Biography: Kees Beenakker joined Philips Research Laboratories in Eindhoven in 1974. In 1982 he moved to the Philips Semiconductor Division in Nijmegen to become head of the corporate assembly process and equipment development. In 1987 he resigned at Philips and became cofounder of Eurasem, a European hi-rel IC assembly company. In 1989 Kees Beenakker joined Dimes and is since 1990 full professor at the faculty of EEMCS. From 1990 till 2004 he was chairman of the ECTM laboratory. From 1999 till 2009 he was chairman of the department of Microelectronics and Computer Engineering and from March 2007 till May 2012 he was scientific director of DIMES, the Delft institute of microsystems and nanoelectronics. From May 2012 till August 2013 he was director of the TU Delft-Beijing Research Centre in Beijing. He was guest professor at Tsinghua University and at the Institute of Semiconductors (CAS), both in Beijing. He is now member of the board of Jiaco-Instruments in Delft and Boschman Advanced Packaging Centre in Duiven, NL.

Biography: Jacob Fokkema received the MSc degree in electrical engineering and the PhD degree in technical sciences in 1976 and 1979, respectively. From 1980-1981 he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the integrated systems laboratory at Stanford University. In 1982 when he was appointed as scientific staff member in the section of Applied Geophysics Department of Delft University. In the academic year 1987-1988, he was a visiting professor in the Institute of Geosciences and Physics of the Federal University of Bahia in Salvador, Brazil. In 1993, he was appointed full professor of Applied Geophysics in Delft and visiting professor at the Catholic University of Louvain. In 2001 he was appointed as special professor of Applied Geophysics at the Free University of Amsterdam. He was Rector Magnificus of the Delft University of Technology from 2002 till 2010. From 2010 till 2017 he was the chairman of Earth and Life Sciences of the Dutch Science Foundation. He received the 1997 Conrad Schlumberger Award and best paper Award Geophysics in 2006. In 2014 he was elected as Honorary Member of the EAEG.

Biography: Hamdioui received the MSEE and PhD degrees (both with honors) from TUDelft, The Netherlands. He is a chair professor and head of Computer Engineering Laboratory of TUDelft. Prior to joining TUDelft, Hamdioui worked for Microprocessor Intel (CA, USA), Philips Semiconductors R&D (France) and for Philips/ NXP Semiconductors (Nijmegen, The Netherlands). His research interests include Emerging Dependable nano-computing .

Hamdioui owns one patent and has published one book and over 170 technical papers. He has consulted for many worldwide semi-conductor companies in the area of testing and has  collaborated with many industry/research partners. He is strongly involved in the international community and has delivered dozens of  keynote speeches, distinguished lectures, and invited presentations and tutorial at major international forums /conferences /schools and at leading semiconductor companies. Hamdioui is a Senior member of the IEEE, Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems, and he serves on the editorial board of IEEE Design & Test, and of the Journal of Electronic Testing: Theory and Applications. He is also member of AENEAS/ENIAC Scientific Committee Council (AENEAS =Association for European NanoElectronics Activities). 

Biography: Founder and CEO of FabMax, which provides innovative development and commercialization services for the semiconductor and related process-based technologies (MEMS, III-V, etc.). A semiconductor industry veteran with 20 years of experience spanning business development, global sales, technology development, operations and corporate management like finance and investor relations).
He is co-founder and Co-Chair of SEMI SEA Interest Group. SEMI is the Global Semiconductor Industry Association.

Current projects include development of Mapper maskless multi e-beam technology, development of HW based high security chips for IOT environments and developing the semiconductor industry in Vietnam. He has served during the period 95-07 as SVP and President of ASML Special Applications Division. He established and managed built up this new BU which focus on niche and new market segments for lithography systems. He holds an MA in Economics and Finance as an MBA from Webster University, Leiden and a (HEAO) bachelor’s degree in marketing.  Passion for technology, football and cooking.

Biography: Kofi Makinwa holds degrees from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife (B.Sc., M.Sc.), Philips International Institute, Eindhoven (M.E.E.), and Delft University of Technology, Delft (Ph.D.). From 1989 to 1999, he was a research scientist at Philips Research Laboratories, and in 1999 he joined Delft University of Technology, where he is currently an Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Professor of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Engineering and Head of the Microelectronics Department.

Dr. Makinwa holds more than 25 patents, has authored or co-authored more than 200 technical papers and 7 books and has co-edited 5 more. He is strongly involved in the international community and at the 60th anniversary of ISSCC, he was recognized as one of its top ten contributing authors. For his Ph.D. research, Dr. Makinwa was awarded the title of 'Simon Stevin Gezel' by the Dutch Technology Foundation (STW). In 2005, he received a VENI grant from the Dutch Scientific Foundation (NWO). He is a co-recipient of several best paper awards: from the JSSC (2), ISSCC (4), VLSI (1), ESSCIRC (2) and Transducers (1). He is an IEEE Fellow, an alumnus of the Young Academy of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) and an elected member of the AdCom of the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society.

