Dr.Suraj Rengarajan

Dr. Suraj Rengarajan is the Managing Director and currently heads the Semiconductor Products Group (SPG) at Applied Materials India in Bangalore. In this role he focuses on SPG strategic objectives in India, planning and growing a customer focused organization, building local leadership talent, enabling  collaboration across India & Asia region, and strengthening university and ecosystem partnerships. Suraj started his career at Applied Materials, Santa Clara in 1997, where he held different roles ranging  from process engineering, technology, program management, and product marketing for thin film deposition  and metallization for interconnects silicides and novel memories. He moved to India in 2007 to head the SunFab group for Applied Materials in India. Later he headed the 
engineering group for dielectric deposition. As the India CTO, he worked on materials engineering driven inflections to develop and commercialize new technologies. Suraj holds a B. Tech from IIT Madras in Metallurgical Engineering and earned his M.S and Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in Materials Science. Suraj holds over 15 US patents and has more than 20 publications.