Gourab Majumdar
Gourab Majumdar received his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi, India, in 1977 and his PhD in engineering from the Kyushu Institute of Technology (KIT), Fukuoka, Japan, in 2005. He started his career at Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Japan, in 1980 in a special on-the-job program. Since 1983, he has worked in the company’s units responsible for advanced power semiconductor development, design, and applications, and since 2012, he is executive fellow in the Semiconductor and Device Group. Dr. Majumdar has published and coauthored many technical papers and books on power devices and holds several patents in related
fields. He received the prestigious National Invention Award in Japan in 2005 for inventing the Intelligent Power Module (IPM) fundamental concept and the Monozukuri Nihon Taishou (Japan Craftsmanship Grand Prix) award from the honorary Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry in 2013 for contributing to the development and commercialization of various generations of IPM devices. He was a visiting lecturer of advanced power semiconductor devices at both Kyushu
University and Tokyo Institute of Technology for several years. In 2016, he was bestowed with an honorary professorship by Amity University, India.