Grad School Personal Statements

I studied electrical engineering at Kobe City College of Technology (KCCT), which include wide range of subject for example, semiconductor, low voltage (<100V) circuit design, software programming, and acoustic engineering. One of the areas I was interested in at that time was use Neural Networks to filter out noise to enhance image recognition performance. However, the time I was researched at KCCT computer power was not enough to execute program within a timely manner. It was 1995, basically takes few hours to run very basic result, which is not realistic to implement it to real world application.

After that I decide to pursue my carrier at semiconductor industry. I start my carrier at KLA-Tencor as a technical support engineer for optical and Scanned Electron Microscope (SEM) based automated inspection system. As a part of it, I take care world 2nd SEM based wafer pattern inspection system business to one of largest semiconductor company. By working for KLA-Tencor, I got deep knowledge and skills about Semiconductor application, optical/SEM technology, industry automation robotics, and industry standard networking systems.