Speakers

Eylul Simsek earned her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from University of California, Los Angeles, where her research focused on radiation transfer through droplet-covered substrates. Following the completion of doctorate, she joined Intel as a Packaging R&D Engineer. Over the past four years at Intel, she has focused on addresing key challenges associated with the underfill encapsulation of advanced packages. She has contributed state-of-art solutions through the integration of process innovation and tool development, leveraging her strong background in thermal and fluid sciences. Outside the work, she likes playing tennis and spending time with her friends.

Bala Shanmugam received his master’s degree in 2011, specializing in electromagnetic systems. In the last 13+ years, he has designed custom antennas for various electronic device form-factors such as smart-phone, tablet, smart-watch, trackers, hearables, smart-home accessories, streaming media devices, LTE nano/femto-cell, water-meter, OBD-II auto-accessory. He has five approved patents, five technical papers, and has used CST Studio Suite for over ten years for advanced antenna/RF simulations with applications ranging from a few MHz to mm-Wave frequencies. At Google, he leads the antenna design for head-worn devices with a focus on optimizing wireless performance for body-worn use-cases. His research interests include highly integrated antenna sub-assemblies, body-immune antenna design, optimal human phantom modeling, novel EM materials and emerging communication technologies.