Executive Director & CTO
PowerAmerica
Raleigh, NC, United States
Dr. Victor Veliadis is Executive Director & CTO of PowerAmerica, a member-driven manufacturing consortium of industry, universities, and national labs accelerating the commercialization of energy efficient SiC and GaN power semiconductor technologies. At PowerAmerica, he has managed a budget of $150 million that he strategically allocated to over 200 industrial and University projects to catalyze SiC/GaN semiconductor and power electronics manufacturing, workforce development, and job creation. His PowerAmerica educational activities have trained 420 full-time students in collaborative industry/University WBG projects, and engaged over 4600 attendees in tutorials, short courses, and webinars. Dr. Veliadis is an ECE Professor at NCSU, and an IEEE Fellow and EDS Distinguished Lecturer. He has 27 issued U.S. patents, 6 book chapters, and over 150 peer-reviewed publications to his credit.
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 design, fabrication, and testing of SiC devices, GaN devices for military radar amplifiers, and financial and operations management of a commercial semiconductor fab. He has a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from John Hopkins University (1995).
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Accelerating SiC Commercialization and Barriers to Overcome
Thursday, July 13, 2023
10:50 AM – 11:10 AM PDT