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Center for Power Electronics Systems
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Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
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11/2023        Invited talk, IEEE Energy Conversion Congress & Expo (ECCE 2023), Special session: “Ultra Wide Bandgap semiconductors: status and potentialities for power electronics”, talk “Ga2O3 Power Devices: Current Status, Challenges, and Prospects,” Nashville, TN, USA

08/2023        Invited talk, 6th U.S. Gallium Oxide Workshop (GOX 2023), “Recent progress of Ga2O3 power technologies: large-area devices, packaging, robustness, and applications,” Buffalo, New York, USA

08/2023        Invited talk, Analog Device Inc., “Recent progress on stability, reliability and robustness of GaN power devices,” virtual

05/2023        Keynote speak, Compound Semiconductor Week 2023 (49th International Symposium on Compound Semiconductors & 34th International Conference on Indium Phosphide and Related Materials), “Multidimensional GaN devices for efficient power electronics,” Jeju, Korea

03/2023        Invited talk, Infineon Headquarter, “Power Semiconductor Research at CPES: Reliability, Robustness, and Emerging Device Technologies,” Neubiberg, Germany 

03/2023        Invited talk, ECPE SiC & GaN User Forum (European Center for Power Electronics), “Multichannel GaN power devices,” Erding/Munich, Germany

03/2023        Invited talk, WBG Center Seminar, The Ohio State University, “Advancing power electronics by multidimensional devices,” Columbus, OH, USA

02/2023        Invited talk, Electron Device Society Seminar, Cornell University, “Multidimensional Devices: Reshaping the Power Electronics Landscape,” Ithaca, NY, USA             

02/2023        Invited talk, 8th International Forum on Widebandgap Semiconductors (IFWS 2022), “New Progress on Medium- and High-Voltage (1-10 kV) GaN Power Devices,” Suzhou, China (virtual talk)

11/2022        Tutorial, 9th IEEE Workshop on Wide Bandgap Power Devices & Applications (2022 WiPDA), “GaN power devices: current status, challenges, and emerging technologies”

10/2022        Invited talk, 4th International Workshop on Gallium Oxide and Related Materials, “Addressing the thermal challenges of Ga2O3 power devices by packaging”, Nagano, Japan.

09/2022        Invited talk, 2022 International Conference on Solid State Devices and Materials (SSDM2022), “Beyond SiC: What’s Next for Kilovolts Power Devices?”

07/2022        Invited talk, Infineon, “Exploring New Application Spaces of GaN and Ga2O3 Power Devices”

07/2022        Invited talk, Southern University of Science and Technology of China, “Beyond Si and SiC: what comes next for kilovolt power electronics?”

05/2022        Short course, 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Power Semiconductor Devices and ICs (ISPSD), “Medium-Voltage (1-10 kV) GaN Devices: Current Status and Comparison with SiC”, Vancouver, Canada

05/2022        Invited talk, 241th Electrochemical Society (ECS) Meeting, “Breakthrough avalanche and short-circuit robustness in vertical GaN power devices”

05/2022        Invited talk, Silergy, “New Advances in GaN and Ga2O3 Power Semiconductor Devices”

04/2022        Invited talk, Innoscience, “Exploring New Application Space of GaN Power Devices”

03/2022        Invited talk, 6th IEEE Electron Devices Technology and Manufacturing (EDTM) conference, “10 kV GaN Power Diodes and Transistors with Performance beyond SiC Limit”

01/2022        Invited talk, Qorvo, “Exploring New Application Spaces of GaN Power Devices”

11/2021        Invited talk, Murata Power Solutions, “GaN power devices: physics and reliability”

10/2021        Invited talk, 240th Electrochemical Society (ECS) Meeting, “Multi-Channel GaN Power Rectifiers: Breakthrough Performance up to 10 kV”

10/2021        Invited talk, 240th Electrochemical Society (ECS) Meeting, “How to achieve low thermal resistance and high electrothermal ruggedness in Ga2O3 devices?”

08/2021        Invited Talk, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Limited, “Exploring new application spaces of GaN power devices”.

06/2021        Invited Talk, Applied Power Electronics Conference (APEC), “Exploring new application spaces of GaN power devices”.

02/2021        Invited Talk, PowerAmerica Annual Conference 2021, “Surge Energy Robustness of GaN Power Devices and Modules”.

02/2021        Invited Talk, University of Utah, “(Ultra-) Wide-Bandgap Devices: Reshaping the Power Electronics Landscape”.

02/2021        Invited Talk, Analog Devices, Inc., “Exploring New Application Space of GaN Power HEMTs”.

11/2020        Invited Talk, Silergy Corp, “GaN Power Devices: Recent Advances and Prospects”.

10/2020        Invited talk, Electrochemical Society (ECS) Fall 2020 PRiME Meeting, Joint Symposium: State-of-the-Art Program in Compound Semiconductors, “Ruggedness of SiC and GaN Power Transistors in Switching Based Tests”

10/2020        Invited talk, Silvaco UseRs Global Events (SURGE), “Emerging WBG/UWBG Power Semiconductor Devices: Silvaco TCAD Enabled Designs and Applications”

08/2020        Invited Talk, PowerAmerica Summer Wide-Bandgap Workshop, “Emerging (Ultra-) Wide-Bandgap Power Devices on the Horizon”

07/2020        Invited Talk, IEEE Power Electronics Society (PELS) Yong Professional Webinar, “Emerging (Ultra-) Wide-Bandgap Power Devices on the Horizon”

06/2020        Invited Talk, IEEE Electron Device Society (EDS) Silicon Valley/San Francisco Chapter Seminar, “(Ultra-) Wide-Bandgap Materials and Devices: Reshaping the Power Electronics Landscape”

10/2019        Plenary Talk, 2019 IEEE 7th Workshop on Wide Bandgap Power Devices and Applications (WiPDA), “Vertical GaN: New Medium-Voltage Power Devices on the Horizon”

10/2019        Invited Talk, Nano Science & Technology Seminar Series, University of Southern California, “(Ultra-) Wide-Bandgap Devices: Reshaping the Power Electronics Landscape”

04/2019        Tutorial Talk, CEPS Annual Conference 2019, Virginia Tech, “Recent Progress in WBG Power Devices: Materials, Devices and Reliability”

05/2017         Invited Talk, Compound Semiconductor Week 2017 (44th International Symposium on Compound Semiconductors), “High-voltage vertical GaN pn diodes on Si”

05/2017         Invited Talk, MIT Microsystems Technology Labs Doctoral Dissertation Seminar, “Vertical Gallium Nitride power devices”

11/2016         Plenary Talk, 2016 3rd International Forum on Wide Bandgap Semiconductors China (IFWS), “Low-cost and high-performance vertical GaN diodes and transistors for power electronics”