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As executive vice president and chief technology officer Dr. Chen is responsible for setting the company's technology strategy and direction. He is also the company's primary executive interface with customers in Asia.
Dr. Chen joined Novellus in 2004 as senior vice president of Asia-Pacific Operations. Prior to joining Novellus Dr. Chen spent ten years at Applied Materials most recently as the group vice president and general manager for the company's Copper Physical Vapor Deposition (PVD) & Interconnect Product Business Group. Prior to joining Applied Materials he worked at LSI Logic and SGS-Thomson Microelectronics.
Dr. Chen holds a bachelor's degree in materials science and engineering from the National Tsing Hua University (Hsinchu Taiwan) and a doctorate's degree in materials science and engineering from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
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