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Awards CU Boulder campus-wide Outstanding Mentor Award for Faculty Mentoring, 2024 IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology Outstanding Paper Award , 2024CU Boulder campus-wide Outstanding Postdoc Mentor of the Year Award, 2022 Elected as a Corresponding Member Abroad of the Austrian Academy of Sciences , 2021 IFAC Pawel J. Nowacki Distinguished Lecturer (2020 - 2026)IFAC Triennial World Congress Application Paper Prize Finalist, 2020 Nikhar Abbas (PhD 2023 from our group) received the European Academy of Wind Energy Excellent Young Wind Doctor Award (2023) Bart Doekemeijer (2015-2016 visiting MS exchange student in our lab) received the European Academy of Wind Energy Excellent Young Wind Doctor Award (2021) Elected as a Corresponding Member Abroad of the Austrian Academy of Sciences , 2021 IFAC Pawel J. Nowacki Distinguished Lecturer (2020 - 2026)ASME Nyquist Lecturer Award , 2019Was 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, June - August 2019, May - December 2023, and May - August 2025 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) 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) Article (similar article here ) highlighting one of our collaborative projects with NREL , University of Stuttgart , and Delft University of Technology (September 2016)Plenary speaker at the 2016 Alpbach Technology Symposium (Thursday, August 25, 2016) Plenary speaker at the 2016 American Control Conference (Friday, July 8, 2016) Co-recipient (with Jason R. Marden and H. Peyton Young) of the SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization Best Paper Prize . (November 2015) Clean Energy Education & Empowerment Awards Finalist, 2015 E. Simley was a lecturer at the Summer School in Remote Sensing for Wind Energy , Roskilde, Denmark, June 2014.E. Simley was honored with 3rd place in the 2014 IEEE New Faces of Engineering Competition .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 is spending September 2013 to June 2014 at the Technical University of Denmark Department of Wind Energy on a Fulbright Fellowship . E. Simley was a lecturer at the Summer School in Remote Sensing for Wind Energy , Roskilde, Denmark, June 2013.Plenary Presentation at the IEEE Power and Energy Conference at Illinois on "Wind Energy Control and Grid-Related Issues" (Saturday, February 23, 2013).Co-recipient (with Kathryn Johnson ) of the IEEE Control Systems Magazine Outstanding Paper Award (December 2012). ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference Plenary Talk on "Control of Wind Turbines: Accomplishments and Continuing Challenges" (Wednesday, October 17, 2012).E. Simley was a lecturer at the Summer School in Remote Sensing for Wind Energy , Boulder, CO, June 2012.Chinese Control and Decision Conference Distinguished Lecture on "Control of Wind Turbines: Accomplishments and Challenges" (Thursday, May 24, 2012).Elevated to IEEE Fellow (January 2012). ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition Plenary on "Control of Wind Turbines: Accomplishments and Challenges" (Monday, November 14, 2011). Short video on "CU and National Labs Work To Harness Wind Power" featured in CU-Boulder Chancellor's August 2009 update. Colorado Governor Bill Ritter to Kick Off Inaugural Symposium for New Colorado Wind Research Center on August 14, 2009 Visiting Scholar at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory's National Wind Technology Center , January 2009 - August 2009 
