Parinaz Naseri received her B.Sc. degree from the University of Tehran, M.Sc. degree from the University of Alberta, and Ph.D. from the University of Toronto, all in electrical and computer engineering. She is currently a senior hardware and antenna engineer at Novamera Inc., a startup developing clean technologies for surgical mining. Ms. Naseri also worked as a research associate on European Space Agency-funded projects at the Institution of Telecommunications in Lisbon, Portugal in 2016-2017. 

Ms. Naseri has authored more than 30 articles, about half of which are published in IEEE journals. She was nominated for the IEEE R.W.P. King award for the best paper published in IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation in 2021. She was also a recipient of the Stanley G. Jones Master’s Scholarship in 2014, the Incoming Doctoral Ontario Trillium Scholarship in 2018, Donald R. Studney Electromagnetics Graduate Award, IEEE Antennas & Propagation Society (AP-S) Doctoral Grant in 2020, IEEE AP-S Mojgan Daneshmand Grant, and IEEE Toronto Section Outstanding New Leader Award in 2022. Moreover, she is the organizer and, since October 2020, chair of the IEEE AP-S University of Toronto Student Branch Chapter.