Dr. Tom Coughlin
Tom Coughlin is a digital storage analyst and business and technology consultant. He has more than 40 years in the data storage industry with engineering and senior management positions at several companies.
An IEEE Life Fellow, Dr. Coughlin has many publications and six patents. He is also the author of Digital Storage in Consumer Electronics: The Essential Guide, which is now in its second edition with Springer. Tom is a regular storage and memory contributor for forbes.com and media and entertainment organizations. Coughlin Associates consults and publishes books and market and technology reports, including The Media and Entertainment Storage Report and an Emerging Memory Report, and puts on digital storage-oriented events.
Tom has served in numerous IEEE volunteer leadership roles, including President of IEEE-USA, Director of IEEE Region 6, Vice President and Board member of the IEEE Consumer Technology Society, Chair of the Santa Clara Valley IEEE Section, and Chair of the Consultants Network of Silicon Valley. He is also active with the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) and the Society of Motion Pictures and Television Engineers (SMPTE)
Dr. Chun-Ting "Tim" Wang Lee
Chun-Ting “Tim” Wang Lee is a Signal Integrity Application Scientist in Keysight Technologies. Tim received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 2020. His work focuses on understanding the printed circuit board fabrication process and how it impacts the on-board Signal Integrity. Lately, he has been presenting ways to improve simulation and measurement correlation. Tim has garnered much acclaim for his well-crafted presentations and memorable delivery style.
Dr. Daniel Lopez
Daniel Lopez is the Liang Professor of Electrical Engineering at Penn State University's College of Engineering. He is also the Director of the Nanofabrication Lab at the Materials Research Institute. Before joining Penn State, Dr. Lopez worked at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Bell Labs, and Argonne National Lab.
Dr. Lopez earned his Ph.D. in Physics from the Centro Atomico Bariloche, Argentina. He then served as a Postdoctoral Fellow at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY. In 1998, he became a Research Staff member at Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies in Murray Hill, NJ. There, he worked on developing, fabricating, and packaging micro and nano electro-mechanical systems (MEMS and NEMS) for optical communications, imaging, and quantum sensing. Dr. Lopez was part of the team that created the world's first all-optical, high-speed data switch (LambdaRouter) for lightwave communications. He was awarded the Bell Labs President's Gold Award, the company's highest technical award, in 2000 for his role in developing disruptive technologies that directly impacted the business.
In 2008, Dr. Lopez joined Argonne National Laboratory to lead the Nanofabrication and Devices group at the Center for Nanoscale Materials in Lemont, IL. This DOE-supported nanofabrication facility has worldwide users from industry and academia interested in interdisciplinary research and development of nano and micro-scale devices. After a sabbatical year at NIST in Gaithersburg, MD, where he worked on quantum packaging for atomic sensors, he joined Penn State University in 2020 as a Liang Professor of EE and Director of the Nanofabrication Lab.
In 2022, Dr. Lopez founded the Mid-Atlantic Semiconductor Hub (MASH), a consortium of 10 universities across six states that brings together resources, technical expertise, and workforce development programs to address the semiconductor industry's needs in the United States.
Dr. Lopez's research career spans various areas, including novel materials, micromechanics, optical microsystems, and packaging. He is focused on advancing fundamental and applied science through the interplay among mechanics, photonics, and materials. Some examples of his research include the creation of the fastest and densest MEMS-based Spatial Light Modulators, the development of ultra-dense 3D heterogeneous integration of CMOS and MEMS, and methods to enhance the frequency stability of micromechanical-based frequency references. Dr. Lopez is an author of over 170 technical publications and holds 32 granted patents. He has also given invited talks worldwide.
Dr. Eric Bogatin
Dr. Eric Bogatin has been a full time professor in the ECEE department teaching the Practical PCB Course and the Senior Design Capstone Course. In addition, he is involved with research activities related to signal integrity and circuit design and analysis, collaborating with other faculty and involving graduate and undergraduate students.
He is the technical editor of the Signal Integrity Journal, one of the few industry-focused publications that covers signal integrity, power integrity and electromagnetic compliance topics. Prof. Bogatin is also a Fellow with Teledyne LeCroy and continues to offer webinars and presentations on best measurement practices using real time scopes, TDR and VNA instruments. As part of his Fellow actives, he is the Dean of the Teledyne LeCroy Signal Integrity Academy.
Juan Martinez
Juan Martinez graduated from Penn State Harrisburg with a BS in Electrical Engineering, and from NC State with a master’s in electrical engineering. Currently employed at AMD as a Staff Signal Integrity Engineer, his work focuses on product development signal integrity.
Eric Oseassen
He holds A Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical Engineering from the City College of New York (1996). He received an MSc form the Polytechnic Institute of New York University in RF & Microwave Engineering (2010)
He spent over ten years as a Design Engineer for several component and integrated assembly companies on Long Island, NY. Since 2011 he has worked as Field Applications Engineer for RF/Microwave Test & Measurement ecosystems. He has a focus on active device characterization including Amplifiers, Mixers, Block Converters and lastly Signal Integrity applications.
He currently serves as a Staff Application Engineer for Rohde & Schwarz in the Northeast United States, often focused in the greater New York Metropolitan area.
Dr. Mark D. Threeton
Dr. Mark D. Threeton holds several high-level administrative roles within the Learning and Performance Systems (LPS) Department, including serving as the Associate Director of the Professional Development Center for Career and Technical Education (CTE), the Director of the UBC Outreach Professional Development Alliance, and the Director of the National Occupational Competency Testing Institute (NOCTI) at Penn State. Over the past decade, he has successfully secured over 11-million dollars of external funding in support of Penn State’s Land-Grant Mission. In addition, he consults, teaches, and conducts research in the areas of teaching and learning, experiential learning, training and workforce development, and safety and health in education settings and the broader workforce. His research has been published widely in scholarly research journals and books. He holds extensive credentials across business, industry and education and is a workforce development leaders for the Mid-Atlantic Semiconductor Hub (MASH).
Wade Smith
Wade Smith is a Director of North America High Frequency Electromagnetics Application Engineering at Ansys, Inc. where he specializes in Signal Integrity, Power Integrity, and EMI/EMC applications via tools such as HFSS, SIwave and Q3D. Prior to joining ANSYS, Wade worked with Sciperio, Inc. where he conducted multiple projects including antenna, FSS, and wireless sensor applications using 3D Printed fabrication techniques and electronic textiles. Prior to Sciperio, Wade worked at Harris Corporation where he was involved in projects such as wireless sensor applications, high-speed data-rate systems, 3D embedded RF Filter designs, antennas, and SIP/MCM applications used in the miniaturization of Software Defined Radio systems. Wade has an M.S.E.E. from the University of Central Florida.