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Zahra Saadatizadeh (Member, IEEE) has been an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS, USA, since August 2024. She was a Postdoctoral Fellow in power electronics at the University of Arkansas, National Center for Reliable Electric Power Transmission (NCREPT), from 2021 to 2024. She was a Ph.D. Visiting Scholar at Aalborg University, Denmark, from 2019 to 2020 and she earned her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (Power Electronics) from the University of Tabriz in 2020.

Her research interests include power electronics converter/inverter design and implementation, renewable energy systems, and AI-optimized design automation methods for power electronics. She has authored or co-authored over 60 journal and conference papers.

Dr. Saadatizadeh received the 2023 Outstanding Reviewer Award from IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics (TPEL) and the 2025 Outstanding Reviewer Award from IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification (TTE). She has been Associate Editor of IEEE TTE since August 2025 and has served as a session chair of several IEEE conferences, including IEEE ECCE 2022, IEEE ECCE 2024, and IEEE APEC 2025, etc. She also received IEEE ECCE Women in Engineering (WiE) grants in 2022 and 2024.