Harry Luan, chief technology officer and vice president of Research and Development at Kilopass Technology, has been with Kilopass since its inception in 2002. He has a strong background in VLSI semiconductor process technology, integration, device engineering, product reliability and product qualification. He is an expert in CMOS/NVM memory device physics, modeling, optimization, and characterization for technology development, yield enhancement and failure analysis. Dr. Luan served for six years at Kilopass as director of Technology Development before assuming the role of CTO in 2009. Prior to joining Kilopass, he held various technical and management positions at AMD, Hynix, CypressandWinbond. Dr. Luan has made key contributions in research and development of non-volatile memory and logic technologies including EPROM, EEPROM, FLASH, SONOS, R-RAM, and CPLD. He obtained his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University.