IEEE awards professor
Kristen Harris
Issue date: 9/15/05 Section: News
Researcher, lab founder and director, professor, and senior member of four international electrical engineering societies, Dr. Venayagamoorthy is a gem among us. His accomplishments belie his years; in fact, I think it is safe to say that he has achieved more before the age of thirty-five than many people will in a lifetime.
UMR is not the only one to take note of him though, his most recent award is from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) as this year's Young Outstanding Member. He has been a senior member of the IEEE since 2002 and is a member of the following societies within IEEE - Communication Society, Computational Intelligence, Computer Society, Industrial Application Society, and Power Engineering Society. The award is given each year to a member under the age of thirty-five in recognition of contributions to society and the profession, taking part in annual meetings, presenting at meetings, and committee involvement. Dr. Venayagamoorthy will be accepting the award in Hong Kong in early October during the Presidents Banquet at the IEEE Industry Applications Society 40th Annual Meeting.
He considers every award he has received prestigious, but the National Science Foundation CAREER award also comes with $400,000. The Career Award is NSF's most prestigious award given to assistant professors in a tenure-track position. The CAREER program recognizes and supports the early career development activities of those teacher-scholars who are to become the academic leaders of the 21st century.
He joined the UMR staff in 2002 after visiting for research. Since then, he has founded, and is currently directing, the Real-Time Power and Intelligent Systems (RTPIS) Laboratory. His research spans the areas of power systems, computational intelligence, evolvable hardware, and signal processing." The RTPIS laboratory is one of four University laboratories in the nation to have a Real Time Digital Simulator (RTDS). The lab consists of over 25 people including research students, faculties, and collaborators (national and international). He considers the establishment of a funded research program and a laboratory his greatest accomplishment.
His research spans the areas of power systems, computational intelligence, evolvable hardware, and signal processing. His research has been funded in excess of one million dollars in the short time he has been here. Currently, NASA is looking at his research in evolvable hardware.
When asked in what way he hopes his research will affect the society, he said, "The idea is to have systems that are intelligent, self-reconfigurable, and able to continuously optimize to minimize or avoid the undesirable conditions. My research will impact the operation of the electric power grid move in this direction avoiding blackouts such as the August 2003 in the future."
UMR is not the only one to take note of him though, his most recent award is from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) as this year's Young Outstanding Member. He has been a senior member of the IEEE since 2002 and is a member of the following societies within IEEE - Communication Society, Computational Intelligence, Computer Society, Industrial Application Society, and Power Engineering Society. The award is given each year to a member under the age of thirty-five in recognition of contributions to society and the profession, taking part in annual meetings, presenting at meetings, and committee involvement. Dr. Venayagamoorthy will be accepting the award in Hong Kong in early October during the Presidents Banquet at the IEEE Industry Applications Society 40th Annual Meeting.
He considers every award he has received prestigious, but the National Science Foundation CAREER award also comes with $400,000. The Career Award is NSF's most prestigious award given to assistant professors in a tenure-track position. The CAREER program recognizes and supports the early career development activities of those teacher-scholars who are to become the academic leaders of the 21st century.
He joined the UMR staff in 2002 after visiting for research. Since then, he has founded, and is currently directing, the Real-Time Power and Intelligent Systems (RTPIS) Laboratory. His research spans the areas of power systems, computational intelligence, evolvable hardware, and signal processing." The RTPIS laboratory is one of four University laboratories in the nation to have a Real Time Digital Simulator (RTDS). The lab consists of over 25 people including research students, faculties, and collaborators (national and international). He considers the establishment of a funded research program and a laboratory his greatest accomplishment.
His research spans the areas of power systems, computational intelligence, evolvable hardware, and signal processing. His research has been funded in excess of one million dollars in the short time he has been here. Currently, NASA is looking at his research in evolvable hardware.
When asked in what way he hopes his research will affect the society, he said, "The idea is to have systems that are intelligent, self-reconfigurable, and able to continuously optimize to minimize or avoid the undesirable conditions. My research will impact the operation of the electric power grid move in this direction avoiding blackouts such as the August 2003 in the future."