Bart Swinnen

Bart Swinnen received the Ph.D. degree in solid-state physics from the University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, in 1997. He was a Post-Doctoral Fellow with the University of Leuven. He was a member of the Abstract State Machine Language Engineering Team, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, where he developed stepper alignment strategies for processed wafers. He joined the Interuniversity Microelectronics Center (imec), Leuven, Belgium, in 2003, where he first worked as a Program Manager for the wafer-level packaging (WLP) Research Program. Later, he managed both the 3-D-WLP and 3-D-stacked integrated circuit programs. He is now the Director of the Interconnect and Packaging Department at imec.