SMTA International 2026: Directory

Vahid Akhavan

PulseForge

Director of Transitional Technologies

Josh Akman

Synopsys

Senior Staff Engineer

Vineeth Bastin

Comet Technologies USA inc

Senior Applications Engineer

Jasbir Bath

Koki Solder America Inc.

Support Advisory Engineer

Sirine Bayram

AIM Solder

Senior Research Scientist

Jake Benz

LPKF Laser & Electronics SE

Sales Manager

Mike Bixenman

Magnalytix, LLC

SME Cleaning and Reliability

Albert Block

Better Board Buying- DirectPCB

Chief Manufacturing Strategist

Nate Bode

Impossible Objects

Director of Strategy and Growth

Mumtaz Bora

pSemi

Principal Packaging Engineer

Mathilde BURET

Inventec Performance Chemicals

R&D Soldering Engineer

Andrea Charif

Henkel Corporation

Lead Application Engineer

David Chiu

Test Research, Inc (TRI)

Sales Manager

Pritha Choudhury

MacDermid Alpha Electronics Solutions India Pvt. Ltd.

Principal R&D Scientist

Ricardo Chuma

2B AUTOMACAO E USINAGEM

Co-Owner and Engineering Director

Joseph Clure

KurtzERSA Inc

Head of Application and Demo Centers

Denis Cormier

Rochester Institute of Technology

Earl W. Brinkman Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering

Richard Coyle

Nokia Bell Labs

Consulting Member of the Technical Staff

Liam Crosbie

Dantec Dynamics

R&D Manager

RD

Robert Darveaux

TMBS, LLC

President

Chris Dayney

Fuji America Corporation

Technical Marketing Manager

Ed Dodd

Cofactr

VP of Government and Defense

Dave Dworak

Dymax Corporation

Material Scientist

Mark Dydyk

Mark Dydyk Consulting LLC

President

Yoshinori Eijiri

Resonac Co., Ltd.

Chief Researcher

Carolyn Ellinger

Eastman Kodak Company

VP, Printed Electronics

Tyler Ferris

Ansys, Part of Synopsys

Sr Staff Consultant

William Fox

Lockheed Martin

LM Fellow

DG

Daphne Gates

Collins Aerospace

Mechanical Engineer

Jose Gonzalez, Ph.D.

AIM Solder

R&D Chemist

Chris Gourlay

Imperial College London

Professor of Physical Metallurgy

Troy Gueller

Rockwell Automation

Senior Project Engineer

Martin Hart

Topline Corporation

CEO

David Hillman

Hillman EAS LLC

Founder / CEO

Frances Holcomb

Binghamton University

Research Assistant

Choongpyo Jeon

Samsung Electronics

Reliability Engineer

Chelsea Jewell

KYZEN Corporation

Application Lab Manager

Shantanu Joshi

Koki Solder America Inc.

Head of Customer Solutions and Operational Excellence

Jason Keeping

Celestica Inc.

Staff Engineer

Mei Ming Khaw

Keysight Technologies

Material Reliability Program Manager

Sai Kolli

Foxconn Industrial Internet (FII)

Project Manager

Mike Konrad

Aqueous Technologies

Founder / CEO

David Kruidhof

Comet Technologies USA, Inc.

Technical Sales Manager

Athula Kulatunga

Purdue University Northwest

Professor of Electrical Engineering Technology

Rakesh Kumar

Specialty Coating Systems, Inc.

Vice President of Technology

Satoru Kuramochi

Dai Nippon Printing Co. Ltd.,

Fellow

Kalsi Kwan

Boeing Engineering & Technology Innovation

YoungDo Kweon

AMKOR Technology

Nithin Lakshminarayan

Universal Instruments Corporation

SMT Lab Engineer

Pradeep Lall, Ph.D.

Auburn University

Professor

Ronald Lasky

Indium Corporation

Senior Technologist

Hong Kim Lee

Indium Corporation of America

Area Technical Manager

Sang Yeol Lee

Cheongju University

Professor

Tony Lentz

FCT Solder

Chemist & Field Application

Jean-Baptiste Libot

Hooke Electronics

Electronic Assembly Expert

Anna Lifton

MacDermid Alpha Electronics Solutions

Director R&D Application -Circuit Board Assembly

Jayse McLean

John Deere Intelligent Solutions Group

Senior Engineer

Lindsey Mercurio

MacDermid Alpha Electronics Solutions

Primary Metallization Applications Specialist

Nick Morris

NextFlex

Deputy Director of Technology

Martijn Mulder

Mat-Tech BV

Process & Quality Engineering Lead

Sai Reddy Munnangi

Binghamton University

Student

Gilad Nave

SLB

Material and Process Engineer

Thuy Nguyen

Indium Corporation

Technical Support Engineer II

Chris Nicholson

Comet X-ray

Product Manager

Jeremy Orbach

Omron Automation Americas

Application Engineer II

Michael Osterman

CALCE/University of Maryland

Research Scientist

Jinsub Park

Hanyang University

Professor

Doug Pauls

ItDepends Electronics LLC

Sr. Technical Fellow

AP

Arvind Purushotaman

Synopsys

R&D Engineering, Staff Engineer

AR

Anto Raj

Medtronic

Sr Reliability Engineer

Viktoria Rawinski

Rawinski GmbH

CEO

Tom Rovere

Lockheed Martin

LM Fellow

Suraj Saifullah

MacDermid Alpha Electronics Solutions

Application Engineer

Tony Sass

IBM Corporation

Senior Technical Staff Member

Douglas Schardt

Komori America Corporation

Anola Semndili

Binghamton University

Research Aide

Chrys Shea

SHEA Engineering Services

Founder

Vladimir Sitko

PBT Works

Founder / CEO

Michael Sivigny

CeTaQ Americas

Owner/General Manager

Greg Smith

StenTech, Inc

Technology Director

Cameron Sobie

Arch Systems

Director of AI Strategy, Arch Systems

Collin Stoner

Selene Photonics Inc.

Consulting Engineer

Keith Sweatman

Nihon Superior Co., Ltd

Senior Technical Advisor

TT

Takamasa Takano

Dai Nippon Printing Corporation

Principal Researcher

Waad Tarman

Auburn University

Ph.D. Candidate

CT

Christine Taylor

IBM Corporation

Quality Engineer

Gayle Towell

AIM Solder

Technical Marketing Lead

Matt Turpin

Datest Corporation

Sr. Test Engineer

Zhipeng Wang

IBM Corporation

Project Manager

Brian Watson

HyRel Technologies

Managing Parter

Jacob Weber

Collins Aerospace

Senior Mechanical Engineer

Eyal Weiss

Cybord

Founder & CTO

JW

John Williams

Boeing Engineering & Technology Innovation

George Winstead

Technology Service Corporation

Senior Systems Engineer

Ram Wissel

KYZEN Corporation

Vice President

Charles Woychik

NHanced Semiconductors

VP Business Development

ALBERT TZU-CHIA WU

National Central University

Professor

Yiliang Wu

CollTech Materials Corporation

VP Technology

Jung Yoon, Ph.D.

IBM Supply Chain

Distinguished Engineer & CTO, Supplier Technology & Quality

Matthias Zapatka

INGUN USA, Inc.

Senior FAE

Hongwen Zhang

Indium Corporation

Principal Research Metallurgist & RnD Director

WZ

Wayne Zhang

IBM Corporation

Supply Chain Engineer

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