• Department of Energy Early Career Research Program Award, 2021

  • National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award, 2020 

  • Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Young Investigator Research Program (YIP) Award, 2020 

  • I am one of the 2024 Federal Research Innovation and ExpeNditures Dynamo (FRIEND) of the Office of Research and Innovation. This prestigious award recognizes UT Dallas researchers who have achieved a cumulative level of federal research expenditures exceeding $500,000 in that fiscal year. Of course, my cumulative federal research expenditure in 2024 was over $1,000,000 (1 million dollars). 

  • Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Summer Faculty Fellowship Program (SFFP) at AFRL–Aerospace Systems, 2023 

  • Early Tenure and Promotion to Associate Professor, The University of Texas at Dallas, 2022 

  • Chairholder of Texas Instruments Early Career Award,  The University of Texas at Dallas, 2022-2025

  • Steven O. Lane Junior Faculty Fellow,  Virginia Tech, 2021-2022 [Link]

  • College of Engineering (COE) Faculty Fellow ,  Virginia Tech, 2021-2022 [Link]

  • The Graduate Teaching Excellence Award in the ECE Department, UTD, 2024  

  • Among the World's Top 2% Scientists (2024 Stanford University Annual Assessment of Author Citations), 2024 [Link] 

  • Among the World's Top 2% Scientists (2023 Stanford University Annual Assessment of Author Citations), 2023 [Link] 

  • Among the World's Top 2% Scientists, 2022 [Link] 

  • Among the World's Top 2% Scientists, 2021 [Link] 

  • IEEE Senior Member, 2016-Present. 

  • P.Eng., Registered Professional Engineer, 2015-Present. 

  • Contribution Award from High Voltage  journal, 2020 (The award recognizes members on the journal's editorial board for their outstanding contributions to the journal)

  • Best Paper Award, IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting  (PES GM), Montreal, QC, Canada, Aug. 2-6, 2020

  • Best Paper Award, IEEE Energy Conversion Congress & Expo. (ECCE), Baltimore, MD, USA, Sept. 29-Oct. 3, 2019 

  • Best Paper Award, The 26th International Power System Conference, 2011.

  • Best Paper Award, The 25th International Power System Conference, 2010.

  • New Faculty Mentoring Project Award, Virginia Tech, 2017

Honors and Awards of Students

  • Pujan Adhikari: Jan P. Van Der Ziel Engineering Fellowship ($5,000), UTD, 2025. 

  • Mushfiqul Abedin Khan: Research Excellence Award Grant ($1500), 2025. 

  • Bhuban Dhamala: Research Excellence Award Grant, ECE UTD ($1500), 2024.

  • Moein Borghei: Paul E. Torgersen Graduate Student Research Excellence Award, Virginia Tech’s College of Engineering, 2021. 

  • Maryam Tousi: IEEE Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation Society (DEIS) Graduate Student Fellowship ($5,000), 2020.