Marie Garcia Bardon

Marie Garcia Bardon is Department Director and Principal Member of Technical Staff at imec, where she leads the Pathfinding Co-optimization Technology-Systems (PACTS) department. She earned her Master degree in engineering from UCLouvain in 2004 and completed her Ph.D. in electronics at KU Leuven in collaboration with imec in 2010. Her department mission is advancing the research with innovation in semiconductor systems using new logic and memory technologies, improving PPACE metrics: Power-Performance-Area-Cost-Environmental cost in application-driven optimizations. The expertise of her group span from modelling fabs, technology, devices, producing early Process Design Kits (PDKs), then using them for pre-silicon evaluations at circuit and system level, and finally taping out for technology and circuit concepts validation.  In the NanoIC Pilot Line project, she is Workpackage Deputy Leader for WP7 on PDKs and memory macros tape-outs.