Dr. Rich S. Wise

Rich Wise joined in the CTO office of Lam Research in 2014, where he is responsible for strategic patterning product development. Prior to Lam Research, Rich led plasma process development for the International Business Machines corporation memory and logic alliances. He holds over 75 patents in the field of plasma processing and associated semiconductor technologies.

Rich earned his PhD in Chemical Engineering in 1996 from the University of Houston Plasma Processing Laboratory for experimental and simulation studies on inductively coupled plasmas.