Ian Chen works at Maxim Integrated as an executive director for Industrial and IoT Sensors. He has more than 25 years of semiconductor experience, with the last 15 years focused on sensors and sensing applications. He has held senior business, marketing, and engineering leadership positions at both startups and multi-national corporations, and developed a track record of identifying emerging opportunities early and executing to capture them. He was identified by EE Times as one of the “Top 40 technologists to watch” and included in the “Top 50 Who’s Who in Sensor Technology” by Fierce Electronics.
Ian has a Bachelor’s and Master’s in electrical engineering, as well as an MBA, all from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He holds more than 20 patents.