Dr. Mona Ghassemi is an Associate Professor and Chairholder of the Texas
Instruments Early Career Award in the Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering at the University of Texas at Dallas since 2022. Before that, she
was an Assistant Professor in the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering, Virginia Tech from 2017 to 2022, and has been named as both the
Steven O. Lane Junior Faculty Fellow and College of Engineering (COE) Faculty
Fellow since 2021. She obtained her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University
of Tehran in 2012. 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), Canada from 2013 to 2015 and with the University of Connecticut, USA from 2015 to 2017. Her research interests include transportation electrification, clean energy, electrical insulation materials and systems, high voltage/field engineering and technology, power systems, and plasma science. She has received three most prestigious 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.
