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Ray K. Huang, Ph.D.

Senior Associate

Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

Professional Profile


At Exponent, Dr. Huang practices failure analysis, patent claim support, due diligence, safety reviews, and prototype designs on a variety of electrical devices and installations. He has performed investigations involving biomedical implantable electronics, medical analytical devices, counterfeit integrated circuits, printed circuit boards, household appliances, portable electronic devices, network and power adapters, vehicle electronics, circuit protection components, electrostatic discharge circuits, and electronic component fires. He has broad experience utilizing relevant standards, regulation and codes including UL, IEEE, NFPA, NEC, ANSI, ASTM, IEC/ISO and IPC to perform inspections, custom tailored laboratory testing and literature searches.

During his graduate studies at California Institute of Technology, Dr. Huang’s research focused on the development and characterization of ultra-high density packaging platforms for biomedical systems and bioimplantable MEMS devices with retinal and neural prosthetic applications. Dr. Huang gained comprehensive hands-on clean room fabrication and equipment failure analysis experience, which includes polymer and metal thin film processing, photolithography, etching, thermal processing, SEM, surface profilometry, accelerated life-time testing and fatigue testing. He also has experience with dielectric property characterization, microfluidic lab-on-a-chip devices and microelectronic devices, systems and equipments.

Dr. Huang has a variety of teaching experience, including undergraduate and graduate level courses such as Computer Instrument Design, Introduction to Sensors and Actuators, VLSI and ULSI Technology, MEMS Technology and Devices.

  • Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology (Caltech), 2011
  • M.S., Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology (Caltech), 2006
  • B.S., Electrical Engineering, Cornell University, 2005

    • U.S. Patent: Pocket-enabled Chip Assembly Technology, submitted January 2010 (Huang R, Tai YC).

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