Mona Jarrahi

Mona Jarrahi (Persian: مونا جراحی; Jan 1979) is an Iranian Engineering professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. She investigates novel materials, terahertz/millimeter-wave electronics and optoelectronics, microwave photonics, imaging and spectroscopy systems.[1]

Mona Jarrahi
Born1979
Tehran
NationalityIran
Alma mater
  • Stanford University (Ph.D.), 2007
  • Stanford University (M.S.), 2003
  • Sharif University of Technology (B.S.), 2000
Known forTerahertz Optoelectronics
Scientific career
Institutions
  • University of California
  • University of Michigan
  • Stanford University

Jarrahi was honored with the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) in 2013 for her work on Terahertz Optoelectronics

Early Life and Career
Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in 2014

Jarrahi was born in Tehran and received her high school education in Iran. She got her bachelor from Sharif University of Technology in 2000 and later in 2016 she received the "Sharif University of Technology Distinguished Alumni Award". She then joined Stanford University[1] in 2001 as a graduate student where she got her MS and Ph.D. in 2003 and 2007, respectively.

After getting her Ph.D. Jarrahi joined University of Michigan Ann Arbor as an assistant professor (2008-2013). Afterwards, she joined UCLA as an associate professor (2013-2017) and from 2017 she became a professor at UCLA.

Awards and Recognition

On 23 December 2013, Jarrahi was honored with the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) award from the President of the United States, Barack Obama.[1][2][3] She was one of 102 scientists and engineers to receive this award in 2013. The presidential award committee cited her work in Terahertz Optoelectronics.[4]

Among the many awards and recognition Prof. Jarrahi received are in this table[5]

Year Award/Recognition
2010 Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Young Faculty Award
2011 National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development Award
2012 Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Award
2013 National Academy of Engineering (NAE), The Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering Award
2014 Kavli Fellow by the National Academy of Sciences
2015 Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award
2016 Sharif University of Technology Distinguished Alumni Award
2017 Fellow of the Optical Society of America (OSA)
2018 Fellow of the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE)
2018 Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

References
  1. Memarian, Jahandad (2016-12-08). "Mona Jarrahi: A World Leader in Terahertz Applications". Huffington Post. Retrieved 2018-10-09.
  2. Kisliuk, Bill (January 8, 2014). "UCLA engineering professor Mona Jarrahi wins Presidential Early Career Award". UCLA Newsroom. Retrieved 2018-10-09.
  3. "President Obama Honors Outstanding Early-Career Scientists". whitehouse.gov. 2013-12-23. Retrieved 2018-10-09.
  4. Sakai, Kiyomi., ed. (2011). Terahertz optoelectronics. Berlin: Springer. ISBN 9783642057434. OCLC 750670985. OL 9054341M.
  5. "Mona Jarrahi". UCLA Samueli School Of Engineering. Retrieved 2019-09-17.
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