Josip Žilak was born on January 3rd, 1986 in Slavonski Brod, Croatia. He received Diploma engineer and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb, Croatia, in 2009 and 2017, respectively. From April 2010 he has been employed in the Xylon d.o.o. company as the junior FPGA engineer. He is involved in development and testing of embedded systems based on FPGA technology projects. From June 2011, he is with the Department of Electronics, Microelectronics, Computer and Intelligent Systems, as a Research and Teaching Assistant. He is currently a Post-Doctoral Researcher at FER.

His research is focused on advanced bipolar transistor structures with the aim of development and experimental demonstration of the Horizontal Current Bipolar Transistor – HCBT. Within the research, he is involved in simulations and design of integrated circuits based on HCBT, as well as setting up testing and measuring environment for HCBT technology verification.

He has authored or co-authored 4 papers in peer-reviewed international journals, over 15 peer-reviewed papers presented on international conferences and several technical reports for Asahi Kasei Microdevices Co. Ltd., Japan, and Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, and Laser Components DG, Inc., USA. He is a member of IEEE Electron Devices Society (IEEE EDS) and IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society Membership (IEEE SSCS).

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