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Christina DiMarino
Position: Assistant Professor (ECE)
Office: 146 Whittemore / 4-008 VTRC-Arlington
Email: dimarino@vt.edu
Phone: (571) 858-3203
Christina DiMarino is an assistant professor in the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech, and has been the assistant director of the Center for Power Electronics Systems (CPES) since 2017. She received her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Virginia Tech in 2014 and 2018, respectively. She was a Webber Fellow from 2012 to 2015, and a Rolls-Royce Graduate Fellow from 2016 to 2017. She is located in the Virginia Tech Research Center (VTRC) in Arlington, VA, where she helped establish and manage two new CPES laboratories.
From 2015 to 2018, she was the student membership chair for the IEEE Power Electronics Society (PELS). She is currently a Member-at-Large for the PELS Administrative Committee, and is on the steering committees for the PELS Students and Young Professionals, PELS Women in Engineering, IEEE International Technology Roadmap for Wide-Bandgap Power Semiconductors, and PELS Mentorship Program. She is also on the advisory board for PCIM Europe. She is the advisor of the PELS Student Branch Chapter at Virginia Tech, and is a member of the ECE Diversity and Inclusion Committee at Virginia Tech.
From 2015 to 2018, she was the student membership chair for the IEEE Power Electronics Society (PELS). She is currently a Member-at-Large for the PELS Administrative Committee, and is on the steering committees for the PELS Students and Young Professionals, PELS Women in Engineering, IEEE International Technology Roadmap for Wide-Bandgap Power Semiconductors, and PELS Mentorship Program. She is also on the advisory board for PCIM Europe. She is the advisor of the PELS Student Branch Chapter at Virginia Tech, and is a member of the ECE Diversity and Inclusion Committee at Virginia Tech.
Research Interests: Power electronics packaging, high-density integration, medium-voltage power modules, wide-bandgap power semiconductors
Honors & Awards:
2020 - PELS Administrative Committee Member-at-Large
2020 - PCIM Europe Advisory Board
2018 - William M. Portnoy Prize Paper Award
2018 - Outstanding Young EPE Member Award
2018 - ECPE Young Engineer Award
2013 - Top Student Oral Presentation Award, IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition
2013 - Best Student Paper Award, iMAPS International Conference and Exhibition on High-Temperature Electronics Network
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