Willem van Driel [biography]

Summary form only give, as follows. A biographical sketch is provided for Willem van Driel. Dr. van Driel graduated from mechanical engineering of Technical University of Eindhoven, the Netherlands. He has broad R&D experience covering several multidisciplinary application fields. He is currently a principal scientist at Philips Semiconductors, and also holds an adjunct position in Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. His scientific interests are Microelectronics and Microsystems technologies, virtual prototyping, virtual reliability qualification and designing for reliability of Microelectronics and Microsystems. He is member of the organizing committee of the IEEE conference EuroSimE, member of the technical committee of ICEPT, Guest Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Components and Packaging Technologies. He is author and co-author for more than 60 scientific publications, including journal and conference papers, book and invited keynote lectures.