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November 2024

• The CARES Lab proudly advised a talented Lego Robotics team from Kinard Middle School in Fort Collins, Colorado, as they prepare for their upcoming competition. The team, composed of six dedicated middle school students, working to present their solution at FIRST LEGO League.

October 2024

• Our research article, titled 'Meta: Towards a Unified, Multimodal Dataset for Network Intrusion Detection Systems,' has been published in the prestigious IEEE Data Descriptions Journal. This article introduces an open-source dataset designed to support researchers in advancing the field of Network Intrusion Detection Systems.
• CARES Lab members participated in Aggieland Saturday, engaging students in discussions about the critical role of cybersecurity in the maritime industry. Through interactive demonstrations, the event emphasized the growing need for skilled professionals in this field, encouraging students to explore careers in cybersecurity and marine engineering.

September 2024

• Members of the CARES Lab attended the Texas A&M Global Cyber Research Institute Annual Summit, engaging in insightful discussions with speakers and presenters.
• Mr. Alonzo Alvarez Meola has been honored with the prestigious Outstanding Young Professional Achievement Award by the IEEE Industry Applications Society's Petroleum and Chemical Industry Committee
• CARES Lab members recently participated in the third Cooperative Agreement Technical Exchange Meeting at Northeastern University, Boston. The team showcased their progress over the past year and engaged in insightful discussions with other consortium members.
• The CARES Lab is excited to welcome three new members to our team for Fall 2024: Ahmed Lakhdar, Shaykh Siddiqee and Shorya. We look forward to their contributions and fresh perspectives as we continue to push the boundaries of research in our field.

August 2024

• Irfan Khan was invited as a guest lecturer at the 33rd Jyväskylä Summer School in Finland, where he delivered a lecture on next-generation intelligent security systems, sharing insights from our cutting-edge research with an international audience.

July 2024

• Irfan Khan attended the 25th IEEE COMPEL Workshop on Control and Modeling for Power Electronics in Pakistan, where he had the honor of chairing multiple sessions, contributing significantly to the discourse on power electronics. 
• Our research article titled "AIS-NIDS: An Intelligent and Self-Sustaining Network Intrusion Detection System" has been published in the prestigious Elsevier journal Computers & Security, marking a milestone in our contributions to cybersecurity research.

June 2024

• The CARES Lab congratulates four of its team members for successfully passing their qualifying exams: Zack McKinney, Alonzo A. Alvarez Meola, Muhammad Ashar Ayaz, and Aiman Siddiqui. Their hard work and dedication have set a solid foundation for their future research.
• The CARES Lab is pleased to welcome Dr. Jueming Hu, our newly appointed Postdoctoral Research Associate. Dr. Hu completed her PhD at Arizona State University, specializing in algorithm optimization. She is currently leading a proposal on path planning for unmanned underwater vessels, bringing valuable expertise to our team.

May 2024

• Dr. Irfan Khan hooded Syed Rahman for his academic achievement at the Spring 2024 graduation ceremony held at Reed Arena on May 11, 2024. The CARES lab team congratulates Dr. Syed Rahman on his Ph.D. graduation and wishes him the best of luck in his future endeavors.
  
  
• The CARES lab team congratulates Mr. Ravindranath KV on his Master's graduation and wishes him the best of luck in his future endeavors.

March 2024

• Syed Rahman, the first graduate student of CARES lab, passed his final defense exam, held on 8^th March 2024. His thesis, titled “Electric Vehicle-Induced Grid Impact Analysis and its Minimization”, focuses on minimizing the grid impact of electric vehicle-induced charging load with innovative non-wired alternative-based distributed generators and active filters. The CARES lab team congratulates him on achieving this milestone, and he is now officially Dr. Syed Rahman.

January 2024

• Dr. Irfan Khan attended the 4^th International Conference on Smart Grid and Renewable Energy (SGRE 2024), Qatar, where he chaired a couple of sessions and presented his work on “Review of Non-Isolated DC/DC Converters for Application in Data Center Power Delivery.”

December 2023

• CARES Lab had a group meeting to celebrate the accomplishments from the Fall 2023 semester and plan for future research activities for the next semester. 

