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2025 Management Committees
General Chair
Susumu Shuto (Toshiba)
susumu.shuto@toshiba.co.jp
Vice General Chair
Christine Hau-Riege (Qualcomm)
chaurieg@qti.qualcomm.com
Technical Program Chair
Ben Kaczer (imec)
ben.kaczer@imec.be
Tutorials Chair
Finance Chair
Arrangements Chair
Patrick Justison (GlobalFoundries)
patrick.justison@globalfoundries.com
Exhibits Chair
Kazutoshi Kobayashi (Kyoto Institute of Technology)
kazutoshi.kobayashi@kit.ac.jp
Workshops Chair
Communications Chairs
Andrea Padovani
(University of Modena and Reggio Emilia)
andrea.padovani@unimore.it
Business Analyst
Samantha Capista
Registration Chair
Taiki Uemura (Samsung)
taiki.uemura@samsung.com
Publications Chairs
Sandhya Chandrashekhar
(Google)
Registrar
Arlene Brugal
Event Program Manager
Lisa Boyd
AV/Presentations Chair
Donald Gajewski (Wolfspeed)
2025 Meetings, Conferences, Events (MCE) Team
Technical Program Specialist
Tracy Holly
2025 Technical Committees
Technical Program Chair: Ben Kaczer, imec
Technical Program Vice Chair: Barry Linder, IBM
Circuit Reliability and Aging
Chair: Kanad Basu, University of Texas at Dallas
Vice-Chair: Javier Diaz Fortuny, imec
Chair Emeritus: Xiankun "Robert" Jin, NXP Semiconductor
Emerging Memory Reliability
Chair: Carlo Cagli, STMicroelectronics
Vice-Chair: Joe McCrate, Micron
Chair Emeritus: SangBum Kim, Seoul National University
ESD and Latchup
This committee consists of IEW and IRPS
IEW
Chair: Michael (Misha) Khazhinsky, Silicon Labs
Vice-Chair: Ann Concannon, Texas Instruments
Chair Emeritus: Gianluca Boselli, Texas Instruments
IRPS
Chair: Lorenzo Cerati, STMicroelectronics
Vice-Chair: Mariano Dissegna, Texas Instruments
Chair Emeritus: Nathaniel Peachey, Qorvo
Failure Analysis
Chair: Jayhoon Chung, Texas Instruments
Vice-Chair: Stephen Fasolino, Raytheon
Chair Emeritus: Michael Gribelyuk, Western Digital
GaN Devices
Chair: Andrew Binder, Sandia National Lab
Vice-Chair: Davide Bisi, Transphorm Inc.
Chair Emeritus: Srabanti Chowdhury, Stanford University
Gate/MOL Dielectrics
Chair: Zakariae Chbili, intel
Vice-Chair: P.J. Liao, TSMC
Chair Emeritus: Stanislav Tyaginov, imec
Memory Reliability
Chair: Andrea Chimenton, Intel
Vice-Chair: Cristian Zambelli, University of Ferrara
Chair Emeritus: Yuichiro Mitani, Tokyo City University
Metallization / BEOL Reliability
Chair: Seungman Choi, GlobalFoundries
Vice-Chair: Cher Ming Tan, Chnag Gung University
Chair Emeritus: Andrew Kim, Intel
Neuromorphic Computing Reliability
Chair: Bin Gao, Tsinghua University
Vice-Chair: Yao-Feng Chang, intel
Chair Emeritus: Stefano Ambrogio, IBM
Packaging and 2.5D/3D Assembly
Chair: Keith Newman, AMD
Vice-Chair: Ravi Aggarwal, intel
Chair Emeritus: Mohammad Enamul Kabir, intel
Process Integration
Chair: Richard G (Ricki) Southwick, IBM
Vice-Chair: Jean Coignus, CEA Leti
Chair Emeritus: Purushothaman Srinivasan, Global Foundries
Product Reliability
Chair: Feng Xia, Intel
Vice-Chair: Yuan Zhang, Amazon
Chair Emeritus: Ming-Han (Hank) Hsieh, MediaTek
Radiation Effect Reliability (Soft Errors)
Chair: Chundong Liang, Amazon AWS
Vice-Chair: Rita Fung, Cisco
Chair Emeritus: Haibin Wang, Hohai University
Reliability Testing
Chair: Jifa Hao, Google
Vice-Chair: Hosain Farr, Qualitau Inc.
Chair Emeritus: Samia A. Suliman, The Pennsylvania State University
RF / mmW / 5G Reliability
Chair: Sriram Kalpat, Qualcomm
Vice-Chair: Purushothaman Srinivasan, GlobalFoundries
Chair Emeritus: Don Gajewski, Cree/Wolfspeed
SiC Devices
Chair: Ulrike Grossner, ETH Zurich
Vice-Chair: Junji Senzaki, AIST
Chair Emeritus: Peter Losee, United SiC
System Electronics Reliability
Chair: Phil Joseph Oldiges, Sandia
Vice-Chair: Florian Moliere, European Space Agency - ESA
Chair Emeritus: Kok Yiang, Amazon Lab126
Transistors
Chair: Eunae (Grace) Chung, Samsung
Vice-Chair: Pragya Shrestha, NIST
Chair Emeritus: Runsheng Wang, Peking University