R&D Team Leader

imec

Dr. Maarten Cauwe is leading the Flexible Microsystems for Health team at the imec-UGent Center for Microsystems Technology (CMST), and is involved in several projects concerning substrate technologies, chip assembly, medical packaging, and chip embedding....

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Senior Hardware Architect

IBM

Mehdi Hamid, graduated from Washington State University in Computational Mechanics and Material Science on 2019 and Joined IBM since then as a Hardware Architect. He led several IBM's mainframe an...

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Director R&D

Siborg Systems Inc

Michael S. Obrecht, Ph.D., Currently with Siborg Systems Inc, Director R&D, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, previously with ECE Department, University of Waterloo, Research Associate Professor. Education: Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia, M.Sc., nuclear physics, 1975, Ph.D., theoretical physics, 1983....

President

Magnalytix, LLC

Dr. Mike Bixenman, President of Magnalytix, LLC, is the co-founder of KYZEN Corp., and Magnalytix, LLC. He has over 30 years of experience designing electronic assembly cleaning materials and process integration....

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Sales Manager

ZESTRON

Dr. Olaf Schoenfeld has been a critical figure at ZESTRON since 2009 as European Sales Manager. Specializing in cleanliness solutions for electrical assemblies, his team has successfully led the market introduction and distribution of products and services, ensuring the reliability of electronic assemblies....

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Distinguished Member Technical Staff,

Texas Instruments

Pat Thompson is a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff at Texas Instruments, where he leads a wafer-based process packaging R&D team within the Packaging, Test and Quality organization....

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Vice President of Technology Engineering and Global Quality

MiTAC

Paul received his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering and MBA in Management Science from State University of New York at Buffalo....

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Vice President of Technology

Specialty Coating Systems

Dr. Rakesh Kumar is currently the V.P. of Technology for SCS, Inc., where he leads the R&D group and manages Parylene, Plasma CVD and ALD coatings R&D activities worldwide. He has more than 33 years of extensive experience in advanced materials and their applications in the electronics, & semiconductors areas....

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Principal Engineer

JPL

Dr. Ghaffarian has 4 decades of technical and program management experience within JPL, industry, and academia. At NASA/JPL, he has led industry-wide consortia and R&D reliability/assurance evaluation for infusion of advanced electronic packaging technologies, e.g., CCGA in 1998....

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R&D Specialist

Pillarhouse International

Dr Samuel J. McMaster is a R&D Specialist at Pillarhouse International. He completed his PhD at the University of Leeds studying the tribology and surface engineering of DLC coatings. Following this he moved to Coventry University and undertook a Knowledge Transfer Partnership project with Pillarhouse....

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