Meet the Speakers
Mark Brillhart
Vice President, Technology and Quality
Cisco Systems, Inc.
Mark Brillhart leads Cisco’s Technology and Quality organization, a global team responsible for delivering customer-driven quality and reliability solutions and infrastructure for Cisco products. The team is committed to driving a competitive advantage for Cisco by ensuring innovation and excellence in manufacturing technology, test and component engineering, NPI, and closed-loop quality management.
With 300+ employees in locations around the world, Brillhart oversees a team responsible for developing industry-leading testing tools and technologies for leading-edge ASICs, PCBs, optical devices, custom memory modules, and complex interconnect technologies. Under Brillhart’s direction, the Technology and Quality team owns key initiatives and functions – including Autotest, Green manufacturing, and Quality Excellence – that champion improvements throughout the manufacturing process and extend visibility and collaboration deeper into the global supply chain, while continuously raising the bar on quality.
Brillhart joined Cisco in 1999, first as a technical lead and then as manager of the Interconnect Reliability and Electronic Packaging teams. He has also served as Director of Hardware Reliability, Sr. Director of Component Quality and Technology, and Vice President of Manufacturing Operations Engineering. Brillhart has driven numerous cross-functional teams and initiatives, and has also led the Technology Council Roadmap team and the Process Development team.
In addition to his current responsibilities, Brillhart sits on Cisco's Federal Business Council and is a member of IEEE's CPMT Society. Prior to Cisco, he held a variety of engineering and technical lead positions at HP, as well as research and development positions in the medical products industry.
Brillhart has Bachelors and Masters degrees in Civil Engineering from University of Illinois, along with a Masters in Polymers from MIT where he was the recipient of the NASA Graduate Research Award and a Department Graduate Fellowship Award. A widely published author and speaker on process and materials engineering, Brillhart has also earned ten US patents primarily in the fields of surgical devices and assembly processes. Mark lives in Palo Alto with his wife and two children, frequently rides his Harley to work, and plays bass guitar in a blues-rock band.
Edward Doller
Corporate Vice President & Chief Technology Officer
Numonyx
Ed was appointed Chief Technology Officer of Numonyx during the formation of Numonyx in 2008.
During his tenure at Intel, he held a variety of positions in the flash memory group before being named Chief Technology Officer in 2004. Prior to joining Intel, Ed held several key positions at International Business Machines (IBM) in East Fishkill, N.Y. all in advanced semiconductor memories.
Ed has over 25 years of experience in semiconductor memories, holds multiple patents, is a co-author of the IEEE floating gate standard, and is a frequent keynote speaker at memory conferences.
He received a BS in computer engineering from Purdue University in 1984.
Pierre C. Fazan
Chief Technology Officer & Founder
Innovative Silicon
Pierre C. Fazan was born in Lausanne, Switzerland where he obtained his Physics diploma and Ph.D. degrees at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) in 1984 and 1988 respectively. From 1989 to 1997 he worked as process integration engineer then manager at Micron Technology, Boise USA, focusing on DRAM bit cell architecture and DRAM process integration. In 1997 he was named part time Technology Manager at EM Microelectronics, Marin, Switzerland, and part time Professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, EPFL, where he is teaching in the field of IC manufacturing. From 1999 to 2001 he performed various consulting contracts for the IC industry focused on DRAM, embedded DRAM and Non Volatile Memory integration and architecture. In 2002 he co-founded Innovative Silicon Inc., developing a new Floating Body single transistor memory technology. This company was funded by Venture Capitalists in 2003. Within Innovative Silicon Inc., Dr. Fazan acted first as CEO. He is currently the Chairman of the Board and CTO of the company. He has authored or co-authored more than 100 papers in the field of semiconductor devices and memory integration and invented or co-invented more than 190 US patents. Dr. Fazan has served as member in program committees of the SOI Conference, IEDM, VLSI Tech. Symp, ISIF, ESSDERC, INFOS, ICMTD and ECS Conferences. In January 2008 he was invited as a Technology Pioneer at the World Economic Forum WEF in Davos.
