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, Dr. Veliadis 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).