Taste of Tech Seminar: X-ray Tomography and Laminography: Unlocking 3D Insights for Advanced Inspection | The Economics of Trade, Free Trade vs. Industrial Policies
Time and Date
09/22/2025
11:45 AM – 1:00 PM (EST)
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: X-ray Tomography and Laminography: Unlocking 3D Insights for Advanced Inspection
Presentation Overview:
This talk explores the principles and applications of X-ray tomography and laminography in the inspection and analysis of various samples and in particular for modern electronic devices. I will introduce how each imaging modality works, their relative strengths and limitations, and why laminography has become essential for non-destructive evaluation of planar and large-area samples such as advanced semiconductor packages and printed circuit boards. The session will highlight recent advances in resolution, throughput, and AI-assisted reconstruction, showing how these techniques enable defect detection, reliability assessment, and digital twin creation for complex electronics. Case studies from microelectronics packaging and materials research will illustrate how tomography and laminography are shaping the future of failure analysis, inline inspection, metrology and hardware assurance.

Dr. Navid Asadi
About the Speaker
Navid Asadi is an Associate Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Florida with an affiliation to the Materials Science and Engineering department. He investigates novel techniques for electronics inspection and assurance, system and chip level decomposition and security assessment, anti-reverse engineering, 3D imaging, invasive and semi-invasive methods, supply chain security, etc. Dr. Asadi is director of the Security and Assurance (SCAN) lab house to more than $12M advanced imaging and characterization equipment. He also serves as the associate director of the Florida Semiconductor Institute (FSI), and the Microelectronics Security Training (MEST) center which is a multi-million dollar program to train and reskill the professional engineers in the area of security. Dr. Asadi has received his NSF CAREER award in 2022 and several best paper awards from IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST) and the ASME International Symposium on Flexible Automation (ISFA). He was also winner of D.E. Crow Innovation award from University of Connecticut. He is also founder and the general chair of the IEEE Physical Assurance and Inspection of Electronics (PAINE) Conference. His projects are sponsored by various government agencies and industry including but not limited to NSF, AFRL, AFOSR, ONR, SRC, Meta, Cisco, and Analog Devices.
Talk 2: The Economics of Trade, Free Trade vs. Industrial Policies
Presentation Overview:
Jeff Ferry will discuss the economics of trade in the semiconductor industry.

Jeff Ferry
About the Speaker
Jeff Ferry is Chief Economist Emeritus at the Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA). Ferry is an economist, author, and former technology executive. From 2005 to 2011, he served as a marketing executive at Infinera, a US manufacturer of optical networking systems that designs and manufactures photonic integrated circuits in Sunnyvale, California. In 2019, the CPA economics team won the Mennis Award from the National Association for Business Economics for a paper, Decoupling from China: an economic analysis of the impact on the U.S. economy of a permanent tariff on Chinese imports.
Thank you to our semester sponsor, Rohde & Schwarz, USA! Thanks to their generous support, this series will continue to bring together industry leaders, innovators, and tech enthusiasts for an unmatched experience exploring the latest trends and breakthroughs in the semiconductor industry. |
