Alumni News Brief

Xie receives Outstanding Young Engineering Award from IEEE PES

Le Xie, S.M. ’05 (engineering sciences), has been awarded the 2017 Outstanding Young Engineering Award from the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Power & Energy Society (PES) for his contributions to power systems analytics and leadership in big data.

Xie, Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University, received a $2,000 scholarship, a plaque, and a travel stipend of up to $1,000 to attend the PES meeting and awards ceremony, which will be held in July in Chicago.

He joined the Texas A&M faculty in 2010 and currently focuses his research on modeling and control of large-scale complex systems, smart grid applications in support of renewable energy integration, and electricity markets

Read more in this Texas A&M University News Release.

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