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title: "Bonnie Weir"
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Bonnie E. Weir is a Japanese-born American electrical engineer known for her work on the properties of semiconductors and their reliability against dielectric breakdown. She works for Broadcom.


== Education and career ==
Weir is originally from Osaka, Japan. She majored in physics at Swarthmore College, graduating in 1988. Continuing her studies at the Stevens Institute of Technology, she completed a Ph.D. in physics and engineering physics in 1993.
She worked for AT&T Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, and Agere Systems before taking her present position at Broadcom.
Weir also serves on the board of trustees of Geneva College, a private Christian college in Pennsylvania.


== Recognition ==
Weir was named to the 2026 class of IEEE Fellows, "for contributions to gate dielectric breakdown in semiconductor devices and standards".


== References ==


== External links ==
Bonnie Weir publications indexed by Google Scholar