Keynote Speakers
Dan Armbrust
Semiconductor Executive, Co-founder, Board Director, & initial COE of Silicon Catalyst
Title Talk: Revitalizing Semiconductor Startups
Daniel Armbrust is co-founder and director of Silicon Catalyst which incubates semiconductor startups. Its portfolio companies have raised more than $0.5B in venture funding and are valued at over $1.9B. Armbrust serves as an advisor, board member, board chairman and angel investor for many semiconductor startups. Daniel is an affiliate with Lawrence Berkeley National Labs and recently was appointed to the Industrial Advisory Committee, which advises the Department of Commerce on the R&D strategy for the CHIPS Act. He served as President and CEO of the SEMATECH semiconductor consortium and held various positions in semiconductor manufacturing and development over 25 years at IBM.
Tsu-Jae King Liu
Dean, College of Engineering, UC Berkeley
Dean and Roy W. Carlson Professor of Engineering, College of Engineering
Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Title Talk: The Past, Present and Future of Microsystems
Tsu-Jae King Liu was born in Ithaca, NY and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. She attended Stanford University, where she earned her undergraduate and graduate degrees in Electrical Engineering before joining the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center as Member of Research Staff in 1992. In 1996 she joined the faculty of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley, where she is currently Dean of the College of Engineering. Dr. Liu’s research contributions in the field of semiconductor microelectronics have been recognized by many awards, most recently the 2024 IEEE Founders Medal.
Dana Weinstein
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University
Senior Research Fellow, Krach Insititute of Tech Diplomacy at Purdue
Principal Assistant Director & Special Advisor for CHIPS R&D, Industrial Innovation, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
Title Talk: The democratization of MEMS through hybrid microchips
Dana Weinstein is a Professor in Purdue’s Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Prior to joining Purdue in 2015, Dr. Weinstein was a Professor at MIT in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT as an Assistant Professor. She received her B.A. in Physics and Astrophysics from UC Berkeley in 2004 and her Ph.D. in Applied Physics in 2009 from Cornell. She is a Purdue Faculty Scholar, and a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, the DARPA Young Faculty Award, the first Intel Early Career Award, the first TRF Transducers Early Career Award, and the IEEE IEDM Roger A. Haken Best Paper Award. Dr. Weinstein’s current research focuses on innovative microelectromechanical devices for applications ranging from MEMS-IC wireless communications and clocking to harsh environment sensors and ultrasonic stimulation. This year, Professor Weinstein is serving as the Principal Assistant Director for Microelectronics Research and Development at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy in DC. In that role, she is also a champion for accelerating materials innovation through autonomous experimentation for sustainable semiconductors.
Invited Speakers
Ali Javey
Lam Research Distinguished Chair in Semiconductor Processing and Professor of EECS at UC Berkeley; Program Leader on Electronic Materials at Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory
Talk Title: TBD
Aravind Nagulu
Assistant Professor Electrical and Systems Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis
Talk Title: Analog Computing Based Code-Domain MIMO Radars
Aravind Nagulu is an Assistant Professor of the Electrical and Systems Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis. His research interests lie in the intersection of integrated circuits, electromagnetics, and communication systems. In particular, he is interested in analog, RF and millimeter-wave circuits, metamaterials, and systems with applications in next-generation communications, imaging, and quantum information processing. He received his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University in 2021. He received his B.Tech. and M.Tech. degrees in electrical engineering from IIT Madras, Chennai, India, in 2016.
He has authored/co-authored papers in top-tier journals and conferences, including Nature Electronics, Nature Communications, Physical Review X, IEEE JSSC, IEEE TMTT, IEEE ISSCC, IEEE RFIC and IEEE IMS. He was a recipient of the IEEE RFIC Symposium Best Student Paper Award (First Place) in 2018, the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society Predoctoral Achievement Award 2018-2019, the ISSCC Analog Devices Outstanding Student Designer Award in 2019, the IEEE MTT-S Graduate Fellowship in 2019, an IEEE RFIC Symposium Best Student Paper Finalist nomination in 2020, the Electrical Engineering Collaborative Research Award in 2021, and Eli Jury Award from Columbia, EE in 2022.
Debbie Senesky
Associate Professor at Stanford University, Site Director of nano@stanford
Talk Title: Extreme-environment Sensors & Microelectronics
Mukund Vengalattore, Ph.D.
Program Manager, Defense Science Office, DARPA
Talk Title: Optomechanical Thermal Imaging: Towards Next-generation Infrared Detectors
Dr. Mukund Vengalattore joined DARPA in May 2022 as a program manager in the Defense Sciences Office. His interests include harnessing principles of quantum science and non-equilibrium quantum dynamics to create new capabilities in the broad areas of quantum-enhanced sensors; positioning, navigation and timing (PNT); quantum information science and related quantum technologies.
Prior to joining DARPA, Dr. Vengalattore was in the physics department at Cornell University where he led an experimental research program in the areas of ultracold quantum gases, optomechanics and hybrid quantum systems. His work includes the use of quantum measurement backaction to create novel forms of quantum behavior, ‘noise-engineering’ techniques to enhance the sensitivity and coherence of quantum sensors, and the creation and study of robust out-of-equilibrium states of matter in isolated quantum systems. Dr. Vengalattore is a recipient of the Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship and the Merrill Outstanding Educator award.
Dr. Vengalattore received Bachelor of Science degrees in physics, electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and his doctoral degree in physics, also from MIT.
Yuan Yuan
Staff Scientist, Hewlett Packard Laboratories
Talk Title: Silicon Non-Volatile Optical Memory and All-Silicon Photonic Integrated Circuits
Yuan Yuan is a Senior Research Scientist at Hewlett Packard Labs, Hewlett Packard Enterprise. He received his Ph.D degree from University of Virginia in 2019. His research interests include optoelectronic devices, silicon photonics, and large-scale photonic integrated circuits. He has authored and coauthored over 80 journal and conference papers, and has granted 6 US/international patents with another dozen pending. His work has been recognized by the Best Paper Award in Industry Innovation at ACP 2021 and OECC 2023. He serves on the Technical Program Committee of several international conferences and is a member of IEEE Photonics Society Publications Council.