Dr. Kevin Zhang

Vice President
Business Development
TSMC


Dr. Kevin Zhang currently serves as Vice President of Business Development at TSMC. Prior to this role, Dr. Zhang served as Vice President of Design and Technology Platform. Before joining TSMC in November 2016, Dr. Zhang was Vice President of Technology and Manufacturing Group and Director of Circuit Technology at Intel, where he was responsible to the development of process design rules, circuit & device modeling, digital libraries, key analog and mixed-signal circuits. He led the development of embedded memory technologies from 90nm to 10nm at Intel. He was also responsible to the design and validation of lead vehicles for process technology development at Intel. Dr. Zhang was elected as Intel Fellow in 2005 and led his teams to win 5 Intel Achievement Awards, the highest technical accomplishments at the company.

Dr. Zhang has published more than 80 papers at international conferences and in technical journals and is the editor of Embedded Memory for Nano-Scale VLSIs, published by Springer in 2009. He holds 55 U.S. patents in the field of integrated circuit technology. Dr. Zhang was the 2016 International Solid-State Circuit Conference (ISSCC) Program chair and serves on IEEE VLSI Executive Committee. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He received his bachelor's degree from Tsinghua University in Beijing and his Ph.D. from Duke University, both in electrical engineering.