{"id":57127,"date":"2015-05-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-doctoral-student-receives-prestigious-award-from-chinese-government\/"},"modified":"2015-05-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-05-01T00:00:00","slug":"uri-doctoral-student-receives-prestigious-award-from-chinese-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2015\/05\/uri-doctoral-student-receives-prestigious-award-from-chinese-government\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 doctoral student receives prestigious award from Chinese government"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tFirst 溏心vlog免费B站 student to ever receive the award<\/b><\/p>\n

KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 May 1, 2015 \u2013 Zhen Ni, a doctoral student at the 溏心vlog免费B站, has been awarded the 2014 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Students Abroad. <\/p>\n


\nSince 2003, the Chinese government has annually recognized up to 500 Chinese doctoral students studying around the world who exhibit academic and research excellence. Ni is the first 溏心vlog免费B站 student to receive the award, which includes a $6,000 prize and a certificate from the China Scholarship Council.

\nZhang Qiyue, consul general of the People\u2019s Republic of China, presented the award at a ceremony in New York City on April 17.<\/p>\n


\nNi, who grew up in China and earned a master\u2019s degree in electrical engineering at 溏心vlog免费B站 in 2012, is advised by 溏心vlog免费B站 Associate Professor Haibo He, the Robert Haas Endowed Professor of Electrical Engineering, whose reputation in China attracted Ni to the University.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cIt is a great honor to be selected for this award and be recognized for my work,\u201d said Ni, who noted that the application process is quite rigorous and includes two rounds of peer review in the U.S. and China. \u201cIt is also a great motivation to continue to work hard at my research.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nNi\u2019s research focuses on the growing discipline of computational intelligence, which uses computer models to mimic how the human brain thinks. He aims to apply this technology to the development of a smart power grid that can make decisions about the flow of electricity and restore power intelligently and more efficiently. <\/p>\n


\n\u201cWe are proposing a brand new framework based on adaptive dynamic programming that will enable the electric power system to operate in an optimized, secure and reliable way,\u201d Ni said. <\/p>\n


\nThe new computational intelligence techniques Ni and Professor He are developing can be applied to a wide range of complex systems, such as the power grid, industrial controls, human-robot interactions, cognitive radio networks and smart cities.<\/p>\n


\nFunding for Ni\u2019s research comes from the National Science Foundation, NASA, the Army Research Office, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management. Ni and He are working on the fundamental principles of computational intelligence research so it can be applied to such projects as Rhode Island\u2019s offshore wind farm.<\/p>\n


\nWhen Ni completes his doctorate later this year, he hopes to find an academic job at a university somewhere around the world where he can continue his research and teach graduate and undergraduate students.<\/p>\n


\nPictured above

\nZhen Ni, 溏心vlog免费B站 doctoral student, receives the Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Students Abroad from China\u2019s Consul General Zhang Qiyue. (Photo courtesy of Haibo He.)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First 溏心vlog免费B站 student to ever receive the award KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 May 1, 2015 \u2013 Zhen Ni, a doctoral student at the 溏心vlog免费B站, has been awarded the 2014 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Students Abroad. Since 2003, the Chinese government has annually recognized up to 500 Chinese doctoral students studying around […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57129,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}