M.S. Computer Science student, received the Russell C. Mills Award from the Department of Computer Science. This annual award, established by the Computer Science Department in 1992 in memory of Russell C. Mills, a…
Ph.D. student Tingjun Chen received the Oscar and Verna Byron Fellowship from the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science for the 2017-2018 academic year. The fellowship is awarded to Columbia Engineering Ph.D. students based on their academic achievements…
WiMNet Lab takes part in a National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) project titled “Scalable Forecasting for Improving Grid Efficiency and Resiliency”. The project’s PI is Dr. Andrey Bernstein and Prof. Gil Zussman is one of the co-PIs. The main goal…
Saleh Soltan successfully defended his Ph.D. Thesis titled “Computational and Analytical Tools for Resilient and Secure Power Grids”. Over the past few years, Saleh has led WiMNet lab’s efforts in the area of power grid resilience to cyber attacks and…
Fero Labs, a startup co-founded by former WiMNet Ph.D. student Dr. Berk Birand, recently raised $1.6M in seed funding from investors led by Mike Brown (CC’06), managing partner at Bowery Capital and Sinovation Ventures, founded by Kai-Fu Lee (CC’83). Fero…
