News
June 21, 2024: Our article "Study of Partial Discharge Characteristics of Optimally Fabricated MMEI Flat Samples under DC and Their DC Dielectric Strength for Applications in Envisaged All-Electric Wide-Body Aircraft" was accepted for publication in IEEE Access.
June 18, 2024: Our article "Optimized Fabrication Process and PD Characteristics of MVDC Multilayer Insulation Cable Systems for Next Generation Wide-Body All-Electric Aircraft" was accepted in Energies. [Link]
June 11, 2024: "Fundamentals of Power Systems" is now a permanent undergraduate course (EE 4303) at UTD, following two semesters as a special topic taught by Dr. Ghassemi.
June 6, 2024: Bhuban won the "Research Excellence Award Grant" ($1,500) to cover expenses associated with presenting his paper at the 2024 IEEE PES General Meeting, 21-25 July 2024, Seattle, WA, USA. Congratulations, Bhuban, and thanks to the ECE Department.
June 4, 2024: Mohammad Hamidieh defended his Ph.D. dissertation.
Congratulations, Mohammad!
June 1, 2024: Dr. Ghassemi presented a workshop titled “Mitigation Strategies to Address Insulation Challenges Within High-Voltage, High-Power-Density (U)WBG Power Module Packages” as part of the workshop titled “IEEE DEIS Transport Electrification Technical Committee Workshop” at the IEEE Electrical Insulation Conference (EIC), Minneapolis, MN, USA, 2024.
May 28, 2024: Our paper titled "Negative Medium-Voltage Direct Current Discharges in Air under Simulated Sub-Atmospheric Pressures for All-Electric Aircraft" was accepted in Aerosapce.
May 22-24, 2024: Dr. Ghassemi presented the results of the project titled "High Power Density Cost-Effective MV DC Aircraft Cable" at the ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit, Dallas, TX
April 26, 2024: Dr. Ghassemi won The Graduate Teaching Excellence Award in the ECE Department, UTD, 2024.
April 25 and 26, 2024: Our papers [Link] were presented at The IEEE Kansas Power & Energy Conference (KPEC), Manhattan, KS.
April 20 and 21, 2024: Our papers [Link] were presented at The 17th IEEE Dallas Circuits and Systems (DCAS) Conference, The University of Texas at Dallas, April 19-21, 2024; some photos.
April 19, 2024: Anoy, Asifur, Bhuban, Farzana, and Mushfiqul passed their Doctoral Qualifying Exams. Congratulations!
April 15, 2024: Our paper titled "Smart Transmission Expansion Planning Based on the System Requirements: A Comparative Study with Unconventional Lines" was accepted in Energies.
April 13, 2024: Our paper titled "Impact of cathode geometry on negative corona discharge and Trichel pulse characteristics: A comparative analysis of hyperbolic, elliptic, and tangent-circular needle shapes" was accepted at the IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science.
April 8, 2024: Dr. Ghassemi has been re-elected to serve in the UTD Academic Senate for 2024-2025.
April 5, 2024: Arian Azizi defended his Ph.D. dissertation.
Congratulations, Arian!
April 3, 2024: Our paper titled "Conic cross-sectional electrodes and their influence on negative corona discharge and Trichel pulse characteristics" was accepted at the IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation.
March 22, 2024: Our paper titled "A Comprehensive Review of Mitigation Strategies to Address Insulation Challenges within High Voltage, High Power Density (U)WBG Power Module Packages" was accepted at the IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation.
March 5, 2024: Our paper titled "An Analysis of Parameters Affecting Maximum Permissible Current in Aircraft Bipolar MVDC Power Cables via Coupled Electrical, Thermal, and Computational Fluid Dynamic Modeling" was accepted at IET High Voltage.
February 19, 2024: Our paper titled "Optimized Design of ±5 kV, 1 kA Rectangular Power Cable for a Low Pressure of 18.8 kPa for Envisioned All-Electric Wide-Body Aircraft" was accepted at IEEE Access. [Link]
February 12 and 13, 2024: Our papers [Link] were presented at the IEEE Texas Power and Energy Conference (TPEC), College Station, TX, USA, February 12-13, 2024; some photos.
