Bringing Moore’s Law to Test
Dr. Massoud Amin is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Director of the Center for the Development of Technological Leadership and the H.W. Sweatt Chair for Technical Leadership at the University of Minnesota.
Dr. Amin holds BS (cum laude) and MS degrees in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and MS and DSc degrees in systems science and mathematics from Washington University in St. Louis.
Dr. Amin has authored or co-authored 125 research papers, published 42 articles in technical journals and 47 major technical reports. He has been an invited lecturer 174 times.
Dr. Bardina is an Engineer, Entrepreneur, and Founder/CEO of Atcor Inc. which was acquired by Entegris in 2001.
Dr. Bardina has over 30 years of global experience in the semiconductor and data storage industries.
Dr. Bardina holds a BS in civil engineering from a Chilean National University. He also holds three MS degrees from Stanford University in the fields of mechanical engineering, civil engineering and pricing theory. He holds two patents in cleaning technology.
Jeff is a Semiconductor Test Consultant. He is also a Business Development Consultant for Optimal Test and Independent Professional Services Provider.
Jeff earned a BSEE in 1972 and is a 25-year veteran of ATE and semiconductor test, having worked with such companies as Schlumberger Technologies, Advantest and Teradyne. Jeff holds five patents in the test area and was the original founder of Pintail Technologies, a test improvement company.
Joseph is the President and COO and member of the Board of Directors of Sanmina-Sci Corporation, a leading electronics contract manufacturer in global electronics manufacturing services (EMS). Prior to his current position, Joe served as President and CEO and member of the Board of Directors of FormFactor, the leader in the advanced wafer probe card market. He also held a series of senior management positions at Applied Materials including CFO, EVP and a member of the Office of the President.
Joe holds a BS degree in Accounting from Fairfield University and an MBA from the University of Connecticut. He is a CPA and in 2006 was inducted into the University of Connecticut Business School Hall of Fame.
Dr. Daasch is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Portland State University and founder and co-director of the Portland State University Integrated Circuits Design and Test Laboratory.
Dr. Daasch received his BS from Oregon State University and a PhD from the University of Washington. He is a member of IEEE and the Sigma Xi and Phi Kappa Phi honor societies.
His active research interests are digital and analog integrated circuit design and test. Currently he is principal investigator on sponsored research projects with Advanced Inquiry Systems, IBM, LSI Logic, Texas Instruments and Semiconductor Research Corporation.
Walt is a Business Consultant and Managing Director of Quotients, Inc.
Walt holds a BS degree from the University of Iowa, and an MA degree from Eastern Michigan University.
Walt was President and member of the Board of Directors of Silicon Valley companies Dryden Engineering (contamination control) and EKC Technologies (specialty chemicals). He was Executive Director for the Crocker family business holdings in San Francisco.
He authored "Market View and Analysis-Semiconductor Test" for Octavian Scientific in 2006 and co-authored the business book, "The New Business Normal", published in 2005.
Dr. Wang is President of SMIC Americas. SMIC or Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation.
Dr. Wang holds a BS degree in physics from Tsing Hua University of Taiwan and a PhD in Electronic Materials from Princeton University.
Dr. Wang has more than 25 years experience in semiconductors in the areas of process integration, device physics, business operation and marketing and sales. Prior to SMIC, he was VP of Operations for 8x8 Inc. a fables chip design company. He also was co-founder and EVP of ICT Inc. He has also been employed by Hughes Aircraft, Intel, and National Semiconductor.
Dr. West is currently retired from Credence Systems.
Dr. West holds both a BS and PhD in Physics. He is a 35-year veteran in Instrumentation and Automatic Test Equipment. His career includes E-H Research, Autek Systems, Schlumberger Technologies, NPTest and Credence Systems. Dr. West holds 33 US patents of which 27 are test-related and the remaining focused on FPGA architecture and circuitry.
Dr. Yu is Chairman of One Angstrom LLC. Retired from Intel as Senior Vice President and member of the Corporate Management Committee.
Dr. Yu received his BS degree in electrical engineering from the California Institute of Technology and his MS and PhD degrees from Stanford University, both in electrical engineering.
Dr. Yu retired from Intel in 2002 after having been with Intel for almost thirty years. He was Senior Vice President and General Manager of the heart of Intel's business; microprocessors, chipsets, boards. Software and research for sixteen years.
Dr. Yu serves on the boards of several hi-tech companies and is a member of the Committee of 100. He has lectured around the world on management and technology and has authored over 30 technical publications.
Koorosh Zaerpoor has been involved in silicon and backend test since he joined Intel Corporation in 2000 as a senior process engineer. Since then, he has served in the lead capacity in sort module development including methodology definition and process development for Intel factories worldwide. In 2005, he moved to Sort/Test Technology Equipment Pathfinding and since 2007, he has been serving in the capacity of Test Technology Target Spec owner, and has spent much of his time understanding and analyzing semiconductor roadmap especially as it relates to test.
Koorosh earned his PhD in Nuclear Physics from Oregon State University and worked as a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Space Sciences Lab at UC Berkeley. His main work there, involved the development of the Extremely Heavy Cosmic Ray Observer and cosmic-ray chronometry for developing galactic evolution theories.