Wenkai Wu

Wenkai Wu received his bachelor’s degree from Jiao Tong University, Xi’an, China in 1986, then an MS and PhD from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China in 1993 and 2000 respectively, before earning his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Central Florida in 2003. After graduating from UCF, he joined the industry with International Rectifier (acquired by Infineon in 2014). He then joined Texas Instruments in 2008, then in 2019 Wenkai started his own business, Reed Semiconductor where he is currently the CEO. His company power solutions for various applications; their POL (DC-DC Point-Of-Load), eFuse and Smart Power Stage products provide efficient and cost-effective power conversion solutions for Data Centers, 5G and AI applications.

Wenkai holds over 20 United States patents and made major contributions to the industry on Smart Power Stage (APEC 2009 Technical Seminar T7) and DDR5+ voltage regulations (Initiator in JEDEC to move power from mother board to VR_ON_DIMM) for future power in High Power Computing (HPC), Communications, Networking and Autonomous Driving. His interests include ac/dc converters with active power factor correction, maximum power tracking architectures, high power electronic ballast, and low voltage dc/dc converters.