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April 29, 2021 - Associate Member Representatives selected for the Industry Advisory Board
The Industry Advisory Board (IAB) held its annual meeting on April 16th. In addition to an update of CPES operations and a discussion of future research directions, new Associate Member Representatives were also announced.IAB Policy ensures representation of Associate Members at 20% of the number of Associate Memberships. Due to fluctuations in membership, several representative positions needed to be filled.
The IAB Executive Committee, in consultation with CPES faculty leadership, selected four new representatives. These individuals have shown significant support of CPES and their companies are involved with CPES in multiple ways such as through sponsored research projects, partnering on federal grants, hiring of CPES alumni, etc.
- Jaroslaw (Jarek) Leonarski, Cummins Inc.
- Zhuxian (Nicole) Xu, Ford Motor Company
- Stéphane Azzopardi, Safran
- Colin Campbell, Tesla
These four join Cory Arnold of Maxim Integrated who has served as Associate Member Representative since 2019. Their short biographies are below.
IAB Associate Member Representatives
Cory Arnold, Maxim Integrated Products
Cory received his B.S.E.E. degree from MIT in 1989 and joined Maxim Integrated that same year as an IC design engineer.
He has been with Maxim his whole career, currently comprising 29 years. He has defined and designed over 24 Maxim products in precision analog, interface, and power management. His most recent products were power management ICâs for the mobile space, including cell phones and tablets.
Five years ago, he moved into the CTO office and began work on developing power roadmaps looking 5+ years into the future as well as evaluating emerging technologies. He currently works on Maximâs power roadmap team in the Advanced R&D group.
Jaroslaw (Jarek) Leonarski, Cummins, Inc.
Jaroslaw (Jarek) Leonarski received the M.S. degree in electrical engineering from Warsaw University of Technology, Poland, in 1998 and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the same University in 2002.
Dr. Leonarski has over 15 years of experience in the R&D of power electronics mostly for commercial hybrid/electric vehicles. He joined Cummins in 2010 to work on the commercial vehicle electrification.
Jaroslaw is a technical advisor supporting a board range of power electronic applications including hardware and software development as well electric machine controls. More recently, he leads 48V power electronic projects for hybrid systems including high frequency DC/DC converters and high current inverters. Dr. Leonarski holds several US patents on power electronics and controls.
Zhuxian (Nicole) Xu, Ford Motor Company
Zhuxian (Nicole) Xu received the B.S. degree from Zhejiang University in 2008, the M.S. degree from CPES in Virginia Tech in 2010, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 2013.
Since 2014, she has been a power electronics research engineer in Ford Motor Company, exploring and developing various technologies to make the electrified vehicles more efficient, more sustainable, and more intelligent. She has been leading several collaboration efforts between Ford and universities to develop disruptive technologies and to transform university research into industry business needs and competitive advantages.
Her research interests include WBG power semiconductor devices, advanced gate drives, packaging, EMI and EMC, and high-density integration. She has published more than 30 papers in journals and conferences, and invented more than 20 patents.
Stephane Azzopardi, Safran
Stephane Azzopardi received both the Master of Engineering Degree from the Graduate School of Engineering INSA of Toulouse (France) as well as the Master of Sciences Degree from the University Paul Sabatier of Toulouse (France) in 1993. In 1998, he received the Ph.D. Degree in electronics from the University of Bordeaux Sciences and Technology.
After a post-doctorate position at Yokohama National University (Japan) in collaboration with Mitsubishi Power Semiconductor, in 2003 he became Associate Professor at the electrical department of the Graduate School of Engineering of Bordeaux Institute of Technology (France).
In Sept. 2015, he joined the Corporate Research and Technology Center of Safran Group (Safran Tech) in Paris. He manages the research team on âPower Electronicsâ with a specific focus on More Electrical Aircraft and More Electrical Propulsion activities.
As Senior Expert on power modules, his research is focusing on wide band gap power semiconductor devices and disruptive packaging solutions for the next generation of power modules for aeronautics applications.
Colin Campbell, Tesla
Colin Campbell is the Sr. Director of Powertrain Engineering at Tesla, responsible for design and manufacturing engineering of high power electronics for both vehicle and energy products, bringing them from concept all the way through to high-volume production.
