R&D Test Engineer at Intel Corporation
Phoenix, Arizona Area
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- Test R&D Engineer at Intel Corporation
- Past
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- GRA at Georgia Institute of Technology
- Test Engineer (Coop) at Intel Corp.
- GRA at Georgia Institute of Technology
- Research Engineer at Turkish Scientific and Technological Research Council (TUBITAK)
- Research Assistant at Middle East Technical Univeristy
- Education
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- Georgia Institute of Technology
- Georgia Institute of Technology
- Orta Dogu Teknik Üniversitesi
- Orta Dogu Teknik Üniversitesi
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Sermet Akbay’s Summary
Reseach and development in analog and radio frequency devices, component/system design and test, high-volume manufacturing test methodologies, built-in self test, DfT and DfM
Sermet Akbay’s Specialties:
Design and simulation tools including Cadence, ADS, Spectre; engineering tools such as Matlab/Simulink, Labview, AgilentVEE, VHDL, Verilog, Xilinx Tools; efficient in programming languages C++, Java, Perl, ML, Lisp; very familiar with optimization techniques and statistical analysis
Sermet Akbay’s Experience
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Test R&D Engineer
Intel Corporation
(Public Company; INTC; Semiconductors industry)
June 2007 — Present (2 years 6 months)
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GRA
Georgia Institute of Technology
(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Wireless industry)
October 2002 — June 2007 (4 years 9 months)
Low Cost Built-In Test of Radio-Frequency Circuits, Testing and Reliability Engineering Laboratory, R&D in high volume manufacturing test of RFICs and systems
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Test Engineer (Coop)
Intel Corp.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; INTC; Computer Hardware industry)
May 2005 — November 2005 (7 months)
Demonstrated the alternate test of RF components concept and studied application of methodology to next generation wireless devices in Intel. Developed both benchtop and ATE solutions for the demonstration including design of test strategy, load board, socketing, data acquisition and evaluation.
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GRA
Georgia Institute of Technology
(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Semiconductors industry)
August 2000 — October 2002 (2 years 3 months)
Novel Architectures and Analysis Techniques for Low-Jitter Multi Gigahertz Phase-Locked Loops, Yamacraw - The10/100 Gbps Ethernet Project. High Speed VLSI Design Lab. Design and high-level modelling of gigabit PLLs and jitter propagation.
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Research Engineer
Turkish Scientific and Technological Research Council (TUBITAK)
(Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Semiconductors industry)
March 2000 — August 2000 (6 months)
Part-time Researcher in VLSI Group, Current Mirroring Integration Infrared and Visible Readout Electronics: Design, Layout, Post-Fabrication Test and Characterization, MEMS Research Laboratory
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Research Assistant
Middle East Technical Univeristy
(Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Semiconductors industry)
February 1998 — August 2000 (2 years 7 months)
Microelectronics Group, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Sermet Akbay’s Education
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Georgia Institute of Technology
PhD , Electrical and Computer Engineering , 2001 — 2007
Technical Areas Electrical Design and Applications, Computer Engineering; Thesis advisor Prof. Abhijit Chatterjee; Dissertation titled “Low Cost Built-In Test of Radio-Frequency Circuits”. Published in Transactions on Advanced Packaging and Transactions on Circuits and Systems; Received Outstanding Graduate Student in ECE Award.
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Georgia Institute of Technology
MS , Electrical and Computer Engineering , 2000 — 2002
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Orta Dogu Teknik Üniversitesi
BS Double Major , Computer Science , 1996 — 2000
Middle East Technical University, Ankara. Double Major Program Member. Technical Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Numerical Computation. High Honours
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Orta Dogu Teknik Üniversitesi
BS , Electrical and Electronics Engineering , 1995 — 2000
Middle East Technical University, Ankara. Dean's Scholar. Technical Areas: Microelectronics, Computer, Telecommunications; High Honours; Double Major in Computer Science
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Sermet Akbay’s Interests:
not-so-professional interests: physics, human-computer interaction, online communities, cognitive science, basketball, hot technologies, gadgets, trekking, camping
Sermet Akbay’s Groups:
Student Council Executive Board of Packaging Research Center - GATECH (2003-present),
President in Turkish Student Organization at Georgia Institute of Tech. (2003-2005),
Publicity Chair and Dancer in Turkish Folk Dances Group of Atlanta (2001-2006),
Executive Board Member in Turkish Student Org. at Georgia Institute of Tech. (2000-2003),
Student Member of IEEE (1996-present),
Founding and Active Member of Atlanta Turkish Arts Council (2000-present)
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Turkish Professionals in USA
Sermet Akbay’s Honors:
Best Paper Award 2006 Intel DTTC, "Best of DTTC Papers" (Nov. 2006)
Colonel Oscar O. Cleaver Award - Outstanding Graduate Student in ECE - Georgia Institute of Technology (Oct. 2000),
Double Major Program Member in Computer Engineering - METU (Sept. 1996-June 2000),
Middle East Technical University Dean’s Scholar (Sept. 1995-June 2000) (ranking 30th out of 1.5 million applicants in university entrance examinations),
Full Scholarship from Ministry of Education of Turkish Republic for the purpose of attending undergraduate studies in United States (May 1995),
Graduated from Ankara Atatürk Anadolu High School ranking 1st out of 400 with CGPA of 5.00 out of 5.00 (June 1995)
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