Mohammad Shahidehpour Named Highly Cited Researcher for Fifth Consecutive Year
Mohammad Shahidehpour, Robert W. Galvin Center for Electricity Innovation Endowed Chair, and director of the Robert W. Galvin Center for Electricity Innovation at Illinois Tech, was recently recognized as a Clarivate Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher in Engineering for 2024, his fifth year in a row after first receiving the honor in 2020.
It is an honor given to individuals whose citations rank in the top 1 percent of citations that demonstrate significant influence among their peers.
Shahidehpour joined Illinois Tech in 1983 and has been the principal investigator of more than $80 million in grants and contracts on power system operation and control, smart grid research and development, and large-scale integration of renewable energy. His latest project, funded by the Department of Energy (DOE), will establish a center at Illinois Tech for devising strategies that can enhance cybersecurity in microgrids.
His DOE-funded project on perfect power systems has converted the entire Illinois Tech campus to an islandable microgrid. He initiated the Center for Smart Grid Applications, Research, and Technology at Illinois Tech for promoting smart grid cybersecurity research and implementation and enhancing the resilience of networked communication and control systems in smart cities.
He is a member of the SPIKE Center in the Stuart School of Business at Illinois Tech, which is facilitating the design and the implementation of affordable microgrids in impoverished nations.
He is a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the National Academy of Inventors, and the Chinese Society of Electrical Engineering. He is a laureate of the Khwarizmi International Award and an elected member of the United States National Academy of Engineering.
Shahidehpour has supervised and worked with more than 180 graduate research students and visiting scholars. He has co-authored six books and more than 1,000 articles on electric power system operation and planning.
