Program: Microsystems Engineering

Phone Number: +971 2 810 9214

Dr. Irfan Saadat received a BS degree in Electrical Engineering and BS in Computer Science from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia in 1983, and MEng and PhD in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, in 1984 and 1990 respectively.
From 1990 to 1989, he worked with Fairchild Research Center, Santa Clara, CA, USA, which was part of National Semiconductor Corp. He worked on process integration covering Back of End Line (BEOL), Middle of line (MOL), Silicidation and Spin on Dielectrics. Then he went on to work on Systems on Chip process integration by developing an embedded DRAM on CMOS technology flow of 0.25um node, using stacked capacitor scheme. In 1990, Dr. Saadat moved to PDF Solutions, San Jose, CA, USA, a global leader in Semiconductor manufacturing consulting. Before joining MI, Dr. Saadat was Senior Engagement Director and Technical Fellow with PDF Solutions.

He had been managing the PDF engagements with a leading US based microelectronics company starting from the 90nm node. For the last two years, Dr. Saadat was managing the 22/20nm CMOS project at a leading global semiconductor alliance. He also worked with various Alliance members in Europe and Asia in technology transfer and ramping.   Dr. Saadat has authored and co-authored more than 9 publications in leading semiconductor conferences and journals; and has been granted 7 US patents.
 

Courses/Teaching
FDN 473