Giovanna Oriti was born in Catania, Italy. She received the Laurea degree with honors and Ph.D. degree,
both in electrical engineering, from the University of Catania, Italy, in 1993 and 1997 respectively. She was a Research Intern at the University of Wisconsin, Madison for two years.
After graduation she joined United Technology Research Center where she developed innovative power converter topologies and control. She led the development of an electric power control test bed in order to develop new products for the divisions of United Technologies including Otis, Carrier and Pratt & Whitney.
In 2000 she launched her own consulting business. In April of 2008 she joined the faculty of the Naval Postgraduate School as Research Assistant Professor at the ECE Department of the Graduate School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (GSEAS). She develops physics based models of power converters and drives for Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) analysis, stability analysis and development of control algorithms. She embeds real time power converter control algorithms in DSP platforms. She also performs reliability and life cycle predictions for power conversion systems.
Dr. Oriti holds one US Patent and has co-authored 25 papers in IEEE Transactions or IEEE conference proceedings. She is an IEEE Senior Member and the recipient of the 2002 IEEE IAS Outstanding Young Member Award. She was the Chair of the IAS Industrial Power Converter Committee in 2006-2007 and she is currently the vice Chair of the Industrial Power Conversion System Department of the IEEE Industry Application Society.
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