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YAW OBENG

Yaw Obeng,Ph.D., MBA, FRSC, C.Chem

Yaw Obeng,Ph.D., MBA, FRSC, C.Chem.

TECHNOLOGY  ADVISOR

Yaw Obeng is a Scientist, Inventor, and consultant with over 30 years of experience technology innovation, R&D and education. He received his PhD in Chemistry.

 

Yaw routinely collaborates with clients to solve difficult technical problems. He is an Inventor on over 50 US and International patents. He has co-authored over 250 technical papers and reports.  

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Yaw previously served as a member of the Bell Laboratory Technical Staff at AT&T and Lucent Technologies, supporting the semiconductor business. Currently, Yaw is a Senior Scientist/Research Chemist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Gaithersburg, Md.  He manages external collaborative research programs for micro/nano-electronics technology development including conducting research into new electronic materials for, and packaging of, advanced nano-electronic devices.

 

Yaw also serves as a subject matter expert and technical leader in international standards and roadmap development (for hardware security, anti-counterfeiting, metrology, and materials characterization). He currently serves on:

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  • ISO TC292 (Standardization in the field of security to enhance the safety and resilience of society), 

  • IEC TC113 (Standardization of the technologies relevant to electrical and electronic products and systems in nanotechnology), 

  • SEMI Traceability Committee (Co-Chair, Develop standards to enable full traceability of materials and other factory resources in semiconductor manufacturing)

  • International Electronics Manufacturing Initiative (iNEMI)

  • International Roadmap for Devices and Systems (IRDS™) / International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS)

BACKGROUND

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY (NIST), Gaithersburg, MD             

Senior Scientist / Research Chemist                                                                     2007-Present

  •  Manages external collaborative research programs for micro/nano-electronics technology development

  •  Conducts research into new measurement techniques of assessing reliability in electronic materials and emerging nano-electronic devices

  •  Conducts research into counterfeit electronics mitigation  

  •  Serves as subject matter expert and technical leader in international standards development (hardware security, anti-counterfeiting, and materials characterization)  o ISO TC292 (Standardization in the field of security to enhance the safety and resilience of society),  

  • IEC TC113 (Standardization of the technologies relevant to electrical and electronic products and systems in nanotechnology),  

  • SEMI Traceability Committee (Develop standards to enable full traceability of materials and other factory resources in semiconductor manufacturing)

 

 Serves as subject matter expert and technical leader in international semiconductor technology roadmaps development o International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS)

(Metrology, Emerging Research Materials / Devices working groups) o IEEE International Roadmap for Devices and Systems (IDRS)

(Metrology, Reliability working groups) o International Electronics Manufacturing Initiative (iNEMI)

 

NKANEA TECHNOLOGIES, INC., Founder / Lead Consultant, Frederick, MD     2000-Present

  • Intellectual property capture: helping legal professionals understand and protect client’s inventions

  •  Advanced materials development and applications, process reengineering and optimization

 

TEXAS INSTRUMENTS, INC., Technical Staff, Dallas, TX                                                   

⮚ Functional expert for substrate preparation for advanced Integrated Circuits (IC) fabrication

 

PSILOQUEST INC., Founder and VP for Research & Development, Orlando, FL              

  •  Chief scientist of a venture capital-backed startup company dedicated to innovations in advanced engineering for semiconductor and optoelectronics fabrication

 

AT&T / LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES BELL LABORATORIES, Technical Staff                               

  • Led teams to develop new unit processes (thin film deposition (LPCVD), substrate surface preparation (Cleans), and chemical mechanical planarization (CMP))

  •  Developed new techniques for evaluating reliability of integrated circuits (IC) devices

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ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

CLEMSON UNIVERSITY, Clemson, SC  

Adjunct / Visiting Professor                                                                                    2006-2020

⮚ Supervised research work, successfully advised 1 Masters and 2 PhD candidates

 

UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA, ORLANDO, FL

⮚ Successfully supervised and advised 5 Masters and 2 PhD candidates  

 

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA, Tampa, FL                            

Adjunct Faculty                                                                                                                               

⮚ Successfully supervised and advised 6 Masters and 2 PhD candidates  

 

EDUCATION/DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS

MIT Sloan Executive Education certificate in Operations & Value Chain Management          

MIT Sloan Executive Education certificate in Strategy and Innovation                                     

MBA, Crummer Graduate School of Business, Rollins College, Winter Park, FL                                    

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Electrochemistry University of Texas At Austin, Austin, TX            

Ph.D. (Chemistry), University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL                                                                       

B. Sc. ((Honors), Chemistry)), Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi,

Ghana

                                                                                            

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS / HONORS

The Electrochemical Society (Past executive board member)

The Royal Society of Chemistry (Fellow, Chartered Chemist)

The American Institute of Chemists (Fellow)

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE, Senior Member)

American Chemical Society

Materials Research Society

Phi Lambda Upsilon Chemistry Honor Society

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