October 2023

• Syed Rahman's conference paper titled: "Extended Kalman Filter-based Predictive Maintenance of High-Voltage DC/DC Converter" is presented at the prestigious IECON 2023 Conference (Oct 16-19 2023), in Singapore. IECON is the flagship conference of the IEEE Industrial Society. Syed Rahman completed this work during his 6-month internship at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory (MERL).

September 2023

• CARES Lab welcomes our new members of the team. New members who joined in Fall 2023 are Zack McKinney, Alonzo A. Alvarez Meola, Muhammad Ashar Ayaz, Aiman Siddiqui, Ravindranath KV, and Zahid Hussain.
  
  
• Dr. Jianwu Wang, Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) met with Dr. Khan and his research team at Texas A&M University on September 11, 2023. During the meeting, potential topics of collaboration are discussed.
  
  
• Syed Rahman presented his Ph.D. research work, as a part of the 2023 Energy Institute Graduate Fellowship Showcase on September 25, 2023. Syed Rahman is a 2022-2023 Energy Institute Fellow. This event was organized by the Texas A&M Energy Institute, to provide a platform for the fellowship recipients to showcase their research outcomes.
  
  
• On September 11th, Zach McKinney and Alonzo Alvarez Meola presented a paper titled “Integrating renewable energy behind the meter in upstream oil and gas operations part II” at the 70th annual IEEE PCIC conference in New Orleans.

June 2023

• On June 1-2, 2023, a delegation from Texas A&M University Galveston visited the Maritime University of Gdynia in Poland to discuss the possibilities of cooperation, especially in student exchange, joint projects, and research proposals. Dr. Khan was part of the delegation. He also gave a guest lecture on "HVDC Transmission Technologies for Offshore Wind Power Plants (Power Electronic Solutions for Farther & Deeper Waters)."
  
  
• Dr. Khan visited the Department of Energy at Aalborg University, Denmark. He visited the Center for Research on Microgrids (CROM), a leading European research center led by Professor Josep Guererro. He met Professor Yajuan Guan and Professor Amjad Anvari-Moghaddam, who showed him the lab facilities, after which they talked about potential collaboration opportunities.

May 2023

• Carbon Brief spoke with Dr. Khan on how jobs created by net-zero transition will ‘offset’ fossil-fuel job losses in Republican US states
  
  
• TAMU Galveston team, including Dr. Khan, visited World Maritime University in Malmo, Sweden, for future collaborations.
  
  
• Dr. Irfan Khan was presented William Paul Ricker Distinguished Faculty Award from Texas A&M University at Galveston. The award includes a plaque, a watch, and a payment in the amount of $2000.

April 2023

• Dr. Khan spoke on a panel covering the convergence of physical and cybersecurity in ports at the 4th Annual Port of the Future Conference on April 4, 2023.
  
  
• Dr. Khan gave a tutorial on “Design of Solar PV and Battery Storage Powered Electrical Loads” at the IEEE 2023 GreenTech Conference organized in Denver, CO on April 18-20, 2023.
  
  
• Dr. Khan was the Special Sessions, Tutorials & Workshops chair at the 2023 IEEE GreenTech conference in Denver on April 18-20 (https://ieeegreentech.org/committee/)

March 2023

• Dr. Khan visited King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) and King Abdulaziz University (KAU), Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, to meet with faculty and visit labs for possible future research collaborations.
  
  
• Dr. Khan was a keynote speaker at the 2023 4th International Conference on Computing, Mathematics, and Engineering Technologies (iCoMET 2023) organized by Sukkur IBA University in Sukkur, Pakistan, on 21-19 March 2023.
  
  
• Newsweek interviewed Dr. Khan on the State of Texas's initiatives to support renewable energy, especially wind, solar and energy storage.

February 2023

• The Guardian interviewed Dr. Khan on how red states lead the US in solar and wind production.
  
  
• Three research papers, authored by the CARES lab research team, are presented at the Texas Power & Energy Conference (TPEC) 2023. In addition, Syed Rahman was awarded the NSF travel grant to present his research at the conference.
  
