Nexperia USA Inc., USA
Loveday Haachitaba Mweene obtained his Bachelor of Engineering degree from the University of Zambia in 1984, and the Master of Science and Doctor of Science degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1988 and 1992, all in Electrical Engineering. From 1992 to 2000 he worked for AT&T Bell Labs (later renamed Lucent Technologies) on high power ac-dc rectifiers, custom dc-dc converters and telecommunications bricks. After a brief stop in a start-up company designing telecommunications converters, he worked from 2003 to 2010 for National Semiconductor as the technical leader and later manager of the Power Applications Design Center for the Americas. In this position he headed or was involved in the delivery of several hundred power supply design solutions for customers in a diverse range of application areas. After National was acquired by Texas Instruments he was an independent consultant for several years, until he joined Atmel Corporation in 2013. At Atmel he developed microcontroller driven LED drivers and ac-dc converters. In 2016 after Atmel was acquired by Microchip, he became the Chief Technical Officer of the start-up company GV Semiconductor, leading the development of GaN HEMT based chargers and LED drivers. Upon the closure of GV Semiconductor in 2020, he became a Power Systems Architect at Nebula Microsystems, also a start-up, defining and developing gate drivers for GaN HEMTs. Since May 2022 he has been a Senior Systems Engineer at Nexperia Semiconductor. During his career he has not only been involved in a wide range of design activities, but he has reviewed papers for industry conferences, written for trade publications, and is the author of several granted and pending patents. He is an expert in the craft of practical power supply design, including feedback loop optimization, power magnetics design, circuit simulation and spreadsheet computation.
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Sunday, March 19, 2023
9:30 AM – 1:00 PM ET