Nathan M. Ellis [Senior Member, IEEE] is currently an Assistant Professor within the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz. From 2020 to 2024, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley. He received the B.S. degree in EE from the University College Cork, Ireland, in 2013, and the M.S. and Ph.D degrees in ECE from the University of California, Davis, in 2017 and 2020, respectively. He conducts research in the area of power electronics, with interests in circuit topologies, modeling and control, mixed-signal integrated circuit design, and high-performance hardware. His work has been applied to data-center power delivery, satellite systems, renewable-energy technologies, biomedical devices, and electric vehicles. He has authored more than 40 journal and conference publications, holds four U.S. patents, and has coauthored two IEEE prize papers. Dr. Ellis received UC Davis’ Industrial Affiliates Best Graduate Researcher Award in 2017, the Analog Devices Outstanding Student Designer Award at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference in 2020, recognition for “Instructor Teaching Effectiveness that greatly exceeds the Departmental average” at the University of California, Berkeley in 2021, and the Best Technical Lecturer Award at the IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference in both 2021 and 2024.
