Samantha Coday

Samantha Coday joined the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science as an assistant professor in July 2024. Her research interests include ultra-dense power converters enabling renewable energy integration, hybrid electric aircraft, and future space exploration. Coday’s research focuses on optimizing, designing, and controlling hybrid switched-capacitor converters to enable high-performance converters for these critical applications. She earned a BS in electrical engineering and mathematics from Southern Methodist University and an MS and a PhD in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of California, Berkeley.