Ashutosh Sharma is an assistant professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Ajou University, Suwon, South Korea. He earned his Ph.D. in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur. His research interests include electrochemical deposition, lead-free soldering and brazing, additive manufacturing, high-entropy alloys, gas sensors, and biomaterials. He is a life member of various scientific and professional bodies. He has more than one hundred and sixty international journal articles, seventeen patents, eight book chapters, and one book to his credit. He received an Extraction and Processing Division Award from The Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society (TMS) for his outstanding contribution to nonferrous materials processing.
Jae Pil Jung is a Professor of Materials Science and Engineering in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Seoul and the current President of the Korean Association of Micro-Electronics Packaging. He received his PhD in Metallurgical Engineering from the Seoul National University in 1992, an MSc in Materials Science from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in 1985, and a BSc in Metallurgical Engineering from the Seoul National University in 1983. His research interests include interconnection materials and electronics packaging processes for semiconductors, electronics, cars, etc., including soldering and brazing, electro-plating, and other micro-joining processes; and he has worked on microjoining since 1994, specializing in the development of microjoining materials and technologies; and miniaturization of electronic packages. Over the last decade, his research interests have shifted slightly to the use of nanocomposites for improving the properties of lead-free solder alloys and the study of failure mechanisms of nanostructured interconnects. He has researched and published very widely on microjoining technologies with over 240 journal papers and 10 books, and he holds over 60 patents for his research.
