Taste of Tech Seminar: U.S. DOE Updates in the Semiconductor Industry | UF Quantum Initiatives
Agenda
Lunch: 11:45 – 12:00 Talk 1: 12:00 – 12:20 Talk 2: 12:20 – 12:40 Networking: 12:40 – 1:00
Talk 1: U.S. Department of Energy Updates in the Semiconductor Industry
Presentation Overview:
Dr. Kaarsberg will provide a brief overview of DOE’s microelectronics Energy Efficiency Scaling for 2 Decades (EES2) Initiative, including its first R&D Roadmap. She will then focus on several DOE AMMTO research projects funded as a result of the EES2 Roadmapping. Finally, she will discuss the next steps to meet the EES2 two-decade goal of increasing microelectronics and microelectronics applications energy efficiency more than one thousand fold in two decades.
Dr. Tina Kaarsberg
About the Speaker
Dr. Tina Marie Kaarsberg, is currently the Program Manager of the Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Technologies Office (AMMTO) within the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). Dr. Kaarsberg, oversees two major programs related to semiconductor technology. She is the founder of DOE’s “Microelectronics Energy Efficiency Scaling for 2 Decades” (EES2) initiative which was launched in September 2022 and will be described in detail in her talk and she oversees AMMTO’s Power Electronics portfolio which includes the recently renewed Manufacturing USA Institute PowerAmerica, focused on wide bandgap-based power electronics—also to be described. Previously at DOE, Dr. Kaarsberg served in several positions in the Policy Office and within the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) including serving as the EERE SBIR Portfolio Manager and National Laboratory Planning Advisor in the EERE’s Office of Strategic Programs. In between her stints in EERE and the Policy Office she also served as Professional Staff on the U.S. House of Representatives Science Committee. Dr. Kaarsberg previously was a faculty member at UCLA and a research fellow at Brookhaven National Laboratory and Cornell University. She was selected as an American Physical Society (APS) Congressional Science Fellow, worked for Sandia National Laboratories, a small business and the Northeast-Midwest Institute before joining DOE. Dr. Kaarsberg was graduated from Yale University with a bachelor in physics (with distinction) and received her doctorate in Physics from Stony Brook University based on research at Cornell University. Dr. Kaarsberg is an elected APS Fellow and has more than 60 publications.
Talk 2: Quantum Initiative, Updates, and More
Presentation Overview:
In this session, we’ll hear from Dr. Philip Feng about the quantum initiatives here at the University of Florida.
Dr. Philip Feng
About the Speaker
Dr. Philip Feng is a Rhines Endowed Professor for Quantum Engineering & Associate Chair for Research, in the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department at the University of Florida. He received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in 2007. His research has primarily focused on resonant micro/nanoelectromechanical systems (MEMS/NEMS), especially those based on low-dimensional (2D, 1D) materials, advanced semiconductors (SiC, III-nitrides, oxides), as well as other solid-state electronic/photonic structures, quantum devices, and integrated systems. He has graduated over 10 Ph.D. researchers and 8 M.S. students with thesis research. He is an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics & Frequency Control (T-UFFC). He has served on Technical Program Committees (TPCs) and as Track/Session Chairs for IEEE IFCS & EFTF, IEDM, MEMS, Transducers, SENSORS, etc. He served as a chair for IEEE MEMS 2021.
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