Poonam Pratap Kadam

● Responsible for maintaining and supporting Intel’s primary factory capacity optimization engine, the core planning software used across all Intel factories to drive manufacturing strategy, capacity allocation, and what-if scenario modeling. ● Took ownership of the optimization system after the departure of the team’s operations research engineer, rapidly learning IBM ILOG CPLEX and core operations research principles to sustain and enhance a highly complex optimization framework. ● Delivered critical bug fixes and system enhancements that ensured uninterrupted planning capabilities for global manufacturing operations. ● Partner with Technology Development (TD) and Strategic Planning (SP) to address high-impact business needs and enable accurate, data-driven decision-making across multiple sites and technology nodes. ● Validate optimization results and prototype algorithms to ensure alignment with evolving operational and business needs. ● Develop automated tools and scripts in VBA and Python for the broader team, enabling bug detection, day-to-day issue resolution, improved data quality, and significantly reducing time to identify and fix problems.

● Developed and implemented advanced synthesis algorithms for optical proximity correction (OPC) and resolution enhancement techniques (RET) to design masks and correct layouts across multiple front-end (FE) and back-end (BE) layers spanning four technology nodes. ● Managed all aspects of tapeout process flow and methodology development, including requirements gathering, functional specification, test set generation, scientific programming, validation, technical approval, and coordination with tapeout operations. ● Contributed as a member of the STREAM (Scripting and Tools for Recipe Efficiency, Automation, and Maintenance) working group, creating and supporting Perl and Python tools that enhanced team efficiency, user experience, quality, and automation.

● Owned and sustained multiple ASML scanners supporting Intel’s 22nm and 14nm high-volume manufacturing (HVM) in front-end (FE) and back-end (BE) processes. Planned and executed preventive maintenance, provided on-call support, and proactively maintained critical module metrics. ● Qualified a new ASML scanner for 14nm technology to support increased production wafer starts, ensuring “copy exact” process transfer across multiple FE and BE layers including recipe uploads. ● Applied statistical data analysis and raw data mining techniques to troubleshoot issues, drive defect reduction, and improve yields for ASML Links. ● Developed automation scripts in Perl, JSL, and JMP to improve tool maintenance efficiency, reduce human error, and contribute to excursion prevention by identifying daily trends. ● Possess strong knowledge of semiconductor process flow in FE and BE, as well as defect metrology, integration, and yield analysis to enhance quality and yield in a high-volume manufacturing environment.

● Developed photolithography process for fabricating sensing surfaces on a catheter oximeter designed to monitor venous SO₂ levels. ● Created a grating structure based on surface plasmon resonance principles, where the reflected -1 diffraction order is imaged and isomorphically mapped to individual SO₂ measurements.

● Supported the OPTI 505L course: Fundamentals of Physical Optics Laboratory, covering polarization, interference, interferometry, and diffraction. ● Conducted weekly lab sessions, graded and provided constructive feedback on student reports, and clarified complex lab concepts to enhance student understanding.

● Supported the OPTI 280 "Computer Programming Workshop," an undergraduate introductory course in MATLAB programming. ● Managed assignment and quiz grading, and held office hours to assist students with programming concepts and coursework.

● Localized the Armor 100 Home Security system which was originally in English to Hindi. ● The keypad provided text entry in Hindi, and the LCD displayed Hindi content with good resolution ● Empowers non-English users to make full use of the facilities offered by the device.

● Test case managament using Testopia and bug tracking using Bugzilla. ● Content-enabled workflow solutions to professionals in law firms.

Thesis: Radiometric Calibration of a Hybrid RCWT Imaging Model