February 8, 2024: Our paper titled "Comparative Study of Transmission Expansion Planning with Conventional and Unconventional High Surge Impedance Loading (HSIL) Lines" was accepted for presentation at the 2024 IEEE PES General Meeting, 21-25 July 2024 Seattle, WA, USA.
February 4, 2024: Our paper titled "A Test System for Transmission Expansion Planning Studies" was accepted at electronics (MDPI). [Link]
January 12, 2024: Adil Bhojwanip joined the lab. Welcome!
January 10, 2024: Our paper titled "Optimal Bipolar MVDC Power Cable Designs for Future Wide-Body All Electric Aircraft" was accepted at IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation. [Link]
December 19, 2023: Dr. Ghassemi serves as a member of the Editorial Board of IEEE Electrical Insulation Magazine
November 13, 2023: Dr. Ghassemi delivered a presentation about ZEROES Lab on ECE Research Day, and Sai Pavan and Pujan presented their posters.
October 19, 2023: Dr. Ghassemi was elected as Vice-President (Technical) of the IEEE Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation Society (DEIS).
October 18, 2023: Dr. Ghassemi delivered a perspective lecture for the centennial celebration at IEEE CEIDP [Link].
October 15-19, 2023: Our papers (12 papers) were presented at IEEE CEIDP and IEEE NAPS conferences. Some pictures
September 29, 2023: Dr. Ghassemi serves as Guest Editor for Aerospace, Special Issue "Electric Power Systems and Components for All-Electric Aircraft"
September 8, 2023: Lunch meeting, ZEROES (Zero Emission, Realization of Optimized Energy Systems) Lab members
August 21, 2023: Four Ph.D. students (Easir, Pujan, Saikat, and Sai Pavan) joined the group. Welcome!
August 15, 2023: Our other five papers (a total of six papers) were accepted at IEEE North American Power Symposium (NAPS), Asheville, NC, USA, October 15-17, 2023.
July 4, 2023: Our papers (six papers) were accepted at IEEE Conference on Electrical Insulation and Dielectric Phenomena (CEIDP), East Rutherford, NJ, USA, October 15-19, 2023.
July 1, 2023: Our paper titled "Transmission expansion planning via unconventional high surge impedance loading (HSIL) lines,” was accepted at IEEE North American Power Symposium (NAPS), Asheville, NC, USA, October 15-17, 2023.
June 27 and 28, 2023: Dr. Ghassemi presented the project results at the ARPA-E Grid Hardware Annual Review, 2023 Annual Meeting.
June 9, 2023: Our paper titled "Design of High Power Density MVDC Cables for Wide Body All Electric Aircraft" was accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation.
May 4, 2023: Lunch meeting, ZEROES (Zero Emission, Realization of Optimized Energy Systems) Lab members
April 28, 2023: The proposal by Drs. Mona Ghassemi and Rashaunda Henderson to TxACE Collaboration Initiative has been selected for the award ($40,000 for one year)!
Novel electrical insulation materials and systems will be introduced in this project to address heat transfer issue in 3D heterogeneous microsystems.
April 14, 2023: The General Faculty selected Dr. Ghassemi to serve on the Academic Senate for the 2023-2024 academic year. [Link]
April 11, 2023: Dr. Ghassemi gave a presentation at the Jonsson School Executive Council Meeting.
April 8, 2023: Arian and Mohammad passed their Qualifying Exams. Congratulations!
March, 2023: A journal watch of our work in IEEE Spectrum titled "Electric aircraft won’t take off without more thrust," IEEE Spectrum, p. 9, March 2023. [Link]
January 16, 2023: Dr. Ghassemi serves on the Nominations and Appointments Committee of IEEE Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation Society (DEIS).
January 8, 2023: Five Ph.D. students (Anoy, Bhuban, Farzana, Md Asifur, and Mushfiqul) joined the group. Welcome!
