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 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) Lifetime 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 Johns Hopkins University in 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
Involvement
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National Academy of Inventors (NAI)
Fellow -
International Conference on SiC and Related Materials (ICSCRM)
international steering committee member -
IEEE
Fellow
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.