Dr. Jay Lewis is the Director of the National Semiconductor Technology Center, or NSTC, Program, for the CHIPS R&D Office at the Department of Commerce. In this role he is working to establish the NSTC program, a public-private consortium that will serve as a cornerstone of semiconductor research for the country. He previously worked at Microsoft focused on semiconductor strategy and national security. Before that he was at DARPA, where he was a program manager and the Deputy Director of the Microsystems Technology Office, and had an early career in semiconductor research.