Dr. Mukta Ghate Farooq is a Fellow at Globalfoundries and the technology leader for Advanced Silicon Packaging. She has been a leader in semiconductor and packaging technology including CMOS Back End integration, chip package interaction, 2.5D and 3D integration, die stacking, C4 and Cu pillar interconnects, ball grid and column grid arrays, lead-free alloys, and intellectual property development.nnDr. Farooq obtained her B.Tech. degree in Metallurgical Engineering from IIT Bombay in 1983, M.S. in Materials Science from Northwestern University in 1985 and her PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, USA in 1988.