Officers

  • Vice President – Administrative,  IEEE Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation Society (DEIS), 2026

  • Vice President – Technical,  IEEE Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation Society (DEIS), 2024 and 2025

Editorial Positions

Professional and University Citizenship 

  • Chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Search Committee, The University of Texas at Dallas, 2024-2025 

  • A Thrust Leader for the “Energy Science and Technology” Research Thrust, goal: hiring 25 open-rank new faculty members in five research thrusts and six cross-cutting technologies, Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science, The University of Texas at Dallas, 2023-Present 

  • A member of the Academic Affairs Committee (AAC), Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science, The University of Texas at Dallas, 2023-Present

  • A member of the Academic Senate, The University of Texas at Dallas, from 6/1/2023 to 5/31/2024, and from 1/6/2024 to 5/31/2025.

  • A member of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Bylaws Committee, The University of Texas at Dallas, 2023-2024

  • A member of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Search Committee, The University of Texas at Dallas, 2022-2023, 2023-2024 

  • A member of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Graduate Committee, The University of Texas at Dallas, 2022-2023 

  • A member of Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science’s ad hoc committee for faculty evaluations, The University of Texas at Dallas, 2022-Present 

  • A member of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Search Committee, Virginia Tech, 2017-2019 

  • Co-lead for the Energy and Power Electronics major in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Virginia Tech, 2020-2022. 

Reviewer for Funding Agencies

Committee Member for Awards 

  • Committee member for the IEEE PES Ramakumar Renewable Energy Excellence Award, 2025 

  • Committee member for Teaching Awards in the UTD ECE department, 2025 

Perspective Lectures

  • Title: High Voltage, High Power Density Engineering in the Era of All Electric Transportation and Clean Energy – “Power to the Moon and Beyond” for the centennial celebration at IEEE Conference Electrical Insulation Dielectric Phenomena (CEIDP), East Rutherford, NJ, USA, Oct. 18, 2023. [Link]

Keynotes

Invited Talks 

  • Title: “ZEROES Lab Presentation,” ECE Research Day, The University of Texas at Dallas, 11/13/2023. 

  • Title: “Semiconductor Science and Technology,” with Theodore Moise, at the Jonsson School Executive Council Meeting, The University of Texas at Dallas, April 11, 2023. 

  • Title: “Insulation Materials and Systems for Power Electronic Modules” presented for “IEEE International Workshop on Integrated Power Packaging (IWIPP) 2021 Corridor Webinar Series,” August 27, 2021. 

  • [Webinar] Title: “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 18, 2021. 

  • Title: “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

  • Title: “Challenges and Opportunities in Conventional and Emerging Unconventional Power Systems,” presented for The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), Carnegie Mellon University, 2021. 

  • Title: “Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation ― Challenges and Future Research Needs,” presented for Kirtland Air Force Base, 2020. 

  • "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, 2020. 

  • Title: “Accelerated Insulation Aging due to Fast, Repetitive Voltage Pulses from Wide Bandgap Power Electronics,” in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, 2020. 

  • Title: “Insulation Materials and Systems in the Upcoming Era of Emerging High Voltage, High-Power Wide Bandgap-Based Power Electronics,” presented for Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany, 2020. 

Member-at-Large of AdComs 

  • 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.

  • At-Large Member of the Administrative Committee of the IEEE Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation Society (DEIS),  1st January, 2020 to 31st December, 2022 [Link]

Workshops 

  • The 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.

Technical Program Committee Members/Chairs

  • Session Chair, IEEE International Electric Machines and Drives Conference (IEMDC): 2025 

  • Chair of Short Course, IEEE Power Modulator and High Voltage Conference (IPMHVC): 2024 

  • Session chair, IEEE Conference on Electrical Insulation and Dielectric Phenomena (CEIDP): 2022, 2023 

  • A member of the Nominations and Appointments Committee of IEEE Dielectric and Electrical Insulation Society (DEIS), 2023

  • IEEE Dielectric and Electrical Insulation Society (DEIS) Representative in IEEE USA's Public Policy Committee on Transportation and Aerospace Policy (CTAP) and in USA Technology Policy Council R&D Policy Committee

  • Board Member of IEEE Conference on Electrical Insulation and Dielectric Phenomena (CEIDP), 2022-2024 [Link]

  • Member of the SAE International AE-10 High Voltage Committee, working on developing standards for Aircraft.