December 12, 2022: IEEE Spectrum (the flagship publication of the IEEE ) featured our research on all electric aircraft [Link]
November 9, 2022: Dr. Ghassemi gave a talk at the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science (ECS) Annual Faculty Three Minute Thesis (f3MT) competition. [Link]
October 17, 2022: Our paper titled "Heat Transfer Challenges for MVDC Power Cables Used in Wide Body All Electric Aircraft Under Low Pressures" has been accepted for publication in IEEE Access.
October 10, 2022: Dr. Ghassemi was re-elected as a Member-at-Large of the DEIS Administrative Committee (AdCom) for a 3-year term running from 1st January, 2023 to 31st December, 2025.
September 29, 2022: Our paper titled "Microgrids and Resilience: A Review" has been accepted for publication in IEEE Access.
September 1, 2022: Our paper titled "Design of a cable system for a high-power density MVDC aircraft electric power system" was accepted at IEEE Conference on Electrical Insulation and Dielectric Phenomena, Denver, CO, USA, Oct. 30-Nov. 2, 2022.
August 27, 2022: Dr. Ghassemi serves as IEEE Dielectric and Electrical Insulation Society (DEIS)-Representative in IEEE USA's Public Policy Committee on Transportation and Aerospace Policy (CTAP)
August 25, 2022: Dr. Ghassemi delivered a Keynote titled "Insulation Materials and Systems for Power Electronic Modules: Challenges and Future Research Needs" at IEEE International Workshop on Integrated Power Packaging (IWIPP), Toulouse, France.
August 1, 2022: We moved to The University of Texas at Dallas.
July 16, 2022: Our paper titled "Precise Evaluation of Repetitive Transient Overvoltages in Motor Windings in Wide-Bandgap Drive Systems" has been accepted for publication in Vehicles .
June 19-23, 2022: Our papers (3 papers) titled
"Influence of low pressure on thermal limit of MVDC power cables used in all electric aircraft", and
"A finite element analysis model for internal partial discharges under DC voltage"
were presented at IEEE Power Modulator and High Voltage Conference (IPMHVC), Knoxville, TN, USA, June 19-23, 2022.
June 1-3, 2022: Dr. Ghassemi serves as Tutorial Chair of the 31st IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE), 2022 [Link]
May 6, 2022: Our paper titled "Components of Electrical Power Systems in More and All-Electric Aircraft: A Review" has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification.
March 5, 2022: Our papers (two papers ) titled
"DC load flow models for the electric power system of wide body all electric aircraft" and
"Optimal electric power system architectures for wide body all electric aircraft"
were presented in the 43rd IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, Montana.
March 4, 2022: Our paper titled "All-Electric NASA N3-X Aircraft Electric Power Systems" has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification.
February 5, 2022: Our paper titled "A probabilistic approach for analysis of line outage risk caused by wildfires" has been accepted for publication in the International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems.
December 18, 2021: Our paper titled "Separation and Classification of Corona Discharges under Low Pressures Based on Deep Learning Method" has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation.
November 9, 2021: Our paper titled "Power Flow Solvers for Medium Voltage Direct Current (MVDC) Microgrids" was presented at The 6th IEEE Workshop on the Electronic Grid (eGrid 2021).
October 15, 2021: Dr. Ghassemi’s DOE Early Career Research Program Award News in American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) News.
October 1, 2021: Prof. Tom Hou's Email, ECE Honorifics Committee, about Dr. Ghassemi's new NSF award [NSF Link]
September 9, 2021: Virginia Tech News: Mona Ghassemi receives Department of Energy Early Career Research Program Award: The grant makes Ghassemi one of the first Virginia Tech researchers to receive three early career awards. [Link]
August 27, 2021: Dr. Ghassemi presented a webinar titled: “Insulation Materials and Systems for Power Electronic Modules” for “IEEE International Workshop on Integrated Power Packaging (IWIPP) 2021 Corridor Webinar Series”.
