Dr. Mladen Kezunovic
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
College of Engineering
Mladen Kezunovic received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Kansas. He joined Texas A&M University in 1992. His transformational work on modeling cyber-physical power systems, outage data analytics and grid at the edge interactions allows automated management of the electric grid disturbances for improved grid resilience, reliability and safety. His recognitions include the Association of Former Students Distinguished Achievement Award for Research, Regents Professor, director of the Smart Grid Center, endowed Eugene E. Webb Professor, Brockett Professor and the TEES Senior Fellow. He is a Life Fellow of IEEE, an honor bestowed to less than one-tenth of 1% of the total voting members annually. He is the only U.S. member of CIGRE to receive titles of Honorary and Distinguished Member and Fellow from the CIGRE headquarters, and Attwood Associate, Philip Sporn, and Dale Douglass Awards from the U.S. national committee. His international honorary titles include guest professor at Tsinghua University and South China University of Science and Technology, eminent scholar at Texas A&M in Qatar and special visiting scholar by the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development, Brazil. He was inducted into the National Academy of Engineering in 2022.