Rosemary Alden Receives IEEE PES GM Poster Award and Starts EE Ph.D. Program at UK

Rosemary E. Alden, a recent Electrical Engineering (EE) Bachelor and Science (BS) and undergraduate PEIK certificate graduate, received the Undergraduate Student Award - Second Prize at the 2020 IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES) General Meeting (GM). The conference, which is the flagship annual event of PES, one of the largest societies within IEEE, typically gathers more than 2,500 participants. This is the second year in a row Rosemary has been awarded at IEEE PES GM for her undergraduate research work. As per her IEEE mentors, this is nothing short of a record for an extremely competitive international event.
 
The award-winning poster, “Artificial Intelligence-based Short Term Electric Load Forecasts for Smart Homes including HVAC, EWH, and PV Components ”, has an author's version posted on the publications page of the SPARK website. The research covered was conducted as part of an NSF REU supplement on a collaborative NSF project led at the University of Kentucky (UK) by CS and ECE and PEIK faculty, Drs. Simone Silvestri and Dan M. Ionel, and at Marquette University by Dr. Cris Ababei.  
 
Rosemary, who grew up in Kentucky, was a University Scholars Program student integrating her BS and Ph.D. studies at UK, where she was an L. Stanley Pigman Scholar and received many student awards and recognitions. In the spring, she has awarded a most prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship, one of the only 48 granted this year nationwide for EE. Over the summer, she had a remote internship with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). Rosemary will continue her Ph.D. studies at UK, where she found an excellent academic environment and continues to be directly advised by Dr. Dan M. Ionel, FIEEE, ECE Professor, L. Stanley Pigman Chair in Power, SPARK Lab and PEIK Director.