Rob Miller is a General Manager of Accreditation Services at A2LA. He oversees the day-to-day operations and program growth for the accreditation schemes related to materials testing (mechanical, chemical, acoustics and vibration, thermal, non-destructive, electrical, and construction materials), product certification, and inspection.
Kathleen Muhonen is currently a Principal Development Engineer at Qorvo in Greensboro, NC. She is responsible for developing ESD (electrostatic discharge) on-chip protection for mobile and millimeter wave applications. She is also involved with system level testing and helped standardize IEC testing of RF components. She is heavily involved in ESD instrumentation for better ESD characterization of clamps and materials. Previously she was responsible for RF characterization and model support for Silicon and Gallium Arsenide technologies for power amplifiers, switches and antenna tuners. She has also done extensive work on developing state of the art harmonic characterization of semiconductors, breakdown characterization of RF switches and improved de-embedding techniques of large scale switches. Kathleen's previous experience includes assistant professor at Penn State Erie, linearization design for base stations at Hewlett Packard, millimeter wave power amplifier design at Lockheed Martin and GE Aerospace.
Kathleen has served as a member of the ESD Association and sits on all device testing standards committees, including serving as past TLP (Transmission Line Pulsing) and HMM (Human Metal Model) workgroup chairs. She has also served on the Board of Directors and now serves on the Education Committee. Her involvement in round robin testing for TLP, VF-TLP (very fast TLP) and IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission) Component Testing has generated several papers presented at the EOS/ESD Symposium over the last decade.
Kathleen received her BSEE degree from Michigan Technological University in 91, a MSEE from Syracuse University in 94, and a Ph.D.EE from Penn State University in 99.
Craig Fanning is the EMC Lab Manager at Elite Electronic Engineering. He is currently CISPR/D Chair, as well as an active member of the SAE EMI/EMR/EMC committees and ISO TC22/SC3/WG3 USTAG.
Ammar Sarwar is the Regional Sales Manager, EMEA North, for ETS‑Lindgren in Europe where he supports test and measurement projects for automotive, wireless, consumer electronics, and defense applications.
Brian Lackey is an EMC engineer and member of the technical staff at Intertek in Lexington, Kentucky. He is a member of the TCB Council, an organization responsible for directly interfacing with the FCC, and is developing standards with the IEEE for statistical process control.
Joel Woodward has 33 years of experience in the test and measurement industry and is currently involved in product roadmap planning for Rohde & Schwarz oscilloscopes. He holds a degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Brigham Young University, and an MBA from Regis University, as well as an FPGA debug patent.
Nika Amralah is a Radio Frequency Applications Engineer. She obtained her BEng and MEng in Aerospace Engineering from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada.
Dr. Mirko Scholz received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Vrije Universiteit in Brussels (VUB) in 2013. From 2005 until 2017 he was working as an ESD researcher at imec in Leuven/Belgium. From March 2017 until June 2019 he was a program manager in the imec academy and in imec’s process technology transfer activities. Since July 2019 he has been with Infineon Technologies in Munich/Germany where he is a Principal Engineer ESD Development. His daily work focuses on component- and system-level ESD protection design for several RF and sensor product lines at Infineon. Since 2007 he has been an active member of different working groups in the ESDA standards committee, currently co-chairing WG 5.6 (Human Metal Model). He was the management chair of the IEW 2018 in Belgium. Since 2019 he has been a member of the steering committee of the EOS/ESD Symposium. In this function, he is the Technical Program Committee (TPC) chair of the EOS/ESD Symposium 2023. For the 2017-2019 term and again for the 2022-2024 term he has been an elected member of the ESDA Board of Directors. Since 2017 he is a business unit manager of the Advanced Topics committee of the ESDA. He has authored/co-authored more than 100 publications, tutorials, and patents in the field of ESD design and testing. He is co-author of the 2014 Springer book System-Level ESD Protection. He is a regular reviewer for several IEEE journals and a current member of the IRPS sub-committee on ESD and Latchup.