August 26, 2021: Our paper titled "Effect of low-pressure condition on partial discharges in wide bandgap power modules" has been accepted for publication in Energies .
August 12, 2021: Our papers (two papers) titled
were presented at American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)/IEEE Electric Aircraft Technologies Symposium (EATS).
August 4, 2021: Our papers (two papers) titled
"Modeling and measurement of internal partial discharges in voids artificially made within 3D-printed polylactic acid (PLA) block" and
"Discrimination of single- and multi-source corona discharges using deep residual network"
were presented at IEEE Electric Ship Technologies Symposium (ESTS).
July 31, 2021: Our paper titled "A Deep Learning Approach for Discrimination of Single- and Multi-Source Corona Discharges" has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science.
July 8, 2021: The website of the Special Issue "Optimal Planning of Future Microgrids and Their Operations for Power Grid Resiliency Enhancement" has been set up.
June 30, 2021: Dr. Ghassemi’s ARPA-E award's News in American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)'s News.
June 24, 2021: Our paper titled "A Finite Element Analysis Model for Internal Partial Discharges in an Air-Filled, Cylindrical Cavity inside Solid Dielectric" was presented at IEEE Electrical Insulation Conference (EIC)
June 18, 2021: Our paper among "Popular Articles" in IEEE Trans. on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation
June 15, 2021: Dr. Ghassemi serves as Dielectric and Electrical Insulation Society (DEIS) Technical Committee member on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation for Transportation Electrification [Link]
May 29, 2021: Dr. Ghassemi serves as Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation
May 27, 2021: Virginia Tech News: Researchers receive $1.3 million to further the development of electric aircraft [Link]
May 18, 2021: Dr. Ghassemi gives an invited webinar titled “Electrical Insulation Challenges for High Voltage, High Power Density Wide-Bandgap Power Electronics,” presented for the Power Electronic Society of Iran and Electrical Engineering department of Sharif University of Technology.
May 11, 2021: Dr. Ghassemi gives an invited talk titled “Electrical Insulation Challenges for High Voltage, High Power Density Wide-Bandgap Power Electronics,” presented for the Raleigh IEEE PELS, May 11, 2021, https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/270492
Apr. 14, 2021: Dr. Ghassemi serves as Guest Editor in Energies for the Special Issue “Optimal Planning of Future Microgrids and Their Operations for Power Grid Resiliency Enhancement”
Mar. 31, 2021: Dr. Ghassemi serves as Associate Editor for Power Electronic Devices and Components, Elsevier.
Mar. 22, 2021: Dr. Ghassemi was appointed as the Steven O. Lane Junior Faculty Fellow by The Board of Visitors of Virginia Tech.
Feb. 26, 2021: Dr. Ghassemi and her team won $1.3M ARPA-E Award for their project entitled "High Power Density Cost-Effective MV DC Aircraft Cable." This is a three-year project and Dr. Ghassemi is the lead and only PI from VT, with 65% share of the budget.
Jan. 15, 2021: Prof. Tom Hou's Email, ECE Honorifics Committee, about Dr. Ghassemi's 2020 Contribution Award from High Voltage Journal
Jan. 5, 2021: Our paper titled “Insulation materials and systems for more and all-electric aircraft: A review identifying challenges and future research needs,” at IEEE Trans. Transportation Electrification was accepted.
Dec. 14, 2020: Dr. Ghassemi's news in the Virginia Tech's College of Engineering Magazine (Virginia Tech Engineer Magazine) [Link]
Dec. 1, 2020: Our second paper titled “Resiliency enhancement against wildfires ,” at ISGT 2021 was accepted.
Nov. 28, 2020: Our paper titled “Optimal planning of microgrids for resilient distribution networks,” at International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems was accepted.
Nov. 24, 2020: Our paper titled “Smart Transmission Expansion Planning-based Unconventional High Surge Impedance Loading Line Designs” at ISGT 2021 was accepted.
Nov. 10, 2020: Our paper titled “A multi-objective optimization scheme for resilient, cost-effective planning of microgrids” at IEEE Access was accepted.
