About me
I work in semiconductor R&D. I strive to advance the state-of-the-art: towards enabling next generation compute and DRAM/NAND memory technologies. My experience and expertise span product line management, new product development, process pathfinding, and HVM qualification. Chances are.. your computers, portable devices, and their AI features are enabled by the technologies that I have been contributing to! :-)
I earned my PhD in Mechanical Engineering from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, advised by Prof. Rashid Bashir and (late) Prof. Mark A. Shannon. The science of miniaturization has been my primary academic interest: immense possibilities stemming from the dominance of surface area-over-volume effects for all phenomena at microscopic length scales excite me. For a decade during my BTech/MS/PhD, I researched on and contributed to several topics involving MEMS, nanotechnology and microfabrication concepts.
Over the last decade (2020-2025 @ Applied Materials, Inc. / 2015-2020 @ Lam Research Corp.), I led process engineering R&D to enable cutting-edge tools and process qualifications for the semiconductor technology roadmaps. Most recently, as a senior product line manager, I helped define and lead technologies that enable the scaling of data and AI accelerations for semiconductor manufacturing environments.
