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Description

1. Gurtej Sandhu is Senior Fellow and Director at Micron Technology.
2. In his current role, he is responsible for Micron’s end-to-end (Si-to-Package) R&D technology roadmaps.
3. The scope includes driving cross-functional alignment across various departments, managing engineering groups to resource and execute on critical technology projects, as well as managing interactions with research partners and consortia around the world.
4. At Micron, Dr. Sandhu has held a number of engineering and management roles and has been actively involved with a broad range of process technologies for IC processing.
5. He has also pioneered a number of process technologies currently employed in mainstream semiconductor chip manufacturing.
6. Dr. Sandhu received a degree in electrical engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, and a Ph.D. in physics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, in 1990. He holds several hundred U.S. patents and is an IEEE Fellow.
7. In his 20-plus years at Micron, Sandhu has patented more than 1,200 new technologies for the company, all related to thin film processes and materials, very-large-scale-integration (VLSI) projects and semiconductor device fabrication. (In fact, he is recognized for being the sixth most prolific inventor in the world based on his number of U.S. utility patents.)