Plenary Speakers

Vida Ilderem

Vida Ilderem is Vice President of Intel Labs and Director, Wireless Communications Research at Intel.

Prior to joining Intel, Dr. Ilderem served as Vice President of Systems and Technology Research at Motorola’s Applied Research and Technology Center where she led research efforts that focused on delivering solutions for the next generation of communication and interaction technologies and integrated systems. She has also held the position of Vice President of Physical & Digital Realization with focus on visual, computational and physical technologies, and served as director of RF/IF silicon technologies within Motorola’s Semiconductor Products Sector. Vida holds 27 issued patents and has been featured in numerous publications. She is a recipient of the Motorola’s Distinguished Innovator Award.

Dr. Ilderem received her bachelor’s degrees in electrical engineering and physics from Fresno State and a master’s degree and doctorate degree in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Hans Stork

Dr. Hans Stork joined ON Semiconductor in 2011 as Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) responsible for the company’s product research and development.

With nearly three decades of experience in technology and product development, Dr. Stork has held various leadership positions including Group Vice President and CTO of the Si Systems Group at Applied Materials, and Senior Vice President and CTO of Texas Instruments and director of Si Technology Development at TI. During his career, Dr. Stork has worked with some of the semiconductor industry’s leading innovators including Hewlett Packard and IBM Research.

Dr. Stork holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, and an Electrical Engineering Ingenieur (Cum Laude) from Delft University in the Netherlands. He has authored numerous scientific articles and papers, and served as a board director for Sematech and the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) and is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board for imec.

Yoon-Jong Lee

Dr. Yoon-Jong Lee is Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at DB HiTek, one of the top 10 foundries in the world specializing in analog and power semiconductor process technologies, headquartered in Korea.

Over the last 17 years, he has held various leadership positions in foundry business, quality management, process development and technology enabling in the company. Since 2014, he has been leading the development of the semiconductor processes and devices such as RF CMOS, MEMS and silicon high power devices including super junction transistors and IGBTs, and those processes are now in mass production successfully. For RF CMOS technology, he particularly focused on developing the processes based on SOI and HRS (Highly Resistive Substrate) for highly performing RF switches in RF Front End Modules (FEM) and Low Noise Amplifiers (LNA).

From 2005 to 2007, he served as policy advisor and project manager in the area of system IC and semiconductor components at the Ministry of Information and Communication (Currently, the Ministry of Science and ICT) in Korea, where he planned and managed several research projects on the convergence of Bio and Nano technologies on the platform of information technology under the government R&D programs. He was also served as an expert member of the National Science and Technology Committee.

He received a Ph.D. and Master’s degree in Electronic Engineering from KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) and a Bachelor’s degree in Electronic Engineering from Seoul National University in Korea.

Subramani Kengeri

Subramani is currently the CTO and Vice President of World-Wide Client Solutions responsible for enabling differentiated solutions and providing technical support for World-wide Clients. As the Primary technical interface, his Global team is chartered with ensuring GLOBALFOUNDRIES’ Clients can Innovate and Differentiate to full technology entitlement to lead in their respective Markets.

Subramani joined GLOBALFOUNDRIES in 2009 as the Vice President of Design Solutions. Most recently, he was the Vice President of CMOS Platforms BU responsible for business results across Advanced technology nodes at Fab1 (Germany) in support of world-wide customers and company’s financial objective. Prior to that, he was the Vice President of Global Design Solutions responsible for world-wide design engineering, semiconductor design eco-system development and design-technology co-optimization. His team enabled IP, EDA and SoC solutions in support of “first time right” technology qualification and customer SoC differentiation. His team was also responsible for determining technology feasibility, competitiveness and manufacturability of technology platform through design-technology Interactions with customers, technology R&D and design eco-system. As the Head of Advanced Technology Architecture, in the Office of the CTO, Subramani was responsible for defining competitive 22FDSOI, 14nm, 10nm and 7nm technology platforms.

Subramani started his VLSI design engineering career at Texas Instruments and prior to joining GLOBALFOUNDRIES, he was the Senior Director of design and technology platform at TSMC. Subramani has over 28 years semiconductor industry experience and has been granted 45 U.S. patents. He holds a Master’s degree in electrical engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT, Delhi) and a certificate in executive management from AeA/Stanford University