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Career profile
Ala Moradian, PhD
New Technology & Product Leader | Digital Twins for Semiconductor Manufacturing | ASME Fellow | Educator
San Jose, California, United States
Career path.
NVIDIAAI for Semiconductor Manufacturing
Jan 2026 - Present- UC Berkeley College of Engineering
Adjunct Professor/Lecturer
Dec 2018 - Present - Applied Materials
Director, DMTS Physicist/Scientist and Program Management, CAE & Digital Twin Initiatives
Jun 2020 - Jan 2026 - Applied Materials
Sr MTS, Physicist/Scientist
Jan 2017 - Jun 2020 - Applied Materials
Sr. Staff R&D Engineer / Sr. Member of Technical Staff CAE
Jun 2014 - May 2017 - Applied Materials
Principal Mechanical Engineer/CFD Expert
Jun 2012 - Jun 2014 - Bausch + Lomb
Sr. R&D Engineer/Scientist (Product Innovation)
Nov 2008 - Jun 2012 - Simulent Inc
Consultant R&D Engineer
Sep 2007 - Nov 2008 - Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
Sr. Research Engineer (Postdoctoral Fellow)
Jun 2007 - Nov 2008 - Prep101
Lecturer - Engineering Physics (Part-time)
Jan 2005 - Jan 2007 - University of Toronto
Research Engineer
Jan 2003 - Jun 2007 - TARADIS CAE
Mechanical Engineer (Technical Support)– Plant Design Group
Jan 2002 - Jan 2003