TECHCON 2017 Conference Banquet Keynote - Carlos Diaz

Carlos H. Diaz received B.S. in EE and Physics and M.S. degree in EE from Universidad de Los Andes, Bogota-Colombia, and Ph.D. degree in EE from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is Senior Director of Advanced Technology Research in R&D, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company. He has published over 100 journal and conference papers, holds over 30 US patents, and published one book. He served in the IEEE IEDM Technical and Executive Committees and the technical program committees for the IEEE VLSI, SSDM, SISPAD, IRPS, and EOS/ESD international conferences / symposiums. He also served at the International Roadmap for Semiconductors executive committee. Dr. Diaz was elected an IEEE Fellow in 2008 for his contributions to deep-submicron foundry technology. In 2011, he was co-recipient along with Drs. Y. J. Mii and Burn J. Lin of the Annual Innovation Breakthrough Award, Ministry of Economic Affairs, Taiwan R.O.C., conferred to TSMC's 28nm logic technology. He received the 2016 IEEE Andrew Grove Award for sustained contributions to and leadership in foundry advanced CMOS logic technology.