Dr. John Shen is currently a professor and director of School of Mechatronic Systems Engineering at Simon Fraser University, BC, Canada. He has over 34 years of academic, industrial, and entrepreneurial experience in the field of power electronics and power semiconductor devices. He has authored or co- authored roughly 350 journal and conference papers, several book chapters, and 20 issued U.S. patents, and co-edited two books on Direct Current Fault Protection: Basic Concepts and Technology Advances (Springer, 2023), and Wide Bandgap Power Electronics: Emerging Converter Technologies and Applications (Springer, 2024), respectively. He was with Motorola Inc. 1993-1999, the University of Michigan-Dearborn 1999- 2004, the University of Central Florida 2004-2012, and Illinois Institute of Technology 2013-2021. He served as a board member and Chief Scientist of GWS Semiconductor (now a division of Renesas Electronics) between 2002 and 2012 and currently serving on the board of directors of Vicor Corporation (NASDAQ: VICR). He invented the lateral MHz-frequency flip-chip power MOSFETs, which is now widely adopted into the ultra-compact power delivery networks for supercomputers, servers, and AI chips. He served the IEEE PELS in various capacities including Vice President of Products, AdCom member at large, Chair of PELS Distinguished Lecturers Program, general chair, technical program chair, or organizing committee member of over 30 international conferences, including General Chair of the 8th IEEE Energy Convergence Congress and Expo (ECCE2016) and of the 30 th IEEE International Symposium on Power Semiconductor Devices and ICs (ISPSD2018). He is a Fellow of IEEE and a Fellow of the U.S. National Academy of Inventors.
