POTSDAM -- Tuyen Vu, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at Clarkson University, has been awarded the 2021 Best Paper Award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) - Industrial Electronics Magazine of Industrial Electronics Society (IES).

Vu and his co-authors, Bang L.H. Nguyen, Zheyuan Cheng, Mo-Yuen Chow and Bin Zhang, wrote a paper titled, “Cyber-Physical Microgrids - Toward Future Resilient Communities,” It appeared in the September 2020 issue of IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine.

The award includes a plaque and honorarium of $2,000. Vu and his co-authors are invited to receive the award at the gala dinner during the 47th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON-2021), to be held October 13-16 in Toronto.

Vu concentrates his research on Power system dynamics, stability, and control; energy management and optimization; distributed energy resources integration and microgrids; and power grid cybersecurity. He is the recipient of several grants from the Office of Naval Research and New York Research and Development Authority. He holds a B.S. in electrical engineering from Hanoi University of Science and Technology in Vietnam. He received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Florida State University.