Qunwen Leng

Sr. Director @ Goertek Electronics

About

Highly innovative and self-motivated executive leader with proven track record of building a performance R&D engineering team with sound technical and problem-solving skills. • In depth experience in engineering and research in GMR/TMR based magnetic sensor, hard disk drive (HDD) recording, solid state drive (SSD), nonvolatile memory (MRAM, STT/SOT-RAM, NAND), spintronics, fiber optics, nanotechnology, and applications in consumer electronics (AR/VR, TWS, AI, smart phone) and digital grid. • Completed overseas assignments to have established and operated 8-inch wafer fab line for brand new platform of nanofabrication and spin-MEMS; managed R&D, design verification, and pilot production; cooperated with research teams cross countries. • Extensive skill/expertise in MEMS sensor, magnetic materials process, thin film metrology, solid state characterization, plasma analyses, and semiconductor equipment (PVD, CVD, IBD, ALD). • Diverse programming/computing background with C/C++, LabVIEW, matlab, & jmp, and modeling/simulations by COMSOL, OOMMF, FEM and ZEMAX programs.

Country

United States

City

Palo Alto

Industry

Computer Hardware

Skill

Thin Films, R&D, Failure Analysis, Hard Drives, Semiconductors, Design of Experiments, Characterization, Materials Science, Metrology, Nanotechnology, Manufacturing, Engineering Management, SPC, Product Development, MEMS, Magnetic sensor, Spintronics, Magnetic Recording, Problem Solving, Programming

Experience

Sr. Director

Goertek Electronics

2016 - Present · 10 yrs

Santa Clara, California, United States

Lead the research and development of spintronic-MEMS sensors for applications in consumer electronics and IoT; Designed and developed miniaturized spin-microphone devices; Established and operated a full cycle 8-inch wafer fab for the development and small-volume manufacture of magnetic memories and spintronic-MEMS sensors, established a new spin electronics laboratory and R&D platform dedicated in developing advanced GMR and TMR sensors.

Engineering Director

2005 - 2015 · 10 yrs

Fremont, California, United States

Advanced magnetic sensor for high areal density recording; Tunneling Magetoresistance/TMR; CPP-GMR.

VP of Engineering

CLN

2003 - 2005 · 2 yrs

Milpitas, California, United States

Opto-electronic component, metrology and system

Principal Engineer

Oplink Communications, LLC

2001 - 2003 · 2 yrs

Sunnyvale, California, United States

Telecomunication component design, qualification and manufacturing. QA/FA and reliability in fiber optics.

Sr. Optical Design Engineer

Opthos

2000 - 2001 · 1 yr

San Carlos, California, United States

Optical layer design and Metro core network system

Principal Engineer

Read Rite

1996 - 2000 · 4 yrs

Fremont, California, United States

AMR and GMR sensor R&D for several generation recording magnetic heads. HB/LD Materials and process.

Education

University of Cologne

Physics

Advisors: Prof. Dr. Peter Grünberg (Nobel laureate in Physics 2007) and Prof. Dr. Werner Zinn, Institut für Festkörperforschung, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany.