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		| Awards and Honors |  
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		| Best Paper Award:
		Saudi Arabia Smart Grid Conference (SASG2018), 2018 Paper: O. Al-Ghamdi, F. Al-Gahtani, and Ali T. Al-Awami, 
		“Saudi Arabia Residential Buildings Rooftop PV 
		Installation: Economic Feasibility Study,” Saudi Arabia Smart Grid Conference and Exhibition, Jeddah, 
		Saudi Arabia, 11-13 December 2018
 
 Best Paper Award - First Place:
		IEEE Clemson University's Power Systems Conference  (PSC2016), 
		March 2016
 Paper: Nemer Amleh and Ali T. Al-Awami, 
		"Optimal Demand Response Bidding and Pricing Mechanism with Fuzzy 
		Optimization: Application for a Virtual Power Plant," Clemson 
		University's power Systems conference 2016, held in Clemson, SC, USA, 
		March 8-11, 2016
 
 Best Paper Award - Second Place:
		Saudi Arabia Smart Grid Conference (SASG2013), 2013
 Paper: M. W. Khalid and Ali T. Al-Awami, 
		“Coordinated trading of solar and thermal energy including V2G 
		services,” Saudi Arabia Smart Grid Conference and Exhibition, Jeddah, 
		Saudi Arabia, 24-27 November 2013
 
 Third Place Winner:
		Graduate Student Poster Contest, IEEE PES 
		2010 General Meeting, 2010
 Poster 
		title: Combining Wind and Thermal Bids in Short-Term Electricity Market
 
 First Place Winner:
		Electrical Engineering Industrial 
		Consortium (EEIC) Poster Contest, University of Washington, 2010
 Poster title: Combining Wind and Thermal Bids in Short-Term 
		Electricity Market
 
 Second Place 
		Winner: Electrical 
		Engineering Industrial Consortium (EEIC) Poster Contest, University of 
		Washington, 2009
 Poster title: 
		Stochastic Dispatch for a Power Grid with High Penetration of Wind Power
 
 Best Research Project Award for 
		academic Year 2006-2007
 King Fahd University of Petroleum & 
		Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
 Project title: Power System Stability 
		Enhancement Using Unified Power Flow Controllers
 
 Ph.D. Scholarship to study at University of 
		Washington, 2006-2010
 Offered by Ministry of Higher Education, 
		Saudi Arabia
 
 Certificate of recognition for academic 
		achievement, 2000
 Advanced Electronics Co., (AEC) in 
		association with IEEE-Saudi Arabia
 
 Dean's List 
		of Honors ten semesters, 1995-2000
 King Fahd University of Petroleum & 
		Minerals
 
 Prince Mohammed bin Fahd Al-Saud Awards for 
		academic achievement for both elementary and secondary schools, 1989 & 
		1995
 
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