Raj Jammy

Dr. Raj Jammy is a semiconductor industry executive and is the President of imec USA operations. He previously served as CTO and Chief Technologist at MITRE Engenuity and Executive Director of the Semiconductor Alliance, which brought together key players across the national semiconductor ecosystem. He led the effort at MITRE Engenuity and the Semiconductor Alliance to develop a vision and an operational plan for the National Semiconductor Technology Center and National Advanced Packaging Manufacturing Program coordinating with DoD Microelectronics interests. From 2016 until recently he was the Global President of Semiconductor Process Control Solutions (PCS) Business Unit at Carl Zeiss with additional responsibility for North America subsidiary of Carl Zeiss Semiconductor BG as President, Carl Zeiss SMT Inc.

Prior to joining Zeiss, Raj was Senior Vice President, Semiconductor and Emerging Technologies Business Unit at Intermolecular, a startup with proprietary combinatorial technologies and software engines. Raj served as the Vice President of Materials and Emerging Technologies at SEMATECH, a global semiconductor industry consortium until 2013, where he worked with companies spanning the industry ecosystem including leading chip makers, suppliers, and universities. He oversaw the consortium's efforts in front-end CMOS logic, novel memory technologies, 3D interconnects, metrology and emerging beyond-CMOS technologies. As Chair of SEMATECH Executive Steering Council, he drove decisions on the technical programs, timing and budgets, reporting to the Board of Directors, in coordination with customer company executives. Passionate about technology and building highly motivated teamsthroughout his career, Raj fostered many collaborative relationships with leading domestic and international companies, startups, universities, global R&D institutions, US and international government agencies.

Raj began his career at IBM working at the renowned IBM Semiconductor Research and Development Center and T.J. Watson Research Labs. He holds more than 50 US patents and is an author/coauthor of over 225 publications/presentations. He has delivered over 35keynote/invited talks and has contributed to numerous panel discussions. He has served as the General Chair of 2016 IEEE VLSI Technology Symposium and 2015 IEEE Symposium on Technology Systems and Application in VLSI co-organized by ITRI in Taiwan. Currently he serves on the Executive Steering Committee of IEEE VLSI Technology and Circuits Symposium. Raj was appointed to the Department of Commerce Industrial Advisory Committeein October 2022, which provides guidance to the US Secretary of Commerce on a range of issues related to domestic semiconductor research and development in support of the CHIPS for America Act. Raj received a doctorate in Electrical Engineering from Northwestern University.