Pendar Ardalan

Pendar Ardalan, PhD, currently serves as the Senior Director of Technical Marketing at Eugenus, Inc., specializing in technical and strategic marketing for emerging logic and memory markets since October 2022. Prior to this role, Pendar held various positions at Lam Research from July 2014 to October 2022, including Senior Staff Technical Account Manager, where responsibilities included developing technical and financial strategies for critical semiconductor products. Pendar's earlier experience includes a position as a Process Engineer at Applied Materials, focusing on low-κ porous dielectric materials, and as a PhD candidate and research assistant at Stanford University, working on semiconductor surface modification and quantum dot technology. Pendar earned a PhD and an MSc in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University and a BSc in Chemical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology.