C2SR Student Achievements
A dedicated space celebrating the outstanding accomplishments of our talented students.
At C2SR, we believe in recognizing the hard work, dedication and innovative spirit of our student community. This page highlights the various achievements of our students, including academic excellence, groundbreaking research, awards, honors and contributions to their fields of study.

2024 North Dakota Water Quality Conference | Bismarck, ND
C2SR Student Dev N. Patel won the Best Presentation Award at the 2024 North Dakota Water Quality Conference in Bismarck, North Dakota.

2024 IEEE World AI IoT Congress (AIIoT) Conference Best Paper Award
C2SR Student and Graduate Teaching Assistant Meera Gopinath Sujatha won the Best Paper Award at the 2024 IEEE World AI IoT Congress (AIIoT) Conference in Seattle, Washington. Her paper is titled “Classification of Microcystins Based on Temperature Data in North Dakota Lakes using Machine Learning Models”. Author(s): Meera Gopinath Sujatha, Rajesh Godasu and Prakash Ranganathan.

IEEE PES T&D Conference Student Poster Award Winner - 3rd Place
C2SR Student and Graduate Research Assistant Tanzim Jim Hassan was awarded 3rd place for his poster titled "Multi-Stage Hybrid Machine Learning (MS-HML) Model for UAV Battery Drain Estimation" in the Graduate Level Best Poster category at IEEE PES T&D 2024, one of the largest IEEE conferences in the field.
Summer Doctoral Fellowship Award 2024
C2SR Student and Graduate Teaching Assistant Meera Gopinath Sujatha have been awarded a 2024 Summer Dissertation Completion Fellowship award of $7,500. The award will be deposited into your student account in Student Account Services at the beginning of the summer term.

CARS 2023 : Masters’ student poster awards 2nd place
C2SR student and Graduate Research Assistant Farishta Rahman secured second place for her poster titled "Empowering Resilience: Insights from ChatGPT on the Texas 2021 Power Outage," at the Cybersecurity Awareness and Research Symposium (CARS) 2023 poster competition organized by the C2SR.

55th North American Power Symposium (NAPS) 2023 | Student Poster Award Winner - 1st Place
C2SR Student and Graduate Research Assistant Tanzim was awarded 1st place for his poster titled: "UAS-guided Electric and Magnetic Field Data Distribution Across Transmission Lines" presented at the 55th North American Power Symposium (NAPS) 2023 held October 2023 at Western Carolina University.