Ellie Yieh - Silicon Valley WiE Advisory Board Member
Corporate VP
Applied Materials
Ellie Yieh is corporate vice president for Advanced Product Technology Development within the New Markets and Alliances organization at Applied Materials, Inc. She is responsible for the technical excellence of the company鈥檚 state-of-the-art Maydan Technology Center R&D lab and works closely with customers and business units to drive advanced product development and technology roadmaps. In addition, she leads the company鈥檚 R&D efforts for developing new innovations that will drive future business opportunities. She is also a board member for Applied Ventures, LLC, the company鈥檚 venture capital fund. In 2018, Yieh was awarded the honorary designation of Applied Materials Fellow for her outstanding technical contributions that have been vital to the company鈥檚 success.
In her nearly 30 years with Applied, she has held a variety of positions including product unit head of the Low k Dielectric pision and general manager of the Gap Fill, Etch, and Dielectric System and Modules business unit. She led several successful product developments and enabled her teams to deliver significant profitability and market share growth, while building strong customer relationships and developing industry standard technologies.
Yieh is a member of the advisory boards for UC Berkeley鈥檚 the College of Chemistry and the Silicon Valley Women in Engineering group at San Jose State University. She received a bachelor of science degree in chemical engineering from UC Berkeley and holds more than 100 semiconductor engineering patents. In 2016 she was inducted into the Women in Technology International (WITI) Hall of Fame for outstanding contributions to scientific and technological communities that improve society and business, and for her commitment to supporting and mentoring women and girls worldwide. She was also named one of the 2015 鈥淭op 50 Most Powerful Women in Technology鈥� by the National persity Council, and a 2010 "Woman Worth Watching鈥� by Profiles in persity Journal magazine.
