Dr. Jay Lewis is the Director of the National Semiconductor Technology Center, or NSTC, Program, for the CHIPS R&D Office at the Department of Commerce. In this role he is working to establish the NSTC program, a public-private consortium that will serve as a cornerstone of semiconductor research for the country. He previously worked at Microsoft, at DARPA, and had an early career in semiconductor research.

Dr. Lewis is a Fellow of the American Vacuum Society and is an IEEE and SPIE Senior Member. He has published over 50 articles in technical journals and conference proceedings and holds eleven U.S. patents. He received a Bachelor’s degree in Materials Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Florida.