Walt Trybula, Ph.D.

Walt Trybula, Ph.D., MBA, IEEE Fellow, is a Director and Senior Policy Fellow of the Trybula Foun-dation, Inc. Dr. Trybula, a technology futurist, has focused his current activities on evaluating emerging trends and applications in nanotechnology, MEMS/NEMS, and semiconductors with an emphasis on feasibility evaluation and profitable business insertion. His most recent published material is on nanotechnology, cleaning/contamination issues, nano patterning, and cost effective application of tech-nology.

Dr. Trybula is active in disseminating the importance of nanotechnology, and has mad numerous including presentations on the need for building the evolving nanotechnology infrastructure. He has taught “Introduction to Nano Technology” courses at major conferences, is on the Board of the Texas State University’s Nano-materials Application Center, is a member of the IEEE nano standards committee, and is active in developing the SEMI NanoForums and Workshops. He is currently the co-chair of the Texas State Strategy on Advanced Technology Working Groups for both nanotechnology and MEMS.

Before the Foundation, Walt was a Senior Fellow at SEMATECH, the semiconductor research consor-tium, where he focused on emerging technologies, and was responsible for leading the initial effort to evaluate the feasibility immersion lithography. His Advanced Materials Research Center project in-volvement included nano imprint, self directed assembly, and organic transistors for sensor applications. Previously, Walt has been with two start-up companies. He was President of Ivy Systems, Incorporated, which is in electronics manufacturing automation, and was a Director at Compunetics, which is a computer integrator. Prior to Ivy Systems, Walt was with the General Electric Company for 12 years, the last nine of which were on corporate staff as Senior Consultant in electronics manufacturing technology.