Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) graduate student Radhika Sharma was awarded the IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES) Outstanding Student Scholarship.

It recognizes PES student members from around the world who are pursuing careers in electric power and energy engineering for their academic excellence, leadership, and community contributions. The scholarship awards up to $10,000 to graduate students to pursue a master’s degree in electrical power engineering.

"It means a lot to me to have won this scholarship and have amazing mentors like Dr. Molzahn and Ann Dunkin support me through my education and the application process,” she said. “I hope to use this scholarship to explore more opportunities in power systems and encourage others to also pursue this field."

Sharma is very active in the power and energy field at Georgia Tech. She spent the last four years on the board of the Energy Club, where she helped plan conferences and weekly events that brought experts in the energy field to campus.

She also led the planning of EnergyHack @ GT in Spring 2026, an annual student-run energy and sustainability hackathon, which saw more than 200 participants and had participation from Major League Hacking and companies like GE Vernova, NextEra Energy, and Microsoft.

Sharma is currently working with Associate Professor Dan Molzahn on power grid research and has completed internships at Florida Power & Light, Burns & McDonnell, and Siemens in that field.

Currently, she is interning at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California, as a power systems graduate intern. She plans to use the scholarship to continue her master’s degree at ECE.