  
• Research Article: "Tahir, Y., Khan, I., Rahman, S., Nadeem, M.F., Iqbal, A., Xu, Y. and Rafi, M., 2021. A state‐of‐the‐art review on topologies and control techniques of Solid‐State transformers for electric vehicle extreme fast charging. IET Power Electronics, 14(9), pp.1560-1576" is recognized as a "Top Cited Article 2021-2022" in IET Power Electronics. This is the second consecutive year that our article has been a top-cited article.

January 2023

• Syed Rahman joined the Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory as a graduate research intern. He will be working on diagnostics and predictive maintenance of dc-dc converter intended for aircraft application.

December 2022

• Dr. Khan visited Pakistan to give a series of talks and interactions at various top universities of Pakistan, including UET Lahore, LUMS, UET Taxila, UOL, and Superior. This visit led to several new research collaborations.
  
  
• Dr. Khan was invited speaker to give a talk at his alma mater, UET Lahore, Pakistan.
  
  
• Dr. Khan was a Keynote Speaker at the 2022 IEEE International Conference on Emerging Trends in Electrical, Control, and Telecommunication Engineering, ETECTE'22, organized by the Department of Electrical Engineering, The University of Lahore (UOL).
  
  
• Superior University, Lahore, Pakistan, invited Dr.Khan to Superior Technical Symposium 2.0 - themed on Exploring New Horizons for Research & Innovation power.
  
  
• Electrical Engineering Department at UET Taxila, Pakistan, invited Dr. Khan to speak on the impact of EV fast charging on low voltage distribution systems.

November 2022

• Syed Rahman has successfully passed the preliminary examination, satisfied the residence requirement, submitted a satisfactory dissertation proposal, and completed all formal coursework on the degree program. Mr. Rahman is now admitted to candidacy for the degree of PhD with a major in Electrical Engineering.
  
  
• Dr. Khan joined the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSCE), TAMU, College Station, as a Joint Affiliated Faculty. Now he can recruit and supervise graduate students from CSCE.
  
  
• Yasir Ali Farrukh is awarded Student Travel Award to attend the 9th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Big Data Computing, Applications and Technologies (BDCAT2022) in Vancouver, WA, USA
  
  
• Syed Wali is awarded Student Travel Award to attend the 9th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Big Data Computing, Applications and Technologies (BDCAT2022) in Vancouver, WA, USA
  
  
• Dr. Khan proposed a special issue on High Efficient and Reliable Microgrid (DC/AC) with Artificial Intelligence Techniques for the Renewable Energy Journal-Elsevier.

October 2022

• Dr. Khan participated in the Merchant Mariner Examination Working Group on October 18 through 20, 2022, organized by U.S. Coast Gaurd National Maritime Center in West Virginia

September 2022

• Dr. Khan will be a keynote speaker at the 2022 International Conference on Emerging Trends in Electrical, Control, and Telecommunication Engineering (ETECTE’22) (Dec. 02‐04, 2022), in Lahore, Pakistan.
  
  
• Dr. Khan will be a panelist at the Future Ports Conference 2023 in a panel on “Convergence-Physical Security and Cybersecurity” at 2:00 pm Wednesday, April 05, 2023
  
  
• Dr. Khan will be a Keynote speaker at the 2023 4th  International Conference on Computing, Mathematics, and Engineering Technologies (iCoMET 2023) organized by Sukkur IBA University in Sukkur, Pakistan, on 27-28 February 2023.

August 2022

• Dr. Khan has been invited to deliver an Expert Keynote Lecture at the IEEE International Conference On Power, Instrumentation, Energy and Control (PIECON- 2023), during February 10–12, 2023. 

July 2022

• Syed Rahman delivered a webinar on the topic, "Impact Analysis of EV Load on Low-Voltage Distribution Systems", as a part of "Power and Energy Week 2022" at IEEE Galveston Bay Section

June 2022

• Mr. Rahman and Dr. Khan attended the 2022 IEEE Transportation Electrification Conference & Expo (ITEC) on June 14 through 17 in Anaheim, CA, USA
• Syed Rahman is the recipient of TC4 Travel Grant, offered by IEEE Power and Energy Society, for travelling and presenting his research paper at IEEE Transportation Electrification Conference (ITEC) 2022.
  
