Vijay Kulkarni

Vijay Kulkarni is a Global Supply Chain Quality Manager (Substrates) at Intel Corporation, where they manage suppliers and quality reliability engineering teams across several countries. With a robust background in mechanical engineering, Vijay previously held positions as a consultant at Colin Gordon & Associates and as a technical lead and reliability engineer at Intel, contributing to significant projects involving semiconductor reliability and quality. They earned a Doctor of Philosophy in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Kentucky, along with a Master of Science in Manufacturing Systems Engineering from the same institution. Their earlier experience includes a postdoctoral fellowship at Structural Dynamics Research Labs, focusing on noise reduction in automotive applications.