News | Lucy Pao | University of Colorado Boulder

2023

Nikhar Abbas (Past PhD student, graduated 2022) received the 2023 European Academy of Wind Energy (EAWE) Excellent Young Wind Doctor Award (June 2023)

2017

Was a Fellow at the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg Institute for Advanced Study, Delmenhorst, Germany and a Visiting Scholar at the ForWind Center for Wind Energy Research, Oldenburg University, Germany, October 2016 - July 2017
Received the European Academy of Wind Energy Scientific Award (June 2017)
Received the Control Engineering Practice Award from the American Automatic Control Council (May 2017)

2016

Was a Resident Scholar at the Center for Information and Systems Engineering, Boston University, September 2016 - October 2016
David Schlipf (2014-2015 visiting PhD student/postdoc in our lab) received the European Academy of Wind Energy Excellent Young Wind Doctor Award (October 2016)
IEA Wind Task Article (related NREL article) highlighting one of our collaborative projects with NREL, University of Stuttgart, and Delft University of Technology (September 2016)
Plenary on "Challenges and Opportunities in Integrating Large Amounts of Wind and Solar Energy into Utility Grids" at the 2016 Alpbach Technology Symposium (Thursday, August 25, 2016)
Plenary on "Combined Feedforward/Feedback Control of Flexible Structures: Recurring Themes across Diverse Applications" at the 2016 American Control Conference (Friday, July 8, 2016)
Son Matthew places 1st in local science fair (February 2016)

2015

Co-recipient (with Jason R. Marden and H. Peyton Young) of the SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization Best Paper Prize. (November 2015)

2014

Son Matthew's high school (Boulder High School) soccer team finishes second in the Colorado 5A division. Son is mentioned in a couple newspaper articles (Denver Post article, Boulder Daily Camera article,Boulder Daily Camera photos) following his team's semi-final win. (November 2014)
PhD student E. Simley was honored with 3rd place in the 2014 IEEE New Faces of Engineering Competition. (February 2014)

2013

Plenary Presentation at the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control on "Controlling Wind Energy for Utility Grid Reliability" (Thursday, December 12, 2013).
Keynote Presentation at the SICE Annual Conference (International Conference on Instrumentation, Control, Information Technology and System Integration) on "Wind Energy Control and Grid-Integration Challenges" (Monday, September 16, 2013).
PhD student Eric Simley spent September 2013 to June 2014 at the Technical University of Denmark Department of Wind Energy on a Fulbright Fellowship.
Plenary Presentation at the IEEE Power and Energy Conference at Illinois on "Wind Energy Control and Grid-Related Issues" (Saturday, February 23, 2013).

2012

Co-recipient (with Kathryn Johnson) of the IEEE Control Systems Magazine Outstanding Paper Award (December 2012).
Daughter's club soccer team (FC Boulder U16G Elite) finish first in the Colorado Youth Soccer Girls U16 Division 1 League. (November 2012)
ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference Plenary Talk on "Control of Wind Turbines: Accomplishments and Continuing Challenges" (Wednesday, October 17, 2012).
Chinese Control and Decision Conference Distinguished Lecture on "Control of Wind Turbines: Accomplishments and Challenges" (Thursday, May 24, 2012).
Daughter scores Boulder's golden goal against 5th ranked Legacy (pdf file of article). Daily Camera photo of daughter in Fairview vs. Boulder game and related Daily Camera article (pdf file of article). (April 2012)
Elevated to IEEE Fellow (January 2012).

2011

ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition Plenary on "Control of Wind Turbines: Accomplishments and Challenges" (Monday, November 14, 2011).
Son Matthew's soccer team, the Boulder County Force U12 Red Team, won the U12 Boys Colorado State Cup, May 2011. They represented Colorado at the Far West Regionals in June 2011.
BS/MS student Anil Damle received the CU-Boulder College of Engineering and Applied Science Outstanding Graduate for Research Award, May 2011.
Photo of daughter Sarah appears in the Boulder Daily Camera, April 2011.

2010

Son Matthew receives the Nicholas Green Distinguished Student Award from the Colorado Association for Gifted and Talented, October 2010.

2009

2008

Was a Visiting Miller Professor at the University of California at Berkeley, August 2008 - December 2008

2007

Daughter is quoted in the Boulder Daily Camera (Friday, August 31, 2007).

2006

IEEE Conference on Decision and Control Plenary on "Control of Flexible Structures: From Large Space Structures to Disk Drive Read/Write Arms" (Thursday, December 14, 2006).
Daughter Sarah wins in Colorado Rapids Dribble, Pass, Score finals (Wednesday, September 13, 2006).
Photo of rest of family makes the front page of the Boulder Daily Camera (Friday, June 23, 2006).

2005

People in Control: Rocky Mountain High, IEEE Control Systems Magazine, pp. 18-21, Dec. 2005.
Our paper received the Best Paper Award at the 2005 World Haptics Conference.
- D. A. Lawrence, L. Y. Pao, and S. Aphanuphong. "Bow Spring/Tendon Actuation for Low Cost Haptic Interfaces," Proc. 1st Joint EuroHaptics Conf. and Symp. on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environments and Teleoperator Systems, Pisa, Italy, Mar. 2005.
One of our projects was chosen to be featured in the National Science Foundation's Fiscal Year 2004 Performance Highlights report (see page 21) to Congress and the White House.