Manager, Textile Chemistry Research

Cotton Incorporated

Renuka Dhandapani is a Manager in Textile Chemistry Research at Cotton Incorporated with 9 years of experience in the textile industry. Her focus has been on formulating new functional finishes to improve the performance of cotton substrate, manage outside research projects, and help develop new markets for cotton. E-Textiles is one such area where she is focused on evaluating the performance and durability to laundering of conductive elements such as the stretchable heaters on cotton....

Principal Engineer

JPL-Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Dr. Reza Ghaffarian has more than 40 years of technical and program management experience within JPL, industry, and brief academia. For the last 28.5 years at NASA/JPL, he has led R&D reliability and quality assurance activities in advanced electronic packaging technologies and has been a subject matter expert (SME) for most JPL spaceflight projects from Mars Pathfinder to Mars 2020 Perseverance....

Researcher, EISLAB, Department of Computer Science, Electrical, & Space Engineering

Luleå Technical University, Luleå, Sweden

Dr. Roghayeh Imani holds a Ph.D. in nanoscience-Physics. She has more than ten years of experience in nano/microfabrication.

Materials Scientist

Pillarhouse International

Sam McMaster completed his PhD in 2020 at the University of Leeds where he investigated the nanomechanical properties of diamond-like carbon coatings to assess tribological (friction and wear) performance under the supervision of Prof....

CEO

Hyperion Technologies

President

SF Rak Company

Stan Rak is the President of S.F. Rak Company, a materials science and electronics manufacturing consultancy founded in 1979. He has 30-years of Tier 1 Automotive electronics design and manufacturing experience starting with Motorola’s Automotive and Industrial Electronics Group in 1991 followed by Continental Automotive Systems in 2006....

Director

City of Jamestown ND

Syed Sajid Ahmad, Ph.D., contributed to quality and reliability enhancement of assembly processes at Intel (1979-89), especially wire bond....

Product Development Manager

AGC

Thomas McCarthy has served in different capacities developing prepreg materials for AlliedSignal, Taconic, and AGC. Tom has developed various PTFE/ceramic, PTFE/ceramic/hydrocarbon, and low loss/low dk hydrocarbon resin only materials while working at Taconic....

Chief Technology Officer

Arch Systems

Dr. Timothy Burke is a leading expert in machine data analytics for the EMS industry. He is the cofounder and CTO of Arch Systems, one of the leading providers of machine data collection and analytics for tier 1 contract manufacturers and OEMs....

Senior Expert

Robert Bosch GmbH

With an education in Physics (Diploma in1998) and Chemistry (Doctorate degree in 2002), Udo has a profound scientific background, with more than 90 papers published....