Person

Vorpérian, Vatché

1952

Studium der Elektrotechnik am California Institute of Technology; Promotion 1984 ebd.; seit 1984 tätig u.a. als Hochschullehrer an der Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University/ Fakultät Elektrotechnik; Autor von mehr als 35 Beiträgen in Fachpublikationen und Konferenzen mit dem Themenschwerpunkt Leistungselektronik u.a.

Bibliographische Angaben LoC: Vatché Vorpérian received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 1984 from the California Institute of Technology and joined the faculty of Electrical Engineering at Virginia Tech in the same year. He was tenured and promoted to Associate Professor in 1990. In 1991 he joined the Jet Propulsion Laboratory where he is currently a senior member of the technical staff. His expertise is in the field of power electronics in which he has published over thirty-five conference and journal papers. He has also contributed to the modeling analysis and design of such micro-electromechanical devices as the micro-gyroscope and micro-seismometer. He has taught many professional advancement courses to industry.