Agasthya Ayachit

The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is a top-tier technical platform hosting the greatest and latest innovations in a variety of fields including and not limited to consumer applications, healthcare, automotive, telecommunications, cybersecurity, robotics, smart homes, sustainability, and artificial intelligence. This sessions deep dives into general trends in automotive industry and highlights a few non-automotive observations demonstrated at CES 2024. 

Biography:

Agasthya Ayachit, Ph.D., is a Staff High-Voltage Systems Engineer at Mercedes-Benz Research and Development North America. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Wright State University in 2018 after completing this dissertation titled “Steady-State and Small-Signal Modeling of A-Source Converter”. Agasthya has served as a lecturer at Penn State University, Erie, Pennsylvania in 2010 and as a research intern at GE Global Research in 2011, Mediatek in 2013, and Google in 2017. Since joining Mercedes-Benz, he has been actively contributing to the design and development of power conversion stages in electric vehicle battery charging and eDrive systems. He has published several conference and journal articles in domains related to small-signal modeling, magnetics, resonant topologies, hard-switched dc-dc converter stages, electric vehicle charging. He has co-authored 2 book publications and owns several patents in electric vehicle space.