Yin-Chen Lu

Silicon Photonics Enabled AI Networking Applications

Santa Clara, California, United States

About

* Technical leadership in RF & opto-electronic system engineering and MEMS applications * 10+ years of product and team management experience with US tech companies * Technical sale/marketing and supplier development in US and Asia

Experience

  • TSMC (Hsinchu City, Taiwan, Taiwan)
    • RD Technical Manager
      Aug 2024 - Present · 1 yr 11 mos

      Silicon photonics and efficient system integration.

    • BD Program Manager
      Mar 2022 - Sep 2024 · 2 yrs 7 mos

      Silicon photonics, specialty semiconductor and advanced packaging business development.

  • Customer and Application Engineer, SPPD at Intel Corporation
    2017 - Jan 2020 · 3 yrs 1 mo

    Silicon Photonics for 100G/400G and beyond

  • Senior Manager, Customer Engineering at SiTime
    2011 - 2017 · 6 yrs

    * Analyze system requirements, in terms of frequency stability, phase noise, and timing jitters, for applications of MEMS-based timing devices in consumer electronics, industrial, automotive, networking, and telecom products * Research to demonstrate technical advantages of Si MEMS oscillator technologies, including robustness and low sensitivity to shock and vibration * Manage a team of software, hardware, and test engineers responsible for creating marketing collaterals, application notes, and helping customer design in MEMS * Manage projects on embedded systems for developing customer tools * Visit key customers in Asia and train channel partners’ FAE and field sales

  • Senior Technical Program Manager at Source Photonics
    2010 - 2011 · 1 yr

    * Product management for fiber-optic transceivers for telecom and enterprise networks * New product introduction (NPI) and technology consulting to tier-one customers in China

  • Director of Business Development and Regional Sales Manager for China at Source Photonics
    2004 - 2009 · 5 yrs

    * Initiate business development activities for the company in China * Create and execute plan to engage major customers in the region and manage the product qualification process at customer * Interact with customers’ engineering teams for feedback on trends and features for future products, and explore opportunity of technology partnership * Promote company brand at industry exhibitions and technical conferences * Achieve major design-win for the company in China