Dr. Subramanian S. Iyer
IBM Chief Technologist
Semiconductor Research and Development Center
IBM
Subramanian S. Iyer is Distinguished Engineer and Chief Technologist for the Semiconductor Research and Development Center, IBM Systems & Technology Group, and is responsible for technology development strategy, embedded memory and 3 Dimensional Integration. Till recently he was Director of 45nm CMOS Development. He obtained his B.Tech in Electrical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at the University of California at Los Angeles. He joined the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center in 1981 and was manager of the Exploratory Structures and Devices Group till 1994, when he founded SiBond LLC to develop and manufacture Silicon-on-insulator materials. He has been with the IBM Microelectronics Division since 1997. Dr. Iyer has received two Corporate awards and four Outstanding Technical Achievement awards at IBM for the development of the Titanium Salicide process, the fabrication of the first SiGe Heterojunction Bipolar Transistor , the development of embedded DRAM technology and the development of eFUSE technology. His current technical interests and work lie in the area of 3-dimensional integration for memory sub-systems and the semiconductor roadmap at 22nm and beyond. He holds over 40 patents and has received 21 Invention Plateau awards at IBM and is a Master Inventor. He received the Distingushed Aluminus award from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in 2004. Dr. Iyer has authored over 150 articles in technical journals and several book chapters and co-edited a book on bonded SOI . He has served as an Adjunct Professor of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University, NY. Dr. Iyer is a Fellow of IEEE and a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE and Chair of the mid-Hudson chapter of the Electron Device Scoiety.
Dr. Oh-Hyun Kwon
President of the Semiconductor Business
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
Dr. Oh-Hyun Kwon is the President of the Semiconductor Business of Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. Samsung’s Semiconductor Business consists of three major business divisions: Memory, System LSI and Storage.
Dr. Kwon first joined Samsung Electronics' Semiconductor Business in 1985, and has played a major role in Samsung Electronics' rapid advance in the semiconductor industry ever since. He led the team responsible for the development of the industry’s first 64M DRAM in the 1992, and was promoted to Vice President of Samsung’s Memory Device Technology unit in 1995.
In 1998, Dr. Kwon was appointed Senior Vice President and head of System LSI Division’s ASIC business, and in 2000 became Executive Vice President and head of LSI Technology. In January of 2004, Dr. Kwon was appointed President and General Manager of the System LSI Division. During his 10 years at the System LSI Division, Dr. Kwon gained special recognition for spearheading the display driver ICs (DDI) business of System LSI from initial development to worldwide No. 1 market share in 2004, and for also achieving top market share recently in navigational AP and MP3 SOC market segments. In May of 2008, Dr. Kwon was appointed as President of Samsung Electronics' Semiconductor Business.
Dr. Kwon has published numerous papers at such conferences and symposiums as ISSCC, VLSI Symposium, and IEDM. He has also contributed his expertise to many technical journals on semiconductor related topics.
Dr. Kwon has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Seoul National University, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology), and a Ph.D in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.
Dr. Rich Liu
Chief Scientist, Macronix International Co., Ltd.
Rich Liu obtained his Ph.D. in materials science from University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, and worked on various aspects of VLSI technology in AT&T Bell Labs and later in Macronix International in Hsinchu. He served as editor for IEEE Electron Device Letters, in numerous IEEE conference committees and contributed to the international technology roadmap for semiconductors (ITRS). He has authored/co-authored more than 150 publications and is an IEEE fellow.
Frank AY Wang
Executive Director
Morgan Stanley Taiwan Ltd.
Graduated from Columbia University with both BS degree in Electrical Engineering and MS degree in Operations Research in four years. 15 years experience in technology investment research. Started career on Wall Street with Goldman Sachs in New York in 1996. Worked previously in Citigroup, Credited Suisse, etc for both public equity and venture capital related investment experience. Currently responsible for Greater China memory, backend foundry, display, consumer electronics, software industry investment research in Morgan Stanley.
Dr. Drew E. Wingard
Chief Technology Officer & Co-founder
Sonics, Inc.
Dr. Drew E. Wingard co-founded Sonics in 1996 and has served as the company’s chief technical officer, secretary and director since 1997. Prior to co-founding Sonics, Dr. Wingard lead the development of advanced circuit and CAD methodology for MicroUnity Systems Engineering, Inc. from 1994-1996. Dr. Wingard co-founded and worked at Pomegranate Technology from 1992-1994, where he designed an advanced SIMD multimedia processor. Since December 2001, Dr. Wingard has served as the secretary and a director of the OCP-IP, a non-profit trade organization. Dr. Wingard received a B.S. from the University of Texas, Austin and an MS and a Ph.D. from Stanford University, all in electrical engineering.
