Victor Veliadis
Executive Director, Chief Technology Officer, Principal Investigator
Bio
Dr. Victor Veliadis is Executive Director & CTO of PowerAmerica, a member-driven Manufacturing USA Institute of industry, universities, and national labs accelerating the commercialization of next-generation silicon carbide and gallium nitride power semiconductor chips and electronics. At PowerAmerica, he has managed a budget of $156 million, which he strategically allocated to over 210 industrial and university projects to catalyze SiC and GaN semiconductor and power electronics manufacturing, workforce development, and job creation. His PowerAmerica educational activities have trained 430 full-time university students in collaborative industry-university wide bandgap (WBG) projects and engaged over 7000 attendees in tutorials, short courses, and webinars. In 2024, Dr. Veliadis won a $64M renewal from the U.S. Department of Energy for PowerAmerica to further catalyze WBG power technologies.
Dr. Veliadis is a professor in NC State University’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, an IEEE Fellow, a National Academy of Inventors (NAI) Fellow, and an IEEE EDS Distinguished Lecturer. He has 27 issued U.S. patents, 13 book chapters, and 165 peer-reviewed publications to his credit. He has delivered over 200 keynote/tutorial/invited presentations, including keynotes at ICSCRM, APEC, ECCE, ECPE, IFWS, WiPDA, ICAE, and IECON. Prior to entering academia and taking an executive position at Power America in 2016, Dr. Veliadis spent 21 years post-Ph.D. in the semiconductor industry, where his work included design, fabrication, and testing of SiC devices, GaN devices for radar systems, and financial and operations management of a commercial semiconductor fab. Dr. Veliadis received military training in the Army Infantry and is a third-degree black belt in Shotokan karate. He earned a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from John Hopkins University (1995).