Bio:

Uygar Avci is a Senior Principal Engineer at Intel Corporation and is currently leading Novel Devices and Memory Group in Foundry Technology Research. He is responsible for delivering new transistor and memory devices by bridging Physics-based understanding of new materials and experimental realities to enable viable semiconductor devices with power, performance and scaling benefit. He was an Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices and is currently in the Executive Committee of the IEDM Conference. He has over 100 patents and has co-authored more than fifty papers. Uygar received double-major degrees in Physics and Electrical Engineering in Turkey and his PhD degree in Applied Physics from Cornell University.