Oct. 17, 2020: Our paper titled “Nonlinear Resistive Electric Field Grading in High-Voltage, High-Power Wide Bandgap Power Module Packaging” is awarded as the best paper and presentation at ECCE 2019.
Sept. 10, 2020: Our paper titled “Electric Power Systems in More and All Electric Aircraft: A Review ” at IEEE Access was accepted.
Aug. 30, 2020: Our paper titled “Statistical Switching Overvoltage Studies of Optimized Unconventional High Surge Impedance Loading Lines via Numerical Laplace Transform” at IEEE Trans. on Power Delivery was accepted.
The paper is a result of IEEE-PES Task Force on Frequency Domain Methods for Electromagnetic Transient Studies.
Another step forward to theorizing and developing unconventional HSIL lines
Aug. 29, 2020: Our paper titled "Investigation of Low-Pressure Condition Impact on Partial Discharge in Micro-Voids using Finite-Element Analysis" was accepted at ECCE 2020.
Aug. 28, 2020: Prof. Tom Hou's Email, ECE Honorifics Committee, about our paper selected as a Best Conference Paper at PES GM 2020.
Aug. 27, 2020: Our papers (two papers) were accepted at CEIDP 2020, titled:
"Characterization of Partial Discharge Activities in WBG Power Modules under Low-Pressure Condition"
"Electrical Insulation Design and Accurate Estimation of Temperature via an Electrothermal Model for a 10 kV SiC Power Module Packaging"
June 18, 2020: Our paper titled "Insulation Materials and Systems for Power Electronics Modules: A Review Identifying Challenges and Future Research Needs" at IEEE Trans. on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation was accepted.
June 18, 2020: Our paper titled Electromagnetic Transient Performance of Optimally Designed High Surge Impedance Loading Lines has been selected as one of the Best Conference Papers at IEEE PES GM 2020
June 4, 2020: VT News about Dr. Ghassemi’s AFOSR YIP award. [Link]
May 21, 2020: Prof. Tom Hou's Email, ECE Honorifics Committee, about Dr. Ghassemi's election as AdCom committee member of IEEE DEIS
May 11, 2020: Dr. Ghassemi’s NSF CAREER award's News in American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)'s News.
May 8, 2020: Our papers at EIC 2020 were accepted, titled:
1-Effects of Low–Pressure Condition on Partial Discharges in WBG Power Electronics Modules
May 5, 2020: VT News about Dr. Ghassemi’s NSF CAREER award.
https://vtnews.vt.edu/articles/2020/05/eng-nsf-career-mona-ghassemi.html
April 27, 2020: Our paper titled A Finite Element Analysis and an Improved Induced Charge Concept for Partial Discharge Modeling at IEEE Trans. on Power Delivery was accepted.
April 23, 2020: Our paper titled A Finite Element Analysis Model for Partial Discharges in Silicone Gel Under a High Slew Rate, High-Frequency Square Wave Voltage in Low-Pressure Conditions at Energies was accepted.
April 15, 2020: Our paper titled Partial Discharge Analysis under High-Frequency, Fast-Rise Square Wave Voltages in Silicone Gel: A Modeling Approach at Energies is now in Special Issue reprint book High Voltage Engineering and Applications [Link]
April 13, 2020: Our paper titled Effects of Frequency and Temperature on Electric Field Mitigation Method via Protruding Substrate Combined with Applying Nonlinear FDC Layer in Wide Bandgap Power Modules at Energies was accepted.
Feb. 25, 2020: Dr. Ghassemi gives an invited talk titled "Do We Accurately Calculate Electric and Magnetic Fields When Dealing with EMF and RF Health Assessment and Safety?" in EPRI Winter 2020 Energy & Environment Program Advisory Meetings, Atlanta, GA
Feb. 21, 2020: Dr. Ghassemi is now an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications.
