Dr. Ji Chul Yang
Vice President
SKhynix Semiconductor, South Korea


Dr. Ji Chul Yang is Research Fellow (Vice President) at SKhynix Semiconductor in South Korea. Since he joined SKhynix in 2017, he is now responsible for innovation of Cleaning&CMP team in Manufacturing Division. Prior to SKhynix, he was CMP team leader and CMP Representative of Future Technology Roadmap Team at GLOBALFOUNDRIES U.S. He was also engaged in developing 14nm & 7 nm logic process as technical leader. Prior to his time with Globalfoundries, Dr. Yang was CMP Project Leader in Line 16, SAMSUNG Memory Division in South Korea. He has experiences throughout Memory (NAND and DRAM) and Logic Foundries Device. He was invited talker for ICPT2010, ICPT2014, 60th KCMPUGM, ECS2016, 20th CAMP, SEMICONWEST-CMP2016, STS2017 and CMPUGM2018. Dr. Yang has a Ph.D degree in Electronics Engineering from SUNGKYUNKWAN University, South Korea, Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from YONSEI University, South Korea. He has authored more than 40 technical publications and conference presentations with semiconductor items.