We are delighted to share that Dr. Xiang PAN (PhD IE 2022) has won the prestigious 2024 ACM SIGEnergy Doctoral Dissertation Award for his PhD thesis titled: “Deep Neural Networks for Optimal Power Flow in Electric Power Systems: Design, Analysis, and Experiments”.

During his PhD studies at CUHK, Xiang was supervised by former IE Professor Minghua Chen and Professor Changhong Zhao. His research focuses on machine learning and its applications in energy systems and multimedia signal processing, such as Neural Image Compression. Currently, he is a researcher at Tencent Media Lab.

The annual SIGEnergy Doctoral Dissertation Award recognizes an outstanding PhD thesis in the field of energy systems and informatics. For more details, please check: https://energy.acm.org/doctoral-dissertation-award-2024-winner/