Summary
Yue Chen is an Engineering Program Manager in the Bay Area with a PhD in Chemistry from MIT and eight years of hands-on experience in thin-film fabrication, PECVD tool startup, and process integration for advanced memory and flat optics manufacturing. She combines deep materials characterization expertise—SEM, TEM, XPS, FTIR, MALDI, NMR, HPLC—and first-principles analysis to solve adhesion, defect, and film-performance challenges across oxide, nitride, and polysilicon stacks. Her research background includes developing aqueous-transfer ligands and quantum dot/SWIR nanocluster imaging at MIT, producing a patent application and demonstrating in vivo imaging improvements. At Applied Materials she led PECVD/FCVD tool commissioning and optimized processes for glass wafer and AR waveguide production, and now coordinates cross-functional engineering programs at Goertek. Colleagues rely on her ability to translate complex lab science into manufacturable processes and to bridge R&D with customer-facing startups. An uncommon blend of academic nanomaterials innovation and practical fab-level troubleshooting makes her effective at taking technologies from discovery to production.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Chemistry, Graduate, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Chemistry, Graduate at MIT
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Chemistry, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Chemistry at University of Science and Technology of China
Chinese, English