About the Technical Advisory Board

To support the National Semiconductor Technology Center (NSTC), Natcast has established a Technical Advisory Board (TAB) comprised of key stakeholders spanning the semiconductor ecosystem. The TAB provides Natcast with strategic guidance and expertise to help inform NSTC research priorities and shape the NSTC Research Agenda.

TAB Members

Charles Alpert

AI Fellow, Cadence Design Systems

Ahmad Bahai

Senior Vice President & Chief Technology Officer, Texas Instruments

Valeria Bertacco

Mary Lou Dorf Professor of Computer Engineering and Vice Provost, University of Michigan

Min Cao

Vice President, Corporate Research and Pathfinding, TSMC

Robert Chau

Senior Vice President of Research, Natcast (TAB Chair)

Joe Greco

Senior Vice President, Advanced Technology Group, NVIDIA

Timothy Hancock

Principal Engineering Fellow and Director of Microelectronics Initiatives, Raytheon

Mark Helm

Senior Fellow, Pathfinding and Strategy, Micron

Nikhil Jayaram

Vice President Engineering, Google Cloud

Fabian Klass

Vice President, Hardware Technologies, Apple

Ted Letavic

Corporate Fellow and Senior Vice President, GlobalFoundries

Myung-Hee Na

Vice President and General Manager of Technology Research and Technology Systems, Intel

Vijay Narayanan

IBM Fellow, IBM

Tim Olson

Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Deca Technologies

Ken Rim

Corporate Executive Vice President, Semiconductor R&D Center, Samsung

Sayeef Salahuddin

TSMC Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley

Vladimir Stojanovic

Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder, Ayar Labs

Ralph Wittig

Corporate Fellow, Head of AMD Research and Advanced Development, AMD

Greg Yeric

Director of Research, CHIPS R&D NSTC Program, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), U.S. Department of Commerce