Prof. Juan M. Rivas Davila

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR IN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

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My lab is the Stanford University Power Electronics Research Laboratory (SUPER-Lab), and we work in high frequency power electronics. My research interests are broadly in circuits, power electronics, resonant converters, gate drives, high-frequency passive components, Wide Bandgap devices, and finding new applications for converters.

I joined Stanford in 2014 after serving two years as an Assistant Professor in the EECS department at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. From 2007 to 2011 I worked as a senior power electronics engineering at the GE Global Research Center at Niskayuna, NY, where I work developing MRI compatible switched-mode power supplies, solar inverters, and in many other power electronics projects.

Education

  • Postdoctoral Fellow ∙ Massachusetts Institute of Technology ∙ 2007
  • Sc.D. in Electrical Engineering ∙ Massachusetts Institute of Technology ∙ 2006
  • S.M. in Electrical Engineering ∙ Massachusetts Institute of Technology ∙ 2003
  • B.S. in Electrical Engineering and communications ∙ Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrery ∙ Mexico City ∙ 1998

Interested in the SUPER-Lab?

If your are interested in working with me at the SUPER Lab, please be mindful that I receive a large number of emails from prospective students asking me to evaluate their resumes and inquiring and about research assistantships in my group. Please do not be disappointed if I do not respond or respond only with a short email; I simply do not have the bandwidth to run my own admissions office. If you are interested in joining my group, your first step is to apply to our PhD program. I can then evaluate your folder during admissions season and see how you rank against the other applicants that are interested in joining my group. I tend to take on only 1-3 new students each year, and so I need to be selective and defer my evaluations and decisions until I see the entire pool of applicants in December/January. Thanks for your interest!