2025 Summer Workshop

Dr. Eric K. Lin is serving as the Acting Associate Director for Innovation and Industry Services.

Previously he served as the deputy director of the CHIPS Research and Development Office and director of the Material Measurement Laboratory (MML) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). MML has more than 900 staff members and visiting scientists and serves as the nation’s reference laboratory for measurements in the chemical, biological and materials sciences.

MML activities include fundamental research in the composition, structure and properties of industrial, biological, and environmental materials and processes, to the development and dissemination of certified reference materials, critically evaluated data and other measurement quality assurance programs. MML serves a broad range of industry sectors ranging from transportation to biotechnology, and provides research, measurement services and quality assurance tools for addressing problems of national importance ranging from  developing tools to shorten the time-to-discovery of new materials, to the investigation of new sources of renewable energy, to improved diagnostics and therapies for health care.

Lin has also served as the Acting Associate Director for Laboratory Programs at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).  In this role, he provided direction and operational guidance for all of NIST’s scientific and technical laboratory, among other duties.

Lin joined NIST as an NRC-NIST postdoctoral associate in the Polymers Division in the Materials Science and Engineering Laboratory.  He became the Leader of the Electronics Group, where he established world class research programs in semiconductor electronics processing, nanoscale materials, and organic electronics. In 2012, he became Chief of the Materials Science and Engineering Division, formed by the merger of the Polymers and the Metallurgy Divisions. Lin’s work has supported important technology areas including advanced manufacturing and advanced electronics, as well as the multi-agency Materials Genome Initiative.  He has been active in several cross-NIST programs, serving on the NIST Incentive Awards Panel, the NIST-on-a-Chip Committee, and the NIST Strategic Computing Initiative Committee. 

His contributions have been recognized with the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the Department of Commerce Silver Medal, and the William P. Slichter Award.  He is active in professional organizations including the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, the American Physical Society, the American Chemical Society, and the Materials Research Society. He received a B.S.E. from Princeton University (summa cum laude), and Masters and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford in chemical engineering. 

Dan Kinzer is currently an advisor and technical consultant in the fields of power semiconductors and power electronics. He is a Co-Founder of Navitas
Semiconductor, a power semiconductor company with the world’s most
advanced GaN power devices and ICs, including bidirectional GaN, as well as high performance SiC MOSFETs and diodes across a broad range of voltage and power. For 11 years he led the company in the roles of CTO, COO, and Director. For over 35 years, Dan has led R&D at leading power semiconductor companies at the VP level or higher. His experience includes developing and introducing dozens of leading-edge power devices to the market. This includes the world’s first planar
silicon power MOSFETs, multiple BCD and HVIC platforms, GaN and SiC device
design, IC and power device fabrication processes, power and mixed signal IC
design, semiconductor package development and assembly processes, design of
electronic systems, and fab operations management. Before co-founding Navitas,
Dan served 7 years as SVP & CTO at Fairchild Semiconductor. Before that he
served 28 years at International Rectifier in various roles including VP R&D and
Chief Technologist. He has over 100 US patents as well as many more
international ones. He has published multiple technical articles, chaired the ISPSD
conference, and served on EDS, ISPSD, and PELS Adcoms. He has a BSE degree in
Engineering Physics from Princeton University.