Dr. Pallab Midya

2002 Outstanding Young Power Electronics Engineer Award Recipient



Pallab Midya received his B.Tech from IIT, Kharagpur, M.S. from Syracuse Univer­sity, and Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. In India he recived the "National Talent Scholarship & Award" from NCERT, and "National Sci­ence Talent Award" from Jagdish Bose Research Institute.

 

His Ph.D. thesis was in Power Electronics, "Nonlinear Operation and Control of DC to DC Switching Power Converters". He was involved in the solar car race SunRayce1995 and was the inventor of the maximum power point tracking converter for the solar panels. Along with his advisor Prof. Krein he has two US patents related to his thesis. He has made seminar presentations and served on a Ph.D. thesis committee at UIUC. He has authored 22 conference and journal papers.

 

Since 1995 he has been with Motorola labs in Schaumburg. He is a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff. He introduced Supply Modulation as a method to increase RF transmitter efficiency. He was the chief architect of an IC that dou­bled the transmitter efficiency of Motorola's satellite phone. This technology has since been incorporated into Motorola cellular phones. He initiated a research program for Direct Digital RF Generation and Amplification to create modulated RF signal using a switching amplifier. He has been the technical lead in Motorola's Digital Switching Audio Amplifier program. He has 12 issued and 11 pending US patents. He has been Power Conversion and Management Chair for Motor­ola's Radio Architecture Steering Committee. He has served as reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, PESC and Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems. He is member of Sigma Xi, Eta Kappa Nu, Senior member of IEEE and member of Audio Engineering Society.

 

Source: Flyer from Award Presentation