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edfas.org ELECTRONIC DEVICE FAILURE ANALYSIS | VOLUME 22 NO. 3 42 PROFILES OF CANDIDATES FOR THE EDFAS BOARD OF DIRECTORS Zhiyong Wang, Chair, EDFAS Nominating Committee zhiyong.wang@maximintegrated.com BOARD CANDIDATE PROFILES T heEDFASBoardof Directors, during itsMaymeeting, unanimously approved five newboardmembers or new positions with terms beginning in 2020: Vice President • 2020-2022 • Felix Beaudoin Secretary • 2020-2022 • Renee Parente Members-At-Large • 2020-2023 • James Colvin • Tejinder Gandhi • Rose Ring Congratulations to these new board members. Felix Beaudoin, FASM, has been working for GlobalFoundries since 2014 as a product yield engineer supporting CMOS FinFET process technology. He started his career developing novel contactless back- side laser-based fault localization techniques for failure analysis of semiconductor devices. He first became involved with ISTFA as a technical session reviewer and session chair, before joining the organization committee and serving as ISTFA’s General Chair in 2019. Beaudoin has also vol- unteered his time with Electronic Device Failure Analysis ( EDFA ) magazine, acting as the lead editor from 2013 to 2019. Currently he is participating in the EDFAS Failure Analysis Technology Roadmap Committee and is in his last year as a Member-at-Large of the EDFAS Board. Felix was elected as an ASM Fellow in 2019. Vision Statement “I have long believed that EDFAS is a fundamental platform to foster technical exchanges within the field of microelectronic device failure analysis. Being successful in failure analysis requires broad interdisciplinary scientific and technological knowledge that can only be obtained through mentoring, peer exchange, and publications. To sustain the ability of EDFAS in fulfilling its educational mission, we need to continue supporting its information source pillars, the EDFAS Desk Reference, EDFA magazine, and the ISTFA conference. We also need to grow EDFAS membership. I see three opportunities already being pursued by the EDFAS Board: Virtual content. The implementation of newcommuni- cation and socialmedia toolswill allow reaching a broader audience within EDFAS and in new emerging application fields dealing with failure of electronic devices. The key is to target basic and advanced knowledge technical content such as ISTFA tutorials, adapting them to short educa- tional videos and ebooks, which can be readily updated with the latest state-of-the-art tools and techniques. Corporate membership. The newly developed virtual content, integrated into a multiplatform training tool, will allow EDFAS to reach out to corporate management with an improved educational value proposition. Surely companies will see benefit in making all their failure analysis employees members of EDFAS, allowing them to grow their technical skill set at all stages of their career development. Academic participation. Fostering student involvement will help bring fresh newout-of-the-box ideas, allow them to find career opportunities in failure analysis, and eventu- ally rejuvenate our EDFASmember base. To be successful, we will have to create new ways for students’ technical participation in EDFAS to also be recognizedmore broadly in academia. Increasing EDFAS membership will help grow our volunteer base, which EDFAS depends on to thrive in our rapidly evolving microelectronics industry.”