She is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
On completing her Ph.D., she joined the Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
[5][6] She is a past chair of the Electrical Machines Technical Committee of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society.
[7] Parsa received the IEEE Industry Applications Society Outstanding Young Member Award in 2007,[8] and the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award in 2009.
[2][9] She was a 2021 recipient of the Nagamori Awards, given for her work on "multi-phase permanent magnet motors, design, analysis, and control".