EIPBN 2012 Plenary Speakers
Dr. Mark Pinto
Executive Vice President, General Manager
Energy and Environmental Solutions
Applied Materials, Inc.
Dr Mark Pinto is an Executive Vice President at Applied Materials and General Manager of the Energy and Environmental Solutions business. Dr Pinto initiated Applied’s efforts to extend nanomanufacturing technologies into new markets including energy, achieving over $1.5B of annual revenue and becoming the number one equipment supplier to the PV industry. Previously Dr Pinto spent 19 years with Bell Laboratories and later the Lucent Microelectronics group where he was involved in R&D and management of IC technology, optoelectronics and network product design. Dr Pinto received Bachelors degrees from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a Masters and PhD from Stanford University. He is a former Bell Labs Fellow, a Fellow of the IEEE, a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the recipient of the 2008 IEEE JJ Ebers Award for his contributions to semiconductor technology.
Dr. Burn J. Lin
Vice President
Research and Development
TSMC, Ltd
Burn J. Lin is vice president of R&D at TSMC, Ltd. His TSMC teams support R&D on mask fabrication, lithography tooling and processing for advanced CMOS logic and memory nodes, as well as resolution enhancement, optical proximity correction, lithography design for manufacturability, and next-generation lithography. The teams have successfully developed and transferred the 130-, 90-, 65-, and 40-nm nodes as well as sub-nodes to manufacturing. Dr. Lin has been the president of Linnovation, Inc. since 1992. Prior to that, he held various technical and managerial positions in the field of microlithography at IBM. He has been extending the limit of optical lithography for close to four decades. His most recent achievement is pioneering optical immersion lithography to extend lithography to the 40-, 28-, and 20-nm nodes. Dr. Lin is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Micro/nanolithography, MEMS, and MOEMS, a fellow of IEEE and of SPIE, and a member of the US National Academy of Engineering.
Matt Nowak
Senior Director of Engineering
VLSI Technology Group
Qualcomm, Inc.
Matt Nowak is Senior Director of Engineering in the VLSI Technology Group of Qualcomm’s CDMA Technology Division. His responsibilities include leadership of Advanced Technology Initiatives such as Through Silicon Stacking, Advanced Memory technology, Design for Silicon, Spintronics, and “More than Moore” initiatives. He manages a combination of internal advanced development teams, supplier JDPs, and consortia and university projects. Matt has over 30 years of semiconductor industry experience in a variety of technical, management, and business roles including wafer fab processes and devices, CMOS ASIC technology, compound semiconductor RF devices, package design and assembly, IC design tools and methodologies, technology transfer, foundry interfacing, and advanced technology. Prior to joining Qualcomm in 2004, Matt worked for the Semiconductor Development group of Unisys/Burroughs Corporation and for the Research Laboratory of Varian Associates. He holds BS and Masters degrees in electrical engineering from Cornell University and has carried out graduate studies at Stanford University and UC San Diego. Matt is a Senior Member of the IEEE and has numerous publications and patents.
