{"id":31,"date":"2026-10-17T15:05:48","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T15:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.tarleton.edu\/mmassaoudi\/awards-honors\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T15:05:48","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T15:05:48","slug":"awards-honors","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/faculty.tarleton.edu\/mmassaoudi\/awards-honors\/","title":{"rendered":"Awards &amp; Honors"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Recognition<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Stanford\u2013Elsevier World&#8217;s Top 2% Scientists<\/strong>, 2025 and 2026<\/li>\n<li><strong>Second Prize Paper Award<\/strong>, IEEE Industry Applications Society, 2024, for &#8220;Fast Transient Stability Assessment of Power Systems Using Optimized Temporal Convolutional Networks&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Best Presentation Recognition<\/strong>, IECON 2024, Chicago, USA<\/li>\n<li><strong>Richard E. Ewing Award for Excellence<\/strong>, Texas A&amp;M University at Qatar, 2024<\/li>\n<li><strong>Outstanding Research Excellence Award<\/strong>, Texas A&amp;M University at Qatar, 2020<\/li>\n<li><strong>IEEE Senior Member<\/strong>, 2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Research funding awards<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>TEES Annual Research Conference (TARC) Seed Funding Award<\/strong> ($5,000), Texas A&amp;M Engineering Experiment Station, 2026. Lead PI, ReCIPeS-DC: Resilient Cyber-Physical Infrastructure for Sustainable Data Centers in Texas.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Startup Research Funds<\/strong> ($10,000, one year), Tarleton State University. Lead Principal Investigator.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Fellowships<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Thomas W. Powell &#8217;62 and Powell Industries Inc. Fellowship<\/strong>, Texas A&amp;M University, 2024<\/li>\n<li><strong>Teaching Fellowship<\/strong>, Texas A&amp;M University, 2024<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ph.D. Fellowship<\/strong>, Texas A&amp;M University, 2021<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recognition Stanford\u2013Elsevier World&#8217;s Top 2% Scientists, 2025 and 2026 Second Prize Paper Award, IEEE Industry Applications Society, 2024, for &#8220;Fast Transient Stability Assessment of Power Systems Using Optimized Temporal Convolutional Networks&#8221; Best Presentation Recognition, IECON 2024, Chicago, USA Richard E. Ewing Award for Excellence, Texas A&amp;M University at Qatar, 2024 Outstanding Research Excellence Award, Texas &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.tarleton.edu\/mmassaoudi\/awards-honors\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Awards &amp; Honors<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":167,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-31","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"coauthors":[],"author_meta":{"author_link":"https:\/\/faculty.tarleton.edu\/mmassaoudi\/author\/mmassaoudi\/","display_name":"mmassaoudi"},"relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 2 weeks ago","modified":"Updated 2 weeks ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on October 17, 2026","modified":"Updated on October 17, 2026"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on October 17, 2026 3:05 pm","modified":"Updated on October 17, 2026 3:05 pm"},"featured_img_caption":"","featured_img":false,"series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.tarleton.edu\/mmassaoudi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.tarleton.edu\/mmassaoudi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.tarleton.edu\/mmassaoudi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.tarleton.edu\/mmassaoudi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.tarleton.edu\/mmassaoudi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.tarleton.edu\/mmassaoudi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.tarleton.edu\/mmassaoudi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}