IEEE Day 2020. Featured Life Member Spotlights
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This year, we’re putting the spotlight on two of our great Life Members within the IEEE Orange County Section and sharing their background.
Dominic (Nick) Massetti
Dominic (Nick) Massetti is an IEEE Life Senior Member. He is currently the Chair of the IEEE Nanotechnology Council Regional Interest Groups Committee, and an officer of the IEEE Region 6 Orange County Section. He is also the recent past Electron Devices Society Representative to the Nanotechnology Council (NTC) AdCom. He retired in 2016 after a career spanning 45 years in the area of Semiconductor device and fabrication technology. Beginning at Hughes Aircraft working on avionics and military imaging he custom fabricated precision photodiode arrays in four narrow visible bands which NASA subsequently flew on the Landsat Vl satellite enabling its Thematic Mapper to obtain high resolution images for earth resources mapping. At several semiconductor device companies including Texas Instruments he developed integrated circuit fabrication processes that chased Moore’s down several of its nodes. The bulk of the time involved high speed BiCMOS technologies used to increase disk drive capacity and ended up being workhorse processes used at TI factories in Germany, Japan and Texas.
At Seagate Technologies he led a semiconductor manufacturing readiness team that audited Seagate’s worldwide IC supplier foundries to insure their Seagate bound ICs were delivered on time in volume with quality and reliability. His career sunset brought him back to imaging in that he operated the patent prosecution arm of OmniVision Technologies the leading supplier of mobile phone cameras where he readily translated new device and fabrication technology concepts into intellectual property. He became a named inventor on 15 issued US Patents before retiring.
In 2005 he helped organize the first chapter of the IEEE NTC, the San Francisco Bay Area IEEE Nanotechnology Council Chapter. He was the recipient of the 2015 IEEE Region 6 Central Area Outstanding Engineer Award and the 2017 Distinguished Service Award from the IEEE Nanotechnology Council. He received his Bachelor’s Degree in Physics from St. Mary’s College in Moraga, CA and his Master’s Degree in Solid State Physics from UC San Diego. He currently consults in the area of intellectual property prosecution related to image sensor technology and drafts patents for Karich & Associates an intellectual property law firm.
Kay Das
Kay Das has managed the development of several silicon-based signal processing systems over 45 years industry experience. He has built teams from scratch in several different countries He started his career in the music industry in the UK in the seventies and then went on to the aerospace/radar systems industry with RCA/ General Electric in the US in the eighties. He then held responsibilities for over a decade as R&D Director for STMicroelectronics’ Asia Pacific region in Singapore with focus on 2G/3G and MPEG technologies and product development. Amongst other awards, he was the recipient of a Singapore Government National Award for “The Initiation and Expansion of High-value R&D and Promotion of Partnerships”. He was GPS Program Manager for LinQuest Corporation in Los Angeles where he additionally led new business development thrusts in the commercial and automotive safety markets.
In retirement, his current pursuits are the application of communication and location technologies such as 5G/DSRC, Internet of Things, and location technologies to automotive safety and the Connected Vehicle revolution.
He strongly wishes to contribute energy to communication systems architecture research and product development. He believes that distributed intelligence in the network and in the mobile receiver need to be carefully designed into future systems. He has interest in new research directions in MIMO-based systems at centimeter and millimeter wavelengths. He regularly contributes publications and presentations on the Connected Vehicle revolution. He is Editor-in-Chief of Connected Vehicle Newsletter for IEEE Orange County.
He holds a MS in Electronics Systems from the Cranfield Institute of Technology, UK. A regular presenter of talks and papers, he is an IEEE Life Member and a member of the Communications, Vehicular Technologies, and Signal Processing Societies. His scientific pursuits include astronomy and geology. He is also a professional musician with over twenty CD albums available at major outlets. He is an internationally known artist on the steel guitar and performs at local and international events. He has also been a published author of his father’s memoirs as a surgeon during World War II (ISBN 9781642147148) and an Internet radio deejay, hosting his own show featuring instrumental music.