BIOGRAPHY
Gurtej Sandhu is Principal Fellow and CVP at Micron Technology. In his current role, he is responsible for Micron’s end-to-end (Si-to-Package) R&D technology roadmaps. The scope includes driving cross-functional alignment across various departments and business units to proactively identify technology gaps and ensure resourcing to execute on developing technology solutions. The responsibilities include driving state of the art methodologies to help develop complex technologies faster and more efficiently which entails managing Advanced Modeling organization to resource and execute on developing innovative technology solutions for future memory scaling. Dr. Sandhu’s responsibilities also include managing interactions with research consortia around the world.
At Micron, Dr. Sandhu has held several engineering and management roles. He has been actively involved with a broad range of process technologies for IC processing and has pioneered several process technologies currently employed in mainstream semiconductor chip manufacturing.
Dr. Sandhu received a degree in electrical engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, and a Ph.D. in physics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, in 1990. He is a Fellow of IEEE and recognized as one of the top inventors in the world. In 2018, he received the IEEE Andrew S. Grove Award for outstanding contributions to silicon CMOS process technology that enables DRAM and NAND memory chip scaling.