Songnian Rong

Songnian has more than 20 years of experience in leading various engineering teams at KLA Corporation to develop inline defect inspection systems that support advanced semiconductor manufacturers worldwide. Songnian’s technical expertise spans across multiple engineering fields such as Broadband Optical Systems, Highspeed Imaging Electronics, High Performance Computing (HPC) System, Detection and Classification Algorithms, and Large-Scale Software/Hardware Integration. Songnian received a BS in Manufacturing Engineering and MS in Robotics and Control Systems from Tsinghua University, and an MS in Computer Science from University of California, Riverside.