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Umesh Mishra - GaN 2026 Marathon
Date
Sunday, October 26, 2025, 3:30 pm

Don't miss Professor Mishra's talk and come to 𝐆𝐚𝐍 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐧 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔!

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GaN Marathon 2026 will be held in the heart of Florence, the birthplace of the Renaissance. Several invited and regular speakers will discuss the latest advancements in GaN technologies in microwave, mm-wave, 5G communications, power conversion, and optoelectronics.

We are glad to announce our second keynote speaker of this new exciting edition of 𝐆𝐚𝐍 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐧 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔:

Umesh Mishra, Ph.D. from University of California Santa Barbara.
His talk is entitled: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐆𝐚𝐍

Professor Mishra joined ECE Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1990 from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at North Carolina State University. A recognized leader in the area of high-speed field effect transistors, Dr. Mishra has made major contributions at every laboratory and academic institution for which he has worked, including: Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, California; the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor; and General Electric, Syracuse, New York. His current research areas attempt to develop an understanding of novel materials and extend them into applications. He is the Director of the AFOSR PRET Center for Non-Stoichiometric Semiconductors and of the ONR MURI Center (IMPACT), which relates to the application of SiC and GaN based transistors for power amplification.

Don't miss Professor Mishra's talk and come to 𝐆𝐚𝐍 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐧 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔!

𝐂𝐡𝐞𝐜𝐤 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐰𝐞𝐛𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐞