Honors & Awards

Recipient of the 2023 College of Engineering and Computing (CEC) Dean’s PhD Scholar Award at Missouri S&T (one of the seven recipients of this award)

Finalist in the IEEE PES Grid Edge Technologies Dissertation Prize Challenge

First Place with $200 cash prize in the 2022 Missouri S&T Graduate Poster Contest, out of 28 contestants (poster title “Multi-layered Framework for Energy Management of Extreme Fast Charging Stations for Electric Vehicles”)

Best Conference Paper of 2021 IEEE PES General Meeting (top 3%): Waqas ur Rehman, Rui Bo, Hossein Mehdipourpicha, Jonathan Kimball, “Sizing Energy Storage System for Energy Arbitrage in Extreme Fast Charging Station”, 2021 IEEE PES General Meeting. The IEEE PES General Meeting is the flagship conference in Power & Energy fields

Second Prize in the Graduate Student Poster Contest in 2021 IEEE PES General Meeting, out of 58 contestants (Based on this paper: Waqas ur Rehman, Rui Bo, Hossein Mehdipourpicha, Jonathan Kimball, “Sizing Energy Storage System for Energy Arbitrage in Extreme Fast Charging Station”, 2021 IEEE PES General Meeting)

Recipient of the highly coveted Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) Fellowship throughout M.Sc. degree (2013-2015) at Pakistan Institute of Engineering & Applied Sciences (PIEAS), ranked No. 1 university in Pakistan

Ranked 16th among 19,000+ candidates in Engineering Entrance Exam on the provincial level (UET-ECAT-2008