Laura Mirkarimi is SVP, Head of Semi Engineering at Adeia Semiconductor, San Jose, California. She earned a PhD in Materials Science at Northwestern University and a B.S. in Ceramic Science &Eng. from Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Mirkarimi leads the 3D Technology Team at Adeia and focusses on hybrid bonding, advanced packaging and thermal management technologies for future generations of electronic products. She holds over 100 patents and has 60technical publications. Prior to joining Adeia, she developed electronic devices including ferroelectric memory, transparent conductors and photonic crystal sensors at Hewlett Packard Laboratories for 12 years. As VP of Electronics Segment Marketing at Zeiss Microsopy, she worked with the R&D and Product Manufacturing teams to build the product roadmap for x-ray microscopy.