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 at the 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
October 4, 2023: Dr. Ghassemi is among the World’s Top 2% Scientists in 2022 [Link]
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: Meeting lunch, 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 issues in 3D heterogeneous microsystems.
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: The paper titled “Electrical Properties of Silicone Gel for WBG-Based Power Module Packaging at High Temperatures” is Early Access in IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation. [Link] [PDF]
December 12, 2022: IEEE Spectrum (the flagship publication of the IEEE ) featured our research on all electric aircraft [Link]
November 22, 2022: The paper titled “Dielectric Properties Characterization and Evaluation of Commercial Silicone Gels for High-Voltage High-Power Power Electronics Module Packaging” was accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation [Link] [PDF]
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.
