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Dr. Michael DeLisio: Founder, CTO

Dr. Michael DeLisio has over 25 years of experience developing leading-edge solid state power amplifiers and is a co-founder of Mission Microwave Technologies. He was previously co-founder and CTO of Wavestream Corporation, the first company to successfully commercialize microwave and millimeter-wave spatial power-combining techniques. He has authored more than 65 publications and patents, and in 2014 was selected by the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society to become an IEEE Fellow, in recognition of his pioneering work commercializing high-power solid-state amplifier technologies. Prior to founding Wavestream, Dr. Delisio was a professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and was a visiting associate at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). He received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and earned M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering at Caltech.