Sumit Dhanda

SUMIT DHANDA is a vice president and a research analyst in the Equity
Research Department at Banc of America Securities LLC, where he covers
the semiconductor sector. He joined the company in 2000 as an associate.
He was promoted to research analyst in 2002. Previously, he was a senior
research engineer at LSI Logic, where he worked on emerging technologies
in semiconductor manufacturing. He earned a bachelor of science degree
in electrical engineering from the Birla Institute of Technology and
Science (India), a master of science degree in electrical engineering
from the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College and a doctor
of philosophy degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University.