  
• Syed Rahman, Ph.D. Student of Dr. Irfan A. Khan (Director of CARES Lab), is selected as the "Energy Institute Graduate Fellow" for the year 2022-2023 by the Texas A&M Energy Institute.
  
  
• Syed Rahman, is listed as an honorable mention in the reputed Link-Energy Foundation Program for the year 2022-2023.
  
  

April 2022

• CARES Lab undergraduate students: Daniel Duong, Joseph McComb, Charles Doubrava, and Alexander Smith’s senior design project, Ocean Wave Energy Converter project was placed 1^st at Texas A&M University Galveston Campus 18^th Annual Student Research Symposium in Engineering Senior Design Division
  
  
• CARES Lab undergraduate students: Daniel Duong, Joseph McComb, Charles Doubrava, and Alexander Smith’s senior design project, Ocean Wave Energy Converter project was placed 3^rd at Texas A&M University Galveston Campus 18^th Annual Student Research Symposium
  
  
• Research Article: "Tahir, Y., Khan, I., Rahman, S., Nadeem, M.F., Iqbal, A., Xu, Y. and Rafi, M., 2021. A state‐of‐the‐art review on topologies and control techniques of solid‐state transformers for electric vehicle extreme fast charging. IET Power Electronics, 14(9), pp.1560-1576" is recognized as a "Top Cited Article 2020-2021" in IET Power Electronics.
  
  
• Dr. Khan was awarded the 2021 Jim Leonard Outstanding Member Award from IEEE Region 5
  
  
• Dr. Khan was awarded the IEEE Region 5 Director’s Award Technical Conference Co-Chair 2021, presented to Irfan Khan
  
  
• Dr. Khan was awarded the IEEE Houston Section Volunteer Appreciation Award, in recognizing volunteers who have given a generous commitment of Time, Talent, and Treasures to the success of the 2022 IEEE Green Technologies Conference
  
  
• Dr. Khan is giving a talk at the 2022 Ports of the Future Conference on Autonomous Vessels and Systems
  
  

March 2022

• Dr. Khan is the technical Co-Chair at the 2022 IEEE Green Technologies Conference in Houston
  
  
• Dr. Khan was awarded the 2022 Data Science Career Initiation Fellow Program award by the Texas A&M University Institute of Data Science
  
  
• CARES Lab hosted Energy Institute High School students from Puranik Foundation to train them on the solar energy-based microgrid in the lab.
  
  
• Texas A&M-Galveston’s Dr. Irfan Khan Chosen for Early-Career Research Fellowship
  
  

February 2022

• Texas A&M Institute of Data Science
  Dr. Khan was awarded the 2022 Data Science Course Development Program Award to develop a course on Marine Cybersecurity.
  
  

January 2022

• National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine
  Dr. Khan won the  Gulf Research Program's Early-Career Research Fellowship: Offshore Energy Safety (Track 3) from the National Academies to improve offshore energy system cybersecurity
  
  

September 2021

• Marine Technology Society Journal, 
  A Commentary Letter on Blockage of Suez Canal Region Due to Giant Container Ship was written by Dr. Khan and Mr. Rahman

August 2021

• TEES Annual Research Conference
  A team of researchers led by Dr. Khan won the first prize at the 2021 TEES Annual Research Conference (TARC)
  
  

June 2021

• Syed Rahman, Ph.D. Student of Dr. Irfan A. Khan (Director of CARES Lab), has received "Thomas W. Powell ’62 and Powell Industries Inc.” Fellowship. This fellowship is in the amount of $2000 for the period of June 16, 2021, through June 16, 2022, from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University.
  
  
• Department of Energy
  A team of TAMUG students, advised by Dr. Khan, is participating in the U.S. Department of Energy's 2022 Marine Energy Collegiate Competition: Powering the Blue Economy
  
  

May 2021

• Texas A&M Today, 
  CARES's lab Solar and Wind based Renewable Energy project
  
  
• The Daily News,
  Texas A&M Galveston adds green to its blue-economy programs

Apr 2021

• The Daily News
  Suez Canal blockage a warning call for action