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Advisory Board

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Advisory Board

Richard Danzig
Richard is currently the Nunn Prize Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC, a senior fellow at the CNA Corporation, and a consultant to the Department of Defense. Richard served as the 71st Secretary of the Navy from 1998 to 2001. He was the Undersecretary of the Navy from 1993 to 1997. He is currently a director at National Semiconductor Corporation, Human Genome Sciences Corporation, and Saffron Hill Ventures. He also serves as Chairman of the Board of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, and a member of the Board of Directors of Public Agenda and the Partnership for Public Service. He holds a BA from Reed College, a JD from Yale Law, and a PhD from Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He has three times received the Department of Defense's highest award for civilians, the Defense Distinguished Public Service Award

Professor Henry I. Smith
Professor Smith is Director of the Nanostructures Laboratory at MIT. From 1968-80, Henry Smith was at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, where he worked on surface-acoustic-wave (SAW) devices, and pioneered the development of techniques for fabricating submicron and nanometer structures. In 1977 he joined the MIT faculty, where he now holds the Joseph F. and Nancy P. Keithley Chair in Electrical Engineering. In recent years, his research has emphasized nanofabrication, electronic devices, quantum effects in sub-100nm structures, optoelectronic device fabrication, and semiconductor-on-insulator films, He and his coworkers are responsible for several innovations in nanostructures technology and applications, including: conformable photomask lithography, x-ray lithography, the phase -shift mask, the attenuating phase shifter, spatial-phase-locked electron-beam lithography, interferometric alignment, graphoepitaxy, subboundary entrainment, surface-energy-driven grain growth, achromatic interferometric lithography, sub-100-nm Si MOSFETs, and a variety of quantum-effect and single-electron structures. Prof. Smith is a Fellow of the IEEE and a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the APS, AVS, MRS, and Sigma Xi.

Professor Dimitri A. Antoniadis
Dimitri A. Antoniadis, a native of Greece, received his B.S. in Physics from the National University of Athens in 1970 and his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 1976 from Stanford University. His initial research activities were in the area of measurement and modeling of the earth's ionosphere and thermosphere ranging from instrument design to computer simulation. After earning his Ph.D. at Stanford he led the development of the first two generations of the SUPREM process simulator, and since then his technical activity has been in the area of semiconductor devices and integrated circuit technology. He has worked on the physics of diffusion in silicon, thin-film technology and devices, and quantum-effect semiconductor devices. His current research focuses on the physics and technology of extreme-submicron Si, SOI and Si/SiGe MOSFETs. In 1978 Dr. Antoniadis joined the faculty at MIT where he currently holds the Ray and Maria Stata chair in Electrical Engineering. He was co-founder and first Director of the MIT Micro- systems Technology Laboratories and from 1993 to 2000 he was Director of the SRC MIT Center of Excellence for Microsystems Technology. Currently he is Director of the multi-university Focus Research Center for Materials Structures and Devices centered at MIT. He is the recipient of the Solid State Science and Technology Young Author Award of the Electrochemical Society in 1979, the Paul Rappaport Award of the IEEE in 1998, and the 2002 Andrew Grove Award of the IEEE. Prof. Antoniadis is a Fellow of the IEEE since 1986.

Richard D. Schinella
R ich was previously Vice President, Wafer Process R&D at LSI Logic Corporation.  He also served as General Manager of Pilot Line Operations at LSI, and was responsible for establishing a world-class prototype manufacturing organization.  He led the teams that brought more than a dozen CMOS technologies into production, from 1µ-2LM through 0.11 µ-8LM.  He has been issued over 35 patents, with over 10 more pending, on innovative CMOS methods and processes.  He has served as a member of the Board of the Semiconductor Research Corporation for 10 years and was Chairman from 2002-2004.  He was previously Director of Operations at Sierra Semiconductor, Manager of Basic Technology Development at Synertek, and Manager of Process Engineering at both Zilog and Fairchild.

Chuck May
Chuck May is currently Director of Operations for the Center for Nanoscience and Engineering at the University of Kentucky.  He was previously Senior Director of Operations Engineering at ON Semiconductor and at LSI Logic, Inc., where he was responsible for process technology development, including both strategy and execution.  He successfully completed definition of 130nm and 90nm process technologies, and co-developed a 130nm process with 115nm gates with TSMC.  He was also in charge of research and development.  Before that, he was Process Technology, Transfer, and Development Manager at AMD, where he was named an AMD Fellow.  While at AMD he spearheaded the largest and best fab startup in AMD's history.  He has also worked in new technology development at General Electric Company and Mostek.  He is the inventor or co-inventor of over 107 issued patents.  He holds a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Kentucky and a BS in Chemistry and Mathematics from Morehead State University. 

John R. Carruthers
John R. Carruthers is a Distinguished Professor of Physics at Portland State University, as well as Co-Director of the Oregon Nanosciences and Microtechnologies Institute. He also serves as a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Portland State University. He has previously been Senior Advisor, Nanoelectronics and Molecular Electronics and Interim Department Head, Electrical and Computer Engineering for the OGI School of Science and Engineering.   He was the Director of Components Research for Intel Corp. from 1984-2000, where he was credited with pushing the company to develop the next generation of chip imprinting, extreme ultraviolet lithography and was instrumental in Intel's development of ever-faster processors.  Before Intel, he was Manager, Materials Characterization Department at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories and Program Director, Microgravity Sciences Division, NASA. He spent 14 years at Bell Laboratories in semiconductor and nonlinear optical materials research (1959-1963 and 1967-1977). He has an extensive record of publications and involvement in industry collaborative activities, such as serving as Chair of the SRC Strategic Planning Committee (1995-2000), Member of the Emerging Device Research Group of the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (2002-present), and Chair of the Technology Committee of the American Electronics Association (1991-1993). He holds a PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Toronto.

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