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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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Atlanta, GA | Posted: December 9, 2015
Maryam Saeedifard has been named as the Atlanta IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES) Outstanding Engineer for 2015. She will be presented with this award on December 15 at the IEEE Atlanta PES Technical Luncheon.
Saeedifard joined the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) in January 2014, where she is an assistant professor in the electrical energy technical interest group. Her research interests are in the areas of power electronics, high voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission, high-power energy conversion, grid integration of renewable energy resources, and hybrid electric vehicles and transportation systems.
Before joining Tech, Saeedifard was on the ECE faculty at Purdue University for four years. She is an editor for the IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid and IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics.