Announcement of Newly Elected Officers and AdCom Members

 

On December 2, 2001, the EDS AdCom held its annual election of officers and members-at-large. The following are the results of the election and brief biographies of the individuals elected.

Officers

The following individuals were elected as officers for a one-year term beginning 1/1/2002:

Steven J. Hillenius (President) is the Director of a research and development department at Agere Systems formerly Bell Laboratories/Lucent Technologies. His department's research is in the ultimate device limitations of silicon technology and new device structures and applications. Dr. Hillenius has nine patents in the area of semiconductor device structures. He has published over 60 articles on semiconductor devices and processing. In 1996, he was elected to the grade of IEEE Fellow. He has held many responsibilities within the IEEE Electron Devices Society, most recently including President for 2002-2003. He was the IEEE Electron Devices Society Publications Chair from 1992-2000; and in 1996, he was General Chairman of the International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM). He received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va. in 1979, in physics. He was an Assistant Professor of physics at the University of Virginia from 1978 to 1981, where his research involved low temperature solid-state physics. In January of 1981 until present, he has worked for Bell Laboratories/Agere Systems.

 

Hiroshi Iwai (Vice President) is a professor of Frontier Collaborative Research Center, Tokyo Institute of Technology (TIT). Before joining TIT, he worked at Toshiba Corporation for 26 years, having developed advanced Si device technologies. He was also a visiting scholar at Stanford in 1983 and 84. He received the B.E. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Tokyo, Japan in 1972 and 1992, respectively.

He is currently the EDS Regions/Chapters Committee Chair. He has served for many years with IEEE/EDS, as an Elected AdCom member, an editor of the EDS Newsletter, and the chair of a number of EDS conferences.

 

Paul K. L. Yu (Treasurer) received his Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology in 1983. In 1983, he joined the faculty of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California at San Diego (UCSD) where he has been a professor since 1993. At UCSD, he conducts research in materials and device for fiber optics and optoelectronics applications. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, a Distinguished Lecturer of the EDS and a member of OSA. Currently, his research focus is in solving problems for microwave photonics systems. He has published more than 100 papers in the area of photonics.

 

John K. Lowell (Secretary) received the Ph.D. degree in Applied Physics from the University of London. He has held technical and managerial assignments for United Technologies, Northern Telecom, Mostek, Texas Instruments, British Telecom/Dupont, AMD, Applied Materials, Oracle and most recently PDF Solutions. He has also been a Professor at Texas Tech University and in the University of Texas system, and held Consulting Professorships at other universities in addition to being a Visiting Scholar at the NSF Center for the Synthesis, Growth and Characterization of Electronic Materials at the University of Texas at Austin.

Dr. Lowell is a Senior Member of the IEEE, a Distinguished Lecturer of the EDS and has held AdCom-level positions previously within the LEO and CAS societies. For fifteen years, he was also the Associate Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Division I Circuits & Devices Magazine, and was its Guest Editor twice.

 

AdCom Members-at-Large

A total of seven persons were elected to three-year terms (2002-2004) as members-at-large of the EDS AdCom. Four of the seven individuals were re-elected for a second term, while the other three were first-time electees. The backgrounds of the electees span a wide range of professional and technical interests.

Second Term Electees

Kenneth F. Galloway is Dean of the School of Engineering and a Professor of Electrical Engineering at Vanderbilt University. His research and teaching activities at Vanderbilt center on solid-state devices and semiconductor technology with an emphasis on radiation effects in solid-state devices.

Dr. Galloway earned his Ph.D. from the University of South Carolina and has held professional appointments with Indiana University, the U.S. Navy, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the University of Maryland, and the University of Arizona. He came to Vanderbilt as Dean in 1996.

He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and a Fellow of the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

 

Steven J. Hillenius (See photo and biography in Officers Section of this article)

 

Chennupati Jagadish is a Professor and Head of the Semiconductor Optoelectronics and Nanotechnology Group in the Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering at the Australian National University. He received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Delhi in Semiconductor Physics in 1986. He was a Lecturer in Electronics and Physics at S.V. College, New Delhi during 1985-88 and a Research Associate at Queen's University, Canada during 1988-90. In 1990, he joined the Australian National University where he is a Professor. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, a Distinguished Lecturer of EDS and a winner of the IEEE Third Millennium Medal. His research interests are in semiconductor optoelectronics and nanotechnology. He has published more than 220 journal papers and about 120 conference papers, co-authored a book and edited 3 conference proceedings. He is also Chair of IEEE Optoelectronic Device Technical Committee of EDS.

 

Rajendra Singh is D. Houser Banks Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Director of the Center for Silicon Nanoelectronics at Clemson University. He is editor of IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, member of the Steering Committee of IEEE Transactions of Semiconductor Manufacturing, chair of IEEE EDS Semiconductor Manufacturing Technical committee and member of IEEE EDS Nanotechnology Technical committee. He is the author of over 250 papers in the field of rapid thermal processing, semiconductor manufacturing, solar cells and nanotechnology. He is a Fellow of IEEE, the Society of Optical Science and Engineering (SPIE), American Association of Advancement of Science (AAAS) and ASM International, the materials information society.

 

First-Time Electees

Magali Estrada Del Cueto is a Titular Professor at the Section of Solid State Electronics of the Department of Electrical Engineering at CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico, D.F. She received the Ph. D. at NW Leningrad Polytechnic Institute in 1977. Since 1966, she is engaged with research and development in the field of microelectronics. She was a Titular Professor at the University of Havana until 1994, holds 3 patents, author of one textbook and over 50 published articles. She has received several awards, serves as an EDS Distinguished Lecturer and is chair of the Region 9 EDS Regions/Chapters Subcommittee.

 

Johnny K.O. Sin received his PhD degree in electrical engineering from the University of Toronto, Canada, in 1988. He joined Philips Laboratories, New York, upon the completion of his PhD studies, and was a senior member of the research staff there from 1988-1991. Dr. Sin joined the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, in August 1991, and is currently a professor. His research interests lie in the general area of devices and technology for system-on-a-chip applications. He has published over 170 journal and conference papers and holds seven patents.

Prof. Sin is an Editor of IEEE Electron Device Letters. He served as technical committee member of the International Symposium on Power Semiconductor Devices and IC's (ISPSD) and the International Conference on Microelectronics Test Structures (ICMTS). He is a senior member of IEEE.

 

Ninoslav D. Stojadinovic is the head of the Department of Microelectronics, Faculty of Electronic Engineering, University of Nis, Yugoslavia. He received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Nis in 1980. His current research interest involves physics, modeling, characterization, and reliability of MOS devices and circuits. He is author of 58 papers in international journals and 120 conference papers.

Dr. Stojadinovic is Editor-in-Chief of Microelectronics Reliability journal and the IEEE EDS Newsletter. He is a distinguished lecturer of the IEEE EDS, Chairman of the IEEE International Conference on Microelectronics (MIEL), President of the Yugoslavia IEEE Section and Chair of the Yugoslavia IEEE ED/SSC Chapter.