News: Suppliers
3 November 2025
III-V Epi appoints Saurabh Kumar to strengthen epi engineering team and increase manufacturing capacity
III–V Epi Ltd of Glasgow, Scotland, UK — which provides a molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) and metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) service for custom compound semiconductor wafer design, manufacturing, test and characterization — has appointed Saurabh Kumar, a specialist in semiconductor device fabrication, to help meet growing demand for its wafer design, manufacturing, test and characterization services. He will strengthen the epitaxial engineering team, increasing resource, expertise and industrial experience.
Most recently, Saurabh served as process engineering team lead at Paragraf in Cambridgeshire, UK, where he provided technical leadership and mentoring, established yield engineering and failure analysis frameworks, and led process development and tool commissioning strategies for semiconductor fabrication facilities in their Somersham and Huntingdon sites.
In previous roles, Saurabh served as a senior process engineer at the Huawei Ipswich Research Centre, where he was responsible for driving continuous improvement and operational excellence, overseeing yield engineering and failure analysis, developing process strategies, commissioning tools, and implementing statistical process control. Prior to this, he managed Nexperia’s high-volume silicon fabrication facility in Manchester.
Saurabh began his career as a research engineer at the University of Sheffield, gaining his initial experience in device fabrication and project management.
As a semiconductor fabrication engineer, Saurabh has extensive expertise in photolithography, etching, deposition and packaging. He has experience in process design, new technology introduction, seamless production operations as well as working to compliance regulations for quality, reliability and health & safety.
Saurabh has a Masters in Nanoelectronics and Nanomechanics from the University of Sheffield, UK and an undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering from the Babu Banarsi Das National Institute of Technology, Uttar Pradesh Technical University, India.