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Stephanie Watts Butler, PhD, PE

WattsButler LLC

Stephanie Watts Butler, PhD, PE is president of WattsButler LLC, an innovation services company. As a technology innovation architect with over 35 years of experience in silicon and wide bandgap technology and product development, Dr. Butler enables clients to innovate more efficiently, effectively, and profitably by bringing structure to nebulous situations to solve complex problems. Her previous career at Texas Instruments led to a broad range of profitable semiconductor products, manufacturing solutions and enabling technologies and 17 patents covering: CMOS/Analog/Power; process and packaging; Computer Integrated Manufacturing Systems; Metrology; Advanced Process Control; reliability. She is Co-Founder and Past Chair of JEDEC’s JC-70 Wide Bandgap Standards Committee and Co-Convenor of IEC’s TC47/WG8. Dr. Butler serves as Industry Deputy Editor of the IEEE Power Electronics Magazine and previously founded IEEE PELS’ Industry Committee; she is a member of the ACE and WIE committees. She serves on the PSMA Board of Directors and APEC Planning Committee. She is a fellow of AVS.

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