HsinYu (Sidney) Tsai, Ph.D., Principal Research Staff Member, IBM Almaden Research Center
HsinYu (Sidney) Tsai received her Ph.D. from the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2011. After graduation, Sidney joined the Nanofabrication and Electron Beam Lithography group at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center as Research Staff Member and developed directed self-assembly (DSA) lithography for finFETs. From 2015-2016, Sidney managed the Advanced Lithography group and operations of a 200mm research prototyping line.
Sidney currently works in the Almaden Research Center in San Jose, CA, as a Principal Research Staff Member and manager of the Analog AI group. Analog AI brings compute to the location of the data in Phase Change Memory (PCM). The team published two papers in Nature in 2018 and 2023, one on training and one on inference. Sidney serves on the technical programming committee of VLSI and is one of the co-leads for the Almaden Women Interest Group at IBM.