PMAPS Roy Billinton Student Paper Award

  • Previous Recipients
    PMAPS 2026 — Salt Lake City, USA
    Gold Medal
    Salim Kameshki
    North Carolina A&T University, United States of America

    Salim Kameshki, and Hieu T. Nguyen, “Arithmetic-Geometric Mean-Based Conic Reformulation for Nodal Reliability-Constrained Distribution System Upgrade,” Proc. PMAPS 2026, Salt Lake City, USA.

    Faculty co-author: Hieu T. Nguyen.

    Silver Medal
    Arslan Ahmad
    Iowa State University, United States of America

    Arslan Ahmad, and Ian Dobson, “Measuring outage resilience in a distribution system with the number of outages in large events,” Proc. PMAPS 2026, Salt Lake City, USA.

    Faculty co-author: Ian Dobson.

    Silver Medal
    Md Farhan Tanvir
    South Dakota State University, United States of America

    Md Farhan Tanvir, Syed Abdullah Al Nahid, and Junjian Qi, “Data-Driven Optimization of Memory Effects and Critical Components in Cascading Failure Interaction Networks,” Proc. PMAPS 2026, Salt Lake City, USA.

    Faculty co-author: Junjian Qi; student co-author: Syed Abdullah Al Nahid.

    PMAPS 2024 — Auckland, New Zealand
    Gold Medal
    Gord Stephen
    University of Washington and NREL, USA

    Gord Stephen, and Daniel Kirschen, “Sample Size Selection for Monte Carlo Resource Adequacy Assessment of Power Systems,” Proc. PMAPS 2024, Auckland, New Zealand.

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    Silver Medal
    Anton ter Vehn
    KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

    Anton ter Vehn, Lars Nordström, and Senad Apelfröjd, “Performance Evaluation of Hybrid State Estimation Using Real TSO Data Sources,” Proc. PMAPS 2024, Auckland, New Zealand.

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    Bronze Medal
    Chengrong Lin
    Chongqing University, China

    Chengrong Lin, Bo Hu, Jinming Lin, Changzheng Shao, and Kaigui Xie, “Optimal Information Flow-Based Reliability Evaluation for Virtual Power Plants,” Proc. PMAPS 2024, Auckland, New Zealand.

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    PMAPS 2022 — Manchester, United Kingdom
    Gold Medal
    Gord Stephen
    University of Washington, United States

    Gord Stephen, and Daniel Kirschen, “Enhanced Representations of Thermal Generator Outage Risk in Capacity Expansion Models,” Proc. PMAPS 2022, Manchester, United Kingdom.

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    Silver Medal
    Mario Beykirch
    TU Darmstadt, Germany

    Mario Beykirch, Tim Janke, and Florian Steinke, “Bidding and Scheduling in Energy Markets: Which Probabilistic Forecast Do We Need?” Proc. PMAPS 2022, Manchester, United Kingdom.

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    Bronze Medal
    Agnes Nakiganda
    University of Leeds, United Kingdom

    Agnes M. Nakiganda, Shahab Dehghan, and Petros Aristidou, “A Data-Driven Optimisation Model for Designing Islanded Microgrids,” Proc. PMAPS 2022, Manchester, United Kingdom.

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    PMAPS 2020 — Liège, Belgium
    Gold Medal
    Kasper Emil Thorvaldsen
    Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway

    Kasper Emil Thorvaldsen, Sigurd Bjarghov, and Hossein Farahmand, “Representing Long-Term Impact of Residential Building Energy Management Using Stochastic Dynamic Programming,” Proc. PMAPS 2020, Liège, Belgium.

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    Silver Medal
    Adriaan Hilbers
    Imperial College London, United Kingdom

    Adriaan Hilbers, David Brayshaw, and Axel Gandy, “Importance Subsampling for Power System Planning Under Multi-Year Demand and Weather Uncertainty,” Proc. PMAPS 2020, Liège, Belgium.

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    Bronze Medal
    Tim Janke
    Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany

    Tim Janke, and Florian Steinke, “Probabilistic Multivariate Electricity Price Forecasting Using Implicit Generative Ensemble Post-Processing,” Proc. PMAPS 2020, Liège, Belgium.

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    PMAPS 2018 — Boise, USA
    Gold Medal
    Manuel S. Alvarez-Alvarado
    University of Birmingham, United Kingdom

    Manuel S. Alvarez-Alvarado, and Dilan Jayaweera, “A New Approach for Reliability Assessment of a Static Var Compensator Integrated Smart Grid,” Proc. PMAPS 2018, Boise, USA.

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    Silver Medal
    Xiaolin Chen
    Chongqing University, China

    Xiaolin Chen, Junjie Tang, Qingqing Chang, and Wenyuan Li, “A Data-Driven Method for Operational Reliability Prediction on Electric Devices Considering Multiple Meteorological Factors,” Proc. PMAPS 2018, Boise, USA.

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    Bronze Medal
    Abdullah Alamri
    Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

    Abdullah Alamri, Maad Alowaifeer, and A. P. Sakis Meliopoulos, “Probability Characterization of Wind Farm Power Output and Impact on System Reliability,” Proc. PMAPS 2018, Boise, USA.

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    PMAPS 2016 — Beijing, China
    Gold Medal
    Yizheng Liao
    Stanford University, USA

    Yizheng Liao, Yang Weng, Chin-Woo Tan, and Ram Rajagopal, “Urban Distribution Grid Line Outage Identification,” Proc. PMAPS 2016, Beijing, China.

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    Silver Medal
    Sui Peng
    Chongqing University, China

    Sui Peng, Junjie Tang, Ruijin Liao, and Weizhou Wang, “VSC's Reactive Power Limited Probabilistic Power Flow for AC/DC Grids Incorporating Uncertainties,” Proc. PMAPS 2016, Beijing, China.

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    Silver Medal
    Mingyang Sun
    Imperial College London, United Kingdom

    Mingyang Sun, Ioannis Konstantelos, and Goran Strbac, “Transmission Network Expansion Planning with Stochastic Multivariate Load and Wind Modeling,” Proc. PMAPS 2016, Beijing, China.

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    Bronze Medal
    Wenzu Wu
    Tsinghua University, China

    Wenzu Wu, Kunjin Chen, Ying Qiao, and Zongxiang Lu, “Probabilistic Short-Term Wind Power Forecasting Based on Deep Neural Networks,” Proc. PMAPS 2016, Beijing, China.

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    Bronze Medal
    Kai Hou
    Tianjin University, China

    Kai Hou, Hongjie Jia, Xiaodan Yu, and Jianfeng Yan, “Composite Generation and Transmission System Reliability Assessment Using Impact Increment-Based State Enumeration Method,” Proc. PMAPS 2016, Beijing, China.

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    Bronze Medal
    David Clements
    The University of Manchester, United Kingdom

    David Clements, Pierluigi Mancarella, and Richard Ash, “Application of Time-Limited Ratings to Underground Cables to Enable Life Extension of Network Assets,” Proc. PMAPS 2016, Beijing, China.

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