Dr. Kris Verma is a veteran of the semiconductor industry with over 32 years of experience in the following areas:

• Semiconductor Devices
• Fabrication
• Factory Buildings
• Research and Development
• Reliability
• CMOS processes and devices
• Wafer Manufacturing
• Hard Disk Drive (HDD) industry (5 years)
• VLSI chips for HDD and R&D projects
• High Tech Industry management

He is involved in the following areas:

• Silicon Valley Technical Institute, Inc. (SVTII) Senior Faculty member: solar energy training
• Program Director for Symposium on Solar Energy, Nanotechnology and Smart Power Grid

Kris currently holds these titles:

• officer in the new IEEE Photovoltaic chapter
• IEEE Nanotechnology Council Executive Committee
• SVEC Board

He was honored with the Best Engineer Award of the IEEE Santa Clara Valley Section in 2010, and as an ISQED Fellow in 2008. He was an IEEE Millennium Medal winner in 2000 for his 20 published papers and for chairing various IEEE meetings and conferences.

Kris earned his Ph.D. in EE from the Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, and an MBA from Portland Univ. in Oregon.