Rate My Professor Chris Bailey

Chris Bailey is Professor of Advanced Semiconductor Packaging and Director of the Centre for Advanced Semiconductor Packaging in the School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering at Arizona State University, a position he has held since joining the institution in 2022. Previously, he spent over 30 years at the University of Greenwich in the United Kingdom, progressing from Research Fellow in 1988 to Professor in 2001, and serving in leadership roles including Associate Dean for Research (2021-2022), Director for Research and Enterprise (2018-2021), and Faculty Director for Enterprise (2006-2018). Earlier in his career, Bailey was a Research Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University from 1988 to 1991. He holds a BSc in Mathematics, Statistics and Computing (1984, 2:1 Honours), a PhD in Computational Modelling (1988), both from Thames Polytechnic, and an MBA in Technology Management (1995) from the Open University. Bailey teaches courses such as Fundamentals of Microelectronic Packaging and Co-Design and Modelling for Advanced Semiconductor Packaging.

Bailey's research focuses on electronics packaging, thermo-mechanical design, product reliability, multi-physics and multi-scale analysis, AI and machine learning applications, and intellectual property analysis. He has authored over 400 archival papers in electronics packaging, supervised 27 PhD students, and secured more than $40 million in government and industry funding as principal or co-investigator. Key publications include "Damage Mechanics-Based Failure Prediction of Wirebond in Power Electronic Module" (IEEE Access, 2024), "Warpage in wafer-level packaging: a review of causes, modelling, and mitigation strategies" (Frontiers in Electronics, 2025), "Modeling Insights Into the Assembly Challenges of Focal Plane Arrays" (IEEE Access, 2023), and a chapter on modelling technologies in "Nanopackaging: Nanotechnologies and Electronics Packaging, Second Edition" (2018). His contributions have earned recognition such as the 2024 IEEE EPS Region 10 Award, 2022 IEEE EPS David Feldman Award, 2022 IEEE Eurosime Lifetime Achievement Award, 2020 Presidency of the IEEE Electronics Packaging Society, 2009 Times Higher Education Award for Outstanding Research Team of the Year, and Fellow of the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (1998). Bailey serves as Associate Editor for journals including IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technologies (since 2016), ASME Journal of Electronic Packaging (since 2023), and Journal of Mechanics (since 2018), influencing advancements in semiconductor reliability and design.