Vorperian, Vatche

Vatche Vorperian 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