News Services Software About us Contact

>> Home >> About us

 

Founder and Principal consultant    Dr. Dadi Gudmundsson   Technical consultants    Professor J. George Shanthikumar    Jerry Nalywajko   Affiliated consultants    Dr. Wooseung Jang    Dr. Ruj Nasongkhla Founder and principal consultant Sensor Analytics is headed by founder and principal consultant Dr. Dadi Gudmundsson. He has researched and worked in semiconductor yield management for the past eight years. His primary focus has been the field of semiconductor inspection capacity planning. In this new field his experience includes algorithm research, software development, and consulting service deployment. Other related experience includes test structure based yield learning systems and defect detection algorithms for scanning electron microscopes. Dr. Gudmundsson received a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from Berkeley in 2005. His research interests are stochastic and simulation models of production systems. His thesis focused on inspection and metrology capacity planning in semiconductor manufacturing. From 1998-2004 he worked as an inspection planning specialist and consultant at KLA-Tencor. Main responsibilities were the development and deployment of inspection capacity planning tools. He has supervised and personally performed numerous inspection planning projects at leading semiconductor fabs worldwide. Dr. Gudmundsson has published extensively on the topics of inspection and metrology planning [list of publications]. He has served as a reviewer for IEEEs ICRA conference and currently reviews for IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering. Technical consultants Professor J. George Shanthikumar Dr. Shanthikumar is Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research in the college of Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests are in production and service systems modeling and analysis, queueing theory, reliability, scheduling, stochastic processes, simulation and supply chain management. He has written or written jointly over 250 technical papers on these topics. He is a coauthor (with John A. Buzacott) of the book Stochastic Models of Manufacturing Systems and a coauthor (with Moshe Shaked) of the book Stochastic Orders and Their Applications. He is (or was) a member of the editorial boards of the IIE Transactions on Design and Manufacturing, International Journal of Flexible Manufacturing Systems, Journal of Discrete Event Dynamic Systems, Journal of Production and Operations Management, Operations Research, Operations Research Letters,  OPSEARCH, Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences, and Queueing Systems: Theory and Applications. For the past ten year Professor Shanthikumar has consulted leading semiconductor equipment manufacturers on the economics of process control in semiconductor manufacturing. Jerry Nalywajko Mr. Nalywajko has extensive semiconductor industry experience. He has served in executive level positions for leading semiconductor companies as well as founding and consulting to startups. Mr. Nalywajko has a BS in Materials Science from the University of Illinois and a MBA from the University of Santa Clara. His professional career started in product marketing at Fairchild Semiconductor. He subsequently worked in similar capacity for AMD and VLSI Technology. Mr. Nalywajko established the marketing department for Cypress Semiconductor. During his seven year tenure at Cypress, the annual revenue grew from 0 to $300 million. He is one of three founders of Aptos Semiconductor. Aptos was one of the charter/founding members of the FSA (Fabless Semiconductor Association). Most recently Mr. Nalywajko served in product management and marketing positions for Micron Technology. He was a product manager for the highly profitable PSRAM product line and helped multiply the revenue of the Flash business. Affiliated consultants Dr. Wooseung Jang Dr. Jang is an Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering at the University of Missouri – Columbia. His primary research interests are in the area of stochastic modeling and optimization, with applications to manufacturing systems, service operations, and supply chain management. Dr. Jang received his Ph.D. degree in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from the University of California at Berkeley, in 1997. There he was actively involved in the Sloan Focus Study and the SRC projects on Yield Management. Dr. Jang worked with many leading semiconductor companies such as AMD, TI and DEC to develop and implement his research work. Dr. Jang is a member of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science, the Mathematical Association of America, and the Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Society. His research work has been published in leading journals such as Naval Research Logistics, Operation Research Letters, European Journal of Operational Research, and International Journal of Productions Research [partial list of publications]. Dr. Ruj Nasongkhla Profile will be posted soon.

Copyright 2006, Sensor Analytics.