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Dr. Volkerink manages Verigy Labs and serves as Chief Scientist of Verigy Memory Test Solutions. In this role, he is responsible for managing university relations, long-term research, technical trend scanning, as well as managing Verigy’s patent portfolio. Dr. Volkerink also serves as a Consulting Assistant Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department of Stanford University and as Assistant Director of Stanford’s Center for Reliable Computing. Dr. Volkerink research area is Semiconductor Design & Test. He is recipient of the Best Paper Award at the CPA conference as well as a Best Paper Award Nomination of the Design Automation Conference (DAC). He is active in many industry-wide activities. For example, he is the Corporate Track Chair of the International Test Conference (ITC), Cost-of-Test Section Lead of the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS), and Registration Chair of the Pacific Northwest Test Workshop. He was also a Keynote Speaker of the Future of ATE Workshop (FATE) at ITC as well as Session Chair at various conferences. Dr. Volkerink holds a Ph.D. degree in Semiconductor
Design & Test from Stanford University (supervised by Prof.
McCluskey), a master’s degree in System Modeling &
Control, and a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering
from the University of Twente. He also completed the Business
Administration certificate program from the School of Business
(specialized in International Marketing), the Psychology certificate
program from the School of Humanities (specialized in Communications
& Conflicts), and the Computer Science certificate program from
the School of Computer Science (specialized in Programming Paradigms).
He completed management classes at The Boston Consulting Group,
Heineken, American Management Systems, Royal Dutch Railway and Royal
Dutch Telecom, and received a Rotary Youth Leadership Award. Previously, he
worked with Hewlett-Packard Company, Agilent Technologies, and various
smaller companies in the Netherlands. In the early 90s he obtained
hands-on hardware/software experience while founding a software
development organization and completing many vocational schools in the
Netherlands. In his spare time, Dr. Volkerink serves as president of
the board of the Dutch School Silicon Valley (DSSV): a Dutch language
school he founded in 2000. As a child Erik attended a special education
school for children with learning disabilities. |
Prof. Dr. Ir. Erik H. Volkerink