PowerAmerica Faculty
PowerAmerica faculty at our partner universities are conducting groundbreaking work in silicon carbide and gallium nitride wide bandgap power electronics. Click on the headshots below to be directed to each faculty member’s webpage and learn more about them.
Dr. Hui “Helen” Li
School: Florida State University
PowerAmerica Project: SiC Commercial PV Inverter
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Dr. Yanjun Shi
School: Florida State University
PowerAmerica Project: SiC Commercial PV Inverter
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Dr. Deepak Divan
School: Georgia Tech
PowerAmerica Project: 5 kV DC to LV DC or 3 Phase AC Microgrid Power Conditioning Modules
Dr. Jay Baliga
School: N.C. State University
PowerAmerica Projects: 1.2kV SiC Trench Gate Power MOSFET; Lower Cost 1.2kV Foundry Process for SiC Planar Gate Power MOSFETS and JBS Rectifiers
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Dr. Subhashish Bhattacharya
School: N.C. State University
PowerAmerica Project: Integrated Intelligent Gate Driver and Interface System for Medium Voltage Converter Applications
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Dr. Doug Hopkins
School: N.C. State University
PowerAmerica Project: Demonstration of a Medium Voltage Power Module for High Density Conversion
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Dr. Iqbal Husain
School: N.C. State University
PowerAmerica Project: 100 kW SiC Inverter for EV Traction Drive
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Dr. Srdjan Lukic
School: N.C. State University
PowerAmerica Project: Wide Bandgap Medium Voltage EV Fast Charger
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Dr. Spyridon Pavlidis
School: N.C. State University
PowerAmerica Project: Graduate WBG Semiconductor Power Device Lab
Dr. Paul Chow
School: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
PowerAmerica Project: Documentation of Design and Process of GaN Power Devices
Dr. Woongje Sung
School: SUNY Polytechnic Institute
PowerAmerica Project: Development of 3.3 kV/6.5 kV/10 kV SiC MOSFETs, JBS Diodes and JBS Diode Integrated MOSFETs
Dr. Jin Wang
School: The Ohio State University
PowerAmerica Project: Medium Voltage Gate Drive with Comprehensive Protection Functions
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Dr. Stephen Bayne
School: Texas Tech
PowerAmerica Project: Reliability Analysis of Wide Bandgap Power Devices
Dr. Rolando Burgos
School: Virginia Tech
PowerAmerica Projects: EMI Mitigation and Containment in SiC-Based Modular UPS for Commercial Applications; 100 kW Commercial PV Inverter with Efficiency > 99% Operating in iTCM
Dr. Qiang Li
School: Virginia Tech
PowerAmerica Project: DC Data Center with High Frequency Isolation
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Dr. Yilmaz Sozer
School: University of Akron
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Dr. Kevin Bai
School/year: University of Tennessee – Knoxville
PowerAmerica Project: Comparing SiC and GaN Electric Vehicle Chargers
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Dr. Fred Wang
School: University of Tennessee – Knoxville
PowerAmerica Project: Multi-functional High-efficiency High-density Medium Voltage SiC Based Asynchronous Microgrid Power Conditioning System Module
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Dr. Ehad Shoubaki
School: University of North Carolina – Charlotte
PowerAmerica Project: Introduction of WBG Devices for Solid State Circuit Breaking at MV
Dr. Babak Parkideh
School: University of North Carolina – Charlotte
PowerAmerica Project: Extending the “Power Electronics Teaching Lab Incorporating WBG Semiconductors Switches and Circuits” for Wide-Scale Availability
Dr. Mahdav Manjrekar
School: University of North Carolina – Charlotte
PowerAmerica Project: Introduction of WBG Devices for Solid State Circuit Breaking at MV
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Dr. Daniel Costinett
School: University of Tennessee – Knoxville
PowerAmerica Project: GaN-Based High Efficiency Multi-Load Wireless Power Supply
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Dr. Andrew Lemmon
School: University of Alabama
PowerAmerica Project: Removing Customer Concerns to Support Industry Adoption of Medium Voltage SiC Power Modules
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Dr. Mark Scott
School: Miami University
PowerAmerica Project: Wide Bandgap based Low-Voltage / High- Current DC/DC Converter for Electrified Transit Buses
Dr. Christina DiMarino
School: Virginia Tech
PowerAmerica Project: Prototyping and Evaluation of High-Speed 10 kV SiC MOSFET Power Modules with High Scalability and System-Integration Solutions
Dr. Dong Dong
School: Virginia Tech
PowerAmerica Project: Open Innovation Fund project coming in 2020
Dr. Ayman El-Refaie
School: Marquette University
PowerAmerica Project: Open Innovation Fund project coming in 2020
Dr. Julia Zhang
School: The Ohio State University
PowerAmerica Project: Artificial Intelligence-Based Current Sharing for Parallel Operation of 3.3 kV Silicon-carbide MOSFET Chips in Power Module
Dr. Longya Xu
School: The Ohio State University
PowerAmerica Project: Commercialization of 1MW SiC Devices Based High Speed Medium Voltage Motor Drive with Redundancy Operation
Dr. Dragan Maksimovic
School: University of Colorado – Boulder
PowerAmerica Project: Dual Inductor Hybrid Converter for Direct 48V to sub-1V PoL DC-DC Module
Dr. Phil Barletta
School: N.C. State University
PowerAmerica Project: Development of Short Course for Wide Bandgap Power Devices in NCSU Core Facilities
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Dr. David Ricketts
School: N.C. State University
PowerAmerica Project: 50 W GaN 15 100 Mhz DC-DC Converter Integrated Circuit
Dr. Wensong Yu
School: N.C. State University
PowerAmerica Project: Development of SiC-Based Resonant Converter for EV Charger Using Microsemi’s 3.3 kV & 700 V SiC MOSFETs
Dr. Hiu Yung Wong
School: San Jose State University
PowerAmerica Project: Development of Low-Cost Graduate Course with Virtual Fab and Hands-on Circuit Lab Experience to Prepare Students to Work in the SiC Industry in Silicon Valley
