Awards

2023

We are proud to announce that the EPFL-DESL laboratory, together with the University of Seville, has been awarded the 3rd price of the Basil C. Papadias award at the 2023 IEEE PowerTech for the paper:

C. García Veloso, M. Paolone, and J. M. Maza Ortega, “Attenuated Self-Interference Synchrophasor Estimation: the SOGI Interpolated DFT,” 2023 IEEE Belgrade PowerTech, 2023

2021

Prof. Mario Paolone, head of the Distributed Electrical Systems Laboratory (DESL), has been named IEEE Fellow “for contributions to situational-awareness and control of power distribution systems”.

The recognition is given to only 0,1 % of the members of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). It recognizes accomplishments that have contributed importantly to the advancement or application of engineering, science, and technology, bringing the realization of significant value to society.

We are proud to announce that the EPFL-DESL laboratory, together with the EPFL-LCA2, has been awarded the 3rd price of the Basil C. Papadias award at the 2021 IEEE PowerTech for the paper:

R. Rudnik, J. -Y. L. Boudec, S. Fahmy and M. Paolone, “Experimental Validation of the Real-Time Control of an Electric-Vehicle Charging Station,” 2021 IEEE Madrid PowerTech, 2021

2020

We are proud to announce that the EPFL-DESL laboratory, has been awarded the Dynamic Performance Committee’s prize paper award at the 2020 IEEE Power System for the paper:

A. Derviskadic, G. Frigo, and M. Paolone “Beyond Phasors: Modeling of Power System Signals Using the Hilbert Transform”, IEEE Trans. on Power Systems, vol. 35, no. 4, pp. 2971-2980, July 2020.

Prof. Mario Paolone, head of the Distributed Electrical Systems Laboratory (DESL), and a group of international experts have received the 2020 IEEE Power & Energy Society Working Group Recognition Award–Technical Report for PES-TR66, Microgrid Stability Definitions, Analysis and Modeling.

This award recognizes the most outstanding working groups from among those nominated by each Technical Committee. Only two working groups are chosen each year to win this award, one for Technical Report and one for Standard or Guide.

2019

We are proud to announce that our colleague Dr. Asja Derviškadić is awarded the EPFL PhD thesis Distinction in Electrical Engineering 2019  for her recent PhD thesis.

We are glad to announce that Dr. Andreas Kettner, from the Distributed Electrical Systems Laboratory (DESL), is the recipient of the 2019 EDEY Outstanding PhD Thesis award.

2018

The paper “A Full-Scale Experimental Validation of Electromagnetic Time Reversal Applied to Locate Disturbances in Overhead Power Distribution Lines” by Zhaoyang Wang, Shaoyin He, Qi Li, Buying Liu, Reza Razzaghi, Mario Paolone, Yanzhao Xie, Marcos Rubinstein and Farhad Rachidi, published on the IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility, Vol. 60, nr. 5, October 2018, pp. 1562 – 1570 has obtained the Richard B. Schulz best IEEE Trans. on EMC paper award for the year 2018.

The paper M. Bozorg, A. Valenciano, F. Sossan and M. Paolone, “An Econometric Model of the Regulating Power Price for Interconnected Power Systems: the case of the Nord Pool Market”, presented at the 2018 International Conference on the European Energy Market, June 27-29, 2018, Łódź, Poland, has been awarded as one of the best three papers of the conference.

2017

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Mostafa Nick from DESL has been awarded the Best Doctoral Thesis Award in Electrical Engineering 2017. Dr. Nick has earned this award for his PhD thesis entitles “Exact Convex Modeling of the Optimal Power Flow for the Operation and Planning of Active Distribution Networks with Energy Storage Systems”.

It is with great pleasure that the DESL announces that the paper “A Full-Scale Experimental Test of Electromagnetic Time Reversal Applied to Locate Faults in Power Lines” by Zhaoyang Wang, Shaoyin He, Qi Li, Buying Liu, Reza Razzaghi, Mario Paolone, Yan-zhao Xie and Farhad Rachidi presented at the Asian Electromagnetics International Symposium got the best student paper award. Congratulations to all the Authors and special credit to Zhaoyang Wang for his work !

The paper “On Lightning Electromagnetic Field Propagation Along an Irregular Terrain” by Dongshuai Li, Mohammad Azadifar, Farhad Rachidi, Marcos Rubinstein, Mario Paolone, Davide Pavanello, Stefan Metz, Qilin Zhang, and Zhenhui Wang, published on the IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility, Vol. 58, nr. 1, February 2016, pp. 161-171 has obtained the best transaction paper award for the year 2017.

2014

In the frame of the 2014 SCCER-FURIES Annual Conference, Lorenzo Reyes’ poster was selected among 30 others for the Best Poster Award. The award has been attribured by a Selection Committee consisting of high-level experts from the private and public sector. Congratulations to him!

It is with great pleasure that the DESL announces that its paper “Probabilistic Assessment of the Process-Noise Covariance Matrix of Discrete Kalman Filter State Estimation of Active Distribution Networks” by L. Zanni, S. Sarri, M. Pignati, R. Cherkaoui and M. Paolone presented at the PMAPS conference got the best paper award. Congratulations to all the Authors and special credit to Lorenzo Zanni for his work !
In spite of the short life of the DESL (just 3 years), this award adds to the three ones that our lab has already obtained.

The PhD student Konstantina Christakou, co-supervised by Prof. Jean-Yves Le Boudec (LCA2) and Prof. Mario Paolone (DESL), has obtained the best poster award at the NanoTera 2014 annual plenary meeting held at the EPFL, Lausanne on May 20th. Congratulations to her!
The title of the poster is ‘GECN: Primary Voltage Control for Active Distribution Networks via Real-Time Demand-Response’ The original article from which this poster is derived is available on Infoscience.

2013

The doctoral student Reza Razzaghi has been awarded the Basil Papadias Best Paper Award at the 2013 IEEE Powertech conference in Grenoble. The awarded article is named On the Use of Electromagnetic Time Reversal to Locate Faults in Series-Compensated Transmission Lines.

(Picture, © Laurent Salino 2013)

Prof. Mario Paolone has been awarded by the IEEE EMC Society with the Technical Achievement Award for his outstanding contributions to the modeling of electromagnetic field interaction to complex networks.