Victor Veliadis
Executive Director, Chief Technology Officer, Principal Investigator
Bio
As PowerAmerica’s Executive Director and CTO, Dr. Victor Veliadis manages a budget of $156 million that he strategically allocates to over 210 industrial and university projects to accelerate WBG semiconductor clean energy manufacturing, workforce development, and job creation. His PowerAmerica educational activities have trained 430 full-time university students in applied WBG projects and engaged over 7000 attendees in tutorials, short courses and webinars.
Dr. Veliadis is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at NC State University and also an IEEE Fellow and EDS Distinguished Lecturer. He has 27 issued U.S. patents, eight book chapters and over 150 peer-reviewed publications. Prior to entering academia and taking an executive position at Power America in 2016, Dr. Veliadis spent 21 years in the semiconductor industry, where his work included the design, fabrication, and testing of SiC devices and GaN devices for military radar amplifiers, as well as the financial and operations management of a commercial semiconductor fab. He earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from John Hopkins University in 1995.