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Melissa Grupen-Shemansky, PhD

CTO, VP Technology Communities
SEMI
Milpitas, CA, United States

Dr. Melissa Grupen-Shemansky currently serves as Chief Technical Officer (CTO) at SEMI and Vice President of Technology Communities. Technology Communities at SEMI are industry groups of varying disciplines critical to the microelectronics supply chain that are assembled to address opportunities and challenges best address collectively. In addition, Dr. Grupen- Shemansky is responsible for program oversight of consortium R&D projects that are in-part funded by the Department of Defense. Presently, there are three public-private partnerships addressing flexible hybrid electronics (FHE), nano-bio applications (NBMC), and positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT). The consortia represent over $160M in federal and industrial investment over the span of 8 years furthering the advancement of U.S. microelectronics technologies and ecosystem development. Dr. Grupen-Shemansky is also CEO of the FlexTech Alliance, Inc., a not-for-profit subsidiary of SEMI responsible for the Manufacturing Innovations Institute, NextFlex.
Prior to joining SEMI, Dr. Grupen-Shemansky held various executive management roles in the semiconductor industry. With over 25 years in the industry, she has both Fortune 100 company and start-up innovation experience in research and development, manufacturing, business development and technology strategy. Dr. Grupen-Shemansky began her career at Motorola in semiconductor research and development. Over the course of 10 years, she held various management positions in silicon and gallium arsenide device fabrication, packaging, interconnect and system integration. Following Motorola, she was the Director of Interconnect Technology and Design Engineering in Lucent, Bell Labs, microelectronics division. She later joined Spansion, the flash memory division of AMD, as Vice President of Packaging and Interconnect Technology. And before joining SEMI, Dr. Grupen-Shemansky was the Senior Vice President of Engineering for Advanced Nanotechnology Solutions, Inc., a startup in 3D ICs and cybersecurity.
Dr. Grupen-Shemansky holds both bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Chemical Engineering from Pennsylvania State University and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Arizona State University. She has received various corporate and educational awards, has seven issued patents, numerous technical publications, and is a contributing author to Failure-Free Integrated Circuit Packages.

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