Grants & Awards - Syed Alam

Early Career Award

Dr. Syed Alam has just received the “Distinguished Faculty Advancement Award 2023″ ($700,000) from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) [Pre-Award notification received]

Grants/Fundings

Dr. Shoaib Usman and Dr. Syed Alam (Syed Bahauddin Alam) jointly have been awarded ~$2 million from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) in 2023 [JUNE 9, 2023] on Consent-Based Siting incorporating Machine Learning with Explainable AI for the project entitled “Acceptance after Engagement, Education & Experiential-learning (AEEE).” We collaborated with University of Missouri – Columbia (MO), University of Illinois (IL), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MA), University of Nevada (NV), Taylor Geospatial Institute (MO), and St. Louis University (MO) as partners.
U.S. NRC Distinguished Faculty Advancement Award 2023 | Amount: $700,000
U.S. DOE Grant on “Digital Recorders, Portal Monitor System” 2023 | Amount: $78,531
Missouri–Kummer Innovation Grant 2022 | Amount: $50,000
Missouri S&T College of Engineering and Computing 2022 | Amount: $193,000
U.S. NRC Graduate Fellowships (2023-26) | Amount: $400,000
State of Rhode Island 2020 | Amount: $282,219
IEAE Coordinated Research Project 2022 | Amount: $10,000
U.S. DOE grant on Instrumentation and Power Uprate 2022 | Amount: $172,157
U.S. NRC Undergraduate Scholarships (2021-23) | Amount: $200,000

Teaching Awards

Dr. Syed Bahauddin Alam received the “University Outstanding Teaching Award 2022″ in recognition of notable contributions to teaching and commitment to the students by Missouri S&T, 2022. He has been receiving this recognition for two consecutive years, 2021 and 2022.

University Outstanding Teaching Award Missouri S&T, 2021 “in recognition of notable contributions in teaching.”

Best Paper/Poster Awards

Best Student Paper Award in recognition of the “Exceptional Quality of the Paper” at the 2016 International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP 2016) in CA, USA, 2016.

Nominated for the Young generation/Student award for the outstanding paper at the 2017 International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP 2017) in Kyoto, Japan 2017

Best Student Poster Award at the 2016 International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP 2016) in San Francisco, CA, USA, 2016

Best Technical Poster Award by “American Nuclear Society” at the 16th International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Reactor Thermal Hydraulics (NURETH-16) in Chicago, IL, USA, 2015

Nominated for Faculty Achievement Award 2021 in recognition of “ extraordinary commitment and sustained excellence in teaching and research” by Missouri S&T Nuclear Engineering Department

Most Exemplary Graduate Fellow Award on “Nuclear Nonproliferation Fellowship 2017” by Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Tech (KAIST), 2017

Cambridge Trust Award, 2017
Nuclear Nonproliferation Education & Research Center (NEREC) Scholarship (Awarded out of 30 Graduate Fellows from 16 countries), 2017
The Charles Wallace Trust Doctoral Bursary, 2017
Cambridge St. Edmund’s College Tutorial Award, 2016
W G Collins Endowment Fund, 2016
Ford of Britain Trust, 2015
Cambridge St. Edmund’s College Tutorial Award 2015
International Rotary Vocational Excellence Award, 2011
1st Prize in Undergraduate Project Workshop (Computer Group), BUET, 2011