Zeynep Dilli

Director of Engineering at CoolCAD Electronics, Inc.

Rockville, Maryland, United States

About

Research in semiconductor device physics and design, wide-bandgap semiconductors, three-dimensional integration, physics of integrated circuits, flexible power source design, system design, data acquisition and analysis, teaching. Specialties: Modeling and simulation, integrated circuit design, semiconductor device and process design, data acquisition, management and analysis, battery management and test system circuit design, power harvesting, integrated circuits, microelectronics, semiconductor physics, IP management

Experience

  • Director Of Engineering at CoolCAD Electronics, Inc.
    Oct 2019 - Present · 6 yrs 10 mos

    * Project management as primary investigator for research grants from NASA, DARPA and ARL. * Grant topics include: High-temperature-operation capable SiC CMOS and LDMOS devices; visible-blind, high-sensitivity SiC UV sensors (linear and avalanche photodiodes); active and passive photodiode arrays for spectroscopy and imaging applications * Design and implementation activities on innovative semiconductor devices and electronic systems, including device and layout design, modeling, and fabrication process design. * Patent application drafting. * Proposal development and drafting.

  • Senior Research and Development Engineer at CoolCAD Electronics, LLC
    2014 - Oct 2019 · 5 yrs 10 mos

    * Design and implementation activities on innovative semiconductor devices and electronic systems

  • University of Maryland (6 yrs 7 mos)
    • Affiliate
      Jul 2013 - Jul 2014 · 1 yr 1 mo

      Research on integrated circuit physics.

    • Research Associate
      Jan 2008 - Jul 2013 · 5 yrs 7 mos

      Research on RF effects on ICs

    • Lecturer
      2008 - 2009 · 1 yr

      Taught ENEE 313 (Semiconductor Device Physics) for Spring 2008, Fall 2008 and Spring 2009

  • Senior Research and Development Engineer at FlexEl, LLC
    2010 - 2014 · 4 yrs

    * Innovative battery design, research and development * Data Science: Development of automated tools for test result analysis for electrical and non-electrical tests; data management; development of procedures such as Gauge R&R tests * Automated Data Reporting System design: Software system architecture development; development of battery structural and performance data representation in databases; automatic test result analysis tool development * Patent application draft and proposal writing * Patent portfolio management * Research project design and implementation * Battery test design and implementation * Electronic circuit design and implementation (test and monitoring circuits)

  • Intern at Bilkent University
    Jun 1997 - Jul 1997 · 2 mos

    Internship in the Optics Research Laboratory