William Stanchina

William Stanchina is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh’s Swanson School of Engineering. His research focuses on semiconductor devices, including compound semiconductors, high-frequency electronics, and power electronics. He has developed novel heterojunction devices and transitioned R&D into production for government and commercial applications. His work includes wide bandgap semiconductors for smart grid and biomedical instrumentation, as well as nanowire growth for device implementation.

Dr. Stanchina holds a PhD and MSEE in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California (1973–1978) and a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame (1971). His research emphasizes semiconductor materials growth, IC fabrication processes, and device characterization. He has established an electronic device measurement capability at Pitt to extract equivalent circuit models for semiconductor devices.

His publications span GaN-based power converters, nanofabrication techniques, and optoelectronic pathogen detection systems. Recent work explores high-power-density modular converters and linear models for wide bandgap semiconductor circuits.