Ebrahim Abedifard

Ebrahim Abedifard has served as VP of Engineering for Avalanche Technology since September 2008. Abedifard has more than 28 years of experience in the design of non-volatile memories. Most recently he served as Director of Design Engineering at Micron Technology, where he led multiple design teams on key high speed non-volatile memory products, including the fastest NAND Flash (200MB/S, 8Gb, 50nm) and 143MHz Synchronous NOR Flash memory. His most recent project was leading the design of Micron’s 34nm 32Gb NAND flash; he also successfully designed and transferred to production multiple other high volume NAND flash memories. He holds more than 100 U.S. patents with many additional patents pending. Prior to Micron he served as Design Manager for Xicor Inc. for EEPROM and NOVRAM products. Abedifard holds a B.S.E.E. from Utah State University and a M.S.E.E. from California State University, Fullerton.