BIOGRAPHY
Dr. Victor Veliadis is Executive Director & CTO of PowerAmerica, a 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 is managing $64M DOE renewal to further catalyze WBG power technologies.
Dr. Veliadis is an ECE professor at NCSU, an IEEE and National Academy of Inventors Fellow, and an IEEE EDS Distinguished Lecturer. He has 27 issued U.S. patents, 13 book chapters, and 165 peer-reviewed publications. Prior to joining Power America in 2016, he spent 21 years post-Ph.D. in the semiconductor industry, where his work included design, fabrication, and testing of SiC and GaN devices for radar systems, and financial and operations management of a commercial semiconductor fab. He earned a Ph.D. in ECE from Johns Hopkins University (1995).