Spring 2023 Industry Workshop & Advisory Board Meeting

April 20-21, 2023
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus
Electrical and Computer Engineering Building, Room 3002

How can universities, industry and national labs work together to create the next-generation of energy-efficient, high-performance semiconductors? Learn how we can partner to meet the U.S.’s CHIPS Act goals at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Join us as we discuss cutting-edge semiconductors and microelectronics research at Illinois and engage with students at the joint poster session and recruitment event. You will also meet top semiconductor industry, national lab, and DoD members. Registration is free.

Contact

Please contact Shaloo Rakheja (rakheja@illinois.edu) or Qing Cao (qingcao2@illinois.edu) or Irfan Ahmad (isahmad@illinois.edu) for more information or Steve Zahos (szahos@illinois.edu) for travel arrangements.

Lodging

A block of rooms has been reserved at the Hampton Inn in Urbana for this event. The hotel is about a 10-minute walk from the Holonyak Micro and Nanotechnology Lab. You can access the reservation portal online.

Agenda

Day 1	April 20, 2023
7:30-8:15 AM	Registration and Breakfast
8:15-8:30 AM	Welcome Remarks Melanie Loots, Executive Associate Vice Chancellor for Research & Innovation Rashid Bashir, Dean, GCOE Harley Johnson, Associate Dean for Research, GCOE
8:30-9:05 AM	Kickoff Meeting Goals & ASAP Vision, Capabilities, Value Proposition Shaloo Rakheja, Director of ASAP Center Qing Cao, Associate Director of ASAP Center
9:05-9:20 AM	Illinois Leadership in Semiconductor and Microelectronics Research Harley Johnson, Associate Dean for Research, GCOE Laurel Passantino, Assistant Dean for Research, GCOE
9:20-10:10 AM	NSF IUCRC Presentation Crystal Leach, NSF IUCRC Program Manager Todd Abraham, NSF External Evaluator
10:10-10:30 AM	BREAK
10:30-12:30 PM	Project Presentations Theme 1: Materials Discovery for Next-Generation Electrical and Optical Interconnects Theme 2: Heterogeneous Integration
12:30-1:30 PM	LUNCH
1:30-3:30 PM	Project Presentations Theme 2 (continued): Heterogeneous Integration Theme 3: Circuits and Architectures for Highly Energy-Efficient Computing
3:30-3:40 PM	PM Presentation by Office of Technology Management (OTM) Michelle Chitambar, Senior Technology Manager
3:40-3:50 PM	Break
3:50-4:15 PM	Research and Capabilities at UT Austin – ASAP’s Potential Second Site Xiuling Li, Professor, UT Austin
4:15-4:30 PM	Review of Evening and Day 2 Activities Steve Zahos, ASAP Operations Manage
4:30-5:20 PM	IAB Organizational Meeting and Formative Discussion Impressions of Day 1 Day 2 Project Voting Process Project Management & Mentoring Framework for Selected Projects Election of IAB Chair and Vice-Chair (IAB Members and NSF Only)
5:30-7:00 PM	Technical Forum and Networking Poster presentations by students (3rd floor ECEB)
7:00 PM	Dinner (3rd floor ECEB) Keynote from Dr. Kashyap Yellai, Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) Program Manager

Day 2	April 21, 2023
7:30-8:00 AM	Arrival and Breakfast
8:00-8:10 AM	Day 2 Opening Remarks Bruce Hajek, Head, Electrical and Computer Engineering
8:10-8:30 AM	Workforce Development Shaloo Rakheja, ASAP Director
8:30-9:50 AM	Project Feedback
9:50-10:00 AM	BREAK
10:00-11:15 AM	Closed IAB Meeting NSF and Industry Parallel Faculty Meeting Center Director, Associate Director, and PIs
11:15-11:45 AM	IAB Report Out and Discussion IAB, Center Leadership, Faculty, and Staff
11:45-12:00 PM	Summary and Closing Remarks
12:00 PM	Adjourn Boxed lunches will be provided.
12:15 PM	Lab Tours (optional) Glennys Mensing, Holonyak Micro & Nanotechnology Laboratory Mauro Sardela, Materials Research Laboratory Dane Sievers, Electrical and Computer Engineering Labs