Certified Professionals

Chung‑Ti Hsu received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electronics engineering from National Chiao Tung University (NCTU), Hsinchu, Taiwan, in 2001 and 2003, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA, in 2014.

From 2003 to 2008, he was with Winbond Electronics Corporation, Hsinchu, Taiwan, working on electrostatic discharge (ESD) and latch‑up protection design and failure analysis for logic, analog, RF, LCD driver, DRAM, and Flash memory ICs. In 2008, he joined Nuvoton Technology Corporation as a Technology Assistant Manager, leading the development of latch‑up‑free ESD protection designs in Bipolar/CMOS/DMOS (BCD) technologies for smart power applications.

Since 2014, he has been with Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., where he is currently a Senior Staff Engineer. His work focuses on ESD and latch‑up protection architecture, design sign‑off, and silicon validation for PMIC, fingerprint, envelope‑tracking, and mixed‑signal products. He has designed and co‑designed ESD protection solutions for more than 100 production ICs.

Outside of his professional work, he enjoys reading, basketball, running, and playing Go—long regarded as the last board game to resist computers until March 15, 2016. Since April 2023, he has focused on distance running, achieving a personal best of 1:44:14 in the half marathon, and is currently training for his first full marathon. 

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Colin Banks is a Quality Engineer at Kyocera International Inc. for their Assembly Technology Division. He specializes in the wirebonding process, but is also involved in various flip chip products. His duties include failure / root cause analysis and corrective actions as well as process improvement using lean / six sigma methodology.

Academically, Colin has earned his BS in Mechanical Engineering from San Diego State University and a Lean Six Sigma Certificate from San Diego City College.

Outside of work Colin enjoys building and racing cars, as well as analog photography.

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