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Durham, North Carolina, United States

•Responsible for leading a high impact design change which would result in a substantial decrease in product defectivity and increase device robustness to switching stresses.•Proposed various projects for Yield and Quality improvements by analyzing real-world performance data and studying workflow processes.•Compiled weekly KPI report related to complete power product portfolio manufacturing performance.•Owned and monitored highest volume products in power device fab, resolving yield and quality issues.

United States

• Setup and training of electrical characterization equipment for packaged and wafer level devices for product, device & integration engineering teams leading to fast cohesive cycles of learnings from bare wafer to application modules.• Managed and mentored technicians & junior engineers to perform accurate routine wafer characterization ensuring >90% utilization and high engineering data throughput. • Oversaw ~0% down time operation and maintenance of >$300k in test equipment and implemented strategic upgrades to align engineering capabilities with company goals.• Managed process module development of 1200V device portfolio to improve manufacturability and yield.• Analyzed large electrical wafer sort data and inline fab data to drive yield improvement & correlated electrical parameters to process experiments for product performance improvements.• Worked extensively in Process Integration team to investigate device physics related phenomenon affecting transistor performance and reliability by developing non-standard characterization tests.• Achieved multiple device performance milestones by rigorous analysis of metrology and electrical characterization data & collaborating with epi, process, reliability & device engineering teams.• Completely digitized and automated in-house business processes using productivity tools such as MS Power Automate to improve data organization, access and traceability.

United States

San Jose, California

• Setup and maintained electrical characterization lab for GaN HEMT power transistors products in wafer and packaged form.• Performed advanced and standard measurements (such as RDS(on), Gate Charge, Capacitance, etc.) on GaN based D-mode and E-mode devices for deeper understanding of device behavior, parameter extraction and modelling.• Contributed by providing characterization, layout, and process feedback of GaN based devices leading to improved reliability and performance.• Contributed to reliability testing of GaN devices crucial to device qualification for mass production.• Achieved expansion of in-house characterization capabilities by design and implementation of specialized fixtures/techniques while saving company >90% cost of readily available solutions.• Acted as a liaison between application, technical marketing and fab teams to drive customer-centric product improvements. • Developed techniques related to Gate Charge measurement of power devices in sub nC range and an alternative method without the use of a current limiting FET.

Albany, New York Area

Albany, New York Area

• Developed and optimized a Lab View program which interacts with a source-measurement unit to aid in mapping CNT devices on the device die.• Growth of CNTs via CVD on patterned and unpatterned wafers• Relating growth parameters to electronic and physical properties of CNTs.• Employment of various characterization techniques such as SEM and Raman spectroscopy

Albany, New York Area

Using sputter deposition to grow thin film ZnO_(1-x) S_x on CIGS for efficiency data and on Quartz for various characterization techniques. Employment of various characterization techniques such as SEM, AFM, XRD, AES, UV-VIS Spectroscopy and Profilometry to relate efficiency data to the thin film characteristics and growth parameters.

Master Of Science - Ms, Nanoscale Engineering

“Steps towards characterizing DNA’s semiconducting behavior"

B.S, Nanoscale Engineering

Activities and Societies: National Society of Collegiate ScholarsSpellman Achievment Award 2011 Spellman Achievment Award 2012 Spellman.

High School Diploma, Science

Activities and Societies: Debate Team, Quiz Team and Cultural Secretary.