Principal Investigator

Professor Saikat Dey earned his doctoral degree in Electrical Engineering from Arizona State University in 2025 and his B.Tech. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology. From 2018 to 2020, he worked as a Power Electronics Design Engineer at Tagore Technology (now part of GlobalFoundries). In 2023, he served as a Power Conversion Control Intern at Lucid Motors, where he worked with the vehicle charging team.

Professor Dey’s research interests include the design, modeling, optimization, and control of multi-order power electronic converters, as well as high-frequency, high-density, and highly efficient power conversion solutions using wide-bandgap semiconductors. His work finds applications in clean energy systems, transportation electrification, extreme temperature and space electronics, and AI-assisted parameter estimation, health monitoring, reliability studies, and optimized converter design.

He has authored or co-authored over 40 peer-reviewed IEEE Transactions and conference papers, co-invented five pending U.S. patents, and is the co-author of one book. His research has been sponsored by NASA, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), the Department of Energy (DOE), the National Science Foundation (NSF), and CoolCAD Electronics.

Professor Dey has received numerous awards and recognitions, including the 2023 IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics Second Place Prize Paper Award, the Best Presentation Award at the 2022 Applied Power Electronics Conference, the 2023 Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing AZ Fellowship, the 2022 IEEE Industrial Electronics Society HOPE Prize, and the 2018 Best Bachelor’s Thesis Award from the Indian National Academy of Engineering.

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