Dr. Gity Samadi is the Director of R&D Programs at SEMI. She leads FlexTech and NBMC R&D programs and the ESDA (Electronic System Design (ESD) Alliance) and ITL (IT Leadership) technical communities.
She has 20 years of experience in Hard Disk Drive (HDD) and the Semiconductor Industry at various levels from engineering to technical program management and senior management. Gity began her career at IBM (Magnetic Recording Head Fabrication) in San Jose and subsequently worked at Hitachi Global Storage (HGST), Western Digital, Headway (TDK), and Lumentum.
Dr. Samadi holds a Ph.D. in Engineering Physics from the Vienna University of Technology (Vienna/Austria). She has received corporate awards, has five issued patents, and has numerous technical publications.