News Brief: PNNL researcher elected IEEE fellow
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Source: PNNL
Date: Tuesday, March 21st, 2017
March 21, 2017 
RICHLAND, Wash. - A power grid researcher at the D.O.E.'s Pacific Northwest National Lab has been elected to the rank of fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Henry Huang was acknowledged by IEEE for his contributions to dynamic analysis and high performance computing in power systems
Huang is a chief engineer in the electricity infrastructure and buildings division at PNNL, where he leads a group focused on optimizing the performance of energy systems. His research focuses on stability and control of electrical power systems, high-performance computing applications in energy, and power grid data analytics. He has authored in excess of 140 peer-reviewed publications and was the recipient of the 2009 IEEE Power and Energy Society Outstanding Young Engineer Award. He earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Huazhong University in Wuhan, China; and a doctorate of philosophy from Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. He will be acknowledged with the rest of this year's fellow class at the IEEE general meeting in July in Chicago.
IEEE is the world's biggest technical professional society, with in excess of 420,000 members internationally. Fellows are elected for extraordinary accomplishments in IEEE fields of interest, including engineering and computing. No in excess of one-tenth of one percent of the total membership may be elected to the rank of fellow each year.
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Interdisciplinary teams at Pacific Northwest National Lab address many of America's most pressing issues in energy, the environment and national security through advances in basic and applied science. Founded in 1965, PNNL employs 4,400 staff and has an yearly budget of nearly $1 billion. It is managed by Battelle for the D.O.E.'s Office of Science. As the single biggest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States, the Office of Science is working to address some of the most pressing challenges of our time. For more information on PNNL, visit the PNNL News Center, or follow PNNL on Facebook, Google+, Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter.
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