Engineering Research Faculty Awards
Researcher of the Year - 2023-2024

Dr. Timothy M. Hansen is the Harold C. Hohbach Associate Professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at South Dakota State University, which he joined in August 2015. He received the B.S. degree in computer engineering with high honors from the Milwaukee School of Engineering, Milwaukee, WI, USA, in 2011, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA, in 2015. During his Ph.D. studies, he was a researcher at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, CO, in the energy systems integration group. He is an expert in computational aspects of modeling, optimization, and control of electric power and energy systems. His research applies optimization, high-performance/edge/quantum computing, and distributed stochastic control to the area of sustainable power and energy systems, with a focus on integration of renewable energy resources like rooftop solar panels. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles and successfully led millions of dollars in research projects from the U.S. National Science Foundation and Department of Energy. In 2020 he was recognized as the inaugural Graduate of the Last Decade from his alma mater, Milwaukee School of Engineering, for his significant achievements to begin his career."
Early Career Investigator of the Year - 2024

Hossein Moradi Rekabdarkolaee joined the Department of Mathematics and Statistics in 2018. Hossein has an undergraduate and master鈥檚 degree in Statistics, master鈥檚 degree in Mathematics. After graduating his Ph.D. from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2016, Hossein joined the research network for Statistical Methods for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (STATMOS) where he worked with Professor Fuentes. Dr. Moradi鈥檚 research aims to advance statistical methodology in dimension reduction and variable selection for dependent and independent data, spatial data analysis, multivariate statistics, and Machine Learning. Hossein and his collaborators have developed computationally efficient methodologies for spatial, spatial-temporal, functional, and multivariate data and made theoretical and computational contributions to the estimation of the parameters of interest for agricultural, electrical, environmental, and health related studies. The research is unified by careful analyses of the consistency and efficiency of estimates. Hossein鈥檚 research has been funded by NSF, NIH, DOE, USDA, and three internal grants from 成人视频.
Prior Researchers of the Year
- 2023-2024: Timothy Hansen
- 2022-2023: Stephen Gent
- 2021-2022: Anamika Prasad
- 2020-2021: Xijin GE
- 2019-2020: Christopher Saunders
- 2018-2019: Reinaldo Tonkoski
- 2017-2018: Suzette Burckhard
- 2016-2017: Nadim Wehbe
- 2015-2016: Qiquan Qiao
- 2014-2015: Chris Schmit
- 2013-2014: Qi Hua Fan
- 2012-2013: Francis Ting
- 2011-2012: Delvin DeBoer
- 2010-2011: Nadim Wehbe
- 2009-2010: David Galipeau
- 2008-2009: Fred Delfanian
- 2007-2008: Kasiviswanathan (Muthu) Muthukumarappan
Prior Young Investigators of the Year
- 2023-2024 Hossein Moradi
- 2022-2023: Saikat Basu
- 2021-2022: Yue Zhou
- 2020-2021: Todd Letcher
- 2019-2020: Rouzbeh Ghabchi
- 2018-2019: Mostafa Tazarv
- 2017-2018: Chris Saunders
- 2016-2017: Cedric Neumann
- 2015-2016: Stephen Gent
- 2014-2015: Xijin Ge
- 2013-2014: Mahdi Farrokh Baroughi
- 2012-2013: Qiquan Qiao
Prior Grantswinship Award Winners
2024
- Aritra Bnerjee
- Rouzbeh Ghabchi
- Michael Pawlovich
- Mostafa Tazarv
- ZhengRong Gu
- Timothy Hansen
- Junjian Qi
- Kwanghee Won
- Xiaojun Xian
- Gregory DeRynck
- Larry Leigh
- Nadim Wehbe
- Gary Hatfield
- Semhar Michael
- Christopher Saunders
- Sharon Vestal
- Saikat Basu
- Stephen Gent
- Todd Letcher
- Solaiman Tarafder
- Guanghui Hua
- Christopher Schmit
2023
- Artira Banerjee
- Rouzbeh Ghabchi
- Mostafa Tazarv
- Xinwen Fu
- Kwanghee Won
- Xiaojun Xian
- Gregory DeRynck
- Gregory Vavra
- Hossein Rekabdarkolaee Moradi
- Saikat Basu
- Jeffery Doom
- Stephen Gent
- Todd Letcher
- Guanghui Hua
