Awards and Honors

September 2025: Esmat receives her first DoD grant from AFOSR DEPSCOR as the Lead PI. This is a collaborative project with Prof. Ronald Schrimpf and Prof. Daniel Fleetwood at Vanderbilt University that focuses on investigating radiation effects in (Ultra)-wide bandgap power devices. 

August 2024: Esmat receives her first NSF grant on Gallium Oxide Device development from NSF Electronics, Photonics and Magnetic Devices. It will be a collaborative device-packaging research with UT Dallas where Esmat's group will conduct device fabrication and Prof. Mona Ghassemi's group at UT Dallas will investigate the packaging. 

https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2401579

June 2024: Esmat Farzana received FY 2024 Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award for her proposed research on β-Ga2O3 power devices for extreme environment application. She is among the 37 awardees selected from 174 applications of 91 ORAU member institutions.

https://www.orau.org/partnerships/grant-programs/powe/index.html