Fall 2025 Virtual Industry Workshop & Advisory Board Meeting
You are invited to attend the ASAP Center's virtual industry advisory board (IAB) meeting on November 18-19, 2025. Join us to learn more about the Center's latest research in CMOS+X semiconductors and microelectronics research. The meeting will also include funded project research updates, theme breakout sessions, and opportunities to hear from funded students.
Register for free with the 'Register' button below, and find the Agenda, Keynote Details, and Travel/Accommodation information as those are finalized.
Agenda -
*All times in CT, agenda tentative to change
Meeting Location: Virtual
| Day 1 | November 18, 2025 |
| 10:00 - 10:10 AM | Welcome Remarks Shaloo Rakheja, ASAP Center Director |
| 10:10 - 10:45 AM | ASAP Year in Review Shaloo Rakheja, ASAP Center Director Qing Cao, ASAP Associate Director |
| 10:45 - 12:15 PM | Project Presentations Illinois Faculty and Students 10:45 - 11:15 AM, Minjoo Larry Lee, Chris Anderson 11:15 - 11:45 AM, Saugata Ghose, Shaloo Rakheja 11:45 - 12:15 PM, Arend van der Zande, Shaloo Rakheja |
| 12:15 - 1:00 PM | LUNCH BREAK |
| 1:00 - 2:30 PM |
Project Presentations Continued |
| 2:30 - 3:10 PM | Closed IAB Meeting (NSF and IAB Only) |
| 3:10 - 3:25 PM | General Project Discussions with Industry Advisory Board (IAB) Open to All |
| 3:25 - 3:30 PM | Review of Day 1 and Expectations for Day 2 Activities Shaloo Rakheja, ASAP Center Director |
| 3:30 PM | Day 1 Adjourns |
| Day 2 | November 19, 2025 |
| 10:00 - 10:05 AM | Day 2 Kickoff |
| 10:05 - 11:00 AM | ASAP Education & Workforce Development Qing Cao, Associate ASAP Center Director Summer 2025 REU Students 10:20 - 10:30 AM, Surya Bhamidi (Prof. Shaloo Rakheja) 10:30 - 10:40 AM, Kristen Gits (Prof. Kent Choquette) 10:40 - 10:50 AM, Miriya Joseph (Prof. Chris Anderson) 10:50 - 11:00 AM, Dylan Meeks (Prof. Saugata Ghose) |
| 11:00 - 11:45 AM | Keynote Presentation - "An Introduction to RTX, Railgun Power Supplies, and Superjunction Edge Terminations" Dr. CDR Chris Martino, USN(ret), Collins Aerospace, RTX |
| 11:45 - 12:15 PM | IAB & Student Breakout Session Oleg Gluschenkov, IAB Co-Chair, IBM |
| 12:15 - 12:30 PM | Discussion and Wrap-Up Open to All |
| 12:30 PM | Meeting Adjourns |
KEYNOTE DETAILS
Dr. CDR Chris Martino, USN(ret)
Senior Principal Engineer, Systems Engineering, Advanced Microsystems, Advanced Technology and Capabilities, Mission Systems
Collins Aerospace, RTX
"An Introduction to RTX, Railgun Power Supplies, and Superjunction Edge Terminations” –
Doctor Chris Martino is a Senior Principal Engineer at Collins Aerospace. He was commissioned a General Unrestricted Line Ensign through NROTC after receiving his Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering at the University of Notre Dame in 1994. He achieved a Masters of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1995. He obtained his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA in 2015. He has completed the Bettis Reactor Engineering School and was granted an Associate of Arts Degree in Italian from the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center in 2003. He has worked at NAVSEA 08K, Washington, DC; U.S. Naval Mobile Construction Battalion FIVE, Port Hueneme, CA; Iraq Project and Contracting Office (PCO), Baghdad, Iraq; Public Works Department, NAS Sigonella, Sicily; Seabee Enlisted Community Manager, Millington, TN; Navy Expeditionary Combat Command (NECC), JEB Little Creek-Fort Story, VA; United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD; and Collins Aerospace, Cedar Rapids, IA.
He is a Registered Professional Engineer in the state of California; a member of Eta Kappa Nu, Tau Beta Pi, SAME, and the Acquisition Professional Community; completed JPME Level I through the Air Command and Staff College; and is a Seabee Combat Warfare Officer. His projects at Collins Aerospace have included Common Functional Block development, Next Generation Microelectronics Manufacturing program review, Microelectronics Commons project and topic bidding, the DARPA Joint University Microelectronics Program, UIUC ASAP, a MEMS driver circuit for Bright Silicon Technologies, DARPA ScAN bidding, bid preparation for a National Advanced Packaging Manufacturing Program (NAPMP) project, primary investigator for the DARPA Compact Front-end Filters at the Element-level (COFFEE) TA2 project, and primary investigator on a spur free power supply Internal Research and Development (IR&D) project.
Contact
Please contact Shaloo Rakheja (rakheja@illinois.edu), Qing Cao (qingcao2@illinois.edu), or Mallory Gorman (magorma2@illinois.edu) for questions or concerns related to the event, or about becoming a member.