AZSEC 2020 Fall Conference Fast Pitch Awardees

AzSEC 2020 Fast Pitch Awardees

A "Fast Pitch" is a competition and an opportunity for students to summarize their research in a two-slide virtual presentation.  Each student is allowed two minutes to present with the goal of enticing the audience to seek to learn more about their research. Though the conference of 2020 was an exclusively virtual format without the benefit of posters for audience members to visit after the talks, the competition garnered contestants who presented research related to categories such as: Systems Level Energy; Systems Level Water/Food; Basic Energy/Water/Food Science. Presentations were judged on the following criteria: delivery, relevance to the conference, slide content, clearly stated methods & conclusion.  Two students from each school were selected for a prize of $200.

Congratulations to our 2020 Awardees!

Northern Arizona University

Alexander Dahlmann | Modulated Model Predictive Current Control of a Three-Phase Photovoltaic Central Inverter
Co-Authors: Venkata Yaramasu, Samir Kouro, Matias Aquirre, Tripura Pidikiti

Jose D. Alvarez Guerrero | Power System Operation with Electric Vehicles and Renewable Energy
Co-Authors: Thomas Acker

Arizona State University

Joshua Martin | Machine Learning for Solar Array Soilage Identification
Co-Authors: Kristen Jaskie, Yiannis Tofis, Andreas Spanias

Sunil Rao | Fault Classification in PV Arrays Using Machine Learning
Co-Authors: A. Spanias, C. Tepedelenlioglu

University of Arizona

Thomas Blackburn | Degradation of OSC with Applied Potential
Co-Authors: Paul Lee, Jeanne Pemberton

Tarek El-Assaad | Greener Approach to Synthesize a Wide Variety of Organic Semiconductors
Co-Authors: Dominic McGarth