News

2025

9/2025 - Atiah Yeasmin joins the DREAM lab. Welcome Atiah!

7/2025 - Pradip defends his Ph.D. Dissertation. Congratulations!

5/2025 - Nafis Washir joins the DREAM lab. Welcome Nafis!

5/2025 - Adrian Andrea, Trent Little, and Gabriel Marquez join the DREAM lab. Welcome guys!

5/2025 - Omar graduates with his Ph.D. Congratulations!

4/2025 - Omar defends his Ph.D. Dissertation. Congratulations!

2/2025 - Dr. Park receives funding from the Office of Naval Research (ONR)

2024

12/2024 - Omar and Pradip are selected to receive University Grant Fellowships from ECEE in Spring 2025! Congratulations, both!

11/2024 - Dr. Park selected for funding from the Office of Naval Research (ONR)

11/2024 - Austin Crisenbery joins the DREAM lab. Welcome Austin!

11/2024 - Alex Burton joins the DREAM lab. Welcome Alex!

11/2024 - Aaron Bournias joins the DREAM lab. Welcome Aaron!

10/2024 - Pradip successfully defends his Ph.D. comprehensive exam. Congrats!

9/2024 - Dr. Park receives funding from G&W Electric

8/2024 - Isaac Dowling and Lakshmi Jayant join the DREAM lab. Welcome, Isaac and Lakshmi!

8/2024 - Dr. Park and his team join Arizona State University (ASU) School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering (ECEE)

7/2024 - Dr. Park receives funding from the Office of Naval Research (ONR)

1/2024 - Omar and Pradip receive the 2024 Chancellor's Graduate Student Award. Congratulations! Well done, both of you!

1/2024 - Dr. Park receives funding from the Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy (ARPA-E)

1/2024 - Omar publishes another journal. "Preventing Partial Discharge in Liquid Metal Polymer Composites Under Steep Voltage Pulses" Elsevier Composites Part B

2023

12/2023 - Pradip publishes another journal. "Increasing Partial Discharge Inception Voltage at High Temperatures Using Parylene-HT Electrets" IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification

11/2023 - Pradip publishes another journal. "Preventing Space Charge Induced Breakdown in MVDC Systems by Electric Field Cancellation" IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation

11/2023 - Dr. Park receives funding from NSF I/UCRC GRAPES (GRid-connected Advanced Power Electronic Systems)

10/2022 - Jack Wolak joins the DREAM lab. Welcome, Jack!

7/2022 - Sean Benet joins the DREAM lab. Welcome, Sean!

7/2023 - Suaib Al Sufi joins the DREAM lab. Welcome, Suaib!

6/2023 - Dr. Park receives funding from the Office of Naval Research (ONR)

6/2022 - Pradip, Bobby, and Dr. Park present at the EIC 2023 conference

5/2022 - Sam Catania joins the DREAM lab. Welcome, Sam!

4/2023 - Dr. Park and students present at the UWM poster competition

3/2023 - Dr. Park and collaborators showcase their green-energy research to U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm

2/2023 - Hamed Shabani joins the DREAM lab. Welcome Hamed!

1/2023 - Asif Juberi joins the DREAM lab. Welcome Asif!

2022

11/2022 - Pradip's first journal accepted. “Preventing Space Charge Accumulation by Incorporating Electrets,” Advanced Materials Interfaces

11/2022 - Dr. Park receives funding from NSF I/UCRC GRAPES (GRid-connected Advanced Power Electronic Systems)

9/2022 - Omar's first journal accepted. “Partial Incorporation of Nonlinear Resistive Field Grading Materials: A Strategy for Enhanced Field Reduction and Safety,” IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation

8/2022 - Dr. Park and his team join the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee!

6/2022 - Farhina publishes another journal “Effects of Fabrication Conditions on the Partial Discharge Mitigation Performance of Electrets for Power Electronic Driven Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, pp. 1–11, 2022

6/2022 - Bobby and Dr. Park present at the EIC 2022 conference

6/2022 - Tahir and Dr. Park present at the iTEC+ 2022 conference

6/2022 - Farhina joins Sweet Briar College in Virginia as a tenure-track faculty. Congrats!

