IEEE Toronto Section - Executive Committee

IEEE Toronto Section Executive Committee Biographies
The operation of the IEEE Toronto Section is managed by the Section Executive committee, whose members are elected or appointed every two years. On each of these pages, we introduce a member of the committee who volunteers his or her time and energy to deliver the services that the IEEE Toronto Section provides. On your behalf, we recognize their invaluable contributions.

Olivier Trescases - Student Activities Chair

Olivier Trescases completed his master's and doctoral degrees at the University of Toronto in 2007 and 2004 respectively. His Ph.D. dissertation dealt with high-efficiency, digitally controlled integrated switched-mode power supplies for portable applications. Dr. Trescases has published over 25 papers in some of the top IEEE conferences in power electronics. He received two best-paper awards and one IEEE Vehicular Technology award. From 2007 to 2009, he worked as a concept engineer and mixed-signal circuit designer at Infineon Technologies in Austria, one of the top-10 semiconductor manufacturers. While at Infineon, he designed application-specific ICs in BCD (Bipolar/CMOS/DMOS) fabrication technologies for safety-critical automotive applications, such as electronic control units for airbag modules. He is the co-inventor for one pending and two granted patents.

Dr. Trescases joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering as an Assistant Professor in January 2009, where he conducts research on power electronics for automotive, industrial, aerospace and photovoltaic (solar) applications. He is currently engaged in a number of research projects dealing with distributed peak power tracking for solar applications, power converters for high-brightness LEDs, battery management circuits for electric vehicles, integrated power converters and digital control schemes. He currently teaches undergraduate and graduate-level courses on advanced switched-mode power supplies. He is a member of the executive committee for the IEEE Toronto Section, where is currently serving as Student Activities Chair. He is a member of the technical committee for IPEC, the International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems (ICECS) and the CMOS Emerging Technologies Workshop (CMOSET). He has experience in a wide range of topics in the field of power electronics, such as digital control, efficiency optimization, mixed-signal IC design, protection schemes, system-level modeling, device-level design, packaging, and power transistors.

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