Chandler, Arizona, United States
✔ I am a passionate process engineer contributed for the development of advanced wafer-level packaging by designing electrodeposition experiments for copper interconnects in chips ✔ I am a professional material scientist with 7+ years of experience in research & development of novel materials and delivered results that helped Clemson Nanomaterials Institute (CNI) obtain an Energy Storage Devices project grant funding worth $750,000.00 from NASA ✔ I am a critical thinker who envisioned and developed two lithium-ion battery projects, established and managed a new collaborative project between the Departments of Physics, Chemistry, and Material Science & Engineering at Clemson University involving a team of 10 researchers ✔ I have excellent team management and communication skills resulting in 6 international peer-reviewed publications and 15 technical presentations at international conferences with 5 best presentation prizes and 4 travel grant awards Skills: Electrochemistry, Process Engineering, Lithium-ion batteries, Fabrication of coin and pouch cells, Fuel cells, Chemical vapor deposition, Spray-coating, Thermal evaporation for thin film deposition, Ball milling, Autoclave-solvothermal synthetic techniques, RIE, Raman, FESEM, TEM, XRD, DSC, TGA, EIS, FTIR, UV-vis., Cyclic-voltammetry, Galvanostatic charge/discharge, 4-probe conductivity, Creative problem solving, Project/people management, Public speaking, Product development, Communication, Leadership, Quality assurance etc.
☑ Design and execute engineering projects to meet performance targets, implement yield roadmaps and optimize device targeting ☑ Develop an advanced technology road map and transfer it to production fabs in collaboration with the Technology Development and Local Yield teams ☑ To identify the root cause of yield/performance issues, work with the FEOL/BEOL Integration, Device, Defect Reduction, and Yield Analysis teams to develop mitigation plans in a defined timeline in order to meet production yield/performance targets as well as support rapid yield ramp-up during high-volume manufacturing ☑ Conduct feasibility studies, planning, and experiments to fully characterize the development cycle and improve the performance of each product ☑ Perform product-specific process optimizations to meet the specifications and requirements of foundry customers in production fabs ☑ To reduce wafer costs, improve product quality, and improve product yields by working with Local Yield teams ☑ Providing engineering and technical support to enable a cost-effective and competitive technology for HVM fabs
☑ Defect reduction sustaining excellence in Manufacturing Integration Engineering department: Variability control debug, response, and reduction Including root source determination by operation and tool for inline defects ☑ NPI lead (New Product Introduction): coordinating and prioritizing recipe readiness and resources for all defect metrology tools across the virtual factory for the whole Intel 7 manufacturing line ☑ Engineer world-class yields on D1 processes by driving defects and inline performance parameters to Best In Class (BIC) targets ☑ Setting goals and milestones for Intel 7 yield roadmap. Synthesizing overall understanding to Intel 7 defect pareto and priority of issues ☑ Understand the root cause of the defect issues and clearly communicate with modules and Integration. Initiate and collaborate on multidisciplinary projects with both short and long terms objectives ☑ Inline defect monitor optimization: Ensure sufficient capture of all EOL yield limiters which should be observable inline
☑ Design of experiments for electrodeposition of copper, cobalt, gold, and alloy. Responsible for documenting and presenting results.
☑ Self-starter, I acquired necessary instruments, independently established fabrication and testing protocols for rechargeable lithium and beyond lithium-ion batteries at CNI resulting in lab grant funding from NASA. ☑ Design of experiments for developing CVD grown aligned carbon nanotubes based interfacial engineering on Al foils and conducting paper-based flexible current collectors for Li-ion battery electrodes. Designed electrochemical synthesis for conducting polymer-metal (Polycurcumin-Au) nanoparticle composites for fuel cells and electro-catalytic oxidation reactions resulting in 3 publications in ACS Omega, Electroanalysis, etc., and 5 technical presentations at MRS 2017, ECS 2017, SCEPSCoR 2018 etc. ☑ People management and conflict resolution skills that helped regularly arrange group meetings to consolidate results on high-energy and high-power density LiNi0.33Mn0.33Co0.33O2, Li-sulfur and Al ion based chemistries for energy storage with a team of 10 researchers which lead to $500,000.00 proposal for Vehicle Technology Office, Department of Energy.
☑ I supervised and trained 60 students a semester on a wide variety of topics from General (CH 1011 and CH 1021) and Organic Chemistry (CH 2070) in the Department of Chemistry and Calculus based Mechanics in the Department of Physics (PH 124). ☑ I have a very good experience in handling and troubleshooting various experimental setups, conflict resolution within various groups resulting in an excellent lab safety. ☑ I diligently evaluated project reports, written exams, oral, and poster presentations.
☑ I am trained for the industry by a team of highly qualified business training experts and consultants.