2026 SEMI Electronic Manufacturing Group (EMG) and SMC Organizing Committee
Thank you for contributing your time and expertise to the Strategic Materials Conference. SEMI appreciates your personal commitment to professional excellence.
SMC Co-Chairs
- Arun Karamcheti, PhD | Managing Director, Product Marketing and Strategy | Applied Materials
- Sanjiv Bhatt, PhD | Director OEM | Mitsubishi Chemical Group
SMC Organizing Committee Members
- Gaurav Thareja | Director, Technology Development | Applied Materials
- Adam J. Seymour | Director of Business Development | EFC Gases & Advanced Materials
- Lu Gan, PhD | Head of Technology Strategy & Roadmap | EMD Electronics
- Wenge Yang, PhD | Vice President, Market Strategy | Entegris
- Pawitter Mangat, PhD | Vice-President & Master Innovator | GlobalFoundries
- Jay Henderson | Global Application Development, Advanced Technologies | Huntsman Corporation
- Ashwani Rawat, PhD | Principal Engineer, Technology Development | Intel Corporation
- Abhinav Tripathi, PhD | Sr. Principal Engineering Manager | Intel Corporation
- Cherry Tang, Director, Technology & Product Quality | JSR Micro, Inc.
- Kevin D. Peterson | Vice President, Sales and Marketing | JX Advanced Metals USA
- Raymond Vrtis, PhD | Technical Research Director | Lam Research
- Aldo Orsi | Global Business Director | Momentive Technologies
- Harsono Simka | Senior Principal Engineer, Advanced Logic Lab | Samsung Semiconductor
- Kamran Akhtar, PhD | Sr. Director Process Development, DRAM Path Finding Team | Samsung Semiconductor
- Ian Brown, PhD | Vice President of Engineering | Screen USA
- Ankur Agarwal PhD | Technology Research | TEL