Biography: Hans Manhaeve is currently CEO and managing director of Ridgetop Europe nv and CTO for Ridgetop Group inc. Previously he was CEO of Q-Star Test nv, a company which he founded in 1999. Before that he was a researcher at IMEC and Lecturer and researcher at KHBO-IMEC, where he conducted and lead research in the area of (supply) current test with focus on measurement solutions and application strategies. Q-Star Test spun-off from KHBO/IMEC at the end of 1999. He holds an electronic engineering degree (MSc) from KHBO (B) and a PhD in electronic engineering from the University of Hull (UK) as well as teaching and management certificates.

He is member of the IEEE, IEEE-CS ETTTC, IEEE-TTTC, serves on the Steering Committee, Program Committee or Organising Committee of various well recognised international workshops and conferences, serves as reviewer and guest editor for various events and magazines, is guest professor at VIVES-KUL and serves as expert/reviewer for the European Commission.

He delivered active contributions to several national and international conferences and workshops. He authored/co-authored more than 100 papers of which more than 50 papers on current monitors and current-based test strategies and holds several patents on Iddq / Iddt monitors and quiescent and transient supply current measurement techniques. 

Biography: Marcel Pelgrom received his PhD from Twente University, The Netherlands. In 1979 he joined Philips Research Laboratories, where his research has covered topics as Charge Coupled Devices, MOS matching properties, analog-to-digital conversion, digital image correlation, and various analog building block techniques. His IEEE Journal of Solid-state circuits’ paper on mismatch is the third most cited paper of this Journal. 

He has headed several project teams and was as a team leader for high-speed analog-to-digital conversion responsible for many conversion products. From 1996 till 2003 he was a department head for mixed-signal electronics research. In 2003 he spent a sabbatical in Stanford University where he was appointed a consulting professor. Till 2013 he was with NXP Semiconductors. Next to various activities concerning industry-academic relations, he was involved as a research fellow in research on substrate noise, variability and advanced conversion techniques. Presently he is an independent consultant advising international institutions and companies.

Dr. Pelgrom served twice as an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer, as associate editor, is columnist for the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine, and has written over 40 publications, three books, seven book chapters and holds 37 US patents. He is lecturing at Twente and Delft Universities, and for MEAD/EPFL. He is an honorary professor at the KU Leuven and the 2017 recipient of the  IEEE Gustav R. Kirchhoff field award for fundamental contributions in electronic circuits.

Biography: John Schmitz studied Chemistry at the Radboud University in Nijmegen, where he was awarded his doctorate in 1984, specialising in thermodynamics and electrochemistry. 

Since then, he has had more than thirty years' experience in the semiconductor industry at such companies as Philips, Genus Inc, SEMATECH and NXP. The practical application of science and technology has played an important role in his career: Schmitz has more than fifty publications and contributions in peer-reviewed journals and at international conferences to his name, and has published books on semiconductor technology, as well as a popular scientific work on thermodynamics in a historical and everyday context. 

Schmitz has also held advisory roles on such bodies as the Confederation of Netherlands Industry and Employers' Technology and Innovation Committee (VNO-NCW), the Governing Board of MESA+, the National Science Foundation and the Scientific Advisory Board of IMEC. He is currently an advisor to the board of the Semiconductors Business Cluster and sits on the advisory boards at Smart Photonics and at Applied Nano-Layers. 

Schmitz holds a total of six patents.

Biography: Prof. G.Q. Zhang chairs "Micro/Nanoelectronics System Integration and Reliability" group, with main research scopes of multi-functional and multi-level heterogeneous system integration; multi-scale (from MD to continuous) and multi-physics modeling and characterization of micro/nanoelectronics, SSL and other wide bandgap semiconductors; design for reliability and fast reliability qualification.. 

He is IEEE Fellow; scientific director of TUD Beijing Research Centre; co-chair of Advisory Board of International SSL Alliance; co-director of State Key Lab for SSL; deputy director of European’s Centre of Micro/Nano Reliability; secretary general of international technology roadmap of wide bandgap semiconductors (ITRW) . He authored/co-authored more than 350 scientific publications; chaired /co-chaired several international conferences (such as IEEE-EuroSimE, IEEE-ICEPT; Congress of MicroNanoReliability; etc.); serves as associated editor for 3 international journals and chief editor for Springer book series "SSL Technology and Applications". 

Prof. Zhang also worked for NXP Semiconductors as Senior Director of Technology Strategy, Philips Research Fellow until May 2013.

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