Thomas Killam is the Compliance Officer at OnRule, a world-leading company offering SaaS platform to manage product regulatory compliance. He has over 40 years of product regulatory experience working for large, global companies.
Marko Simicic received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in electrical engineering and information technology from the University of Zagreb, Croatia, in 2010 and 2012 respectively. He obtained a Ph.D. degree from the department of electrical engineering ESAT, KU Leuven, Belgium in 2018. In 2017 he joined the ESD team at imec, Belgium, with the focus on researching ESD solutions for devices and circuits. He has authored or co-authored more than 35 papers in international journals and conference proceedings and is an active member of the JS-002 ANSI/ESDA/JEDEC joint standard for CDM ESD device sensitivity testing.
Megan Healy is pursuing her Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and Bachelor of Arts in German Language at Grand Valley State University. She currently works full time as an Electromagnetic Compatibility Engineer co-op student at E3 Compliance, which specializes in EMC and high-speed design, pre-compliance, and diagnostics.
John C. Havens is Director, Emerging Technologies & Strategic Development at the IEEE Standards Association (IEEE SA), where he is responsible for creating and driving the strategic vision for the IEEE Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems.
“Shabbir Ahmed is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of EMC Technologies, and is actively involved in EMC/RF testing, calibration, and major consultancy projects. Ahmed is a NATA signatory and an active member of the TCB Council.
Robert Ashton is the Chief Scientist at Minotaur Labs. He received his BS and PhD degrees in Physics from the University of Rhode Island. After Post-Doctoral positions at Rutgers University and Ohio State University he joined AT&T Bell Laboratories in the field of integrated circuit technology development. He stayed with Bell Laboratories, and its spinoffs Lucent Technologies and Agere Systems for 23 year where he became involved with on chip ESD protection. After leaving Agere Systems he became Director of Technology of White Mountain Labs, an ESD and latch-up test house. He then spent 10 years with ON Semiconductor in their discrete products division, providing and managing application engineering support for transient voltage suppression products. He has published numerous articles on ESD testing of integrated circuits, test structure use in integrated circuits, and CMOS technology development. He has also presented tutorials on ESD, latch-up, and transmission line pulse testing at IEEE and ESDA conferences. Robert is an active member of ESDA working groups for device testing standards and the JEDEC latch-up working group. He has been a regular member of the EOS/ESD Symposium technical program committee. Robert served on the ESDA board of directors from 2011 to 2013 and was business unit manager for advanced topics in 2012 and 2013. He is currently serving as co-chair of the human metal model (HMM) working group.