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Pathways Career Symposium 2008
Engineering and Physical Sciences Careers Beyond Academia
Time: 10:40-11:40am
Room: 106 Wellman
Our distinguished panelists will discuss their transitions to careers in the private and government sectors, including the pros and cons of working outside the academy, advice on the job search, how to be competitive for positions, and if the world of work beyond the academy has met their expectations.
Panelists:
Alan Wong, Ph.D., Engineering Group Leader, Staff Technologist, Intel Corporation
Alan Wong is a staff technologist at Intel Corporation. He leads an engineering team in developing measurement technologies and oversees a metrology R&D program for next generation silicon processing. He represents Intel to the Advanced Metrology Advisory Group of International SEMATECH, a semiconductor industry consortium.
Dr. Wong currently holds six U.S. patents and has six pending applications, in the area of overlay and critical dimension metrology.
Alan Wong serves as the chairperson of Intel’s Asian employee group, Asian Cultural Integration. ACI was founded by Dr. Albert Yu, former Senior Vice President in 1984. Under Wong’s leadership, the group expanded into other Intel sites in Arizona, Massachusetts, New Mexico and Oregon, and became a founding member organization to CAAEN (Corporate Asian American Employee Network).
Dr. Wong has always been an active member in the community. Recently he led the first Intel Spring Food Drive for Second Harvest Food Bank, bringing in 10,000 pounds of food donation. He was an executive board member of a San Francisco church, having served as treasurer and secretary. During his graduate study, he was elected the vice chairman for the University of California student government. He devoted his time on the shared governance of the university system on behalf of the student body, including U.C. presidential selection, student fee increases, affirmative action and health insurance. He also testified twice at the State Senate, in Rules Committee and in Revenue and Taxation Committee.
Alan Wong came from Hong Kong and started college when he was 16 years old. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from University of California at Davis in 1996.
Genetha Anne Gray, Ph. D., Senior Member of the Technical Staff, Sandia National Laboratories
Genetha Gray is a staff member at the Livermore site of Sandia National Labs. Dr. Gray's work focuses on the calibration, validation, and analysis of numerical models with applications to engineering systems, electrical circuits, structural biology, and groundwater management. She also studies techniques for hybridizing optimization and statistics techniques and algorithms for the efficient analysis of disparate, yet related, data sets.
Genetha Gray remains an active member of the applied mathematics community, publishes papers, attends conferences, and mentors students from traditionally underrepresented groups in math and science. She received a Ph.D. in Computational and Applied Mathematics from Rice University in 2002 and also holds a B.S. in Mathematics from UC Davis.