BIO:
Jia Chen, PhD
Dr. Jia Chen is currently a Program Director in the Office of the CTO and Strategic Alliances, IBM Systems and Technology Group. She is focused on technology alliance structuring, business development, and driving IBM’s Green IT initiative.
Dr. Chen received her Ph.D. in Physics in 2000 from Yale University, where she pioneered breakthroughs in molecular memories and circuits. Her work was recognized as part of the ‘Breakthrough of the Year’ in Science magazine in 2001, and was widely reported in the New York Times, Scientific American, Wired Magazine, and elsewhere.
In 2000, she joined the IBM Microelectronics Division in East Fishkill, New York, where she was a technical leader and a key resource to many projects, including advanced lithography techniques, process integration and device design for IBM’s high-speed 90 nm CMOS node.
In 2003, she joined the IBM Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, working in the area of nanotechnology as a research staff member. She developed novel methods to dramatically improve the electronic properties of high performance carbon nanotube devices, new ways to generate intense light from an ultra-small source, and new methods to self-assemble such nano-materials. Her research focused on carbon nanotubes and nanoscaled materials-based electronic and optoelectronic devices and technologies.
In 2006, Dr. Chen became the executive assistant to Dr. Bernard S. Meyerson, IBM Fellow, VP of Strategic Alliances and CTO, IBM Systems and Technology Group.
A fellow of the United Engineering Foundation since 2000, and a fellow of the World Technology Network since 2006, Dr. Chen was recognized as one of the top 35 technology innovators under the age of 35 by MIT’s Technology Review Magazine in 2005. In 2006, she was honored as Best Researcher of the Year by Small Times magazine, and recognized as one of the top 15 innovators of Nano50 by NASA's Nanotech Briefs. She was most recently honored as an invited presenter at the United States National Academy of Engineering’s Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, and was selected to organize the coming years event.
Dr. Chen holds both U.S. and foreign patents on molecular devices, memory storage devices, CMOS processes and devices, carbon nanotube electronic and optoelectronic devices. She is the author of over 50 professional publications, and a frequent invited/keynote speaker at professional conferences. |