5/2022 - Farhina successfully defends her Ph.D. dissertation. Congrats!

5/2022 - Dr. Park delivers a talk at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee (UWM)

3/2022 - Dr. Park delivers a talk at the University of North Carolina Charlotte (UNCC)

3/2022 - Dr. Park delivers a talk at Florida State University (FSU)

2/2022 - Farhina gets selected to participate in the iREDEFINE Workshop. Congrats!

1/2022 - Bobby's first journal accepted. “Effects of Filler Composition, Loading, and Geometry on the Dielectric Loss, Partial Discharge, and Dielectric Strength of Liquid Metal Polymer Composites,” Elsevier Composites Part B: Engineering

2021

12/2021 - Dr. Park receives a gift from Raytheon Technologies

11/2021 - Sadeed joins the team. Welcome to the team Sadeed!

10/2021 - Dr. Park receives funding from the Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy (ARPA-E)

9/2021 - Dr. Park receives funding from the Air Force Civil Engineer Center (AFCEC)

9/2021 - Dr. Park receives funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF)

8/2021 - Tahir joins the team. Welcome to the team Tahir!

8/2021 - Pradip joins the team. Welcome to the team Pradip!

8/2021 - Dr. Park receives funding from the Office of Naval Research (ONR)

7/2021 - Rashid joins the team. Welcome to the team Rashid!

6/2021 - Bobby joins the team. Welcome to the team Bobby!

6/2021 - Kamran successfully defends his Ph.D. dissertation. Congrats!

5/2021 - Dr. Park receives funding from NEC Labs

3/2021 - Dr. Park receives funding from G&W Electric

1/2021 - Omar joins the team. Welcome to the team Omar!

2020

12/2020 - Dr. Park publishes a journal "Electrets: A Remedy for Partial Discharge Caused by Power Electronics Switching," in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, Dec. 2020

12/2020 - Mojtaba publishes another journal “Design of Transmission Line and Electromagnetic Field Sensors for DC Partial Discharge Analysis,” IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation, vol. 27, no. 6, pp. 2138–2146, Dec. 2020

12/2020 - Farhina publishes another journal  “Modeling cluster formation driven variations in critical electric field of He and Xe near critical point based on electron scattering cross sections,” Physics of Fluids, vol. 32, no. 12, p. 127106, Dec. 2020

11/2020 - Dr. Park receives funding from GNU

10/2020 - Dr. Park presents "Securing the dielectric integrity of power applications," ECE Research Seminar, Mississippi State University

10/2020 - Mojtaba successfully defends his Ph.D. dissertation. Congrats!

9/2020 - Mojtaba publishes another journal, “Classification and comparison of AC and DC partial discharges by pulse waveform analysis,” International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems, vol. 125, p. 106518, Feb. 2021

9/2020 - Dr. Park receives funding for UG Research

8/2020 - Kamran successfully defends his Ph.D. proposal. Congrats!

7/2020 - Kamran publishes his first journal. “Discharge and ground electrode design considerations for the lightning strike damage tolerance assessment of CFRP matrix composite laminates,” Composites Part B: Engineering, vol. 198, p. 108226, Oct. 2020

7/2020 - Mojtaba's first journal gets accepted. “Design of Transmission Line and Electromagnetic Field Sensors for DC Partial Discharge Analysis,” IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation, Dec. 2020

6/2020 - Farhina publishes her first journal. “Modeling the dielectric strength variation of supercritical fluids driven by cluster formation near critical point,” Physics of Fluids, vol. 32, no. 7, p. 077101, Jul. 2020

4/2020 - Dr. Park publishes a journal "Electret: An Entirely New Approach of Solving Partial Discharge Caused by Triple Points, Sharp Edges, Bubbles, and Airgaps," in IEEE Access, vol. 8, pp. 78354-78366, 2020

1/2020 - Dr. Park receives funding for UG Research

2019

8/2019 - Mojtaba, Kamran, and Farhina. Welcome to the team!

8/2019 - Dr. Park joins MSU