Luca NelaLuca Nela received his B.S. degree in Physical Engineering from Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy, in 2015. He then participated in a double degree program between Politecnico di Torino and Université Paris Diderot, Paris, France, from which he received his M.S. in Nanotechnologies for the ICTs and Quantum Devices in 2017. Finally, he joined the Power and Wide-Band-Gap Electronics Research Laboratory in EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, where he is currently pursuing a doctoral degree. His research interests include the design and characterization of power semiconductor devices.
Palliyage Srilak Nirmana PereraNirmana Perera received the B.Sc. degree in electrical and electronic engineering from the University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, in 2011, and the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering in the field of power electronics/energy systems from the University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, in 2015.
He was an instructor at the University of Peradeniya until 2012. From 2013 to 2015, he was a Graduate Research Assistant under the supervision of Prof. John Salmon at the University of Alberta. He was a lecturer at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Peradeniya from 2015 to 2017.
Currently he is pursuing his PHD degree at the Power and Wide-band-gap Electronics Research lab under the supervision of Prof. Elison Matioli. His current research interests include power electronic topologies, pulse-width modulation schemes and drive systems.
