Layi Alatise

Layi Alatise, PhD, CEng, FIET, SMIEEE, is Professor and Royal Society Industry Fellow in Electrical Engineering at the University of Warwick. He has led several EPSRC projects in Power Electronics and as well as Innovate UK projects with several industrial collaborators. He was a co-recipient of the 2021 best paper award in the IEEE Transactions in Industrial Electronics and 2023 best paper award at CIRED. He has the authored or co-authored more than 150 journal/conference publications and supervised 11 PhDs in Power Electronic devices.

Prof. Alatise was an Associate Editor of the IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics, a Chartered Engineer, Fellow of the IET and a Senior member of the IEEE. He received the B.Eng. (first class Hons.) degree in Electrical/Electronic engineering and the Ph.D. degree in Microelectronics and Semiconductors from Newcastle University, U.K in 2005 and 2008, respectively. In 2004 and 2005, he joined ATMEL North Tyneside where he worked on the process integration of the 130-nm CMOS technology node. In June 2008, he joined the Innovation R&D Department, NXP Semiconductors, as Development Engineer where he designed, processed, and qualified discrete power trench MOSFETs for automotive applications and switched-mode power supplies. In November 2010, he joined the University of Warwick and has been a Professor in Electrical Engineering since 2019.