Dr. Mahyar Boostandoost

• Manage the quality of the new product and technology development, determine gaps in development and organizational processes and define improvement actions • Deploy quality guidelines for automotive hardware based on the automotive standards and customer requirements • Develop the reliability and qualification strategy for new products • Conduct the 8D methodology and lead the team through it • Manage external suppliers and improve and monitor the change management process • Interact with customers

• Served as a project leader to acquire and integrate new fault isolation tools into the failure analysis (FA)-Lab to overcome upcoming technology/design challenges of the company • Leading FA efforts to identify the failure root cause in cooperation with design, process and quality teams to provide the corrective actions and satisfy the customer expectations • Integrated the FA-Lab procedures in the product qualification process • Contributed to company’s technical ladder and external conferences

• Performed failure analysis services for different OEM automotive suppliers • Cooperated with different R&D institutes and companies to mature my Ph.D. thesis: - transferred microelectronic FA techniques to thin-film PV (Photovoltaic) - published 11 papers in both failure analysis and PV communities • Teaching assistant and supervisor of laboratory courses and seminars • Organized diverse laboratory courses for semiconductor device fabrication / characterization

Simulation und Berechnung des Tunnelstroms durch die zweischichtigen Gatedielektrika (High K) im MOS Transistor mit Matlab

PCB design/implementation and microcontroller (PIC®) programming to develop a monitoring board of position sensors included in the project “Contactless magnetic situation sensor for magnetic bearings”

Participated in the biggest instrumentation and revamping project in Iran jointed with ABB

Signature of photon emission and laser stimulation for failure analysis of semiconductor devices with respect to thin-film solar cells

Modeling of the tunneling current through two layers high-k stacks of MOSFETs

Design/Implementation of a satellite dish orientation controller for optimum signal reception