Dr. Mona Ghassemi

Mona Ghassemi is the Steven O. Lane Junior Faculty Fellow, the College of Engineering Faculty Fellow, and Assistant Professor in the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech. Her research interests include electrical insulation materials and systems, high-voltage/field technology, Multiphysics modeling, electromagnetic transients in power systems, and power system analysis and modeling. Dr. Ghassemi is an At-Large Member of the Administrative Committee of the IEEE Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation Society (DEIS), 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. She received the 2021 Department of Energy Early Career Research Program Award, the 2020 National Science Foundation CAREER Award, and the 2020 Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Research Program Award. She received the 2020 Contribution Award from the High Voltage journal. She is an Associate Editor of IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON DIELECTRICS AND ELECTRICAL INSULATION, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRY APPLICATIONS, High Voltage, International Journal of Electrical Engineering Education, and Power Electronic Devices and Components (Elsevier), and a Guest Editor of Energies. She has been a registered Professional Engineer in the Province of Ontario, Canada, since 2015.