The research from his group has been published in more than 400 journal papers including in Science, Nature, Physical Review Letters, Applied Physics Letters and Electron Device Letters. He is a Clarivate highly cited researcher every year since 2020. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society and is the winner of teaching awards and research awards such as the ISCS young scientist award in 2012, MBE young scientist award in 2014, and awards from the industry such as the IBM faculty award in 2012, and most recently the Intel Outstanding Research award in 2020. He has served in leadership roles in several national centers such as the SRC/DARPA JUMP centers, DOE EFRC, NSF DMREF, and NSF EFRI. His research work has resulted in several patents and a spinoff company. Jena’s recorded lectures have been viewed more than 230,000 times, and his 2022 textbook Quantum Physics of Semiconductor Materials and Devices has been adopted by several universities for undergraduate and graduate courses.