  • Corresponding member of Power and Energy Society (PES) for the IEEE Conference Publication Committee (CPC), 2019-present 

  • Member of "Education Committee" of "Dielectric and Electrical Insulation Society (DEIS)", since 2019 

  • Member of CIGRE WG D1.74: The effect of impulsive waveforms in different apparatuses 

  • Member of CIGRE JWG C6/B4.37: Medium Voltage DC distribution systems

  • Dielectric and Electrical Insulation Society (DEIS) Technical Committee member on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation for Transportation Electrification [Link]    

  • Member and contributor of the IEEE PES Task Force on Frequency Domain Methods for Electromagnetic Transient Studies, since 2019 [Link]

  • Member of IEEE Power and Energy Education Committee (PEEC), since 2019

  • Tutorial Chair of the 31st IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE), 2022  [Link]

  • Session Chair of IEEE Electrical Insulation Conference (EIC 2019, EIC 2020)

  • Technical Committee and co-chair of Track 6 of IEEE Electric Ship Technologies Symposium (ESTS 2019, 2021)

  • Chair of Research Topic: I07. Insulating materials and design and I01: SiC-wide bandgap semiconductors at IEEE Energy Conversion Conference & Congress (ECCE 2019, ECCE 2020, ECCE 2021, ECCE 2022, ECCE 2023) 

  • Chair of Dielectrics and Insulation Testing Technical Session and Technical Program Committee at IEEE International Workshop on Integrated Power Packaging (IWIPP 2019, and IWIPP 2022)

Served on Ph.D. Committees/Examiner for Universities Outside the U.S. (for 5 Students)

  • Committee member for Basharat Mehmood, Ph.D., University of Waterloo, Canada, 2025 

  • As thesis examiner for Rathod Viral Bipinchandra, Ph.D., Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India, 2024

  • Alberto Rumi, Ph.D., University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy, 2023

  • Mohamadreza Ariannik, Ph.D., York University, Toronto, Canada, 2022

  • Alhaytham Yousef J Alqudsi, Ph.D., École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS), Montreal, Canada, 2022

  • Henning Taxt, Ph.D., Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway, 2018 

Reviewer of [for 20 journals and 8 conferences]:

  • IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation

  • IEEE Electrical Insulation Magazine

  • IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery

  • IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

  • IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification

  • IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

  • IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics

  • IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

  • IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging, and Manufacturing Technology 

  • IEEE Access

  • IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution

  • IET High Voltage

  • International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems - Elsevier

  • Electric Power Systems Research - Elsevier

  • Natural Hazards - Springer

  • Journal of Electrostatics - Elsevier

  • energies (MDPI)

  • electronics (MDPI)

  • Journal of Aerosol Science (ELSEVIER)

  • International Journal of Electrical Engineering Education  

  • IEEE Conference on Electrical Insulation and Dielectric Phenomena (CEIDP): 2022-2025 

  • IEEE Energy Conversion Conference & Congress (ECCE): 2019, 2020 

  • IEEE Electrical Insulation Conference (EIC): 2019-2023 

  • IEEE Electric Ship Technologies Symposium (ESTS): 2019, 2021, 2023 

  • IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference & Exposition (APEC): 2021 

  • IEEE Power Modulator and High Voltage Conference (IPMHVC): 2022 

  • IEEE North American Power Symposium (NAPS): 2023 

  • IEEE Kansas Power and Energy Conference (KPEC): 2024, 2025