Awards

Dr. Chiang currently holds 10 United States patents. Many have marked his significant achievements. In 1988, he was awarded the National Science Foundation's Engineering Initiation Award, and the following year (1989) he was the recipient of NSF's Presidential Young Investigator Award. In 1990, Dr. Chiang was named the professor that most influenced a student's education at Cornell University and was given Cornell's Outstanding Educator Award. He received IEEE Power Engineering Society's PES Working Group Award in 1996. IEEE also acknowledged Dr. Chiang's contributions to the direct methods to power systems stability analysis and to the development of nonlinear systems in 1997, when he was elected an IEEE Fellow. Most recently, in 2006, he was recognized with a Changjiang Chair Professorship, an award granted by the State Council of the Chinese government.