Exploring Sustainable Alternatives in Semiconductor Manufacturing
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BIOGRAPHY
Brian is a Product Engineering Lead at ULVAC focused on deposition and plasma etch/clean wafer process equipment solutions for leading-edge semiconductor fabs. He has two decades of microelectronics industry experience in process engineering and business development from positions at: Micron/Intel, ASM, Tokyo Electron and EMD Electronics/Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany and as a consultant to numerous other companies across the overall supply chain. He has authored over 17 US and foreign patent publications and numerous technical journal articles, which have received many prestigious citations globally. Brian has been part of the leadership team for the SEMI Smart Manufacturing Initiative since its inception in 2018 and is leading a subcommittee entitled, "Accelerating Sustainability with Smart Manufacturing," which is leveraging Industry 4.0 best practices to publish an industry roadmap as a guide for device-making facilities. His doctorate and master's degrees are in materials science engineering from North Carolina State University and he has a B.S. in physics from the University of Arizona.