Bhupendra Kumar is a Packaging Technologist Industry/Customer Collaborations at KLA. He possess expertise in characterization, thin films, materials science, stepper, afm and 7 more skills. Colleagues describe him as "I have had the privilege of working with and for Bhupi throughout the past 6 years at Intel. Bhupi has shown great leadership in the technical area of process development. Bhupi has managed numerous tool projects and process issues, along with managing technicians that assist in the projects/issues. He always strives to thoroughly understand the complex issues that come up and then collaborates with his fellow employees ensuring all thoughts and ideas are heard and analyzed for implementation. I always see Bhupi continuously improving his technical and project management skills all while keeping an open thought process from start to finish. He has managed tool issues and also managed me, so that I can execute portions of the projects that are clearly documented. Bhupi, has also personally been a significant mentor during our time working together for work related and life related issues that has definitely made me a better person for knowing him. He is always willing to collaborate and pass on his knowledge, experiences and opinions with the utmost professionalism." and "My association with Bhupi started when I joined as a Technology Development Process Engineer in a Lithography group. Ever since it has been great privilege to share thoughts with this extremely talented researcher and thoroughly professional guy. I couldn’t have asked a better mentor to start my professional career. Bhupi's mentoring and leadership skills were great help during the transition period of group that was formed with Recent College Graduates including myself. I have been fortunate enough to work with Bhupi on a number of projects within a short period, and I benefited immensely in picking up his brains on Problem Solving, High Volume Manufacturing, Process Development, Process Optimization, and Data analysis. It has been great learning the way Bhupi brings his vast research experience and leadership qualities to the table to drive the projects. Technical conversations with him were never boring, because he has uncanny ability of explaining the things in very simplistic way. Bhupi is the go to man in our group to address any problems that pose tough challenge to rest of us. Some of the Best Practices developed by Bhupi in technology development have been adapted across the groups. One of the important aspects of being a successful researcher is to have research aptitude and analytical ability, Bhupi has abundant of that."