Siyoung Choi

Dr. Siyoung Choi is the president and general manager of the foundry business in Samsung Electronics' Device Solutions Division.

Prior to his current position, Dr. Choi successfully led establishing the world's largest semiconductor manufacturing cluster serving as the head of Manufacturing Technology Center since 2017. He also spearheaded the innovation of manufacturing system to greatly strengthen fab operation efficiency as well as maximize technology competitiveness.

Since joining Samsung Electronics in 1995, Dr. Choi has played a pivotal role in developing next-generation process technologies across memory and logic ICs that strengthened Samsung's leading position in the semiconductor market. Under his leadership, Samsung successfully launched industry's first SoCs based on 14 and 10nm FinFET process technologies.

Dr. Choi has published more than 100 technical papers in top academic journals, and holds more than 100 U.S. patents. He also has been serving as a member of numeral technical committees including VLSI, ITRS, and IMEC.

Dr. Choi received his B.S. and M.S in Materials Science and Engineering from Yonsei University in 1986 and 1988 respectively, and his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Ohio State University in 1994.