Jay Lewis (Fed)

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 partnership that will serve as a cornerstone of semiconductor research for the country. He was previously the General Manager for Incubation and Innovation in Microsoft’s Strategic Mission Technologies division, where he focused on investing in new technologies that can impact national security at scale. Prior to Microsoft, Jay was the Deputy Director of the Microsystems Technology Office at DARPA, which is responsible for leading revolutionary technology development in microelectronics for the DoD. Here he helped create the Electronics Resurgence Initiative, which reestablished the connection between commercial semiconductor R&D and national security needs.

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.