[1] Originally from Iran, and educated in Iran and Canada, she has worked in Switzerland and the US, where she is Dean's Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech.
[2] After becoming a researcher in Switzerland for ABB, working on wind turbine energy generation,[1] she returned to academia as an assistant professor at Purdue University in 2010.
[3] In 2018 she received the J. David Irwin Early Career Award of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, "for outstanding research contributions in modulation and control of multilevel converters and voltage-sourced converter-based dc (HVDC) transmission".
[1] She was one of the recipients of the 2022 Nagamori Awards, recognizing her "for contributions to highly-efficient, power-dense and fault-tolerant multilevel converter-based medium-voltage drives".
[5] She was elected as an IEEE Fellow in 2022, "for contributions to modulation, control and protection of multilevel converters for high-voltage DC transmission".