Victor Veliadis
Professor
Biography
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 energy efficient silicon carbide and gallium nitride power semiconductor chips and electronics. At PowerAmerica, he has managed a budget of $156 million that 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 WBG projects, and engaged over 7000 attendees in tutorials, short courses, and webinars. In 2023, he won a $64M U.S. Department of Energy PowerAmerica renewal to further catalyze WBG power technologies. He is also PI of the $5 million NIST “Building pandemic resilience in Native American communities'' electrification and emergency management project.
Dr. Veliadis is an ECE Professor at NC State University, and an IEEE Fellow and EDS Distinguished Lecturer. He has 27 issued U.S. patents, 12 book chapters, and 163 peer-reviewed publications to his credit. He is a sought-after speaker with over 180 keynote/tutorial/invited presentations including keynotes at ICSCRM, APEC, ECCE, ECPE, IFWS, and WiPDA. Prior to entering academia and taking an executive position at Power America in 2016, Dr. Veliadis spent 21 years post-PhD in the semiconductor industry where his work included design, fabrication, and testing of SiC devices, GaN devices for military radar systems, and financial and operations management of a commercial semiconductor fab. He has received military training in the Army Infantry and is a third-degree black belt in Shotokan karate. Dr. Veliadis has a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from John Hopkins University (1995).
Education
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Ph.D.
1995
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore -
Master's
1992
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore -
Master's
1990
Electrical Engineering
National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Expert In
Power Electronics Packaging , Photonic Integrated Circuits , Optoelectronic Devic , Microfabrication , Micro/Nano Fabrication , Fabrication Metal Oxide nanomaterials , Compound Semiconductor Materials
Awards & Honors
Recent News
PowerAmerica CTO Victor Veliadis Named NAI Fellow
Posted on December 11, 2024 | Filed Under: Awards
Veliadis, who is the Executive Director of PowerAmerica Institute, and a professor of electrical and computer engineering at NC State University, has been named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI).
Solihin and Veliadis Elevated to IEEE Fellows
Posted on January 26, 2018 | Filed Under: Awards and Faculty
Two NC State ECE professors were honored with elevation to IEEE Fellow in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the field of electrical and computer engineering.
Victor Veliadis Becomes IEEE EDS Distinguished Lecturer
Posted on June 21, 2017 | Filed Under: Faculty and News
Victor Veliadis, the Deputy Executive Director and CTO of the PowerAmerica Institute, based in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at NC State have been honored as a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Electron Devices Soc …
Media Mentions
Can U.S. remain competitive in SiC chip industry?
December 1, 2021
While silicon chips for power electronics are an American innovation, their production slipped away from manufacturers in the United States to those in East Asia. Victor Veliadis is doing his best to keep that from happening with silicon carbide (SiC) chips, which outperform silicon. Veliadis, executive director, chief technology officer and principal investigator at PowerAmerica, has a stake in where the superior SiC chips are made.