Summary
Weida Zhang is a seasoned process engineer with 25+ years spanning wafer-foundry technology development, yield enhancement, and equipment service across leading fabs and IC companies, now serving as Technical Staff Engineer at Microchip. His hands-on experience covers process nodes from 0.5 µm down to advanced nodes, SiGe BiCMOS development, and cross-functional foundry management for digital and analog products in internet and data-center markets. He combines deep manufacturing problem-solving—yield, quality disposition, and OSAT assembly/test troubleshooting—with cost-control and process integration leadership. Earlier academic work as a lecturer researching glass-ceramics and biomaterials informs a pragmatic materials perspective that often surfaces in process optimizations. Fluent in both factory and design-house interfaces, he’s known for translating complex fabrication issues into robust, scalable process solutions.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
$ Master of Engineering, Inorganic Non-metallic Materials, $ Master of Engineering, Inorganic Non-metallic Materials at Chinese Academy of Science, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics
$ Bachelor of Engineering, Electronic Engineering, $ Bachelor of Engineering, Electronic Engineering at Xi'an Jiaotong University
$ Master of Applied Science, Material Engineering, $ Master of Applied Science, Material Engineering at Nanyang Technological University Singapore
Chinese, English