Alexandr Ikriannikov is a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff for the Consumer and Cloud Infrastructure team at Analog Devices. He received his PhD in EE from Caltech in 2000, where he studied Power Electronics from Dr. Cuk. His graduate school projects ranged from power factor correction for ac-dc applications to 15- to 400-V dc-dc for Mars rovers.
After graduate school, he joined Power Ten to redesign and optimize multi-kilowatt ac-dc power supplies, then in 2001 joined Volterra Semiconductor concentrating on low-voltage, high-current applications and coupled inductors. Volterra was acquired by Maxim Integrated in 2013, which recently became a part of Analog Devices. Currently, Alexandr is a Senior Member of IEEE, holds more than 60 issued U.S. patents plus more pending, and authored multiple publications in the field of power electronics.