• 2024: Best Paper Award at the IEEE PESGM 2024, titled Power System Bifurcation Detection Using Statistical Early Warning Signals With Synchrophasor Data by Rajarshi Roychowdhury, Xuan Wu, Hui Zhang & Mahesh S. Illindala.
• 2024: Best Paper Award at the IEEE PESGM 2024, titled Optimal BESS Sizing for PV Interconnection & Energy Arbitrage with Industrial Customers by Xuan Wu, Rajarshi Roychowdhury, Hui Zhang, Barry Feldman & Raiford Smith.
• 2024: Best Paper Award at the IEEE PESGM 2024, titled Time Series Power Flow and Contingency Analysis with Weather Adjusted Line Ratings: A Synthetic WECC Case Study by Hui Zhang, Natalie Diltz, Rajarshi Roychowdhury & Xuan Wu.
• 2023: Outstanding Reviewer Award from IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery.
• 2023: Awarded a DOE project titled 'Enabling 100% Renewable Energy Integration: Creativity-based Co-design and Demonstration of Intelligent Modeling, Protection, and Grid-edge Control of Bulk Power Systems' led by University of Illinois Chicago.
• 2021: Outstanding Young Engineer Award by IEEE PES Columbus Section.