Umesh Mishra
Umesh K. Mishra | |
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| Born | 1958 |
| Alma mater | Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur Lehigh University Cornell University |
| Known for | High speed, RF GaN based HEMTs |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Electrical Engineering Materials Science |
| Institutions | General Electric University of California, Santa Barbara |
| Doctoral advisor | Lester Eastman |
| Doctoral students | Srabanti Chowdhury Huili Grace Xing |
Umesh K. Mishra is a professor in the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara (1990–present). In 2023, he was appointed dean of the UC Santa Barbara College of Engineering. He is the CTO, co-founder and board member of Transphorm, founded in 2007 and the first company to deliver gallium nitride (GaN) transistor products for high efficiency power conversion technologies. Prior to Transphorm, he co-founded Nitres Inc. in 1996, which was the first company to develop GaN LEDs and transistors.