Mr. Rung is a senior high technology R&D executive with over 25 years of R&D management experience in CMOS process technology, application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) design and electronic design automation (EDA), IC packaging, MEMS, microfluidics, and inkjet printing.

Mr. Rung was asked in December 2003 to serve as the initial Executive Director of the Oregon Nanoscience and Microtechnologies Institute (ONAMI), Oregon's first "Signature Research Center" and an unprecedented collaboration among Oregon's research universities and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. ONAMI's dual mission is to grow "small tech" research in Oregon and commercialize technology in order to extend the success of Oregon's world-leading "Silicon Forest" technology cluster, which includes the most advanced R&D and manufacturing operations for leading companies such as Intel Corporation, Hewlett-Packard Company, FEI Company, Invitrogen, Electro Scientific Industries, Planar Systems, Xerox Office Products, Tektronix, ON Semiconductor and many dynamic smaller firms. ONAMI has so far received $37M in state investment and approximately doubled Oregon's annual federal and private research awards in the fields of nanoscience, green nanotechnology, nanoscale metrology, and microtechnology-based energy and chemical systems (MECS).

Following his retirement from Hewlett-Packard in 2001, Mr. Rung consulted in the areas of innovation management, technology business development, and intellectual property. He is a co-author of the 2004 Oregon Research Competencies study commissioned by the Oregon Economic and Comnunity Development Department and the author of the initial business plan for the Oregon Nanoscience and Microtechnologies Institute, successfully recommended for funding as Oregon's first Signature Research Center by the Oregon Council on Knowledge and Economic Development. OCKED's determination was aided and influenced by Mr. Rung's 2002 consulting study of Oregon's most commercially promising and industrially relevant research.

Mr. Rung was a member of the Oregon Engineering and Technology Industry Council from 1999-2003 and a co-founder of the New Economy Coalition. He is currently a technical advisor to Northwest Technology Ventures, an Oregon seed-stage venture capital firm, a director of the Oregon Entrepreneur's Forum, Vice-Chair of the Corvallis-Benton County Economic Development Partnership, and active in several other community development efforts.

From 1987 to 2001, Mr. Rung was the director of Research and Development at Hewlett-Packard's Corvallis, Ore. facility, responsible for the development of future generations of HP's world-leading thermal inkjet technology, and for developing future business opportunities enabled by HP's microelectronics, MEMS, and microfluidics competencies. During Mr. Rung's 14 years as R&D director, inkjet printing became HP's largest and most profitable business, maintaining worldwide technical leadership through several major new generations of technology and holding market share nearly twice that of the next largest competitor. Prior to his work on inkjet, Mr. Rung was the R&D Manager for HP's Northwest Integrated Circuits Division in Corvallis, which achieved worldwide ASIC technology leadership in 1986 with a 1-micron process comparable to those used for DRAM. Mr. Rung's organization also developed novel and performance-leading in-house IC design automation systems and custom IC packaging technologies (hybrids, flat packs, TAB) to enable calculators and other HP products.

Mr. Rung began his industrial career in 1977 at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories in Palo Alto, CA, performing advanced research in the areas of CMOS process device isolation, latch-up, and comparison with alternative silicon and compound semiconductor technologies. In 1981-1982, Mr. Rung was selected by HP to be a technology exchange engineer with Toshiba Corp. in Kawasaki, Japan, where he continued his research inside the world's leading semiconductor memory engineering group. He is the holder of 2 US Patents, author or co-author of over 14 refereed journal or conference papers on IC technology, 4 invited papers (2 at leading international meetings), and 4 invited presentations on inkjet printing technology.

Mr. Rung received his BSEE and MSEE co-terminally in 1976 from Stanford University, where he was elected to both Phi Beta Kappa and Tau Beta Pi in his junior year. His master's thesis concerned the experimental determination of semiconductor doping profiles, and was part of the Stanford research on process simulation that was seminal for the rapid growth of computer simulation for solid state electronic processes and devices.

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