Dr. Yongchan Ban

Yongchan (James) Ban received his Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. He is a director of engineering at Synopsys R&D and leads multiple advanced node foundry technologies. He worked for Samsung electronics, Intel Corporation, LG Electronics, and Globalfoundries. He has breadth and depth of expertise from semiconductor technology to VLSI physical implementation. His current research areas are on physical design flow and methodology, and DTCO (design technology co-optimization).