Mona Ghassemi

Texas Instruments Early Career Award in Electrical and Computer Engineering

Education

Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, University of Tehran, 2012

Overview

Dr. Ghassemi joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Dallas as Associate Professor with Tenure and Chairholder of the Texas Instruments Early Career Award in 2022. Before that, she was an Assistant Professor in the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA (2017-2022), and has been named as both the Steven O. Lane Junior Faculty Fellow and College of Engineering (COE) Faculty Fellow since 2021. From 2013 to 2015, she was a Post-Doctoral Fellow with the NSERC/Hydro-Quebec/UQAC Industrial Chair on Atmospheric Icing of Power Network Equipment (CIGELE), the University of Québec at Chicoutimi (UQAC), Chicoutimi, QC, Canada. She was also a Post-Doctoral Fellow with the University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA, from 2015 to 2017. Dr. Ghassemi received three most prestigious, most competitive career awards: the 2021 Department of Energy (DOE) Early Career Research Program Award, the 2020 National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award, and the 2020 Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Young Investigator Research Program (YIP) Award. She is an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulations, IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, IET High Voltage, International Journal of Electrical Engineering Education, and Power Electronic Devices and Components (Elsevier), and a Guest Editor of Energies. She received the 2020 Contribution Award from the IET High Voltage Journal and also received four best paper awards. She has been a registered Professional Engineer since 2015 and a senior member of IEEE since 2016. She has authored more than 110 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers and one book chapter. Dr. Ghassemi is an At-Large Member of the Administrative Committee of the IEEE Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation Society (DEIS), DEIS-Representative in IEEE USA’s Public Policy Committee on Transportation and Aerospace Policy (CTAP), a Corresponding Member of the IEEE Conference Publication Committee of the IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES), an Active Member of several CIGRE working groups and IEEE Task Forces, and a member of the Education Committee of the IEEE DEIS and PES.

Research Interests

Transportation Electrification, Clean Energy, Electrical Insulation Materials and Systems, High Voltage/Field Engineering and Technology, Power Systems, and Plasma Science.