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: Mart Graef received a PhD in Solid State Chemistry from the University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands, in 1980. Subsequently, he joined Philips Research, where he held various positions in Eindhoven (the Netherlands) and Sunnyvale (USA) as a scientist and manager in the field of semiconductor process technology. He was strategic program manager at Philips Semiconductors and NXP until 2009, when he joined TU Delft, also as strategic program manager.

In this position, he develops technology partnerships with companies, institutes and universities, often within the framework of national and European cooperative projects.  He participates in initiatives aimed at defining strategies and technology roadmaps in nanoelectronics, such as the European Strategic Research Agenda for Electronic Components and Systems. He is a member of the International Roadmap Committee, which guides the International Roadmap for Devices and Components (IRDS). He is the chair of the AENEAS Scientific Council and participates in the AENEAS Management Committee.

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: José Pineda de Gyvez is Fellow at NXP Semiconductors on low power design technologies. His industrial responsibilities are positioned at the interface between design and technology. Pineda holds the professorship Resilient Nanoelectronics (part-time) in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands. This professorship fills a gap between industry and academia by bringing industrial knowledge into classrooms, and open innovation into NXP. He was also a Faculty member in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Texas A&M University, USA. Pineda has been Associate Editor for several IEEE Transactions and is often involved in program and steering committees of international symposiums. He is also a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Low Power Electronics. Pineda has more than 150 publications in the fields of low power C design, analog signal processing, and design for manufacturability and test. He is (co)-author of four books, and has more than 30 US granted patents. Pineda is an IEEE Fellow.

Biography: Fred Roozeboom received his PhD in 1980 at Twente University, Netherlands. From 1980-1983 he worked on zeolite catalysis with Exxon R&D in Baton Rouge, USA. In 1983 he joined Philips Research (since 2006: NXP) in Eindhoven. From 1997-2009 he led a team working on passive and heterogeneous 3D integration for applications in wireless communication, power management and digital signal processing. In 2007 he received the Bronze Award for ‘NXP Invention of the Year’, became NXP Research Fellow, and part-time professor at TU Eindhoven, in the dept. Applied Physics, group Plasma & Materials Processing.

In 2009 he left NXP and joined TNO, Eindhoven, to work in a team specializing in spatial ALD and other high-speed processing. In 2011, this team received the 2nd EARTO Innovation Prize Award. In 2014 he was elected Fellow of the Electrochemical Society. Fred has authored or co-authored over 200 journal and conference publications and 5 book chapters (h-index 31), holds 30 granted US patents and  approximately 35 WO patent applications, and is the editor or co-editor of 35 conference proceedings on semiconductor processing. Fred is a member of the SEMI Europe Semiconductor Technology Programs Committee. Topics of interest: ultrathin-film technology, plasma processing, spatial ALD (incl. roll-to-roll), RTP, reactive ion etching, 3D passive and heterogeneous integration, microsystem technology, Li-ion micro-batteries, sensors, displays. 

Biography: Mottaqiallah Taouil received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees (both with honors) in computer engineering from the Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands. During his PhD, he developed 3D-COSTAR; a tool used by several companies such as Qualcomm (USA) and Cascade Microtech GmbH (USA) to evaluate test flows for 3D stacked ICs. 3D-COSTAR has been awarded with Hipeach Technology Transfer Award in 2015. During his work at Delft University of Technology, he has been also collaborating with several industrial and academic partners such as ESA (the Netherlands), IMEC (Belgium) and Eindhoven University of Technology. 

Thereafter, he worked for four years on test and reliability of SRAM designs during his Post-Doc. Since February 2018 he became an Assistant Professor in the Dependable Nano-Computing Group, Delft University of Technology. His current research focuses on hardware security and design for test/reliability.

Taouil has reviewed articles for many major journals and conferences and received several best papers awards in a variety of topics. Furthermore, he has been involved in many professional activities such as organizing conferences and summer schools, where he took several such as Program Chair, Publication Chair, Web Chair, etc.

Biography: Sten Vollebregt was born in Delft, The Netherlands, in 1984. He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. (both cum laude) in Electrical Engineering in 2006 and 2009, respectively. He obtained his PhD in 2014 in the Microelectronics Department of the Delft University of Technology on the low-temperature high-density growth of carbon nanotubes for application as vertical interconnects in 3D monolithic integrated circuits. After obtaining his Ph.D., he held a Post-doc position on the wafer-scale integration of graphene for sensing applications together with the faculty of Mechanical Engineering and several industrial partners. During this research, he developed a transfer-free wafer-scale CVD graphene process.

Currently, he is an assistant professor in the Laboratory of Electronic Components, Technology and Materials of the Delft University of Technology where his research focusses on the integration of emerging electronic materials into semiconductor technology. His current research interests are (carbon-based) nanomaterials, 3D monolithic integration, wide-bandgap semiconductors, and environmental sensors. He co-authored over 20 scientific articles and 4 book chapters, and has 2 patents pending.

Biography: Dr. Qiang Xu received the BS and MSc degree in Materials Science and Engineering at Tsinghua University in 1994 and 2002. He got his PhD degree in Nano science at Delft University of Technology in 2007, trained in transmission electron microscopy field. 

From 2010 he was appointed as scientific researcher in Applied science of Delft University. In 2012 august, together with other founders of DENSsolutions B.V., he started to commercialize in situ transmission electron microscopy technologies, which took use of MEMS technologies that were initially developed in Delft University and applied them successfully to solve big scientific challenges of energy and environment. Because of it, DENSsolutions got a great success in the past 5 years. The developed products have been widely accepted by various top universities and institutes globally.  In 2017 DENSsolutions B.V. was listed as the top 50 fastest growing companies in Netherlands and the only exceptional one that is not from software business. 

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