- Sharon Vestal
2022
- Suzette Burckhard
- Rouzbeh Ghabchi
- Guanghui Hua
- Michael Pawlovich
- Mostafa Tazarv
- Francis Ting
- Kaiqun FU
- Songxin Tan
- Reinaldo Tonkoski
- Kwanghee Won
- Xiaojun Xian
- Yue Zhou
- Gregory DeRynck
- Gregory Vavra
- Kurt Cogswell
- John Jasper
- Hossein Rekabdarkolaee Moradi
- Saikat Basu
- Jeffery Doom
- Stephen Gent
- Zhong Hu
- Gregory Michna
- Todd Letcher
- Doang Nguyen
- Anamika Prasad
- Christopher Schmit
- Sharon Vestal
2021
- Suzette Burckhard
- Rouzbeh Ghabchi
- Guanghui Hua
- Michael Pawlovich
- Junwon Seo
- Mostafa Tazarv
- Francis Ting
- Ekaterina Koromyslova
- Huitian Lu
- Timothy Hanson
- Sung Shin
- Sidd Suryanarayanan
- Reinaldo Tonkoski
- Kwanghee Won
- Ruanbao Zhou
- Yue Zhou
- Gregory DeRynck
- Larry Leigh
- Kurt Cogswell
- Gemechis Djira
- Hossein Rekabdarkolaee Moradi
- Cedric Neumann
- Christopher Saunders
- Saikat Basu
- Marco Ciarcia
- Jeffery Doom
- Stephen Gent
- Zhong Hu
- Todd Letcher
- Doang Nguyen
- Anamika Prasad
- Michael Twedt
- Christopher Schmit
- Sharon Vestal
2020
- Christ Schmit
- Suzette Burckhard
- Larry Leigh
- Sung Shin
- Tim Hansen
- Jeffrey Doom
- Stephen Gent
- Rich Reid
- Greg Michna
- Todd Letcher
- Qiquan Qiao
- John McMaine
- Rouzbeh Ghabchi
- Nadim Wehbe
- Junwon Seo
- Francis Ting
- Greg Derynck
- Xijin Ge
- Dennis Helder
- Cedric Neumann
- Chris Saunders
- Mostafa Tazarv
- Reinaldo Tonkoski
- Greg Vavra
2019
- Suzette Burckhard
- Jeff Doom
- Ge Xijin
- Stephen Gent
- Rouzbeh Ghabchi
- Tim Hansen
- Dennis Helder
- Larry Leigh
- Todd Letcher
- John McMaine
- Greg Michna
- Cedric Neumann
- Qiquan Qiao
- Rich Reid
- Chris Saunders
- Chris Schmit
- Junwon Seo
- Shin Sung
- Mostafa Tazarv
- Francis Ting
- Reinaldo Tonkoski
- Nadim Wehbe
2018
- Tom Brandenburger
- Suzette Burckhard
- Greg Derynck
- Stephen Gent
- Rouzbeh Ghabchi
- Dennis Helder
- Larry Leigh
- Semhar Michael
- Cedric Neumann
- Qiquan Qiao
- Rich Reid
- Chris Saunders
- Chris Schmit
- Junwon Seo
- Mostafa Tazarv
- Reinaldo Tonkoski
- Francis Ting
- Greg Vavra
- Nadim Wehbe
2017
- Ross Abraham
- Tom Brandenburger
- Suzette Burckhard
- Stephen Gent
- Tim Hansen
- Dennis Helder
- Larry Leigh
- Huitian Lu
- Semhar Michael
- Cedric Neumann
- Jon Puetz
- Qiquan Qiao
- Rich Reid
- Ghabchi Rouzbeh
- Chris Saunders
- Chris Schmit
- Mostafa Tazarv
- Francis Ting
- Greg Vavra
- Sharon Vestal
- Nadim Wehbe
2016
- Ross Abraham
- Suzette Burckhard
- Fred Delfanian
- Stephen Gent
- Dennis Helder
- Zhong Hu
- Guanghui Hua
- Cedric Neumann
- Jon Puetz
- Qiquan Qiao
- Rich Reid
- Chris Saunders
- Chris Schmit
- Sung Shin
- Reinaldo Tonkoski
- Greg Vavra
- Sharon Vestal
- Nadim Wehbe
2015
- Ross Abraham
- Suzette Burckhard
- Fred Delfanian
- QiHua Fan
- Stephen Gent
- Dennis Helder
- Cedric Neumann
- Jon Puetz
- Qiquan Qiao
- Rich Reid
- Chris Schmit
- Sung Shin
- Ken Skorseth
- Sharon Vestal
- Nadim Wehbe
2014
- Ross Abraham
- Suzette Burckhard
- Fred Delfanian
- Stephen Gent
- Dennis Helder
- Greg Michna
- Jon Puetz
- Qiquan Qiao
- Xiao Qin
- Rich Reid
- Chris Schmit
- Sung Shin
- Ken Skorseth
- Sharon Vestal
- Nadim Wehbe
2013
- Ross Abraham
- Mahdi Baroughi
- Venkat Bomissetty
- Fred Delfanian
- QiHua Fan
- Dave Galipeau
- Xijin Ge
- Stephen Gent
- Teresa Hall
- Dennis Helder
- Jung-Han Kimn
- Alex Moutsoglou
- Jon Puetz
- Qiquan Qiao
- Xiao Qin
- Rich Reid
- Chris Schmit
- Sung Shin
- Ken Skorseth
- Mike Twedt
- Sharon Vestal
- Nadim Wehbe
2012
- Mahdi Baroughi
- Bruce Berdanier
- Venkat Bommisetty
- Fred Delfanian
- QiHua Fan
- Dave Galipeau
- Xijin Ge
- Stephen Gent
- Teresa Hall
- Dennis Helder
- Jung-Han Kimn
- Alex Moutsoglou
- Jon Puetz
- Qiquan Qiao
- Xiao Qin
- Rich Reid
- Chris Saunders
- Chris Schmit
- Sung Shin
- Ken Skorseth
- Francis Ting
- Mike Twedt
- Sharon Vestal
- Nadim Wehbe
2011
- Ross Abraham
- Bruce Berdanier
- Venkat Bommisetty
- Delvin DeBoer
- Fred Delfanian
- Dave Galipeau
- Xijin Ge
- Stephen Gent
- Teresa Hall
- Dennis Helder
- Alex Moutsoglou
- Jon Puetz
- Qiquan Qiao
- Rich Reid
- Christopher Schmit
- Ken Skorseth
- Mike Twedt
- Sharon Vestal
- Nadim Wehbe