Personnel

James Adams, PhD

Chief Technology Officer

Biography

Dr. Adams joined TAEUS International Corp. in 1993. He has over thirty years experience in managing the definition, development, and transfer of new products and technologies. Dr. Adams has held senior engineering and management positions with Sandia National Laboratories, INMOS, Monolithic Memories, United Technologies, and TAEUS and has served as an expert witness in copyright, trade secret, and patent infringement cases. His expertise includes strategic planning and program management, patent evaluation and analysis, forensic engineering, process integration, device physics, microelectronic reliability and failure analysis, electronic materials, semiconductor memories and microprocessors, software, management of quality, and radiation effects in microelectronics. Dr. Adams holds three patents in integrated circuit technology.

He is listed in Who’s Who in Technology Today, 1984-1995 and has received the TOBIE Award for most significant R&D accomplishment in electronics in a U.K. company. Dr. Adams has published over 26 papers in such technical journals as IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science and Surface Science, and he has given over 16 presentations at technical conferences including the Government Microcircuits Applications Conference (GOMAC) and the NASA Symposium on VLSI Design, and has been an Adjunct Professor at the University of Colorado (Colorado Springs) in the area of optoelectronics. Dr. Adams received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska; his Ph.D. with a concentration in optoelectronics. While completing his Ph.D. he received the distinguished honor of being part of the Sandia National Laboratories Doctoral Study Program in 1973.

As an undergraduate, Dr. Adams was a research assistant in optical properties and materials. In addition, Dr. Adams has over 1,000 hours in Continuing Education. Dr. Adams is a Senior Member of IEEE and a member of the Electrochemical Society, the American Management Association, and the Licensing Executives Society.