Nadav Gutman

Nadav Gutman, Ph.D., has held the position of Advanced Application Group Manager at KLA Corporation since 2021, with responsibility for understanding the interplay between optical and electron sensors and overlay accuracy stability, while collaborating with leading semiconductor manufacturers. 

Prior to leading the Advanced Application Research Group, Dr. Gutman managed algorithm research for both optical and electro-optical metrology products, successfully bringing them to market. Before joining KLA in 2013, Dr. Gutman was a research fellow at the Centre for Ultrahigh Bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems in Sydney, Australia. 

Dr. Gutman earned a double major in Physics and Mathematics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and went on to complete a Ph.D. in Applied Physics. Over the past decade, he has published more than 38 papers in the fields of optics, metrology, and semiconductor fabrication and holds over 27 patents in these areas.