Feb. 18, 2020: Our papers were presented at ISGT 2020, titled:
Jan. 27, 2020: Prof. Tom Hou's Email, ECE Honorifics Committee, about Dr. Ghassemi's Awards
Jan. 7, 2020: Our paper titled Electromagnetic Transient Performance of Optimally Designed High Surge Impedance Loading Lines was accepted at PES GM 2020.
Nov. 27, 2019: Our paper titled Partial Discharge Analysis under High-Frequency, Fast-Rise Square Wave Voltages in Silicone Gel: A Modeling Approach at Energies was accepted.
Nov. 10 and 14, 2019: Our papers (two papers) titled Optimal Capacity and Placement of Microgrids for Resiliency Enhancement of Distribution Networks under Extreme Weather Events and Future Transmission Lines with Increased Loadability through Geometrical Optimized Phase Configurations and Sub-conductors in the Bundle at ISGT 2020 were accepted.
Nov. 8, 2019: Our paper titled Characterization of Nonlinear Field Dependent Conductivity Layer Coupled with Protruding Substrate to Address High Electric Field Issue within High Voltage High-Density Wide Bandgap Power Modules at IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics was accepted.
Oct. 23, 2019: Dr. Ghassemi has been elected as one of six Administrative Committee (AdCom) members of Dielectric and Electrical Insulation Society (DEIS) for a three-year term 1 Jan. 2020-31 Dec. 2023. [Link]
Oct. 22, 2019: Dr. Ghassemi has been appointed as the corresponding member of Power and Energy Society (PES) for the IEEE Conference Publication Committee (CPC), 2019-
Sept. 24, 2019: Dr. Ghassemi's paper titled High Power Density Technologies for Large Generators and Motors for Marine Applications with Focus on Electrical Insulation Challenges at IET High Voltage was accepted.
Sept. 24, 2019: Our paper titled Combined Geometrical Techniques and Applying Nonlinear Field Dependent Conductivity Layers to Address the High Electric Field Stress Issue in High Voltage High-Density Wide Bandgap Power Modules at IEEE Trans. Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation was accepted and is in press.
July 30, 2019: Our paper titled The Effect of Type of Voltage (Sinusoidal and Square Waveform) and the Frequency on the Performance of Nonlinear Field-Dependent Conductivity Coatings for Electric Field Control in Power Electronic Modules at CEIDP 2019 was accepted.
June 10, 2019: Dr. Ghassemi's paper titled Accelerated Insulation Aging due to Fast, Repetitive Voltages: A Review Identifying Challenges and Future Research Needs at IEEE Trans. Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation was accepted.
April 27, 2019: Our papers (three papers) were accepted for presentation at EIC 2019.
April 25, 2019: Our paper titled Electric Field Control by Nonlinear Field Dependent Conductivity Dielectrics Characterization for High Voltage Power Module Packaging at IWIPP 2019 was presented.
April 7, 2019: Dr. Ghassemi's paper titled High Surge Impedance Loading (HSIL) Lines: A Review Identifying Opportunities, Challenges, and Future Research Needs at IEEE Trans. Power Delivery was accepted.
Feb. 7, 2019: Mona Ghassemi, Louis Guido, Guo-Quan (G.Q.) Lu, and Khai Ngo received a $3 million Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) project to accelerate the deployment of power electronics into grid-scale energy applications. They will be developing 20 kV gallium nitride devices integrated into a medium-voltage power module.
November 5, 2018: Maryam PASSED her Qualifying Exam. Congratulations! Maryam.
October 29, 2018: The AdCom of the IEEE Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation Society (DEIS) awarded the DEIS Graduate Student Fellowship ($5,000 ) to Maryam for her Ph.D. project. Congratulations! Maryam.
August 9, 2018: Moein joined the research group.
June 20, 2018: Dr. Ghassemi presented her paper at IEEE 36th Electrical Insulation Conference (EIC 2018).
June 9, 2018: Dr. Ghassemi's paper at Journal of Electrostatics (ELSEVIER) was accepted.
May 29, 2018: Dr. Ghassemi's paper at IEEE Trans. Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation was accepted.
May 16, 2018: Maryam joined the research group.