Edward Preisler
Towerjazz

Biography

Edward Preisler received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from U.C. San Diego in 1998 and a Ph.D in Applied Physics from Caltech in 2003 with a thesis that focused on antimonide semiconductors for optoelectronics. After graduating he served as a post-doctoral researcher at the IBM T.J. Watson research lab working on crystalline oxides and high-K gate dielectrics. He joined Jazz Semiconductor in 2004 and is now responsible for the development of new BiCMOS technologies at TowerJazz. He has served as chair of the IEEE BCTM process technology subcommittee and as a member of the ITRS wireless roadmap bipolar device committee. He has authored or co-authored 32 papers in the field of compound and column IV alloy semiconductor processing and device development, and two book chapters on bipolar device physics and processing.