D. Brian Ma

D. Brian Ma (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.S. and the M.S. degrees in electronic science from NanKai University, Tianjin, China, in 1995 and 1998, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and electronic engineering from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, in 2003. He was a Faculty Member with Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA, and with The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA. He is currently the Distinguished Chair in Microelectronics and a Full Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD), Richardson, TX, USA. He is the Founding Director of the Integrated Power System Laboratory (IPSL) at UTD and the TI Foundational Technology Research Center (FTRC) on Power Density. He is also an Executive Committee Member of Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) at Texas Analog Center of Excellence (TxACE), where he served as the Founding Leader of the Energy Efficiency Thrust from 2010 to 2018. His research focuses on integrated power electronics, with primary interests on power circuit control and high performance operation, wide bandgap (WBG) power electronics, power device and circuit reliability and aging, and AI-driven smart power systems. His research works have been sponsored by the U.S. federal agencies including National Science Foundation (NSF), Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) and DARPA and by industry companies such as Texas Instruments, Analog Devices, Linear Technology, IBM, NXP, etc. He has published over 180 journal and conference articles and five book and book chapters on these subjects. He also delivered over 120 invited talks, education tutorials and presentations in prominent conference and industry venues. Prof. Ma was a recipient of U.S. National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2009. He also received a few research paper or design awards from technical conferences and journals including Best Design Award in IEEE/ACM ASPDAC 2004, First Prize Student Paper Award in IEEE MWSCAS 2009, Best Poster Paper in WOEF Workshop in 2011, Best Student Paper in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics in 2012, Outstanding Presentation Award in IEEE APEC in 2013, Best in Session Awards in SRC TECHCON in 2012 and 2013, Special Feature Award in IEEE/ACM ASPDAC 2016, and Student Paper Award in IEEE FENDTI Forum in 2017. He was also the recepient of the Analog Devices professorship from 2004 to 2008, TxACE Chair from 2010 to 2012, Erik Jonsson Distinguished Chair from 2012 to 2017, and Distinguished Chair in microelectronics from 2017 till date. He also received the University of Arizona AAFSAA Outstanding Faculty Award in 2006, and was a finalist for University of Arizona Accolades Outstanding Faculty Award in 2009.