BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Sony Varghese is Managing Director of strategic marketing for Next gen products in the Semiconductor Products Group at Applied Materials. In this role, he is involved in identifying future key inflections and challenges to scaling advanced semiconductors in Applied’ s implant and patterning business unit. Prior to Applied Materials, he worked on developing various memory technologies within the R&D organization at Micron Technologies. Dr. Varghese has over 60 U.S. patents issued or pending in the area of semiconductor processing and integration. He has a Ph.D. in Materials and Mechanical Engineering from The Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, USA.