Dr. Chris Olsen is the Managing Director of Oxidation Products in the Front End Products (FEP) Group of Applied Materials and had been with the company for 25 years of his 27 years in the Semiconductor industry. Dr. Olsen is a serial Intrapreneur (product founder within a large company), on over 7 products.  Dr. Olsen researches process chemistry, surface science driven kinetics & hardware development in ultra-conformal oxidation of SiO₂ in high aspect ratio (HAR) 3DNAND Flash memory. Chris holds a Ph.D. in Materials Science & Engineering from UC Berkeley and BS in Materials Engineering from UCLA.  Chris holds over 80 U.S. patents and is an author on over 50 publications.