Gurtej Sandhu is Senior Fellow and Vice President 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 managing the engineering organization to resource and execute on developing innovative technology solutions for future memory scaling. Dr. Sandhu’s responsibilities include leading several internal project teams worldwide and managing interactions with research consortia around the world. At Micron, Dr. Sandhu has held several engineering and management roles and is actively involved with a broad range of process technologies 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 PhD in physics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, in 1990. He holds over 1,300 U.S. patents and is recognized as one of the top inventors in the world. A Fellow of IEEE, in 2018, he received the prestigious IEEE Andrew S. Grove Award for outstanding contributions to solid-state devices and materials technology, as well as for leadership, originality, breadth, incentive value, publications, among other achievements. This competitive award is presented annually by the IEEE Board of Directors to an individual with pioneering achievements to the semiconductor materials technology.