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Shi has been appointed chief strategic scientist and director of the Future Industry Research Institute at DK Electronic Materials, the company said on March 6.
In the new role, he will oversee strategic planning and development in emerging industries, with a focus on expanding the company’s semiconductor memory business, according to the South China Morning Post.
Based in Yixing, Wuxi, eastern China, DK Electronic Materials has become one of the world’s leading suppliers of photovoltaic metallization paste, an advanced solar cell material, with a global market share of around 25% last year.
Shi’s connection with DK Electronic Materials dates back to 2017, when the company donated US$1 million to establish a laboratory at the University of California, Irvine under his direction.
The company’s founder, Shi Weili, has previously said Shi Guojun’s research on conductive paste technology for solar cell manufacturing and his understanding of the semiconductor market influenced the establishment of the firm.
Shi remains listed on the University of California, Irvine website as professor emeritus.
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Semiconductor packaging expert Shi Guojun. Photo courtesy of University of California, Irvine, U.S. |
Shi earned a bachelor’s degree in agricultural meteorology at the Nanjing Institute of Meteorology in 1983 before completing a master’s degree in micrometeorology at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada.
His research focus later shifted to materials science. He then went to the California Institute of Technology in the U.S., where he completed a PhD in chemical engineering and materials science in 1992.
He later joined the faculty of the University of California, Irvine, where he taught for more than two decades, publishing more than 200 academic papers and becoming a tenured professor.
In 2010, Shi received the Outstanding Sustained Technical Contribution Award from the IEEE Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology Society for his work in optoelectronic packaging, advanced device materials and manufacturing processes.
The following year, he was elected a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
