Wali Zhang
Senior Manager, R&D Process Development at Lumileds
Singapore
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Top SchoolWali Zhang is a senior R&D leader based in Singapore with two decades of hands-on expertise in III-V wide bandgap materials, thin film deposition, thermal annealing, and wafer bonding for high-power LEDs and advanced MicroLED displays. As Senior Manager at Lumileds he leads process development teams delivering world-class GaN and AlInGaP LED chips for automotive lighting and AR/VR/direct-view MicroLEDs, driving EQE, reliability and yield improvements through systematic DOEs and failure analysis. He combines deep materials science (TEM, FIB, SIMS, XPS, Raman) with practical production skills—tool selection, vendor engagement, NPI and SPC—to translate lab innovations into volume manufacturing. Wali has a strong track record in ohmic contact engineering, mesa etch/passivation strategies and MicroLED-to-CMOS hybridization, and has published 15 papers plus a book chapter and filed US patents. He is as comfortable managing 20+ concurrent projects and hiring/coaching teams as he is optimizing thin-film stacks or bonding recipes in the cleanroom. A PhD-trained materials engineer, he brings a rare blend of fundamental research insight and production-focused execution that shortens the path from discovery to robust products.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Materials Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Materials Engineering at Nanyang Technological UniversityBachelor of Engineering (BEng), Materials Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Materials Engineering at Jiao Tong University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (6)
expandable6
android-view6
tablayout5
kotlin4
android3
ios2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
kami-zeros/kami-zeros.github.io
May 2018 - Oct 2022
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 6 months
kami-zeros/Dagger2Test1
Oct 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:12 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 5 days
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