Andrew Truong

Andrew Truong has worked in the semiconductor industry since 2006. In 2006, they were an intern at Mitsubishi Chemical - Center for Advanced Materials, where they fabricated high efficiency white light sources by packaging blue light emitting diodes (LEDs) with red and green colloidal quantum dots, designed and fabricated photonic crystals on GaN LEDs, and simulated semiconductor band diagrams, electric fields and optical modes in micropillars and photonic crystals. In 2007, they were a Graduate Research Assistant at the California NanoSystems Institute, where they grew high quality thin films and nanostructures of III-V semiconductors (GaAs, AlAs, InAs) by Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) technique and developed new laser-assisted processes to precisely control the depth of dry etched AlInGaAs multilayer films (VCSEL structure). In 2008, they were a Graduate Research Assistant at the Institute for Terahertz Science and Technology, where they developed III-V semiconductor quantum devices for Terahertz detection with space resolution ability and fabricated opto-electronic quantum devices by depositing nano size thin films of III-V semiconductors (GaAs, AlAs, InAs, InP) using Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) technique and various cleanroom processing techniques. Since 2015, they have been working at Global Communication Semiconductors, Inc. as a Program Manager and Sr. Process Integration Engineer, where they typically lead 3-5 projects at a time, is responsible for taking customer designs and tailoring processes to fabricate commercial Optoelectronic devices, and maintains continuous interaction and strengthens relationships with customers and vendors to ensure commercial product quality and on-time delivery.

Andrew Truong began their educational journey by obtaining a Diploma in Applied Physics from Ecole normale supérieure in 2007. Andrew then went on to earn a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Applied Physics from the University of Paris 6 in 2006. In 2010, they received a Master of Science (M.S.) in Electrical & Computer engineering from UC Santa Barbara. Finally, they completed their Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Materials Science from UC Santa Barbara in 2013.